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Ex-Michigan coach Sherrone Moore reportedly detained by police after being fired for 'inappropriate relationship'
Police detain ex-Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore after firing
Former Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore has been detained by police in Saline and may face criminal charges, following his recent firing for cause.
Bargy named 2025 Michigan 4-H Animal Science Youth Sportsperson of the Year - 4-H Animal Science
Antrim County 4-H member Wyatt Bargy wins prestigious sportsmanship award for his involvement in 4-H animal science projects.
Michigan replaced one cheater with another, shredding its once impeccable reputation
Sherrone Moore has proven, beyond the shadow of a doubt, he can't cheat without getting caught. At anything.
Rams vs. Lions Injury Report
See who's in and who's out for the Week 15 matchup between the Los Angeles Rams and Detroit Lions on December 14, 2025.
Sherrone Moore fired for cause by Michigan amid 'inappropriate relationship' with staffer
The Wolverines will undergo their second coaching change in three years, releasing Moore after eight years with the organization, including two as head coach
Michigan Reportedly Fires Head Coach Sherrone Moore After 2 Seasons
Sherrone Moore's time in Ann Arbor is over.
House Democrat Seeks to Impeach RFK Jr. for Undercutting Public Health
The move by Representative Haley Stevens, a Michigan Democrat who is running for Senate, does not have the support of her party’s leaders and is all but certain to fail.
House Democrat Seeks to Impeach RFK Jr. for Undercutting Public Health
The move by Representative Haley Stevens, a Michigan Democrat who is running for Senate, does not have the support of her party’s leaders and is all but certain to fail.
Scheduling update to MSU-Michigan hockey game in February announced
Michigan State hockey is set to play another game in front of a national audience
Full-length Replay: Big Ten Men's: Villanova at Michigan
Win streaks collide when Villanova (7-1) plays No. 2 Michigan (8-0) at the Crisler Center.
Chateau Ste. Michelle is now under new ownership
The Wyckoff family announced its purchase of Ste. Michelle Wine Estates on Monday.
UM Health-Sparrow earns highest rating for maternity care in new report
University of Michigan Health-Sparrow's birthing center sees around 3,500 births annually, according to a statement from hospital officials.
Joel Sherman's 3 Things I Think: Michael King, Brad Keller, Yankees'...
Joel Sherman continues to dig for Winter Meetings news from Orlando with the latest edition of his 3 Things I Think video.
Detroit and Michigan face challenges with preterm birth rate
A new March of Dimes report shows stark disparities in infant health.
Column | The 10 best TV shows of 2025
It’s been a very tricky year for an embattled industry, but at least we got to watch Diego Luna, Michelle Williams, Jason Momoa and Nathan Fielder.
Football: Northwestern to play Central Michigan in GameAbove Sports Bowl
In a season that saw Northwestern travel to New Orleans and Los Angeles, coach David Braun’s team will not have to travel far to finish off its campaign. The Wildcats (6-6, 4-5 Big Ten) will compete in Detroit’s GameAbove Sports Bowl against Central Michigan on Dec. 26, the team announced Sunday afternoon. The game is...
Rogers Victor: Food, not pharma: A new path for Michigan’s health
"Food is Medicine" is an important movement, but only a culture-wide shift will turn around our poor diet-driven health trajectory.
K&C Sports & Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup
Two NASCAR teams — including one owned by Michael Jordan — are seeking more than $364 million in damages from the private stock car racing organization in their lawsuit claiming the league made...
Mets have video meeting with Michael King as market for ex-Yankee...
King comes with a variety of elements appealing to the Mets.
Small Business Amicus Brief Questions Tax Foreclosure Procedures
NFIB filed an amicus brief in the case Michael Pung v. Isabella County at the U.S. Supreme Court concerning tax debt, just compensation, and property rights.
College basketball rankings get shakeup with Michigan new No. 1 in USA TODAY Sports poll
There's a new No. 1 team in the USA TODAY Sports men's basketball poll after Purdue was dealt its first loss of the season in emphatic fashion.
