Ezra Klein
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
What has been added to her stock of knowledge?
And he said, I was like Mary, and I had had this vision.
And
Nobody could convince me when I went back in the box of scientific materialism that it hadn't happened.
It had happened.
It was as sure as I have been of anything in my life.
And now he's exploring idealism.
What is idealism?
Idealism is the philosophy that consciousness is a universal field and that consciousness precedes matter.
We automatically assume that matter is primary.
Everything can be reduced to matter and energy, and they can be reduced to each other.
Idealism is no, no, no.
You got to start with consciousness.
Matter comes second.
The argument for it is there's nothing you know with more certainty than consciousness.
It's the thing you know directly.
Everything else you know is inferred.
You see through consciousness.
So why is it that we privilege the thing we infer rather than the thing we know?
Why do we privilege matter as the ultimate source of everything?