Giants Shoulder
By Evan McGloughlin
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A Biology & Consciousness podcast chronically the bio-singularity. Three times per week I speak with leading scientists at the bleeding edge of AI synthetic biology, consciousness & inner experience, genetics, psychedelics and drug science.
Giants Shoulder is intended to be accessible & entertaining for all ages. No idea is too strange, tackled with genuine curiosity and technical rigour. Come follow the journey as I have my brain melted and ontology warped on a regular basis.
Evan has a Neuroscience degree from Trinity College Dublin and is founder of Giants Shoulder.
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#142 - Meet the Philosopher Behind Michael Levin's Strangest Idea The - Platonic Space Of Minds
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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#141 - Meet the Neuroscientist Investigating Language and the Platonic Space
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Jul 27, 2026 |
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#140 - Meet The DMT Explorer Who's Had 100+ Encounters With Non Human Entities
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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#139 - Meet The Greatest Ibogaine Psychedelic Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of
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Jul 20, 2026 |
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#138 - Meet The Greatest Ayahuasca Psychedelic Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of.
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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#137 - Dennis McKenna: "I've Spent 50 Years Investigating The Entities That Exist Within Ayahuasca"
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Jul 13, 2026 |
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#136 - Denis Noble: Neo-Darwinism, Michael Levin & Why The Last 70 Years of Genetics Is Wrong
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Jul 10, 2026 |
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#135 - Consciousness Expert Explains The 5 Levels Of The Psilocybin Experience
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Jul 06, 2026 |
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#134 - Neuroscientist: "Your Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness" — NDEs, Telepathy and Terminal Lucidity
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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#133 - Meet The Most Important Man Alive In The History of MDMA
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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#132 - Meet the Psychedelic Scientist Proving The Fields Largest Theory is WRONG!
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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#131 Neuroscientist Ranks Every Drug By How Hard They Are to Quit! Tier List Part 3
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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#130 - The Two Greatest Living Psychedelic Scientists Discuss The Insane Future Of Drugs
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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#129 - Meet The Worlds Greatest Emotion Neuroscientist
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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#128 - Meet the Neuroscientist Proving Scientists Got Conscious Ai WRONG
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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#127 Meet the Neuroscientist Who Gave A Brain to Michael Levins Xenobot’s
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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#126 - Michael Levin & Earl Miller: Bioelectricity, Platonic Spaces, Cell Intelligence & Neurobots
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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#125 Meet The World’s Greatest Endogenous DMT Psychedelic Scientist
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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#124 - Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's
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May 28, 2026 |
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#123 - Meet The Most Persuasive Panpsychist Alive Today
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May 26, 2026 |
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#122 - Meet the Psychiatrist Training To Be An Ayahuasca Shaman
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May 21, 2026 |
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#121 Meet The Neuroscientist Teaching Neuron's in a Dish to Play Video Games
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May 18, 2026 |
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#120 No.1 Inner Speech Expert: NPCs, Hallucinations, Imaginary Friends, Prayer and Experiential Crossing
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May 14, 2026 |
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#119 Meet The Inner Speech Expert Proving We Can Conjure Other Conscious Entities
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May 11, 2026 |
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#118 - Meet The MIT Philosopher Proving Aphantasics Have Unconscious Imagery
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May 07, 2026 |
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#117 Meet The Neuroscientist Proving We Got Imagination & Aphantasia WRONG!
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May 04, 2026 |
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#116 Meet The World’s Greatest Psychedelic Receptor Scientist
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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#115 Consciousness Expert Explains The 6 Levels Of The DMT Experience
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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#114 No.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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#113 - Meet The Neuroscientist Decoding Your Bodies Cannabis System
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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#112 - No. 1 Music Neuroscientist: How Music Hijacks Our Collective Unconscious, Emotion and Imagination
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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#111 - Tim Maudlin: Consciousness, Turing Machines, Problems with Quantum Mechanics and Ai
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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#110 - Meet the Neuroscientist Who Discovered That Waves Produce Memory, Spacetime and Consciousness
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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#109 Dr Wendy Suzuki: How The Hippocampus Weaves Your Memories Into Consciousness
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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#108 - Meet The Greatest Living Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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#107 Robin Carhart-Harris: Your Consciousness Exists Between Order and Chaos | Entropic Brain
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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#106 The Story Of How CO₂ Created ALL Life, Intelligence and Consciousness
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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#105 Meet the AI Researcher Proving Machines Will NEVER Be Conscious!