Central Michigan to face Northwestern at Ford Field for GameAbove Sports Bowl
The Central Michigan Chippewas will be in Detroit for the holiday season as they'll face the Northwestern Wildcats at Ford Field.
Men’s college basketball Top 25: Michigan is still my No. 1, but Iowa State is surging
The Cyclones own one of the best wins of the season at Purdue, and vaulted to No. 3 in CJ Moore's Top 25.
Two EMU Alumni Enshrined in The Greater Flint Area Sports Hall of Fame - Eastern Michigan University Athletics
Former Eastern Michigan University student-athletes Laurie Byrd and Patrick McInnis were inducted into the Greater Flint Area Sports Hall of Fame Saturday, D...
Full-length Replay: Michigan State at Wisconsin
Wisconsin (6-3) draws undefeated No. 20 Michigan State (8-0) to begin their Big Ten schedules.
Goins scores 24 as Bowling Green downs Aquinas 131-50
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) Aiden Goins' 24 points off of the bench led Bowling Green to a 131-50 victory against Aquinas of Michigan on Sunday.
Kennedy Center Honors kick off with red carpet, Trump’s arrival
In a first, President Donald Trump will host the gala, which honors Michael Crawford, Gloria Gaynor, Kiss, Sylvester Stallone and George Strait.
Food influencer Michael Duarte shared about past mental health...
Central Michigan headed to Detroit for bowl game
The game starts at 1 p.m. and will be televised by ESPN.
Central Michigan coming to Ford Field for GameAbove Sports Bowl vs Northwestern
Central Michigan is coming to Detroit to play Northwestern in the GameAbove Sports Bowl at Ford Field.
Jameis Winston does Michael Strahan IMPRESSION 🤣
Jameis Winston does Michael Strahan IMPRESSION 🤣
Detroit Bound: Wildcats to Meet Central Michigan in 2025 GameAbove Sports Bowl
The Northwestern Wildcats will take on the Central Michigan Chippewas in the GameAbove Sports Bowl on Friday, December 26. This year's game will kick off fro...
How a heart health dietitian — and mom of 4 boys
Michelle Routhenstein, a preventive cardiology dietitian, keeps workout equipment in her office and meal-preps most of her meals.
It might make you uncomfortable how much your calendar reveals your true priorities, says prof
"Productivity without connection equals emptiness," says Loyola University management professor Michelle Johnston.
Michael Bunting with a Powerplay Goal vs. Carolina Hurricanes
Lessons Learned After Trying MeshCore For Off-grid Text Messaging
[Michael Lynch] recently decided to delve into the world of off-grid, decentralized communications with MeshCore, because being able to communicate wirelessly with others in a way that does not dep…
Trump hosts Kennedy Center honorees for medal presentation ceremony
This year's recipients are actor Sylvester Stallone, singers Gloria Gaynor and George Strait, the rock band Kiss and actor-singer Michael Crawford
Duke vs. Michigan State Prediction, How to Watch, Odds, Channel
Preview the Dec 6 matchup between the Duke Blue Devils and Michigan State Spartans with how to watch, tv channel info, predictions, odds, over/under, spread, betting lines and more.
Saturday Sports: FIFA World Cup 2026 matchups; MLS finals; NFL; College football
NPR's Eyder Peralta talks to sports reporter Michele Steele about the FIFA World Cup draw, the MLS Cup Final this afternoon, and a classic NFL rivalry matchup this weekend.
Miami (OH) vs. Western Michigan prediction, odds: 2025 MAC Championship Game picks from proven model
SportsLine's computer model reveals its Western Michigan vs. Miami best bets
Raising the bar on education can pay off in business, leaders say
That assessment is contained in a new 40-page plan 'Michigan in a New Era' released by CEO group Business Leaders for Michigan.
The Ashes 2025: England needed to show 'fight'
England failed to show fight in the final session of the third day of the Ashes Test, said former captain Michael Vaughan.
Content Creators Unpack How Social Media Is Reshaping the Way Audiences Consume Media: 'The Only Barrier to Entry Is the Upload Button'
Power Women Summit 2025: Michelle Khare and Hannah Stocking treat their work with a 24/7, studio-level mindset.
