Life After Death Is Impossible, Says Scientist

[Apollo]

Agreed. Why should we listen to physicists about physics?

He's a physicist speaking on neuroscience and biology—that's strange. The article is rather short; perhaps he makes a better argument elsewhere.

You do realize that physics is the fundamental discipline of science and other sciences like chemistry and subsequently, biology emerge from it. At the end of the day it’s all about matter, and taken further down, about quantum fields—matter is simply excitations in those fields.