The Consciousness Laboratory is a transdisciplinary project whose general objectives are to advance the understanding of human consciousness and the mechanisms that operate to modulate it, and thus provide a tool to transform it.  It is a political-revolutionary project. It starts from the premise that Homo sapiens is potentially a species biologically capable of projecting itself into the future and acting in an intentional and organized way towards that direction.  But in order to transform the potential into kinetic it is necessary to de-idealize consciousness, to bring it to the material plane, and to give it, in the end, the status of "tool" - evolutionarily developed - that will allow us to accept ourselves as what we are divergently, and to think about - and act on - what we want to transform ourselves into.

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               It's a transdisciplinary project. All socially and historically acquired knowledge about Consciousness (and related cognitive and social processes) is needed to ask us What is Consciousness? and How does it operate on our behaviours, both individual and social?, and to advance possible answers. No discipline of knowledge and action - be it Philosophy, Neurosciences, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Political Economy, Politics, Art - can, by itself, give answers to these questions. Only a perspective of conceptual unification among all these disciplines will be able to widen the cracks in the biases of each one of them and present a creative and overcoming, integral alternative that serves as an initial work to answer our own questions; and to advance on others.  

Furthermore, the project starts from the premise that the separation (and differentiation) of the different scientific disciplines (biological, social, humanistic) is a historical expression of the division of commodity production (in this case, of knowledge) in the capitalist system. In this way, that which appears as a purely social expression, or purely biological, is nothing more than a reflexive illusion of consciousness (that is to say: at the level of consciousness from consciousness), an echo of the fictitious barriers that separate academic territories. Therefore, this project is born and grows on a different theoretical/practical substrate: the biological is everything that refers to Life: a complex multilevel organization of matter and energy. That it is multilevel implies, therefore, that the social is - in reality - a particularity (level) of the biological. That it is complex, on the other hand, defines that there is no independence between the levels of complexity. Therefore, any approach that assumes beforehand such independence between levels (organic or social) is very likely that this resorting to a mere methodological reduction of reality.  On the other hand, the social, the cultural, the organic or the biological are socially and historically produced categories (and therefore comparable) in the face of the need to organize our coherent understanding of the world. Again, the arbitrary separation of these categories not only denies the social ontology of these categories but again ends up offering only a partial understanding of the general process of consciousness.  As in the Parable of the Elephant: no partial explanation can account for the general phenomenon.   

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          On the other hand, the Consciousness Laboratory is an extra-academic project, but it is part of a larger personal project, which has one of the central axes anchored in the academic work of biological and interdisciplinary research. Academic research can present many advantages a priori; however, given that it is inserted in a social framework, coerced by the interests of particular and dominant social sectors, it also presents important limitations: one cannot do science without questioning authority, existing dogma! These limitations are not only of a methodological nature, but also - and fundamentally - imply a social limit: academic science is at the service of the dominant classes. In other words: socially impartial science does not exist.  Therefore, it is necessary and fundamental to extend the method(s) of science to all sectors, to rethink it and from there, to think about ourselves.

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          The short-term objective of the Consciousness Lab is to encourage debate and discussion about how we process information from reality and how we have it available to us to transform it. Therefore, on this platform you will find documentaries, videos, written publications, etc., which I make available to you in order to deepen these discussions. Many of these documentaries and texts present debatable positions; if they are on the page it is because I think it is relevant to share them, not necessarily because I agree with them, but rather to open up the possibility of discussion.  On the other hand, you will also find on the page publications of my authorship, which aim to develop a series of methods for the study of consciousness in Homo sapiens, and to determine their impact on the daily life and politics of ourselves. Anyone interested in participating in these discussions through the writing of texts should know that the Consciousness Laboratory has a place for their publication. 

     At present, I aim to find people who are enthusiastic about the perspective of these objectives, who seek to broaden them and who want to lay the foundations for transdisciplinary work. Today, the laboratory of the consciousness begins here, but it pushes towards growth and is projected towards the formation of a multidisciplinary research work group involving Neurosciences, Philosophy, Anthropology, Psychology, Social Sciences, Political Economy, Art and Politics.