NCAA Tournament Bracketology: Michigan takes over No. 1 national seed
Bracketology: Michigan earns No. 1 national seed after run at Players Era
MyMichigan Health consolidates leadership across four medical centers
Chuck Sherwin to lead four medical centers as the health system expands its unified leadership model across central Michigan facilities.
Data center battles: local protests, state incentives, and political fallout
Wondering why data centers are suddenly everywhere in the news? We’ll break it down. Plus, why the backlash isn’t falling along the usual party lines and what Michigan can learn from how voters in other states have responded.
Michael Returns In New GTA Online Mansions Update
The next GTA Online update, A Safehouse in the Hills, has finally gotten its release date confirmed by Rockstar Games. The company fully revealed on Friday that they'd be releasing yet another winter DLC as expected next week. The new update was first teased by Rockstar last week but details aside from the fact we'll be able to buy mansions have been fairly limited. Now we know Michael is back and more.
A ‘sleeping giant’ in Michigan politics: Data centers
The spread of AI data centers is fueling a grassroots backlash and magnifying political divisions ahead of the 2026 gubernatorial race.
Nominations Open for 2026 Michigan Hometown Health Hero Awards
The Michigan Public Health Week Partnership, a coalition of 13 statewide organizations that include the MHA, is seeking nominations by Friday, Dec. 19, for individuals and organizations that have contributed to improving the health and well-being of their communities.
Usher & Big Sean Team Up to Invest $1 Million in Entertainment Production Facility for Detroit Youth
The Detroit Entertainment Innovation Incubator will be housed in the Michigan Central Boys & Girls Club.
A ‘sleeping giant’ in Michigan politics: Data centers
The spread of artificial intelligence data centers across the Great Lakes state is fueling grassroots backlash and magnifying divisions in an already-competitive 2026 gubernatorial race.
Lions vs. Cowboys Prediction, Odds, Picks for Thursday Night Football
Preview the Week 14 matchup between the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys with predictions, odds, over/under, spread, betting lines and more.
2025 Heisman Trophy odds, favorites: Top candidates headline Big Ten title game
It's a three-man battle for the Heisman, but only two contenders will be in action this week
Explore youth leadership opportunities in the Michigan 4-H Shooting Sports program - 4-H Shooting Sports
Learn about the teen leader program in 4-H shooting sports and how youth can become involved, have an impact on the program and develop leadership and life skills.
Michele Kang takes on women’s sports’ most neglected need
With a $55 million pledge, Kang is committing to research the women’s sports world has waited decades for.
Ohio State OC Brian Hartline to take USF job: Buckeyes losing top recruiter
Ryan Day will be looking for a new Ohio State offensive coordinator once again
The Live Nation litigation minefield: lessons from a legal crossroads for the live entertainment industry and beyond
Attorneys at Michelman Robinson examine the recent convergence of private and government antitrust litigation against Live Nation and the potential implications for the live entertainment industry.
Flu shot protects against new variant, Michigan health officials warn
Michigan's chief medical executive says the vaccine 'reduces severe complications' of the flu, including hospitalization.
Michele Kang launches institute with U.S. Soccer to advance women’s sports research
Kang previously announced two separate investments in U.S. Soccer totaling $55 million.
Bizjack's 29 lead Butler over Eastern Michigan 84-68
Led by Finley Bizjack's 29 points, the Butler Bulldogs defeated the Eastern Michigan Eagles 84-68 on Tuesday
Michele Kang launches Kang Institute with U.S. Soccer
Billionaire Michele Kang is launching the Kang Women's Institute to study the needs of female athletes with U.S. Soccer.
‘My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman’ Sets Season 6 Premiere; MrBeast, Michael B. Jordan & Jason Bateman Join Show
David Letterman is back with Season 6 of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction on Netflix. The former late-night host recently sat down with Jay Kelly star Adam Sandler for a special episode. That December 1 episode was not part of Season 6, which will premiere on December 16. It comes after Netflix renewed My …
David Letterman to Interview Michael B. Jordan, MrBeast and Jason Bateman on Netflix Show
The three-episode sixth season returns on Dec. 16.
