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assc-4725	Hyland, Prof Terry	Consciousness, Analytic Idealism and Buddhist Foundations: Exploring Non-Materialist Ways of Connecting Eastern and Western Spiritual Perspectives	2022	16	.pdf	application/pdf	8089	388	51	Instead of accepting the validity of scientific materialism-expressed in accounts offered, for instance, by Thich Nhat Hanh, the Dalai Lama, and, in a more secular context, Deepak Chopra and Fritjof Capra-the central thesis of this paper is that it is more plausible to question the foundations of materialism and argue for an idealist interpretation of both science, reality and spirituality as suggested in recent work by Bernardo Kastrup, Steve Taylor and Donald Hoffman. This view that the universe is fundamentally mental or experiential in nature-labelled analytic idealism by Kastrup, panspiritism by Taylor, objective idealism or cosmopsychism by Chalmers, and conscious realism by Hoffman-not only satisfies the parsimony demands of Occam’s Razor whilst avoiding the dualism of materialism and physicalism-but also neatly solves the hard problem of consciousness and provides a more satisfactory account of the nature of reality than scientific materialism.	cache/assc-4725.pdf	txt/assc-4725.txt