So help me understand first of all how you got interested in this and then walk us through the materialist paradigm. In other words, our dominant scientific and cultural worldview right now and then we'll talk about why it may be wrong. Why it may be wrong?

Well, I think I was born sort of a philosopher because since I was a kid, I like to ask the big questions. My father died when I was 12, which sort of propelled that tendency that was already late and tell me forward big time, asking the big questions. But that journey was interrupted by university. I went to university. I had just turned 17 and then you're busy discovering the world and creating a space in the world for yourself, how that goes. So this question sort of went to the background until at some point I started working a lot, even in my personal life as a hobby with artificial intelligence. And then you come across the question, you know, if you can build an intelligent machine, do you have any reason to believe that that machine will also be conscious? That it would not only perform calculations, but that there would be something it is like to perform those calculations. And then I came back to the old philosophical questions that I always asked myself. And when I looked more deeply into those questions, I realized that although materialism seems to be very intuitive at a superficial level, when you scratch the surface only a little bit, you don't need to go deep at all, just ask that next question in the chain of questions you can ask. And you quickly realized that it is rather easy to reduce materialism to absurdity as we say in philosophy, which is to disprove it. It seems intuitive because it tells us that there is an objective world out there independent of our individual minds. Now I agree with that. Of course, there is a world out there that doesn't care about whether I think it's nice or not, because if it did, it would be different. Right now I would have already imagined it to be something other than what it is. For starters, there would be no COVID pandemic if I could change the world by a mere act of volition. So there is an objective world out there, but materialism goes one step further and it says, and that objective world is fundamentally distinct from mentation, from mind stuff. And by the way, mind stuff somehow is created or generated by specific configurations of that other kind of stuff that we call matter. Even though nobody in the history of philosophy or science has had any clue about how this miracle of the creation of consciousness from something non-conscious is actually performed. And then if you go even a little bit deeper than that, you realize that what most of us understand as materialism is not materialism at all. Most of us think that the colors of the world are really out there. The flavors are really out there. The melodies are really out there, but materialism will tell you that none of this is true. Another as a quality is something mental that is created by your brain, inside your skull. And so is melody and so is flavor and so is aroma. The real world out there has no colors. You can't visualize it because if you visualize it, you're bringing mind into the picture. And according to materialism, that world has nothing to do with mind. So it's a pure abstraction that I think most people would intuitively reject if they actually understood what materialism was.