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Neuroscientist Speaks Out On The Hidden War On Consciousness

Essentia Foundation | September 8, 2025



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.

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Comments

This post currently has 39 comments.

  2. @HH-hb9uy

    September 8, 2025 at 3:21 am

    "we are more than our brain and body" eh no, we are not our body, we are seperate from it.
    The ceo of a company is not his company, he and his body is seperate from the organisms within the company – same princable.

  3. @ClownshowMerica

    September 8, 2025 at 3:21 am

    Wow Dr. Alex !!! 100% been wrestling with so many of the topics, concerns you shared and the attack on Humans true nature which is Consciousness, pure Astral Bodies of Love/Light….and this AI/Technology Prison we have been given (by who👽🦎) and are eagerly walking in to the cages!!!?
    I’m an Astral OBE Experiencer for Decades…. So I see this Technology as a TRAP….and have to ask who has set the Bait and Promises at the Door of the Cage??
    Great Interview!!

  6. @BriannaPaden-mr3xq

    September 8, 2025 at 3:21 am

    This is someone who is convinced our conciousness has nothing left to teach. It’s time to playback all the lessons that were blocked from the collective before 2020. Don’t wait until you’ve found them broken to knit pick them as if they aren’t at the level they are

  9. @InkaPley

    September 8, 2025 at 3:21 am

    Very fascinating discussion. Thank you Dr Alex. I agree with you that Ayahuasca should be considered with a lot of regard and respect and not just a "weekend Groupon Experience" type of thing. There is only a tiny fraction of it's ancient uses and traditions known and imagine how much is still not known because of its sacredness and ritualistic properties that those who know do not want to share because they know what happens when the West gets a hold of ANY culture/people's rituals, traditions,therapies etc….its turned into a "the latest fad" made into a "luxury expensive experience" by a "teacher" or "leader" who read a view books in Cliff note version and watched some YouTube videos on the topic …

    Knowing the effects it has and the ability to heal people's trauma and addictions etc….i find that it's one of the many herbs the all powerful universe created to help us "dissipate the stuck traumas of our past by pushing the blocked energy through the mind manually, healing each thing one by one as the body absorbs the healed trauma into itself just like a river absorbs the rain drops into itself. Blessings, health and long curious life your way, Dr.

  10. @BldgsFallStraightDwn

    September 8, 2025 at 3:21 am

    PURPOSE. That is our big question. Do we really NEED "a purpose"? I think that might be a human constructed concept. We can specialize and show off some talents and such. But "purpose" is a construct. Can't we all just be connected and LOVE and be at peace? YES WE CAN. It's just that the least enlightened of humanity seem to be the ones that rise to the top of CONTROL. It's upside down.

  12. @marilynwarbis7224

    September 8, 2025 at 3:21 am

    Consciousness pervades the whole universe, from the smallest atom to the vastest galaxy. Establishment materialistic science states that all is material and that consciousness is merely a haphazard spin-off from the material. In fact, the reverse is true, i.e. consciousness is the pervading force and the material world is a precipitation of it onto the material level. Yes, there is a war on consciousness these days from our Establishments.

  13. @1fnklown

    September 8, 2025 at 3:21 am

    Hence phrases like social Engineering. I'm older but I have been aware for a long time, I have been surprised from what I have learned though. High Times wasn't just infiltrated, it was much more, what we saw in movies, taught in schools ect.. When I see kindergarten kids chanting a sports team's name is that not programming? The Kennedy stuff as in the 2 brothers & the massive amount of subterfuge.

  14. @revtevye

    September 8, 2025 at 3:21 am

    The host trying to slip in a casual anti-Catholic comment at the end of the convo… Alex wouldn't take it. Respect. True scientists don't need Dawkinsean attitudes to get their point across.

  15. @zenoffice4805

    September 8, 2025 at 3:21 am

    I think most consumers of art and music want to hear or see human creations. Not art created as a a simulation of what a human makes based on previous art.
    I'm always interested in the artist/musician and their life, thoughts, emotions etc. AI art has nothing interesting in it.

  17. @timb350

    September 8, 2025 at 3:21 am

    There is no 'hidden war on consciousness' that has not been always been there. It has simply been evolving. New paradigms are emerging…and the points of conflict are evolving. These are the biggest realities that exist. Of course there are going to be problems.

  18. @AevaXtarot

    September 8, 2025 at 3:21 am

    There is no knowledge in schools, art is not being produced, good music , original music isn't being produced. And now the EU mandates maggot meal in our food. Low vibration foods.

  19. @Eddie-w8m8s

    September 8, 2025 at 3:21 am

    Anyone who can see the other layers to reality can automatically obviously see , the stats qoe or information that goes against concessions being fundamental and the foundation to reality is an A.I system posing as humans through real life rendering tech

  21. @ins344

    September 8, 2025 at 3:21 am

    "I don't see education in schools, I don't see a lot of food being sold in supermarkets and I don't see a lot of healing in hospitals" These are really powerful truth bombs that need to be explored.

  27. @zenoffice4805

    September 8, 2025 at 3:21 am

    I see it as a race between transhumanists and scientists who understand that human consciousness is fundamental, before the public gets hoodwinked into getting brain chipped.

  29. @a_sher1775

    September 8, 2025 at 3:21 am

    We are a code, DNA, that is walking around and conscious. However we don’t understand nearly enough about DNA, to do anything other than experiment. In what experiment has it ever gone exactly as you expected it to? Have all of them? Clearly there is still information as yet to learn yes? And it’s safe to assume we always will? I think this is why the Ancient Greeks called all knowledge remembering. A lot of science is just noticing patterns that were already there. Unless you believe the patterns Euclid articulated didn’t exist before he managed to point them out? Everything is more complicated than any individual can fully understand.

  31. @angelcantu4875

    September 8, 2025 at 3:21 am

    I watched in full. Lo vi completo. I didn’t understand anything. No entendí nada. I didn’t even understand what you were talking about or supposed to be talking about or attempting to be talking about it. Ni siquiera entendí de que hablaban, o se suponía que hablaban o de lo que intentaban hablar. So much for oratoria!

  36. @edgardsimon983

    September 8, 2025 at 3:21 am

    im 20 min in and i dont know where the guy is going or whatever he want to say against all the people he think have pushed an agenda in some way for some reason for something, he dont detail anything or jump a fence at any point in time in those 20 min, i might have listened to it while not being focus at all on what he said but i clearly heard him have something against any popular mf that push science or whatever,

    i hope i missed it cause otherwise this is a master class of intelectual mas u r bation

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