A short introduction
Matt Colborn is an author, lecturer, broadcaster and artist. He currently teaches consciousness studies on the Alef Trust Masters program. Matt holds an MSc with distinction in cognitive science from the University of Birmingham and a D.Phil in biology from the University of Sussex. He is the author of two nonfiction books on consciousness and has also published speculative fiction. Matt has contributed to parapsychology with academic contributions on the ‘decline effect’ and has been a member of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) since 1998. He currently serves on the SPR’s Survival Research Committee. He lives near Bourne in Lincolnshire, UK.Publications:
Open worldviews: Against the degradation of humanity
Dr. Colborn argues that, perhaps surprisingly, the worldview of the technology elite is shifting from fundamentalist materialism to a form of apocalypticism that echoes fundamentalist Christianity. This shift in belief is, according to Colborn, not based on an honest search for truth, but instead an attempt to legitimize agendas of power and control. As such, it risks dehumanizing humanity. The analysis in this essay is particularly important in today’s world of emerging agentic AI, wherein—insofar as we believe that AI mechanisms are conscious—we may end up believing that conscious beings are mere mechanisms. Dr. Colborn has just published a book with our own imprint, Essentia Books: What Lies Beyond.
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