Consciousness and Neuroscience with Alex Gomez Marin

Alex Gomez-Marin, PhD, is director of the Organism Behavior Laboratory at the Institute of Neuroscience in Alicante, Spain. He is an associate professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the director of the Pari Center in Tuscany, Italy. His work encompasses the microscopic origins of the arrow of time, animal neuroethology in different species, and artificial intelligence applied to human stupidity. His current research focuses on the scientific study of consciousness in the real world. His research proposal, "Seeing Without Eyes," won the Linda G. O'Bryant Noetic Sciences research prize. Here the discussion focuses on the rigid commitment to physicalism (or materialism) found today within the neurosciences. Gomez-Marin criticizes his professional colleagues for not being open to other metaphysical/ontological possibilities. 00:00 Introduction 01:44 Alex's near-death experience 06:10 Pari Center in Italy 14:39 400 year history of science 20:12 Dualists within neuroscience 24:52 Francis Crick and Christof Koch 28:07 Giulio Tononi and integrated information theory 35:54 Science and religion 43:18 Artificial intelligence 48:37 Rigidity of the materialist view 50:55 Conclusion New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. (Recorded on December 19, 2023) For a short video on How to Get the Most From New Thinking Allowed, go to    • InPresence 0253: How to Get the Most From ...   Check out our new website for the New Thinking Allowed Foundation at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. There you will find our incredible, searchable database as well as our new, FREE QUARTERLY MAGAZINE. Also, opportunities to shop and to support our video productions. There, you can also subscribe to our FREE, WEEKLY NEWSLETTER! For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see https://newthinkingallowed.com/Listin.... To buy a high-quality, printed version of the New Thinking Allowed Magazine, go to nta-magazine.magcloud.com. To join the NTA Psi Experience Community on Facebook, see   / 1953031791426543  . To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, visit our podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n.... Download and read Jeffrey Mishlove's Grand Prize essay in the Bigelow Institute competition, Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death. If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to [email protected]. To order New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Do We Survive Death? go to https://amzn.to/3LzLA7Y (As an Amazon Associate, we receive a small fee when you order from us.)