Why consciousness might continue after death | Àlex Gómez-Marín

So I would say the evidence suggests that the mind can survive the activity of the brain that when brain s are broken [music] or shut off there can still be mind going on and that's revolutionary . So you're a theoretical physicist and a neuroscientist and you've also been fiercely critical of materialist theories of mind and consciousness . So what do you think is the ultimate nature of reality and why do you believe that? ? I don't know what the nature [music] the ultimate nature of reality is but I what what I try to first assess is whether the stories that they've told us about it are right or maybe whether there are other alternatives . That's why I've been a a fierce critic of materialism because as a scientist I realized that they had sold us this idea that in order to be a good scientist you also had to subscribe to many other isms like materialism and and even secularism . And so first I think one needs to unblock unmount these isms and then as it's happening today in consciousness studies we have a huge landscape where there's not only there there isn't only one game in town the idea that matter is the only thing that really exists but actually because we are studying the hard problem of consciousness it may be the case that other views of reality like idealism or even dualism or other forms like dual aspect monism . I know this is a mouthful, but these are these are really philosophical ideas that now I think have room in science to be taken seriously . How does something like materialism relate to dualism or idealism ? Like you know what is materialism in its most basic ? If you could just say very briefly what it is . Well, materialism is the philosophical position that matter is the only really real thing in in the universe. And I . And I think that worked kind of well because