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*Can consciousness continue even when brain activity appears to stop?*
Alex Gómez-Marín discusses evidence from near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, and other anomalous phenomena that he believes deserve serious scientific investigation. He argues that these observations may fit more naturally with a permissive model of the brain than with the traditional view that the brain fully produces consciousness.
0:00 Exploring the Edges of Consciousness
2:43 From Personal Experience to Scientific Investigation
5:13 The Productive Brain Versus the Permissive Brain
7:56 What Near-Death Experiences May Show
11:01 Why Gómez-Marín Thinks the Question Remains Open
*Alex Gómez-Marín* is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time in inert systems, to the neurobiology of action-perception in living organisms such as flies, worms, mice, and humans.
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*Can consciousness continue even when brain activity appears to stop?*
Alex Gómez-Marín discusses evidence from near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, and other anomalous phenomena that he believes deserve serious scientific investigation. He argues that these observations may fit more naturally with a permissive model of the brain than with the traditional view that the brain fully produces consciousness.
0:00 Exploring the Edges of Consciousness
2:43 From Personal Experience to Scientific Investigation
5:13 The Productive Brain Versus the Permissive Brain
7:56 What Near-Death Experiences May Show
11:01 Why Gómez-Marín Thinks the Question Remains Open
*Alex Gómez-Marín* is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time in inert systems, to the neurobiology of action-perception in living organisms such as flies, worms, mice, and humans.
*More from Alex Gómez-Marín on Closer To Truth:*
* Watch the full Alex Gómez-Marín playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJr3pJl27pJiQ2-LdDF7ZNNw2YXEf-RU
* Website: closertotruth.com/contributor/alex-gomez-marin
*Subscribe to Closer To Truth:* youtube.com/@CloserToTruthTV
*Join the Community:*
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Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.
#CloserToTruth #Consciousness #AlexGomezMarin #NearDeathExperiences #SurvivalOfConsciousness
