Episode #355: God's Eye View - The Physics of Consciousness

Summary

In this episode, Dr. Trevor Lohman, a researcher in the neuroscience of aging, provides insights into consciousness and its relationship with quantum physics. He discusses the challenges scientists face in explaining consciousness and introduces his book 'God's Eye View.' The conversation delves into concepts like the double-slit experiment and the intersection of science and spirituality.

Key takeaways

• 1Dr. Trevor Lohman: Assistant professor and researcher on the neuroscience of aging.
• 2'God's Eye View': A book written by Dr. Lohman that explores consciousness and its implications.
• 3Double Slit Experiment: A fundamental physics experiment related to wave function collapse and its significance for understanding reality.
• 4Near-Death Experiences: Discussed as a phenomenon that can offer insights into the nature of consciousness.
• 5Microtubules: Proposed as a possible mechanism for consciousness, linked to quantum effects.
• 6Theories of Consciousness: Explored concepts of transmission versus production of consciousness.

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Transcript excerpt

I just like making his job hard. And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, angels and demons and monsters and serpents. This is Brothers of the Serpent Podcast, and we are coming to you not live from the 10x10x10 Tanted Cube of Science, where we are nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient seabed high atop the Edwards Plateau, as always. And today we have a special guest with us, and this is Trevor Lohman, Ph.D., doctor, Dr. Trevor. Can I call you doc? Don't ask me for the Heimlich Maneuver, but yeah, you can call me doc. Well, thanks for coming on the show, man. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. It's an honor. I love the show, so it's pretty surreal to be here. I feel like I've already gotten the royal treatment. Kyle has scurped all my ideas before we even started recording. Yeah, we haven't even, like, before we even hit record, Kyle's like, everything you said in the book is wrong. And that's what we're here to do. I want to talk a little bit about Trevor's book. So you published a book called God's Eye View, and I'll just read under the title here. It says, How the Most Beautiful Experiment Ever Designed Changed Our Perception of God, Consciousness, the Universe, and Reality Itself. So can you first sort of start with, like, what gave you the idea to pursue the topics in this book? And then sort of explain that sentence to us, and we'll go from there. Yeah, sure. So, you know, by day, I do pretty mainstream biomedical neuroscience research full-time. I'm an assistant neurology professor, and I don't really work with consciousness ever, but come on, if you're a human being alive today, you're interested.…

Excerpt from Brothers of the Serpent, Jun 24, 2025. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.