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  #164 - Meet The Scientist Seriously Investigating Alien Time Travellers 15.10.2026 1t 37min

  🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILYBecome a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/joinMichael Masters is the biological anthropologist who thinks the grey aliens might be us. A professor at Montana Technological University, he studies how the human skull, face and eyes evolved over six million years, and has excavated at a 3.5-million-year-old hominin site in South Africa. His extratempestrial hypothesis argues that the beings described in UFO encounters are our own descendants, travelling back in time to study their evolutionary past. He says it's falsifiable, just not in his lifetime.Expect to learn:- The Brazilian Farmer: the 1950s abduction that ended in sex with a near-human woman- The Earlier Cases: the abduction reports that predate Betty and Barney Hill- Brain Up, Face Back: why six million years of skull evolution point towards the greys- The Gamete Problem: why our descendants might come back for our sperm and eggs- Falsifiable By Time: why he'll be "long dead" before anyone knows if he's rightSPONSORSGet Jenni Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off) - http://jenni.ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=inf&utm_campaign=thegiantsshoulderGS EPISODES MENTIONEDAndrew Gallimore - No.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/USgWrxEFWDARick Strassman - Meet The Father Of Modern DMT Research: https://youtu.be/KeAZOj7tYscGUEST LINKSMontana Tech Faculty Profile: https://mtech.edu/arts-sciences/faculty/michael-masters/index.htmlX: https://x.com/MorphoTimeWebsite: https://idflyobj.com/Identified Flying Objects (2019): https://www.leighbureau.com/books/identified-flying-objectsThe Extratempestrial Model (2022): https://www.leighbureau.com/books/the-extratempestrial-modelLomas, Case & Masters (2024), The Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis: https://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/33/3LISTEN ONYouTube - https://youtu.be/FRFT3PeiWwkApple - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249SKOOLWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutFOLLOW EVANhttps://x.com/evan_mcglTIMESTAMPS0:00:00 Trailer0:02:26 The Skull Scientist Who Studies UFOs0:03:46 "They Could Be Us From The Future"0:07:21 The Book On The Shelf That Started It All0:09:10 Whitley Strieber And Communion0:10:49 Abductees Who Never Told Their Own Families0:17:13 The Archetypal Abduction Story0:19:38 The Nimitz: 80,000ft In Under Two Seconds0:20:37 The Farmer Who Had Sex With An Alien0:22:22 "I Just Floated Right Through The Ceiling"0:24:06 Did Sci-Fi Invent Alien Abductions?0:29:15 DMT Entities, Machine Elves And UFOs0:37:32 The 2017 Story That Broke UFOs Open0:42:08 "The Disc-Shaped Craft Are The Time Machine"0:44:39 Why The Greys Are Built Like Hominins0:47:26 Can You Really Fast-Forward Evolution?0:49:30 Brain Up, Face Back: 6 Million Years Of Skulls0:56:04 Are We Just Projecting Human Faces?1:00:13 How Far In The Future Are They From?1:03:23 Why Would We Evolve To Look Like That?1:06:51 Falling Sperm Counts And The Gamete Mystery1:15:01 How Do You Falsify Time-Travelling Aliens?1:22:27 Teaching A University Class On UFOs1:30:13 Is The US Government Hiding Something Huge?1:32:40 Keeping UFOs Quiet Through Grad School.....Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected]
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  #163 - Meet The Greatest Near-Death-Experience Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of 12.10.2026 1t 23min

  🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILYBecome a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/joinJanice Holden is a near-death-experience researcher who designed the first hospital experiment to catch consciousness outside the body, edits the Journal of Near-Death Studies and spent 31 years on the University of North Texas faculty. For nearly 40 years she has tested one claim: that patients whose hearts have stopped can see the room from above. Surgeons have corroborated some of those details. No controlled study has caught one yet.Expect to learn:- The Leg In The Yellow Bag: an anaesthetised patient described an