This blog is not made because it daily with new, often daily updated entries progresses and displaces old, to stay for a long time on a topic and to discuss it in detail. Because I want to add something to the topic of “consciousness as ultimate reality”. I use the comment column of this entry or article for the sake of simplicity.

With the video linked here, I would like to point out this extraordinary fact that Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, where he defends his (second) doctoral thesis in this video, has just been successfully confered a doctorate on this topic with the consciousness as a fundamental reality at a Dutch university. Maybe they look at it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcMOape0PY8

I reprint here three comments from his YouTube video related to his achievement:

Monistic Idealism:
“Well done Dr. Kastrup! Distinguished scholars like yourself making the case for idealism in the academy and in the public square is what will secure its rightful and inevitable comeback. We are forced into a consciousness-only ontology like a checkmated king: any alternative threatens the existence, irreducibility, and causal efficacy of consciousness, all of which are indispensable.”

Tom G:
“This is a credit to several things, the classical university system in general, the sincerity and transparency of assessment of Raboud University, and the deep insight and analytical ability of the candidate, Dr Bernado Kastrup. More than this, it may well be analogous (to my mind), to the awarding of a PhD to Louie de Broglie, in the Physics of the earlier 20th century. That idea of ‘matter waves’ was ridiculed until Einstein himself was involved in the Doctoral assessment. A ‘ridiculous’ idea that spawned quantum mechanics and changed our view of the physical universe forever. In fact given the enormous change Kastrup’s thesis represents (not to existing physics, but to the very ontological basis of physics and all of science), Dr Kastrup and the essential basis of this thesis may well take a crucially profound place in the history of Philosophy, and Science, and perhaps change the way humankind views their place in existence.”

Curtis Hazel:
“Congratulations! The significance of this achievement cannot be overstated. The world will be a better place when this becomes the majority position on consciousness. Bernardo, your determination in pursuing a doctorate in philosophy to further this view of consciousness is honorable. You certainly had nothing to prove based on the body of work already published, but you have now paved the way for future scholars to build on this model. Bravo!!”