Michael and Susan Dell donate $6.25B to fund 'Trump accounts'
Michael Dell and his wife pledged $6.25 billion to support the new "Trump accounts" program giving American children $1,000 at birth plus additional bonuses.
Lane Kiffin arrives in Baton Rouge, as the college football coaching carousel keeps going round and round
Michigan State, UCLA, Kentucky, James Madison, Northwestern all have coaches on the move
Michael and Susan Dell donate to encourage families to claim 'Trump Accounts'
The historic gift has little precedent, with few single charitable commitments in the past 25 years exceeding $1 billion.
Lions vs. Cowboys Injury Report
See who's in and who's out for the Week 14 matchup between the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys on December 4, 2025.
Michigan State finalizes deal to hire ex-Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald to replace Jonathan Smith
Michigan State has its replacement for Jonathan Smith.
From Sidelines to Center Court
WSF conducted a three-year research initiative funded by the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation focused on addressing access, engagement, and retention in sports for girls as well as the lack of women coaches working in the youth sports space. This research focused on the regions of Southeast Michigan and Western New York and has widespread […]
Full-length Replay: Michigan vs Syracuse
The No. 6 Wolverines draw the Orange as the Hall of Fame Women's Showcase winds down in Connecticut.
College basketball rankings see Michigan soar in USA TODAY Sports coaches poll
A dominant performance in Las Vegas during the week of Thanksgiving has Michigan rising in the USA TODAY Sports men's basketball poll.
The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'
Science must move from materialism to mystery
Theoretical physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín argues that modern science has become trapped in a framework that mistakes matter for the whole of reality. In this wide-ranging interview, Gómez-Marín challenges the foundations of materialism, defends the scientific study of near-death experiences, and calls for a new type of science grounded in mystery and a renewed sense of the sacred. He suggests that abandoning materialism could open the door to a deeper understanding of consciousness, death, and the purpose of human existence. Simon Custer: You are both a theoretical physicist and a neuroscientist, and you have also been fiercely critical of materialist theories of mind and consciousness. What do you think the ultimate nature of reality is?Àlex Gómez-Marín: I don't know what the ultimate nature of reality is, but what I try to first assess is whether the stories that they [mainstream science] have told us about it are right, or maybe whether there are other alternatives. That's why I've been a fierce critic of materialism. As a scientist, I realized that they had sold us this idea that to be a good scientist you also had to subscribe to many other -isms, like materialism, reductionism, and even secularism. And so first I think one needs to unmount these -isms, and then, as is happening today in consciousness studies, we have a huge landscape where there isn't only one game in town, the idea that matter is the only thing that really exists. But 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 theories like dual aspect monism... these are philosophical ideas that now, I think, have room in science to be taken seriously. How does something like materialism relate to dualism or idealism? What is materialism in the first place?Well, materialism is the philosophical position that matter is the only really ‘real’ thing in the universe. And I think that worked kind of well because science started 400 years ago and Galileo made that split, I call it the foundational wound. It was a great business move.He said, let's start doing science on that portion of reality that lends itself more easily to mathematization and measurement. So, for some reason, the solidity of this table or the movement of planets lend themselves very well to this foundational idea of science. But as time went on, 400 years later, we realized that we had forgotten the other side, which is what really matters.What really matters is pain, is love, is feelings, sensation, consciousness, which is very hard to define, but very intimate. We all know what it is. It's that thing that disappears when we go into deep sleep and comes back in the morning. SUGGESTED VIEWING On the edges of knowledge With Michael Shermer, Rupert Sheldrake, Güneş Taylor It's what it is like to be, as Nagel said. It's the feeling of being alive. So, materialism is good to study certain things, but then when it ossifies into this ideology and then is dressed like science, now it's preventing us from understanding these key questions that are really that everybody wants to know.Why are we here? Why do we feel reality? Where do we go when we die? And so we need other ways. We need pluralism. I'm only asking for having more options on the table and taking them seriously. Why does materialism fail to explain consciousness? For example, if you were to lobotomize me, I would not be a functional human being. What do you say to someone who might think that materialism adequately explains the mind?Well, here we could speak about different things. We could talk about physics or about neuroscience. I