{"id":235248,"date":"2026-04-15T10:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/neuroscientist-speaks-out-on-the-hidden-war-on-consciousness"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:05:11","slug":"neuroscientist-speaks-out-on-the-hidden-war-on-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/neuroscientist-speaks-out-on-the-hidden-war-on-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscientist Speaks Out On The Hidden War On Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K7NIicE_h9w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Physicist and neuroscientist Dr. Alex G\u00f3mez-Mar\u00edn 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.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Alex G\u00f3mez-Mar\u00edn 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 Mar\u00edn directly after his speech to analyze what this war is really about.<\/p>\n<p>Our previous conversation with Mar\u00edn: \u2022 Blind Man Sees: Consciousness Beyond The S\u2026<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about Mar\u00edn\u2019s work at:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"V6JnQktn1n\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/our-team\/\">Our Team<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Our Team&#8221; &#8212; The Pari Center\" src=\"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/our-team\/embed\/#?secret=82kolmYzgd#?secret=V6JnQktn1n\" data-secret=\"V6JnQktn1n\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Watch Dr. Gomez Marin\u2019s full presentation at the Science of Consciousness Conference (TSC2025):<br \/> \u2022 2025 TSC \u2014 Barcelona \u2014 Plenary 12 \u2014 End of\u2026<br \/> Other TSC interesting TSC videos: \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thescienceofconsciousness\">@thescienceofconsciousness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Essentia Foundation wants to thank The Science Of Consciousness Conference and Robert Neville for their great support in producing this interview.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/neuroscientist-speaks-out-on-the-hidden-war-on-consciousness\">Continue reading \u201cNeuroscientist Speaks Out On The Hidden War On Consciousness\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicist and neuroscientist Dr. Alex G\u00f3mez-Mar\u00edn 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 G\u00f3mez-Mar\u00edn is associate professor of the Spanish Research Council in Alicante, Spain, and director [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}