Shamil Chandaria & Bernardo Kastrup Predicting Reality

Shamil Chandaria is a meditation researcher and thought leader in consciousness studies at both Oxford, Cambridge, Google's Deep Mind and Imperial College London

Bernardo Kastrupis leading the modern renaissance of ‘metaphysical idealism’ - the notion that reality is essentially consciousness, based on analytic philosophy, science and psychology.

Drawing on the most recent scientific perspectives on how our minds construct experience, Shamil offers a clear framework that demystifies spiritual awakenings and a path towards greater human flourishing. His approach reveals how you can harness practices like meditation to systematically reshape your brain’s predictive processes, reduce suffering, and reconstruct a whole new experience of reality.

He will discuss this synthesis of disciplines with Bernardo, ranging from computational neuroscience and predictive processing to the nondual traditions of Buddhism, Vedanta and Kashmiri Shaivism. Shamil draws on 38 years of meditation and academic experience, having collaborated with some of the world's leading scientists in Bayesian brain theory, perception, artificial intelligence and psychedelic research.

You can sample Shamil's work in the recent paper ‘A Beautiful Loop,’ or in podcast conversations with Sam Harris and FitMind.

About Bernardo Kastrup

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**Bernardo Kastrup's ** work has been leading the modern renaissance of the philosophical position, ‘metaphysical idealism’ that reality is essentially mental, an appearance in ‘mind.’

Bernardo has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered).

Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured on _Scientific American_, the _Institute of Art and Ideas_, the _Blog of the American Philosophical Association_ and _Big Think_, among others. Bernardo's most recent book is _The Idea of the World: A multi-disciplinary argument for the mental nature of reality_. For more information, freely downloadable papers, videos, etc., please visit www.bernardokastrup.com.