happen to have training with both.For instance, for neuroscientists, 99% of them, I'm not included in that portion, believe that the brain can only be a productive organ. It's an organ that somehow, somewhere, consciousness emerges. It's like a lamp. And then something happens, magic happens, and then consciousness emerges.That's the position you need to be if you're a materialist because if the only really ‘real’ thing is matter, then you need to say, just give us some more time and money and we'll figure out how mind emerges or is produced from matter. There are many philosophically sophisticated ways of criticizing this.Now there's another option, which is the brain as a permissive organ. This was said by William James more than 100 years ago.Now then the brain wouldn't be like this machine, like for instance, a heat engine whose smoke is consciousness, which is what we would have in the first big model, the productive model. But in the permissive model, the brain would be a kind of a filter. And so the brain would still have a very important role in consciousness, but it wouldn't be a productive role.It would be permissive, much like a filter or much like a prism which would receive light. And - I'm speaking metaphorically - it would receive the light of the mind and then it could reflect it and refract it.Now, with these two big options on the table, I think we can make progress into what I call the edges of consciousness, which are all these experiences, weird experiences that many people have, but we don't talk about enough, like near-death experiences, precognitive dreams, synchronicities. These experiences are very important for humans and they have a place in the permissive hypothesis and they are literally impossible in the productive hypothesis. So that's yet one more reason to explore alternatives to materialism. There may be anecdotal evidence for near-death experiences, but is there robust evidence that would be accepted by the majority of scientists who subscribe to the scientific method?Sure. And the plural of anecdotes, someone said, is data.And there's a lot of data. Actually, this year is the 50th anniversary, half a century, since Dr. Raymond Moody realized that we have two ears and one mouth and started listening to what his patients had to say about their experiences while they were clinically dead.The heart had stopped, breathing had stopped in these patients. These patients would come back and tell him these amazing stories that some people may say are hallucinations, but for the patients were hyper-real, like seeing light at the end of the tunnels, seeing deceased family members waiting for them, feeling bliss.___I would say the evidence suggests that the mind can survive the death of activity of the brain.___And so he and others started taking them seriously and writing their accounts down. And then you can do a science based on that material of experience that people have. Now, on the more objective side, more recently people have started to measure what's going on in the brain when people are clinically dead and brought back. This has opened a proper field of study, which is near-death studies.Evidence is a difficult word, because sometimes people think that when you say evidence, this is just the final proof. Evidence is like in a jury. You bring testimony, you bring pieces of data that point in one direction or another.I would say the evidence suggests that the mind can survive the death of activity of the brain. When brains are broken or shut off, there can still be mind going on. And that's revolutionary.That would entail that when we die, it's not game over, which, by the way, is the thesis of materialism. If consciousness survives, materialism dies. It's game over for materialism if something of us continues after we die. Do you think that there is mental continuity after death?Well, I think so, and I believe so, and I could also say I may have experienced it myself, because four years ago I had a near-death experience. I was in the hospital, I lost a lot of blood, and I saw those beings at the end of the tunnel, three beings, and there was yellow light. I was in a well, I was looking upwards, and I hadn't read about NDEs by then, but when I came back from this experience, I decided I would try to integrate this also in my professional life. Not just my personal life, of course, but my professional life as a physicist and as a neuroscientist. So I may have had the experience of glimpses of what an afterlife would be, and I'm not ashamed to say it in this way, and then one can do science of it, and then one can do philosophy of it.One can think about what -isms we were discussing, what views on reality would allow those experiences to be really ‘real,’ as opposed to, well, poor guy, the brain was kind of broken, it must have been a hallucination. Do you have a view about whether individuality or “the ego” persists after death, or whether we sort of merge into some sort of cosmic consciousness instead?I don't know, but my view would be along those lines you're suggesting. I think we could speak about a kind of universal mind, and then the problem is not how we emerge from matter, but how we fragment from a more holistic consciousness into these individual eddies and then when we die, this kind of dissipates.But I'm not sure. For instance, idealism would promote that view, but then what would survive of us after these eddies just vanish and become again the big Consciousness, I'm not sure what that would be. I don't know for sure, but I would tell you I believe something of us survives.And there are other lines of research, not just near-death experience, that can address this really hard question of survival. For instance, there are children who remember previous lives. This was studied by Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia for more than 50 years.