Blind Man Sees: Consciousness Beyond The Senses? | Dr. Alex Gomez Marin
Does research on extra-ocular vision bring us closer to answering the question: is our consciousness produced by our brain? Natalia Vorontsova discusses the mind-brain relationship, the nature of reality, and the future of science with neuroscientist, physicist, and near-death experiencer Dr. Alex Gomez Marin.
You can learn more about Alex’s work at:
https://agomezmarin.com/
https://paricenter.com/
00:00 Intro and guest introduction
00:04:02 Why should science study consciousness?
00:07:21 Challenges of studying consciousness: fringe phenomena & neuroscience
00:13:34 Alex’s research: blind man with extra-ocular and extra-temporal perception
00:24:30 Can we all develop extrasensory abilities?
00:26:58 Hypotheses for extra-ocular perception: old and new views
00:36:34 How materialistic science explains ESP: the old paradigm trap
00:47:43 Mind-body relationship: skeptics & believers
00:54:46 Edges of consciousness: brain trauma & enhanced cognition
01:01:58 Brain function models: transmission, permission & emission
01:07:32 Science and the sacred in the age of AI
01:10:43 Theoretical frameworks: metaphors, models & metaphysics
01:18:36 Healing the wound at the heart of science: pluralism of metaphysics
01:28:41 Alex’s research and the non-locality principle
01:36:48 From a PhD in physics to consciousness research
01:42:52 Alex’s NDE story and transformation.
01:51:26 Defining consciousness: views of Alex and Natalia
01:59:31 The expression of consciousness through art, music & mystical moments
02:02:28 Consciousness studies: key barriers & what needs to change
02:10:21 Advice for the younger generation: a two-way street
02:14:05 Death: the meaning of life, big questions
02:20:10 The metaphysics of grace: ‘us and them’
02:27:18 Where are memories stored: not in the brain?
02:33:04 Why can’t we remember the future?
02:39:14 Final thoughts & resources
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@Necrovantic
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
Alex and rupert sheldrake are my two fav scientist = ) I have been ghost hunting and I have seen things that I cannot explain and thats why I believe every word that is said. there are other dimensions that we cannot see, with their own laws and because of that anything is possible.
@perimetrfilms
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
I don't think consciousness is experience because my mind has never experienced things but I can imagine them. Languages are incapable of defining consciousness. Bullshit is not an expression Spanish people understand. Consciousness is undefined. It is probably non computational.
@twinblessings2125
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
Alex shouting out Eric Weinstein and completely misunderstanding Bernardo's philosophy….not a good look for the foundation mate.
@EthanGrech
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
Regarding brain trauma and enhanced cognition, is it possible that separate, undamage areas overcompensate for the deficit?
@albertosierraalta3223
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
Hearing Alex is so refreshing. There should be more scientist with his archetype, meaning, open to ideas, rigorous, humble, excited and well rounded in different topics
@marcusferderber5789
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
Ok, he talks a lot but where is the evidence?
@andreastucchi6191
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
problem is that all of this is based on an assumption…that consciousness exist.
@gatobalbieri
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
I love this guy. He needs his own podcast.
@Lmaxk007
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
Yes
@lynn1959
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
I have been meditating on and off for many years and it is something I do especially after injury or when I’ve had surgery. I don’t take pain killers. I get really quiet and focus on the sensations of pain as opposed to staying stuck at the superficial level of pain (that is the label – ‘pain’), the nature of the pain then changes to amazing fluctuations of energy and vibration. It is no longer painful but mesmerizing, and with witnessing awareness simply follow the movements and patterns. To me it is like being part of the world at the quantum level – a level deeper than solid matter anyway, and is healing. I have also had other transcendental experiences and my heart sings to hear of scientists such as Alex and Federico Faggin who have had such experiences. The more scientists the better – especially those of the materialistic standpoint. I get it though as I was once a sceptic too, conditioned by my upbringing and education. There is so much more to being human, we are capable of so much more than we realise and indeed ‘love’ – ‘the universal glue’ as Alex calls it, is a love that knows no bounds except the restraints we impose on it.
@aliuddinkhaja5965
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
Alex is amazing. I can listen to him for eons.❤
@SongwritingLPT2023
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
Love this Mind is the animating agent of spirit.
@nicolasclaudot6724
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
Awesome talk thanks. It resonates deeply hope all this is more than we can imagine indeed
@retti9
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
Action potentials cyclically relay back from source consciousness to the intrapersonal consciousness continuously collapsing the wave function, creating coherence. The personal self is only an instance of the universe being self aware and the display of it's will through a tapestry of senses woven together through the artistry of insightful contention , Qualia Supremo. "You" are an instance in time that has expressions of deterministic free will, both from source consciousness and biological inheritance.
