I am reincarnating my old blog. It is a kind of rebirth. And, in Bernardo Kastrup’s analytic idealism, a newborn is not a tabula rasa.
Kastrup does not see reincarnation as a literal soul moving into a new body. Instead, he thinks that when we die, the boundary that creates the sense of an individual ego dissolves. Then our memories and identity rejoin a wider, universal consciousness. Physical death, on this view, opens access to mental contents that were previously unconscious. These experiences may feel like dreams or a traversal of memories, but consciousness itself never disappears.
He also argues that newborns are not blank slates. Consciousness is always present; it does not appear only after birth. Infants, he suggests, have a raw and unfiltered awareness from the beginning. Their consciousness is less divided and more immersive than that of adults. In his framework, this basic subjectivity comes from a universal mind-at-large. The newborn psyche has fewer egoic filters, so it can engage with reality in an immediate, though inarticulate, way. What we call development is then the slow building of dissociative boundaries, not the creation of consciousness.
Watch video: Carlo Rovelli on Bernardo Kastrup
In a similar sense, my old-new blog is not starting from zero. It carries a vague awareness of my earlier blogs on other platforms. Over time, it will grow and form its own identity. This process takes time and must unfold step by step, so I ask my readers for patience. In this post I am just testing functionality and getting familiar with WordPress platform. So, here are my notes: “Projective Geometry of the Null Cone in R^2,2”
