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Bernardo Kastrup

2019-01-01year known, day not recorded

Computer scientist-turned-philosopher and executive director of the Essentia Foundation, the leading contemporary proponent of analytic idealism - the position that reality is fundamentally mental. A central voice in the modern argument that consciousness is primary rather than emergent.

In the consciousness threadOPERATOR RULING, 25 August 2026. Its role names no specific technique because the technique is not what this entity does - it belongs to the academic consciousness thread, which guardrail 3 makes co-equal here rather than a subsection. An editorial classification, not a sourced claim.

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← The Science of Consciousness names a source we do not hold

has presented his idealism there

The Science of Consciousness / U. Arizona Center for Consciousness Studies
→ Federico Faggin names a source we do not hold

idealism / consciousness-first allies; Essentia features his work

consciousness-is-fundamental / anti-materialist literature
→ Donald Hoffman names a source we do not hold

leading proponents of consciousness-first, anti-materialist models

consciousness-is-fundamental / anti-materialist literature