@tonynikolaos3527
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
Yes, science in reaction to superstition and centuries of dogmatic repression, did throw the baby with the water- while washing. Now we miss the baby- the life of the matter. People want meaning, purpose, beauty, hope, promise of timelessness, ethical system within greater framework- ultimately people want God. We are even hard-wired to seek permanence and Divine existence. So it will be as hard, as giving up sex or family life- if not harder to give up on God. Time to recover the baby- thank you for the much needed wash- not let’s continue onward. Let’s connect Science with Consciousness and other various subtler dimensions of existence and being.
@tonynikolaos3527
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
It’s good to awaken some people that you are a “rough” Spaniard- and tell it your theatrical way. Thank you for the excellent much-needed research and your integrative open-minded attitude to data and facts!
FUI: did you know that dark-chamber protocol (total visible spectrum isolation for 10 to 30 or more days) can induce seeing in total darkness, even in ordinary non-special individuals? Is this reopening of another sleeping sense or awakening of a bet-type of sonar detection or something else?
After immersion in total darkness for some days many individuals start seeing in total darkness, including having remote perception, lucid open eye “hallucinations” or projections etc.
Of course, all those experiences come with profound character transformations – proof of deep rare consciousness experiences.
Must to be researched venue offering lots of room for exploration!
@tonynikolaos3527
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
It’s good to awaken some people that you are a “rough” Spaniard- and tell it your theatrical way. Thank you for the excellent much-needed research and your integrative open-minded attitude to data and facts!
FUI: did you know that dark-chamber protocol (total visible spectrum isolation for 10 to 30 or more days) can induce seeing in total darkness, even in ordinary non-special individuals? Is this reopening of another sleeping sense or awakening of a bet-type of sonar detection or something else?
After immersion in total darkness for some days many individuals start seeing in total darkness, including having remote perception, lucid open eye “hallucinations” or projections etc.
Of course, all those experiences come with profound character transformations – proof of deep rare consciousness experiences.
Must to be researched venue offering lots of room for exploration!
@biancaturner725
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
I will repeat, we must work on the perception that we live in a mechanical universe…. We dont❤
@LesWaterman
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
These things, the breadth, can all be explained minus the maths. what interests me now is the time before and after time where there was the same being as in time.
@LesWaterman
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
its nice to see the 0.1% of people who have a brain, rather than being preached to that the universe is mulitiversal particle information (garbage). Thank God for a glimpse of sanity.
@LuxETenebris33
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
We need more rebels with a cause like Dr. Alex Gomez Marin. Those of us who have experienced Self-realization KNOW, consciousness is absolutely fundamental. Humanity is waking up from the slumber, the next few years are going to be transformative.
@mission.to.aether.1
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
111?
@benjaminwaynestone7709
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
Great discussion! 👍
@jericosha2842
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
I loved this talk. He seems to me, remarkably sane. Had to watch it over several days.
@Sailinon632
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
I had an obe years ago,it felt realer than real,if thats what happens when we die,i have no fear.Been interessed and explored counciousness ever since.
@exxzxxe
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
Another vignette: All who attend this channel go to Wikipedia and read about Kuda Bux. He claimed he could read blindfolded as long as a piece of skin, anywhere, was exposed. He was tested by Popular Mechanics (or Mechanics Illustrated- this was in the early 1950's so my memory is not perfect) and drove a car while he was blindfolded to the extent it was impossible for him to see with his eyes.
@markkobayashi
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
Harmony
Inner harmony resonates peace beyond words, symbols and cultural definitions.
We are an ALL of thoughts flowing as one.
We flow through each other like colored smoke or vibrations of sound. Eternal harmonies.
ALL is as one. ALL equal, one identity. Love.
We created an experience of forms with distances and the outcomes of time and individuality.
Everything is an ALL experience. ALL within all.
Gods, devils, angels, heaven, hell, NDEs, afterlife, before life and everything that individualizes is the experience.
Outside of this experience, our eternal thoughts without form are free from duality definitions. Love.
Some take comfort in individualism as amoeba in a drop of pond water.
The All love is beyond all we know.
@Byneford
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
Well this was a treat to watch! Delightful discovery ❤
@markcounseling
October 12, 2024 at 3:14 am
28:00 This is the beginning of one of the most brilliant and funny and heartwarming takedowns of our dear misguided friends, the materialists, that I've ever had the pleasure to listen to. It's so very wonderful that this time of meaninglessness and hard-headed stupidity is coming to an end. How joyous!😅