___Research takes place within a selection mechanism that also sometimes reinforces things that are not very scientific.___It's amazing research. He went all over the world, especially in the East, and collected all these case studies, all these stories. In plural, these were data of kids, very young age, who would describe up to 40 items that then he could go and verify.There was no internet. There was really no way the kid could know. Why would the kid say that when I was living in this other body and I was a woman and that's how my house would look like or that's how I would die, right? Again, there is evidence, not proof, but there's evidence not only that something weird and interesting is happening as we cross the threshold, but also when we come back to this life.Scientists should not be afraid of studying this, but they are because there's stigma. There's usually stigma upon the enigma, and this is so unfortunate. And one of the reasons is because of the ideology of materialism, because those things cannot be possible. What is wrong with the politics of science such that they have generated this stigma?So many things. Science is a human activity to begin with.So it falls prey to all our passions and ego and greed. That's one thing. Science is a job for the good and for the bad.You need to get a salary. You need to get grants. Research takes place within a selection mechanism that also sometimes reinforces things that are not very scientific.And then, we didn't have time to unpack this, but science for many years become entangled, as I was suggesting before, to other -isms, materialism, secularism. So anything that smells like the afterlife, people may think has to do with God, and then they freak out.Anything that suggests that there's something about the mind that may not need a physical material substrate to exist, it smells like non-materialism. So, all these -isms are ideologically blocking that kind of research, and then there are all these sociopolitical constraints as to what should be studied and what shouldn't be studied.I call it the backstage of science. Sometimes we scientists or science communicators seem to speak as if the data is the only thing that matters. We say, well, data and theory.But then there's a third leg of this stool, which is all the politics that goes behind the scenes. And we often don't speak about this, and it's quite vicious and petty, and it's very real. Why is materialism so attractive to most scientists?Well, an easy answer is because we've grown up with it.It's what the educational system promotes, and that's what you hear when you go to university. So it's like growing in a culture. It feels like the air in which you breathe.So it's very hard to begin with to detect, well, maybe there's another alternative. Maybe there are other ways of doing science, other environments in which one could do science. That's one reason.And other reasons maybe are more profound, and I'm not qualified to explain them, but I could say, looking at this 400-year history of science, since it started around 1623 with Galileo's book The Assayer, that science went and coupled with all what's going on in the West.And so the fall of religion, you could say, and science presented us this new alternative that then could be coupled very well with other -isms, and this idea of growth, and then science losing its good twin brother, which was philosophy. There's a whole natural history of science starting as philosophy, kind of emancipating or breaking out from philosophy, and then marrying technology, and then marrying other social systems.From that point of view, materialism is a very convenient idea to propose. There were attempts, like the German idealists tried to do a more romantic science. But no, the idea prevailed, like Francis Bacon said: You should pursue nature through all her corners, he said, and make her spill her secrets.Our attitude towards nature in the science that dominates is very much reflecting how we treat nature in our society, in our culture, like a resource to extract secrets by force and then dominate it. How is materialism related to the notions of growth and progress? What's wrong with having a productive citizenry?This is another very interesting and very difficult question to answer.But there's this recent book coming out by Paul Kingsnorth. In it, he explains this idea of the machine and this idea of progress. And this, again, this conflation of more is better, of we need to go forward always, and convincing us that the way to do that is to continually extract more from nature. But because we don't have the religious context anymore, because God is dead, then what do we have? We have what we can do as humans with our own gadgets.It's kind of the story of the Promethean fire. We will just build anything to make ourselves God.A good example today is transhumanism. Transhumanism is this pseudo-religion dressed in technoscientific language whose goal is very religious. They promise immortality, they promise redemption, they promise transformation of the entire natural world, but it's done by human means through technology. Are you suggesting that we can't have ethics without religion?Well, we should have ethics with or without religion. That's another pruning that has happened in science. We say, forget about aesthetics, although some physicists still think that beautiful means probably true, and forget about politics. We pretend there's no backstage of science, and even let's forget about ethics.