Where Is My Mind? Podcast!

Where does your “mind” come from? Easy answer: Your brain…right? Think again. It’s hard to believe, there is no explanation in modern science how a brain could create our subjective experience of being alive (“consciousness”). Science Magazine has called this “hard problem” the #2 question remaining in all of science. Where Is My Mind? explores a revolutionary hypothesis: What if consciousness comes from outside the body? The show is hosted by Mark Gober, a consciousness researcher and author of An End to Upside Down Thinking, who happens to be a former Wall Street banker working in Silicon Valley. Why does this show matter? Well, if consciousness is not native to the brain, would phenomena like telepathy, precognition, near-death experiences, afterdeath communications, and so much more not only be possible… but be PREDICTED? Plus, what happens when we die? Are psychics real? How could a young child accurately report memories of someone else’s life and death? The implications could shift our collective worldview and even impact how we treat one another… so don’t miss it.

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Donald Hoffman, PhD: Professor of Cognitive Sciences, UC-Irvine

Dr. Donald Hoffman is a professor of cognitive sciences at the University of California, Irvine, in the School of Social Sciences. He is also a professor of philosophy at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. Educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he obtained his PhD in 1983, his research interests include human and machine vision, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, consciousness, and cognition.

Dr. Hoffman is the author of three books: Visual Intelligence, Observer Mechanics, and Automotive Lighting and Human Vision.

Webpage: http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/

Book: The Case Against Reality

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Dr. Eben Alexander spent over 25 years as an academic neurosurgeon, including 15 years at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, the Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Over those years he personally dealt with hundreds of patients suffering from severe alterations in their level of consciousness. Many of those patients were rendered comatose by trauma, brain tumors, ruptured aneurysms, infections, or stroke. He thought he had a very good idea of how the brain generates consciousness, mind, and spirit.

Dean Radin, PhD: The science of psychic abilities

Dean Radin, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Science (IONS) and Associated Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). His original career track as a concert violinist shifted into science after earning a BSEE degree in electrical engineering, magna cum laude and with honors in physics, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Russell Targ: Remote viewing and the US government

Russell Targ is a physicist and author, a pioneer in the development of the laser and laser applications, and a cofounder of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) investigation of psychic abilities in the 1970s and 1980s. SRI is a research and development think tank in Menlo Park, California. Called remote viewing, his work in the psychic area has been published in Nature and other scientific journals.

Rupert Sheldrake, PhD: Psychic abilities in humans and animals

Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 85 scientific papers and 9 books, and the co-author of 6 books. He was among the top 100 Global Thought Leaders for 2013, as ranked by the Duttweiler Institute, Zurich. On ResearchGate, his RG score puts him among the top 7.5% of researchers.

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