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Neuroscientist Speaks Out On The Hidden War On Consciousness

2025-09-05 Education
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Physicist and neuroscientist Dr. Alex Gómez-Marín delivered a strikingly activist speech at the Science of Consciousness Conference (TSC) in Barcelona. He argued that we are now in a war on consciousness, with materialism and transhumanism forming a dangerous cocktail. Dr. Alex Gómez-Marín is associate professor of the Spanish Research Council in Alicante, Spain, and director of the Pari Center in Tuscany, Italy. Hans Busstra sat down with Marín directly after his speech to analyze what this war is really about. Our previous conversation with Marín: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOU3WKll_dM You can learn more about Marín's work at: https://paricenter.com/our-team/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JKt3ReoAAAAJ&hl=en Watch Dr. Gomez Marin's full presentation at the Science of Consciousness Conference (TSC2025): https://youtu.be/FbVpjyLzZ-M?t=2431 Other TSC interesting TSC videos: https://www.youtube.com/@UCoNDcpkKXg2UioJKxTZI-ZA The Essentia Foundation wants to thank The Science Of Consciousness Conference and Robert Neville for their great support in producing this interview. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:05 Theories of consciousness are like toothbrushes 00:03:37 The war on consciousness 00:07:12 The hard problem and the death of materialism 00:10:28 Explaining consciousness to your friends 00:12:00 Public misunderstanding of science 00:13:38 Behind the scenes of science 00:14:34 AI and consciousness 00:16:26 The dark side of transhumanism 00:23:34 The dangers of AI 00:27:13 Alternatives to transhumanism 00:31:44 Fact, fiction, and imagination 00:35:04 Gollum and Sméagol 00:36:57 Get ready for ontological shock 00:39:48 Biosemiotics and humility in science 00:41:35 Leaving the Shire like Frodo 00:44:37 Testing extra-ocular vision 00:49:47 Dogmatic skepticism 00:52:32 Updating scientific beliefs 00:54:50 Analytic vs. experiential worldviews 00:58:04 The risks of psychedelics 01:04:25 Becoming an activist scientist 01:05:35 Rupert Sheldrake 01:08:57 Why we need many perspectives 01:11:57 Richard Alpert’s miracle stories 01:13:48 The value of raw, unpolished work 01:17:31 The next kingdom after materialism 01:22:18 Media and the politics of science 01:27:52 No real education, food and healing. 01:30:45 Convincing laypeople first 01:32:46 Luther and attacking scientific dogma's 01:34:42 Bernardo as a martial artist, bullying the bullies. Copyright © 2025 Essentia Foundation. All rights reserved.

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@michaelwentzel1 2025-09-06

Yo, be very careful, Dr Alex, when you just said " if someone is a plumber or a painter they wouldn't care"......I'm a house painter for 28 years. And also a philosopher. And also have done much research and have experienced altered states of consciousness, meet with nonphysical intelligence regularly, have extra sensory perceptions and vision.......so be very careful your own ego doesn't blind you to who is awake and who is not. I'm sure you didn't actually mean your words that way and were just expressing frustration that many people do not care. Also, it is mainly the intellectual left minded ones who cannot wake up, where the right minded artistic types certainly do. Yes, even plumbers and painters are also awakened spirits, philosophers, scientists, spiritual masters, and angels in your midst. Careful of your words. Thank you. Great work here.

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@notstevebuscemi 2025-09-05

There's a war on existence, not just on consciousness.

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@JameyHecht 2025-09-06

People who habitually say “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” have another habit: ignoring extraordinary evidence.

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@susanvaughan4210 2025-09-06

This is not just the most important conversation of our time. This is the single most important conversation of all time. The urgency of this cannot be overstated.

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@gavinlew8273 2025-09-08

"I don't see that education is happening in schools, I don't see alot of healing happening in hospitals and I don't see alot of food sold in supermarkets" 💯

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@karinbiow9110 2025-09-07

Loved this “eso”. I’m one of those lay people in the citadel. 75, terrified in a degrading America, with no safety net, and I found refuge here, as I contemplate the last decades of my life. I may feel trapped by my current reality, but your conversation reminds me that my mind is free… to explore the wider consciousness that is waiting for me. Thank you.

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@surrendertoflow78 2025-09-16

I can’t tell you how happy I was when I started this video and it was Alex being interviewed ❤ I’m a former neuroscientist and am equally fired up about the same issues. Literally every single thing he touched on. (In fact my “former” status is because I couldn’t stomach the lack of integrity on multiple levels within the field and within academia at large. I’m in the US and I can’t imagine how much worse it is getting.)

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@busypeeps1483 2025-11-18

My takeaway is that as a high school teacher from Texas, as I dive deeper into consciousness and what's happening in our world, it doesn't matter how much more "science" I learn. These guys are just as in the weeds as I am, on this incredible journey just like me. They're just using more specific language that academics has identified as "true", but I think and feel the same. It is dangerous to assume humans who aren't scientists by trade aren't on the same journey, trying to knit together our education within the world and these ideas of consciousness and how much more we are than what we see.

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@Skeats-k1y 2025-09-07

The problem we all have is big egos on both sides, whereas evolving our consciousness requires a bit of humility and kindness to others.

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@mpswhite9413 2025-11-26

this talk is just spectacular. you let him speak, go wherever he wanted to with it, and you stayed honest, making a safe space for him to share and for you too, to say what you know or dont. delightful , thank you

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