24: Bernardo Kastrup - Entropy, Finding One's Purpose

Bernardo joins me to explore the themes of engaging with others, taking the long view, and the nature of knowledge. We discuss the balance between engaging with trolls, responding to skeptics, and collaborating with like-minded individuals. The importance of focusing on the silent audience and the long-term impact of ideas is emphasized. We also discuss my essay, and book in progress, recontextualizing entropy as a reflection of the bandwidth constraints of consciousness and our subjective experience. We discuss the need to unlearn what we thought we knew and challenge assumptions, as well as the role of perspective in understanding reality. The conversation explores the concept of entropy and the subjective nature of measuring it, as well as the assumptions upon which the current framework of thermodynamics rest, namely an objective physical world separate from observers. The discussion touches on the work of Sabine Hossenfelder and Stephen Wolfram, including his work on computational irreducibility and the Ruliad. The idea of computational irreducibility and the limitations of our perspective in understanding the true nature of the universe are explored. Finally, we discuss following the purpose life has for us, and the process of being broken by what we think is the path we are meant to be on. Bernardo shares his insights from his own journey, including the liberation that comes from realizing that life is not about the individual self. My essay on entropy at Essentia’s website: https://www.essentiafoundation.org/entropy-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/reading/ An unabridged version on my Substack: https://mysticsandmuons.substack.com/p/entropy-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder If you're new to the podcast and interested in Mormonism's esoteric origins, check out Episode 2 or read it in on the Substack for the integrative narrative of Mormon origins: If you're new and interested in the nature of reality, check out Episode 18 with Donald Hoffman, or Episode 21 with Bernardo Kastrup: Please rate, share, and get in touch at [email protected]! Chapters 00:00 Introduction 04:06 Engaging in Dialogue vs Engaging with Trolls 17:55 Finding One's Calling and Taking the Long View 26:28 Recontextualizing Entropy 29:36 Entropy and its Prior Assumptions 33:28 Finding One's Dharma 34:52 Thomas Kuhn and Plato's Cave as a Metaphor for Scientific Revolutions 41:46 Sabine Hossenfelder's Challenge of Entropy as a Physicalist 47:25 Causality 54:45 Myth and it's Utility, Even in Science 01:05:25 Mysticism and Science, The Relationality of the Universe 01:14:22 Stephen Wolfram, Computational Irreducibility, and the Ruliad 01:29:04 Are there fundamental 01:38:24 The Rulial Space of Conscious Experience and Data Management Strategies 01:46:50 Can the Rules of Reality Change? 01:53:28 Interpreting and Integrating Mystical Experiences 02:04:49 Finding Our Role in the Ecosystem of the Universe 02:09:09 Life Breaks You Open 02:12:58 Nihilism and Meaning