Quantum Entanglement & the Alchemy of Integralism
Quantum physics, entanglement, & the measurement problem in the idealist framework
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Date: 8 April 2025
Duration: 2h 28m
0:00:00 Quantum physics, mind and the present moment
0:10:45 Bernardo joins the quantum conversation
0:15:27 Which quantum interpretation fits idealism best?
0:20:07 Do physical properties arise through measurement?
0:25:28 Why relations need something to relate
0:35:10 Entanglement and the choice of measurement
0:40:36 What the dashboard reveals about real regularities
0:45:24 Could entanglement represent cognitive association?
0:50:10 Decoherence: information dispersed, not destroyed
0:55:25 Measuring a thought—or its neural correlate?
1:00:29 Could everything and nothing be two views of one reality?
1:10:34 How thin can we make the present?
1:15:27 What argument alone cannot convey
1:20:39 Could past and future exist in the present?
1:25:25 Bringing your after-death state into life now
1:30:31 How the dead might look through our eyes
1:35:30 The concept opens a door—but experience adds the colour
1:40:31 Is reality continuous or discrete?
1:45:16 When gravity limits information
1:50:02 Why these constants of nature?
1:55:41 Could universes evolve before life begins?
2:05:35 Why entanglement is not simply similarity
2:10:19 What idealism does—and doesn’t—offer the measurement problem
2:15:32 Bernardo’s intuition about a solution
2:20:16 Beneath complexity, one thing going on?
This session was quite mind-blowing on several levels - and included very new perspectives on how we relate to the dead, the not-yet-born, black holes, white holes and this very moment.
I felt lucky to have Nour co-hosting. Nour ran the Bernardo Kastrup Book Club for 3 years, and did her master's thesis in Theoretical Physics. She's also a senior data scientist at IBM and a senior quantum ambassador. She also won 100WomeninTech Award.
The paper that she wrote on Non-Locality in Quantum Mechanics is linked below.
Together with Bernardo we discussed:
- What interpretation of quantum physics best aligns with idealism?
- How can we interpret quantum entanglement?
- Why is there something rather than nothing?
- The Alchemy of Integralism: The totality of being is now: the past and future in the present
- Bring your after-death state into your present
- How the dead live through us - and look through our eyes
- The evolution of life may have followed the evolution of universes
- How idealism contributes to investigating the measurement problem
- What problems physics must solve and not ideailsm
- Bernardo’s intuition on the measurement problem
For next week, I recommend watching Jay Garfield & Bernardo Kastrup debate: https://youtu.be/m0nPTPLTlds
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Nour
Nour ran the Bernardo Kastrup Book Club for 3 years, and did her master's thesis in Theoretical Physics. She's also a senior data scientist at IBM and a senior quantum ambassador. She also won 100WomeninTech Award.
Bernardo Kastrup
Analytic idealism
Bernardo Kastrup is the Executive Director of Essentia Foundation and Founder/CEO at AI systems company Euclyd BV. His work has set off the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence).
As a scientist, he has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the ‘Casimir Effect’ of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). He has also been creatively active in the high-tech industry for almost 30 years, having founded parallel processor company Silicon Hive (acquired by Intel in 2011) and worked as a technology strategist for the geopolitically significant company ASML. Most recently, he has founded AI company Euclyd BV.
Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured in Scientific American, the magazine of The Institute of Art and Ideas, the Blog of the American Philosophical Association and Big Think, among others. His most defining book is Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell: A straightforward summary of the 21st-century’s only plausible metaphysics.
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