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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#104 GIANT'S DEBATE - Whats The SECRET to Engineering Artificial Consciousness? Cognition Vs Feeling
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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#103 Meet The Social Neuroscientist Proving We’re All Living In A Collective Consciousness
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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#102 Meet The Scientist Proving Cells Are Conscious and Intelligent
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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#101 Meet The Physicist Who Believes Time Doesn’t Exist
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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#100 Meet The Scientist Who Wrote the Blueprint for Conscious Machines
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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#99 Matt Segall: Panexperientialism, God, Metaphysics and What Neuroscience Is Getting Wrong!
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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#98 Chris Fields: Whats Wrong With Quantum Mechanics, Cellular Intelligence and Consciousness
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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#97 Matt Ridley: COVID Lab Leak, Jeffrey Epstein and Failures In Science
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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#96 Stuart Hameroff: Meet The Anaesthesiologist Who Started The Quantum Consciousness Revolution
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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#95 Philip Ball: "Biology Is Infinitely Weirder Than We Thought"
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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#94 Meet The Scientist Who Created The First Living Robot
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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#93 Dr Tommy Wood: "Cognitive Decline Is Not Inevitable. Here’s Why."
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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#92 Joscha Bach: “The Nature Of Reality is Even Weirder Than We Previously Thought”
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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#91 Meet the Philosopher Questioning Everything Neuroscience Assumes About Consciousness
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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#90 Meet The World’s Leading Executive Function Neuroscientist
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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#89 The Real Reason We Should Revive Extinct Animals
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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#88 Meet The Neuroscientist Who Created The Best Universal Theory Of Brain Function
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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#87 Challenging a Famous Neuroscientist On When Consciousness First Emerged
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#86 Meet The Most Influential Social Scientist Of The Last 50 Years
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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#85 Meet the Psychologist Who’s Guided 100+ Mushroom Trips
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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#84 Neuroscientist Ranks Every Drug By How Hard They Are to Quit! Tier List Part 2
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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#83 Meet The Leading Behavioural Change Neuroscientist for 2026
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Biology Is Cognition The Whole Way Down! Best of Giant's Shoulder 2025
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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52 Minutes Celebrating Inner Experience, Aphantasia & Neurodiversity 2025
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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#82 I Spent 90 Days With The No.1 Inner Experience Expert To Discover If I Really Inner Speak
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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#81 Meet the Scientist Who Mathematically Proved Reality is an Illusion Round 2!
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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59 Minutes of The Best Drug Science and Psychedelics Moments 2025
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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#80 Meet the Scientist Creating The Mathematics Of Consciousness
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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42 Minutes of the Best Moments in Consciousness Science Giant's Shoulder 2025
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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#79 Adam Frank: Consciousness, Quantum Mechanics, AI & Search for Alien Civilisations!
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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#78 Dr Kevin Mitchell: Bad Science, Autism, Tylenol & The Gut Microbiome!
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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#77 Lee Cronin: Origin Of Life, Aliens, Controversial New Theories, Digitising Chemistry & Consciousness
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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#76 Meet the MIT Neuroscientist Proving Brain Waves Are the Secret Engine Behind Consciousness
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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# 75 Meet the Greatest Scientist You've Never Heard Of
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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#74 Psychedelics Expert: Who is Blocking Psychedelic Research? Cannabis Vs Alcohol, MDMA & Ayahuasca
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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#73 Mysteries of the Female Brain: The Pill, Attraction, Sex, Emotions & Hormones! Dr Sarah McKay
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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#72 Neurofeedback Expert: Training Your Brain To IMPROVE Mental Health, ADHD and Motivation!