___Science needs to be in the service of mankind.___Scientists, when they become more like engineers, they're just thinking how to make things work so that they can go to the moon, go to Mars, make machines that think, but they don't think whether that's a good idea.And also consider metaphysics. Many scientists for a long time pretended, and maybe that comes from the stream of positivisms, that really one doesn't need metaphysics at all, except that materialism is always the metaphysics running the system.You see, it's not just ethics. It's the pruning of all of these, you could say, five main legs of philosophy that just makes a kind of unconscious science, a science that doesn't really know what it's doing. It's doing it very well locally, but it just doesn't know what it's doing globally. Do you think science has to have an ultimate vision and purpose behind it for it to be effective or for it to be meaningful and transformative?Yes, a way I would say that is that science needs to be in the service of mankind. And it hasn't been that. And we can see it through, you know, when we discovered the secrets of the atom, and all of a sudden, the Manhattan Project, and then we create nuclear weapons.And now we're trying to crack how machines may think, and now we're creating this mess, right? So science needs to be in service of mankind, not in service of a few ideas that maybe want to make more money or just dominate upon nature. What about planes, trains, automobiles, and modern medicine? Hasn't science served mankind by helping us develop those technologies?Yes and no. I see where you're going, and it's fair.I came here by plane, and it's a blessing. When I almost died, the surgeons did their job, and they saved my life. But these two forced choices between Luddites and Silicon Valley types, I think, of course, it's a false dichotomy.Progress, in a way, it's good, but we often don't speak about the dark side of the moon. We say the great things that progress has brought, and we don't speak about the disasters, the side effects that it has come with, and the same when we promise new technologies. We tend to think that any technology is great, that email is going to save us so much time because we don't need to write letters and send them anymore.Is that true? I spend so many hours a week writing emails. Let's just say there are great things about it and bad things about it. People like Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, for example, argue that we've made moral progress over time because of the Enlightenment. Do you think that's totally wrong-headed?I think he's emphasizing a side of the moon, and he does that very well, and you can find tons of plots where there's a slope going up and say it's great. But I think he should also tell the not-so-friendly story.But if your ideology is just to resist and continue to explain that the Enlightenment is the best thing ever and reason is the best thing ever… this feels to me like you're worshipping these abstractions.I'm very critical of it and also of these, again, science communicators and scientists that say, Oh, science says, in the name of science, experts say. It's like, come on, let's be careful because we can shoot ourselves in the foot by putting forth to the people an image of science that we know is not really true. Recently there's been a resurgence of spirituality and of people who say that they're spiritual but not religious, especially in the United States. If materialism is going away, what is going to fill that gap? Are we going to return to traditional religion? Do you see that being connected with the rise of the political right?I'm not a fortune teller, so I don't know what's going to happen. But, yeah, we could say we're in this post-materialist age and even post-secular age. One cannot come back to the past, but maybe just to contact with the roots is a good idea.What do I mean by that? I think we need to do a science 2.0, a science that says thank you to Galileo and thank you to materialism, but we need to reinvent even a new kind of scientific method. We need to do so in a culture where we realize humans cannot thrive in a vacuum where there's this idea that the sacred has to be removed.Now, how do we do that without bringing in back all the vices of religion? I don't know. I'm from a Catholic country.Here we are in England, so there are differences and interreligious dialogue has always been a challenge. But I think maybe a way of putting it is: after all these conflicts and branchings I was quickly alluding to, science from philosophy and then also from religion, now there's a time of reconciliation perhaps and maybe debates in the proper sense, like exchange of ideas in service of learning and getting into something higher than both poles. We need science to talk to religious