New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove • Jan 2, 2025 Àlex Gómez-Marín, PhD, is director of the Organism Behavior Laboratory at the Institute of Neuroscience in Alicante, Spain. He is an associate professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the director of the Pari Center in Tuscany, Italy. His work encompasses the microscopic origins of the arrow of time, animal neuroethology in different species, and artificial intelligence applied to human stupidity. His current research focuses on the scientific study of consciousness in the real world. His research proposal, “Seeing Without Eyes,” won the Linda G. O’Bryant Noetic Sciences research prize. Here he describes the transhumanist movement, based on the writings of Ray Kurzweil, Julian Huxley, Teilhard de Chardin, and Dante. He compares the materialist vision of humans merging with their mechanical creations and the spiritual idea of transcendence or merging with the creator. He suggests that transhumanism is a religion that cloaks itself in the pretenses of science. 00:00 Introduction 02:29 What is transhumanism? 06:38 False alternatives 12:56 What is the singularity? 22:27 Transcendence or death? 31:01 What is consciousness? 38:59 Will computers become clairvoyant? 43:45 Can we prevent misuse of technology? 48:29 Conclusion New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He serves as Co-Director for Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on December 13, 2024)