Thoughts on Science, Medicine And Sundry Things
On December 16, 2025, I was a guest on David Lorimer’s podcast “Imaginal Inspirations” discussing the topic “From Science to Consciousness.”
About the host: David Lorimer is Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness.
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Transhumanism – next step in human evolution, crazy ideology, irrelevant, or what?
A few years ago, I wrote a report for the Galileo Commission of the Scientific and Medical Network on scientism, the religion-like belief in science of our time (‘Beyond a Materialist Worldview’).
I have now followed up on this with a report on transhumanism, which I presented in an online event.
A well-known story of the Muslim sage Nasreddin Hodsha reports Nasreddin standing under a lamp at night, searching frantically for something. A passer-by asks him: “Nasreddin, what are you looking for?” Nasreddin answers: “I am looking for my house keys.” “Did you lose them here?” “Almost certainly not, but I am looking here, because this is where the light is.”
It is a common phenomenon: We are looking for something not where it might be found in all likelihood, but where it is most convenient to look for. Something similar, it appears to me, happened and is happening at the Science of Consciousness (TSC) Conferences. The most recent of them was convened from May 22nd to 27th 2023 in Taormina, Sicily (see https://tsc2023-taormina.it/ for a full program and book of abstracts), and I had the privilege to attend it on behalf of the SMN in a beautiful surrounding.