Extended Sight & Process Philosophy with Àlex Gómez-Marín and Matt Segall
Event Type:
- Dialogue, Presentation
- (Online)
Program:
- Process & Science Network
Featuring:
- Àlex Gómez-Marín and Matthew David Segall
Organizers:
- Center for Process Studies
Join us for this Saturday morning dialogue between physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín and Center for Process Studies’ Process & Science Network chair Matt Segall. Dr. Gomez-Marin, who is head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante, Spain, will summarize the results of his recent experiments on “scopaesthesia” (in collaboration with Dr. Rupert Sheldrake) and on “extraocular vision” (inspired by the work of Dr. Jacobo Grinberg). He and Segall will then explore how these phenomena can be given coherent interpretation from a process philosophical perspective.
Featuring
Dr. Alex Gómez-Marín (Barcelona, 1981) is a physicist turned neuroscientist investigating human consciousness in the real world. He holds a degree in physics, a masters in biophysics, and PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Barcelona, followed by two postdoctoral fellowships as a neuroscientist at the EMBL Center for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. For the last decade Alex has been a Principal Investigator at the Institute of Neurosciences in Alicante, Spain, and Director of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory. He is currently a Senior Researcher there and an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. He was director of the Pari Center from 2022 to 2025. In 2023 he was awarded the Linda O’Bryant research prize by the Institute of Noetic Sciences for his research on minds beyond brains. He is currently a member of the advisory board of the Dutch Brain Interface Initiative and of the Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative. He is also executive editor of Robert Kuhn’s the Landscape of Consciousness Website. Alex has published over a hundred articles in science journals, including Nature Neuroscience, Neuron and Science. He is also the author of The Science of the Last Threshold: a Journey to the Limits of Life, Death, and Consciousness, recently published in Spanish by Planeta.
Dr. Matthew David Segall is the Director of the Process & Science Network, and a transdisciplinary researcher and teacher applying process philosophy across the natural and social sciences, including the study of consciousness. He is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA. Matt is author of Crossing the Threshold: Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead (Integral Imprint, 2023) and Physics of the World-Soul: Alfred North Whitehead’s Adventure in Cosmology (SacraSage Press, 2021). Follow his work at Footnotes2Plato.com
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