amputation in the next operating room- The Post-it Notes: a heart patient saw a detail only his surgeon would know- The Hidden-Target Experiment: pictures hidden near hospital ceilings, visible only from above- The Life Review: reliving every moment of your life as the people you affected- DMT Vs Near-Death: why the brain may interpret reality rather than create itSPONSORSGet One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool) - https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqeGS EPISODES MENTIONEDRick Strassman - Meet The Father Of Modern DMT Research: https://youtu.be/KeAZOj7tYscAnil Seth - No. 1 Consciousness Expert: Optical Illusions that Prove Reality is a Lie, Emotions, Books and AI!: https://youtu.be/lOSA06K0l1oKarl Friston - Meet The Neuroscientist Who Created The Best Universal Theory Of Brain Function: https://youtu.be/R-IZOFs4qmYMarjorie Woollacott - Neuroscientist: "Your Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness" — NDEs, Telepathy and Terminal Lucidity: https://youtu.be/mDWtmfmIUHAGUEST LINKSWebsite: https://www.janholden.comThe Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0313358648Journal of Near-Death Studies: https://www.janholden.com/jndsIANDS: https://iands.orgArticles: https://www.janholden.com/copy-of-articlesLISTEN ONYouTube - https://youtu.be/RAXr5ZavLk4Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249SKOOLWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutFOLLOW EVANhttps://x.com/evan_mcglTIMESTAMPS0:00:00 Trailer0:02:15 From Doctoral Student To 40 Years Of Near-Death Research0:03:38 How Resuscitation Created The Near-Death Experience0:09:06 What Actually Happens During A Near-Death Experience0:11:03 Moving At The Speed Of Thought0:11:41 The Tunnel And The City Of Light0:13:18 The Life Review: Feeling What Everyone Else Felt0:14:55 "It's Not Your Time": Why People Come Back0:19:27 Why Near-Death Experiences Aren't Just Dreams0:21:09 The Woman Who Watched Her Own Surgery0:27:11 The Post-it Notes A Dead Patient Saw0:32:31 The Doctors Who Corroborated These Cases0:33:39 The Harvard Neurosurgeon Who Changed His Mind0:37:38 Why "False Memory" Doesn't Explain It0:40:08 The Patient Who Floated Into The CPR Training Room0:45:05 Hiding Pictures On Hospital Ceilings0:49:35 Seven Studies, No Hits Yet0:53:32 Is Humanity Ready For Proof?0:58:08 DMT Vs Near-Death Experiences1:06:35 Does The Brain Create Reality Or Interpret It?1:10:27 Consciousness Before Birth And After Death1:14:47 Why Don't We See This All The Time?1:17:30 Karma And The Afterlife In Southeast Asia.....Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected]
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  #162 - Meet The Scientist Who Says We've Gotten Cancer Completely Wrong 08.10.2026 1t 11min

  🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILYBecome a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/joinCarlos Sonnenschein is Professor of Integrative Physiology and Pathobiology at Tufts University School of Medicine. With Ana Soto, he developed the tissue organisation field theory of cancer: the idea that a tumour begins not in a rogue cell, but in the breakdown of the tissue around it. For fifty years he has argued that cancer research has been looking one level too low. Here he explains why the mutations we find in tumours may be the wreckage, not the cause.Expect to learn:- The default state: why every cell's natural tendency is to proliferate- Growth factors: why he argued they don't exist, and why people laughed- Mutations without cancer: why he says no gene has been shown to cause a cancer- Targeted therapy: why he believes the target was never really there- Cellular agency: how life, proliferation and motility fit togetherSPONSORSGet Jenni Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off) - http://jenni.ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=inf&utm_campaign=thegiantsshoulderGS EPISODES MENTIONEDMichael Levin - Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: https://youtu.be/LTBZRVKUwyMGUEST LINKSGoogle Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VmTCfroAAAAJIEA Nantes Fellow Profile: https://www.iea-nantes.fr/en/fellows/carlos-sonnenscheinBiological Purpose Project: https://www.biologicalpurpose.org/people/carlos-sonnenscheinResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos-SonnenscheinAn Integrative Approach Toward Biology, Organisms, and Cancer (2018): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29119499LISTEN ONYouTube - https://youtu.be/AypMhvhWwjgApple - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249SKOOLWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutFOLLOW EVANhttps://x.com/evan_mcglTIMESTAMPS0:00:00 Trailer0:02:26 From Paediatrics to Cancer Research0:05:23 The Oestrogen Paradox0:08:43 Proliferation Is the Default State of Every Cell0:12:27 Inhibitors of Inhibitors0:14:06 "Growth Factors Don't Exist"0:15:31 The Somatic Mutation Theory0:17:41 The Society of Cells and the Tissue Theory of Cancer0:21:44 Stars and Dogs: Funding a Minority View0:23:49 Teaching Cancer Through Genetics0:25:01 How Does Tissue Keep Cells in Check?0:26:04 Metastasis0:28:34 Prostate Cancer and Spontaneous Regression0:30:38 The Cost of Cancer Treatment0:31:49 Melanoma, UV and the Standard Model0:32:24 Mutations Without Cancer0:35:17 No Gene Causes Cancer: BRCA1, p53 and RAS0:37:00 Why Targeted Therapy Isn't Targeted0:38:03 When Treatment Causes Cancer0:40:39 What Does Genome Sequencing Tell You?0:42:24 Why Does Cancer Run in Families?0:45:41 Trauma, Healing and Tissue Robustness0:47:59 A Theory of Organisms0:50:59 What Is Life?0:52:18 Economics Is a Branch of Biology0:53:36 Cellular Agency0:58:36 Defining Life: Proliferation and Motility1:01:36 When Did Cells Become Agents?1:04:49 The Future of Cancer Research1:09:52 Final Thoughts.....Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected]
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  #161 - Meet The Psychonaut Who Survived Extended-State DMT 05.10.2026 1t

  🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILYBecome a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/joinAlexander Beiner is the writer who volunteered as a guinea pig for the world's first extended-state DMT trial. At Imperial College London, he was one of eleven people kept on a continuous DMT drip for thirty minutes. He is a co-Executive Director of Breaking Convention, Europe's largest psychedelic conference, and the author of The Bigger Picture.Expect to learn- The Chinchillas: hyperdimensional beings he had never seen in real life, speaking a visible language- The Reply: he sent a symbol back, they went ballistic, then got bored and left- The Pharmacology Problem: why tolerance to LSD and psilocybin does nothing to DMT- The Synchronicity: the stranger across a London road, and what he learned that night- The Spider Queen: a planet-sized entity that wrapped him in a webSPONSORSGet Jenni Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off) - http://jenni.ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=inf&utm_campaign=thegiantsshoulderGS EPISODES MENTIONEDRick Strassman - Meet The Father Of Modern DMT Research: https://youtu.be/KeAZOj7tYscRobin Carhart-Harris - No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities: https://youtu.be/t-GkE4YtLRkDavid Luke - Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://youtu.be/qLKD1gt1X5oGUEST LINKSX: https://x.com/AlexanderBeinerKainos (Substack): https://beiner.substack.com/Personal Site: https://www.alexanderbeiner.com/Breaking Convention: https://breakingconvention.co.uk/performers/alexander-beinerThe Bigger Picture - Author Page: https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/alexander-beinerLISTEN ONYouTube - https://youtu.be/aZnvPt9X3DcApple - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249SKOOLWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutFOLLOW EVANhttps://x.com/evan_mcglTIMESTAMPS0:00:00 Trailer0:01:59 Why Changing Minds Isn't Enough0:02:54 A Magic Mushroom Homecoming In Holland0:05:33 Joining Europe's Largest Psychedelic Conference0:06:44 Why He Signed Up To Be A DMT Guinea Pig0:08:03 Half Of DMT Users Meet Autonomous Entities0:10:38 Meeting The Hyperdimensional Chinchillas0:14:25 He'd Never Seen A Chinchilla In Real Life0:15:14 "They Were Speaking A Visible Language"0:17:47 Why Priming Can't Explain The Chinchillas0:21:33 The Metaphysical Shift After 100 Episodes0:26:21 DMT Immunity And The Cross-Tolerance Mystery0:28:07 Why Psychedelics Make Avoiding Pain Harder0:29:28 The Placebo Dose And The Prank Paranoia0:32:24 Three Heartbeats To The Deepest Trip0:35:06 Wired Up: The Hidden Rituals Of The Lab0:39:29 Would He Ever Come Back?0:40:22 Psychedelic PTSD And The Fear Of Madness0:41:31 The Synchronicity He Still Can't Explain0:46:37 If Everything's Conscious, Where's The Telepathy?0:49:16 Why The East Talks Openly About Ghosts0:53:45 The Planet-Sized Spider Queen0:58:51 "This Is So Similar To What McKenna Described".....Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected]
