Claims

Alex Gomez Marin, a neuroscientist who has had near-death experiences and psychedelic insights, argues there is a 'war on consciousness' being waged by Silicon Valley and AI advocates who promote a physicalist materialist agenda claiming humans are machines, which is unscientific and represents an assault on consciousness.

When a neuroscientist responded to Gomez Marin's remote viewing work by claiming it must be due to stupidity, insanity, or fraud, without examining the evidence or methodology, this revealed dogmatic scientism rather than genuine scientific engagement.

A prominent scientist initially dismissed Gomez-Marín's research but later revealed that he shares Gomez-Marín's heterodox interests but chooses to work on them quietly and strategically rather than publicly, asking Gomez-Marín to respect this approach while also validating Gomez-Marín's more open style.

Different communities (neuroscience, behavioral sciences, developmental biology, molecular biology, cell biology) study what are fundamentally the same phenomena—the origin of self-organization and coherent goal-directed systems—but treat them as different subjects due to disciplinary silos.