Christof Koch is a GermanAmerican neurophysiologist and computational neuroscientist best known for his work on the neural basis of consciousness. He is the president of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle and he is the chief scientist at the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation.
Bernardo Kastrup is an idealist philosopher and the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. In this episode, they debate about Analytic Idealism, the Integrated Information Theory, psychedelic trips and death.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
02:03 The bond between Koch and Kastrup
07:59 Integrated Information Theory
19:52 Consciousness in other people apart from oneself
22:51 Idealism and the physical world
25:49 Idealism & Death
40:33 Accepting Idealism
48:03 Consciousness & The Brain
01:01:10 Kastrup's Worst Psychedelic Experience
01:05:29 Learnings from Psychedelics
01:08:39 Koch's Psychedelic Experience
01:12:37 Koch's Thoughts On Idealism
01:17:17 On Art
01:21:08 On Nature
01:27:40 Implications of Idealism
01:29:44 The future of Idealism
01:32:33 Koch's personal problems
01:36:34 Koch's end goal
01:37:49 Kastrup on empathy
01:43:08 Advice for young people
01:48:04 Thoughts on the conversation