There is no I.
Given that … can there be an Us?
Or even an Us against them?
A major part of the thesis here is, Yeah
(Wars are made by humans with egos [and various afflictions of Greed].)
The Hidden War On Consciousness
(in the words of grace. I lovelovelove this conversation)
Well … we know who we are and aren’t … right?
Who are they, the evil ones?
The shorthand within consciousness studies is: the Materialists.
But this other Dr. Alex says: It’s not just materialism we’re fighting, but also:
- Transhumanism
- Capitalism (and Marxism, imho)
- Reductionism
- Mechanicsim
- Secularism [see also: Flying Spaghetti Monster
- Rationalism
- Literalism [see also ‘fact v. fiction’]
- Dualism [see also objectivity v. subjectivity], and …
- “The worst pseudo-science is this kind of dogmatic scientism.”
And I find that seriously fascinating.
It’s not just pocket-protector scientists that derail even thinking about anyone’s consciousness with goodwill.
It’s not just evil billionaires destroying wetlands and polar bears (or whole peoples) for profit.
The potentially fatal flaw in the narrative of civilization is that it has stacked these lenses of illusion, one on top of the other, and piped the multilayered deception into us through the education system from the time we are baby birds, until we can’t see one glimmer of life or hope or god through the stack.
Yeah.
That’s what I was trying to say.
Listen.
I’m posting this early because I want it to linger at the top of this page for at least 24 hours.
I’ve only watched the first half of this interview, but I watched that first half twice.
I’ll get to the rest tomorrow, maybe that’s tomorrow’s post, we’ll see if it’s that interesting too. Whatevs.
*** Below this line, un-integrated notes from the first half, aight? ***
(consciousness studies: lots of signal but So Much Noise!
scientific miracles or a science of the impossible (remote viewing)
you guys need a better word for superman and inherent psi capabilities, Joan D’arc
‘the hard problem of consciousness’ is just a rebranding of the death of materialism
he respects Chalmers, ambivalent toward Anil Seth
but NOT Dawkins, Degrasse-Tyson (and other popularizing indoctrinators of the masses)
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia
Barcelona
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