[This is an excerpt from my recently published book, Nonduality and Mind-Only through the Prism of Reality, which is available in Kindle and paperback at Amazon and from other book sellers.]
Now to my brief consideration of Kastrup’s analytic idealism. Kastrup posits a universal mind, or unbound consciousness, as the substrate or primitive (his term) of existence. To him, matter or the physical universe is nothing more than an excitation (his term) or abstraction (his term) of mind. And in accordance with his interpretation of quantum theory, he contends that “all physical quantities are created by observation.” In his words, “Observation is the physical world—not merely a representation of the world.” Per Kastrup, “The physical properties of the world exist only insofar as they are perceptually experienced.”
And how does Kastrup view humans and other living organisms in this “mental universe”? He writes:
Now to my brief consideration of Kastrup’s analytic idealism. Kastrup posits a universal mind, or unbound consciousness, as the substrate or primitive (his term) of existence. To him, matter or the physical universe is nothing more than an excitation (his term) or abstraction (his term) of mind. And in accordance with his interpretation of quantum theory, he contends that “all physical quantities are created by observation.” In his words, “Observation is the physical world—not merely a representation of the world.” Per Kastrup, “The physical properties of the world exist only insofar as they are perceptually experienced.”
And how does Kastrup view humans and other living organisms in this “mental universe”? He writes:
"We, as well as all other living organisms, are dissociated alters of this unbound consciousness. The universe we see around us is the extrinsic appearance of phenomenality surrounding—but dissociated from—our alter.
