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Consciousness, precognition, near-death experience, and the future of science Dr. Alex Gomez-Marin is a world-class..

Consciousness, precognition, near-death experience, and the future of science 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dr. Alex Gomez-Marin is a world-class expert on consciousness who isn&#8217;t afraid shatter dogma. This brilliant physicist-turned-neuroscientist is challenging the status quo, pushing the boundaries of our understanding of consciousness by working with a subject who can see even though blind from birth. In this dialogue with Alex Tsakiris, host of Skeptiko, we explore the frontiers of post-materialistic science and the nature of reality itself. 
 
 
 
Key Points: 
 
 
 
1. The War for Truth in Science 
 
 
 
Dr. Gomez-Marin believes we&#8217;re in a metaphorical war for the soul of science. He states: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;I feel we are at war&#8230; Science has died. It&#8217;s like, you know, when Nietzche had and he&#8217;s misinterpreted there, but I have a similar feeling Science is dying or has just died, and we need to resurrect it.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
2. The Challenge of Near-Death Experiences 
 
 
 
Alex Tsakiris highlights the importance of near-death experiences (NDEs) in challenging materialistic paradigms: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;Gregory Shushan&#8230; probably the leading authority on near-death experience, across culture, across time&#8230; concludes that religious groups form beliefs about the afterlife from their near-death experiences.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
3. Groundbreaking Research on Extraocular Perception 
 
 
 
Dr. Gomez-Marin&#8217;s work with a subject who demonstrates extraocular perception is truly extraordinary. As Alex Tsakiris points out: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;You&#8217;re studying a subject who can see, even though they&#8217;re blind from birth and even though you&#8217;ve run very carefully controlled experiments&nbsp;this extraordinary vision&nbsp;has been demonstrated… and now you&#8217;ve even demonstrated precognition in this experiment. This shatters the conventional scientific model that demands causation&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
4. The Dangers of Transhumanism and AI 
 
 
 
Dr. Gomez-Marin offers a scathing critique of Ray Kurzweil&#8217;s transhumanist vision: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;He doesn&#8217;t understand at all what it means to be human. And that his agenda&#8230; it&#8217;s like, we can do it. We will do it and we should do it. I see a very dark impulse there under the machine, which is kind of a extinction of humanity&#8230; the shortcut through technology and then playing all the pseudo religion tricks under the narrative of science and technology.&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
He concludes: &#8220;So it&#8217;s super dangerous and super wrong.&#8221; 
 
 
 
5. The Need for a New Scientific Paradigm 
 
 
 
The conversation points to the need for a new approach to science that integrates objective and subjective experiences. Dr. Gomez-Marin reflects: 
 
 
 
 
&#8220;How can we transcend? but at the same time include what we&#8217;ve inherited&#8230; we need to integrate&#8230; what Galileo said. Galileo said, I don&#8217;t care what a thousand birds meaning people, the opinion, the doxa, the orthodoxy, like what a hundred people think. If I do an experiment and that&#8217;s the greatness, right?&#8221; 
 
 
 
 
This dialogue between Alex Tsakiris and Dr. Alex Gomez-Marin challenges us to rethink our assumptions about consciousness, science, and technology. It&#8217;s a call to action for a more integrative, truthful approach to understanding our world and ourselves, one that embraces both rigorous empirical research and the exploration of extraordinary human experiences.

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