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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#71 Meet the Neuroscientist Who Proved Every Cell in Your Body Has a Memory!
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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#70 Meet the Neuroscientist Driving the New Science of Mental Health!
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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#69 NASA Scientist Reveals What We Really Found on Mars!
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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#68 Meet the Neuroscientist Who has Scanned Over 5000 Psychopathic Brains!
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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#67 Mind-Body Expert: The New Science of Emotion, Nervous System Mastery & Psychedelics!
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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#66 Meet the Scientist Exploring Consciousness Through Thermodynamics!
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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#65 Meet the Scientist Proving Every Cell In Your Body is Conscious!
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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#63 Inner Experience Expert: Inner Monologue, Aphantasia and Why You Can’t Trust Your Own Thoughts
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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#62 Meet the Scientist Proving Your Whole Body is Conscious!
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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#61 Meet the Neuroscientist Unifying Consciousness, Free Energy & Psychedelics!
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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#64 Philip Ball: Why Quantum Mechanics is NOT What you think, Consciousness, Brain Organoids, AI & Life!
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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#60 The Slime Mold "Intelligence" Illusion, Artificial Life and Why De-Extinction Is Mostly Marketing!
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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#59 Meet the Philosopher Proving that Consciousness is Physical!
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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#58 Robert Plomin Round 2: Intelligence, Mental Health, Personality and the Future of Designer Babies
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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#57 Meet the Neuroscientist Building the Internet of Brains! Dr Ryota Kanai
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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#55 The Blind Mind’s Eye: How Aphantasia Is Rewriting Consciousness ! Dr Adam Zeman
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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#54 Alex Hutchinson: The Lie That Unlocked Human Limits, Tricking Perception & Aphantasia!
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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#53 Philosopher of Mind: Consciousness, Out-Of-Body Experiences & The Illusion of Self! Thomas Metzinger
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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#52 Meet The Scientist Who Trains Navy Seals To Enter Flow! Steven Kotler
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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#51 Meet the Scientist Proving Dreams Hold the Key to Consciousness! Dr Mark Solms
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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#50 Meet the Neuroscientist With No Mental Imagery! Dr Merlin Monzel
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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#49 Emotion Neuroscientist: Psychedelics, Neuroplasticity, AI and the Future of Mental Health!
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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#48 Neuroscientist Ranks Every Drug By How Hard They Are to Quit! Tier List
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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#47 Meet the Neuroscientist Dissecting the Brains of Psychopaths!
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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#46 Meet the Psychiatrist Debunking The Chemical Imbalance Myth That Fooled Millions!
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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#45 Meet the Scientist Who Brought Quantum Mechanics to Biology!
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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#44 Meet the Neuroscientist Using AI to Unlock the Secrets of Language! Dr Evelina Federenko
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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#43 Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Aliens, Metabolism, Bioelectricity, Consciousness and Ai!
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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#40 Learning Expert: Hallucinated Reality, Rewiring Baby Brains, Emotions, Learning & Ai!
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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#39 Consciousness Expert: Alien Minds, Insane Biology and the Evolution of Subjectivity!
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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#38 Meet the Drug & Brain Expert Fired For Exposing the Truth! Dr David Nutt
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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#37 Expert Palaeontologist: Direwolf De-Extinction, Dinosaur Myths, Brains and Sex! Dr David Hone
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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#36 I Challenged the World’s #1 Child-Attachment Expert! Erica Komisar
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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#35 What People Who Taste Triangles Reveal About Consciousness! Dr Anina Rich
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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#34 Meet the Psychiatrist Redefining Mental Illness! Dr Nicholas Fabiano
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May 23, 2025 |
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#33 Meet the Neuroscientist Unlocking the Hidden Language of Intelligence! Dr Chris Summerfield
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May 09, 2025 |
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#32 Meet the Man with ZERO Mental Imagery! Tom Ebeyor
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May 07, 2025 |
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Giant Moment #6 Your Emotions Are Not What you Think! Dr Anil Seth
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May 03, 2025 |
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#31 Meet the Harvard Neuroscientist Who Watched Her Own Brain Die! | Dr Jill Bolte Taylor
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May 01, 2025 |
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#30 Dr Nick Enfield Language Expert: How Language Warps Your Memory, Emotions, Beliefs and Reality itself!
