1. Bernardo Kastrup was born on 21 October 1974 and is a Brazilian-Dutch philosopher and computer scientist best known for his work in the field of consciousness studies, particularly his development of analytic idealism, a form of metaphysical idealism grounded in the analytic philosophical tradition.
Bernardo Kastrup has written several books and papers arguing against physicalism and proposing that consciousness is a fundamental aspect of reality.
Bernardo Kastrup was born in Niteroi, Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and later moved to Switzerland, but currently lives in the Netherlands.
Bernardo Kastrup graduated in electronic engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1997.
Bernardo Kastrup co-founded the parallel processor company Silicon Hive, which was acquired by Intel in 2011.
Bernardo Kastrup later shifted his research to philosophy, with a focus on metaphysics and the debate over the nature of consciousness.
Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation, which claims to curate and publish "the latest analytic and scientific indications that metaphysical materialism is fundamentally flawed".
Since the publication of his dissertation, Bernardo Kastrup has continued to advance and popularize his theory.
Bernardo Kastrup has written for numerous publications, including Scientific American, where his articles critique physicalist interpretations of consciousness and offer an idealist alternative.
Bernardo Kastrup is an author, with several books that explore consciousness and reality from the perspective of analytic idealism.
Bernardo Kastrup is best known for the development of analytic idealism, a metaphysical and ontological framework that posits phenomenal consciousness is the fundamental "reduction base" of reality as a whole, and that individual minds are dissociations of the monist universal mind.