people and it's interesting when people say they're spiritual and not religious.I think this is just a way of saying, no, I don't want to go back, I want to go forward. But at the end of the day, religions have offered us practices and grounding that we now desperately need. Everybody can and should just meditate or pray or do whatever they want, but we're in a crisis and it's time for reconciliation. What do you say to critics that say you are merely projecting our need for meaning onto a fundamentally indifferent universe?Yeah, I know that the typical science communicator says something like this. But we're not projecting. Human beings feed on meaning.It's the other way around. If you're a materialist, because the only thing that there is is matter, all that comes next, free will, consciousness, meaning, this is a kind of illusion that we need to explain.They're just craving for meaning, but there isn't really for them. I would also like to remind my materialist friends that for decades, if not centuries, they've said in the name of science, we know that this and this and this doesn't really exist. I think now they sense they're forced to say, well, actually, we don't know. We've been saying, for instance, that there's nothing after you die, and now probably they need to admit that they don't know the answer.___We need to do a science 2.0, a science that says thank you to Galileo and thank you to materialism, but we need to reinvent even a new kind of scientific method.___So it's a moment to open up possibilities and also to gently but fiercely critique these claims that I think harm society. If you say in the name of science, get on with it, when your father dies, you'll never see him again. Well, what the F do you know about it? You haven't studied the literature, you haven't had any of those experiences, and basically what you're doing is you're just doing marketing on ideology. This needs to stop. Do you think that it's scarier for some people to entertain the thought that there might be life after death, compared to a materialist worldview where you just die, given that there might be consequences for unsavory behaviour?Well, death and dying is scary. It's maybe the ultimate ending. It's a limit on life, and when we're in this conquest mode, we don't like limits.And it also has, there's a shockwave backwards, so I think if you change your notion of what death is or may be, you live differently. It also has consequences, as you're saying, for the future because this is not our only goal here and we come back in whatever form. And again, different religions would say different things. I the East, they are more happy with the idea of reincarnation, and here in the West, there are other preferences. But in any case, it changes how we live, and that's really what matters.It's not about just projecting or imagining what we'll be after, but how we live now and also how we treat those who are dying. So it goes from the individual to the families, to the hospitals.Now in the near-death research I do, this has ramifications at all these levels, all the way to society.But our society is thanatophobic. It has a phobia of death. We don't want to hear about death, and this is another thing we need to put on the table and be willing to talk about it. Do you think that we might get closer to answering ultimate questions like why is there anything at all if we jettison materialism?That’s an excellent question, Simon. Two things: we should stop treating reality, I believe, as a great sudoku, as an enigma, as something that with intelligence, money, and time that we will crack and instead treat reality more like a mystery. And what you do for in front of a mystery is not to be the clever guy in a class and say “I’ll solve you” but more like “I will bow and you will transform me.”I know this sounds a bit like a scientist speaking like a mystic. But I think this reorientation is needed. In the end, we won’t crack the big questions, but they will transform us. If we free ourselves from this prison of materialism, the way we will explore these questions will be freer, more creative, and in service of mankind. Do you think exploring mystery is the reason why we are here?I think we are here because, and this pseudo-theological argument I’m making off the cuff, But the One, the Absolute, if there is such a thing, had everything except limitation. We are that absolute experiencing that contingency. It’s like an act of divine proprioception. It’s a wonderful adventure, it’s just incredible to be alive. Perhaps we have forgotten why we are here and the whole point is to experience the flesh.Let me end by saying this. I criticize materialism harshly. I bang on this dead horse, because I think it’s dead. But matter is a great mystery. So maybe my invitation is as follows: hey materialist friends, come here, let’s work on materialism 2.0! Consciousness is a mystery, but matter is also a mystery. The fact that we can have an intersubjective experience consensus, the fact that we can apply mathematics, that we can measure things... the physical world we take for granted, but it is a great mystery too.Maybe that’s related to your last question: why are we here? Why did spirit decide to incarnate? Being in the flesh may be a great thing if spirit decided to do so.Àlex Gómez-Marín, thank you very much.My pleasure.
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