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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#29 Dopamine Expert: How to Rewire your Brain for Meaning in a World Addicted to MORE!
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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#28 No. 1 Intuition Expert: Harnessing your Subconscious, Aphantasia and The Future of AI Relationships
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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#27 Meet the Scientist Who Mathematically Proved that Reality is an Illusion! Dr Robert Prentner
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Giant Moment #5 The Incredible Connection between AI and Brain Evolution! Dr Paul Cisek
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Giant Moment #4 Why Parenting Matters... But your DNA Matters More - Dr Robert Plomin
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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#25 Evolution Expert: Meet the Scientist Running a 50,000 Generation Evolution Experiment!
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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#24 No. 1 Psychiatrist: Everything you NEED TO KNOW about the Molecule Controlling your Life! Dr Daniel Lieberman
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Giant Moment #3 Are Psychedelics the Answer to the Mental Health Crisis? - Dr Christof Koch
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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Giant Moment #2 Dr Kevin Mitchell Debunks the BIGGEST Brain Myths
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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#23 Sleep Expert Reveals SHOCKING Stories: Murder, Motorcycles, and Midnight Madness | Dr Guy Leschziner
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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#22 Social Neuroscientist: "What Everyone Gets Wrong about Dopamine & Serotonin"
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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#21 No 1 Gut & Poo Expert Reveals the Hidden Mental Health Triggers in Your Microbiome | Dr Will Bulsiewicz
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Giant Moment #1 The Most DISTURBING Psychological Case in a 50 Year Career
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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#20 No 1 Inner Experience Expert - Inner Monologue, Aphantasia and How Your Mind Lies to You
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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#19 Dr William Li - Dementia & Cancer May Start in the Blood Vessels
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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#18 750 Million Years of Brain Evolution in 2 Hours 3 Minutes - Dr Paul Cisek
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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#17 Dr Luis Favela - The Mind Is NOT a Computer: Rethinking Consciousness, Perception and Intelligence
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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#16 The Investigative Journalist Taking on Wim Hof, Andrew Huberman, Peter Attia and David Sinclair
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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#15 Clinical Neuropsychologist - Mechanisms of Remembering, Confabulation and the Weirdest Cases of Amnesia
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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#14 Faceblind Journalist - "How at 38 I Turned my Neurodiversity into my Superpower"
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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#13 Politics & Biology: The Shocking Link Between Brain Differences and Political Ideologies!
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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#12 Dr Tony Zador NeuroAI Expert - “How to Model the Human Brain and Build Brain Based AI”
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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#11 Brain Decline Expert: “Why Alzheimer’s Research Is Failing and How We Can Win”
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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#10 Dr Robert Plomin: Controversial Findings in Behavioural Genetics, Parenting, Obesity & Divorce!
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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#9 Computational Neuroscientist Dr Mark Humphries: Brain Computers, NeuroAI and the Mystery of Dark Neurons
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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#8 Luke O’ Neill - How COVID Affects the Brain, Master Drug for Inflammation and Pandemic Scandals
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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#7 Autism Expert Dr Laura Andreae - We Don't know what Autism is, Is Social Media Rewiring our Brains and AI Fears
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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#6 Spatial Neuroscientist Dr Hugo Spiers - The Incredible way our Brain Constructs the World Around Us
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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#5 Neuroscience Communicator (SenseOfMind) - Tools to build Emotional Resilience and increase Intrinsic Motivation.
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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#4 Social Neuroscientist Dr Redmond O' Connell - How we make Decisions, Free Will and How Intelligent is AI really?
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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#3 Dr Christof Koch - Consciousness and Sharing Personal Psychedelic Experiences
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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#2 Neuroscientist Shane O'Mara - Walking, Creativity and Dopamine
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May 26, 2024 |
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#1 Neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell - Free Will, Neuroplasticity, Microbiome Misinformation
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Apr 30, 2024 |