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Ninety percent of our brains develop before the age of five. (Brown, Jernigan 2012)

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Kastrup proposes an idealist ontology that makes sense of reality in a more parsimonious and empirically rigorous manner than main-stream physicalism (=materialism), bottom-up panpsychism, and cosmopsychism.

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Cross-Pollination as the Key If you want to become a polymath, there are two things you need in abundance: a willingness to learn new and different things, along with the time and effort that goes into learning them. There is nothing inherently special about polymaths; they have simply taken the time to learn the things they wanted to be good at.

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 “You gained it was because of their skill, and you lose it because of the market.”

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There's a type of cancer that affects the eyes called uveal melanoma. It is more common in those who have green, blue, or gray eyes than it is in people who have brown-colored eyes

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skill of metacognition 

 Practice this skill of metacognition by asking yourself questions while studying similar to the ones listed below:

 ● Does this subject connect well to another domain of knowledge that is related or unrelated? If you’re reading about ethics, think about how that might play a role in your business

. ● Where else have I come across this idea? If you’re studying economics and see that most models assume humans to be a rational, utility-maximizing entity, you might realize that you’ve come across this notion of humans being rational entities in the history of Enlightenment. 

● How difficult was it for me to grasp this? Say you struggled to understand how voting behavior works in a democracy. If that’s the case, you’ll likely have difficulty transferring your learning here to other domains. As such, keep asking yourself this question, and if the answer is “more than normal,” spend more time studying the concept. 

● Can I break this down into smaller parts? Say a person wants to learn graphic design. Instead of trying to learn all they can about this one big topic, they can instead break it down into smaller parts and learn about them individually to better understand graphic design as a whole. 

● How would I explain this to a child? This is an excellent way to gauge how well you know something. Imagine yourself trying 

gauge how well you know something. Imagine yourself trying to explain what you’ve learned to a five-year-old and see how well you do. If you succeed, you’ve grasped your content well. 

● Why is this important to know? This question will help you connect your content with other similar topics. You might be studying law to get a better idea of the norms and rules that govern your society, or biology to know how our bodies work. Use such reasons to connect these to other disciplines.

 ● What questions does this raise for me? If you get into the habit of constantly questioning what you’re learning, it’ll help you see how your knowledge is connected to other things in the world. So after studying Freudian theory you might wonder why it doesn’t discuss women much, or what basis is there for his structural model, etc. 

● What, if anything, surprises me about this? This question is a good way to develop curiosity for the content you’re studying. For example, if you’re learning theology, you might be surprised by any number of lines in the religious texts you encounter. Dispel those doubts through additional research, and try to connect the answers you find with other, unrelated domains of knowledge.

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BK- The ontology proposed by him and some of his colleagues also offers more explanatory power than these three alternatives, in that it does not fall prey to the "hard problem of consciousness"“^[1], the combination problem, or the decombination problem, respectively.

His thesis can be summarized as follows: There is only cosmic consciousness.

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We, as well as all other living organisms, are but dissociated alters of cosmic consciousness, surrounded by its thoughts. The inanimate world we see around us is the extrinsic appearance of these thoughts. The living organisms we share the world with are the extrinsic appearances of other dissociated 'alters.

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