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  #160 - Meet The Physicist Proving The Universe Builds Itself Out Of Information 02.10.2026 1t 25min

  🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILYBecome a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇 https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/joinGordana Dodig-Crnkovic is a physicist turned cognitive scientist and Professor Emeritus at Chalmers University of Technology, with doctorates in both physics and computer science. Across three careers she built info-computationalism: the idea that nature is information and computation at every level, from particles to minds. Her conclusion puts her at odds with much of her own field. Cognition arrives with life itself, which puts consciousness in a single bacterium and nowhere in today's AI.Expect to learn:- Info-computationalism: why nature is information and computation all the way down- Cell consciousness: why a single cell is already sensing, deciding and minimally aware- The Levin divide: where she draws the line Michael Levin won't- Anaesthetised bacteria: why ether switches off organisms with no brain- Machines that can't feel: why today's AI has intelligence but no goals of its ownSPONSORSGet Jenni Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off) - http://jenni.ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=inf&utm_campaign=thegiantsshoulderGS EPISODES MENTIONEDMichael Levin - Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: https://youtu.be/LTBZRVKUwyMMichael Levin & Earl Miller - Michael Levin & Earl Miller: Platonic Space of Minds, Bioelectricity, Cell Intelligence & Neurobots: https://youtu.be/6mU5nN5nlLAWilliam B. Miller Jr. - Meet The Scientist Proving Your Cells Are Conscious and Intelligent: https://youtu.be/xrV5oGyyKSIMark Solms - Meet the Scientist Proving Dreams Hold the Key to Consciousness! Dr Mark Solms: https://youtu.be/nMWaQ1U6dccGUEST LINKSChalmers Profile: https://www.chalmers.se/en/persons/dodig/X: https://x.com/DodigGordanaChalmers Research Publications: https://research.chalmers.se/en/person/dodigGoogle Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bvc5bBsAAAAJORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9881-400XLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gordana-dodig-crnkovic/LISTEN ONYouTube - https://youtu.be/D4jBgWV8BoYApple - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249SKOOLWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutFOLLOW EVANhttps://x.com/evan_mcglTIMESTAMPS0:00:00 Trailer0:02:44 Physicist, Computer Scientist, Cognitive Scientist0:08:05 What Is Information, Really?0:13:16 You Can't Observe Without Changing The System0:16:14 Are Conscious Agents The Most Fundamental Thing?0:20:06 A Single Cell Is Already Conscious0:27:16 Where She Parts Ways With Michael Levin0:28:41 Can We Build A Machine That Creates Itself?0:33:38 Why A Book Is Just Food To An Insect0:39:40 You Are Trillions Of Information Agents0:44:09 Science's Obsession With Measurement0:46:40 Xenobots And The Cells Nobody Programmed0:51:02 Agency Or Just Complicated Chemistry?0:55:58 Why No Experiment Can Settle This0:57:22 Where Computation Ends And Cognition Begins1:01:08 Would Levin Say Gene Networks Think?1:03:37 Why Survival Might Be Essential For Consciousness1:07:07 You Can Anaesthetise A Bacterium1:11:08 Can Consciousness Be Written Down As Maths?1:19:31 How AI Could Help Us Understand Minds1:22:35 Should We Ever Build Conscious AI?.....Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected]
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  #159 - No. 1 Biopsychist: Michael Levin's Platonic Minds & Cognition All The Way Down 28.09.2026 1t 25min

  🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILYBecome a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇 https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/joinJohn Vervaeke is an award-winning cognitive scientist at the University of Toronto, where he directs the Cognitive Science programme and the Consciousness and Wisdom Studies Laboratory. He helped pioneer relevance realisation — the claim that underneath your intelligence, your attention and your consciousness sits a single process, and that every living thing is doing it. He has argued since 1997 that this process cannot be a computation, and his field is only now conceding the point: even predictive processing, its dominant framework, is increasingly admitted to presuppose the thing he named. A cell decides what matters to it. So does a bacterium. Possibly everything that has ever been alive, long before there was a brain to think with.Expect to learn:- Relevance realisation: how you ignore almost everything in front of you and still land on what matters- Cognition all the way down: why a single cell is doing the same thing your mind is, only smaller- The line at life: why a tornado self-organises but never cares, and what that rules out- Why computation can't do it: the reason large language models collapse on open-ended problems and always will- Mind as the between: the case that consciousness isn't inside your head but in the coupling with your worldSPONSORSDownload the most scientifically rigorous nutrition app MacroFactor! Use code GIANTS for a 2 week FREE trial - https://app.macrofactor.com/mfgiantsGS EPISODES MENTIONEDMichael Levin - Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: https://youtu.be/LTBZRVKUwyMMichael Levin & Earl Miller - Meet the Scientist Showing Every Cell In Your Body is Conscious!: https://youtu.be/6mU5nN5nlLAPhilip Ball - Philip Ball: Why Quantum Mechanics is NOT What you think, Consciousness, Brain Organoids, AI & Life!: https://youtu.be/nNbG5lnp51EPhilip Ball - Philip Ball: "Biology Is Infinitely Weirder Than We Thought": https://youtu.be/9SseGx0R0fYAndrés Gómez Emilsson - Consciousness Expert Explains The 6 Levels Of The DMT Experience: https://youtu.be/xMdl7zF2MWEAnil Seth - No. 1 Consciousness Expert: Optical Illusions that Prove Reality is a Lie, Emotions, Books and AI!: https://youtu.be/lOSA06K0l1oGUEST LINKSUniversity of Toronto Faculty Profile: https://www.psych.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/john-vervaekeWebsite: https://johnvervaeke.com/X: https://x.com/vervaeke_johnYouTube (Awakening from the Meaning Crisis): https://www.youtube.com/user/johnvervaekeAwakening from the Meaning Crisis (book): https://johnvervaeke.com/books/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis/LISTEN ONYouTube - https://youtu.be/jcMtjjeUV98SKOOLWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutFOLLOW EVANhttps://x.com/evan_mcglTIMESTAMPS0:00:00 Trailer0:02:54 The Meaning Crisis, Explained by a Cognitive Scientist0:04:16 The Patterns in This Room Outnumber the Particles in the Universe0:06:45 How Your Mind Ignores Almost Everything0:09:09 "Dad, It's Relevance Realisation All The Way Down"0:10:24 Noise Is Just Information Nobody Needs0:15:33 Comparing a Human Mind to a Single Cell0:18:01 Michael Levin's Cognitive Light Cone0:19:49 The Cone of Caring0:23:20 How Far Down Does Mind Actually Go?0:24:15 Why a Tornado Isn't Alive0:25:34 Pressing Michael Levin to Admit He's a Platonist0:34:01 The Water Bottle Experiment0:40:34 Where Levin Leaps From Patterns to Minds0:48:12 The Problem With Symmetry Theories of Consciousness0:55:03 Why LLMs Fall Apart on Open-Ended Problems1:00:16 Obviousness Is Not a Physical Property1:05:11 The Shark That Dies in the Sahara1:10:49 What Consciousness Is Actually Doing1:15:12 Are Neural Correlates a Dead End?1:22:07 "We Should Stop Funding It"
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  #158 - Meet The Scientist Redefining Intelligence With Michael Levin 24.09.2026 1t 44min

  🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILYBecome a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇 https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/joinRichard Watson is a professor of artificial intelligence and theoretical evolutionary biology at the University of Southampton and the author of Compositional Evolution. He argues that adaptation does not require natural selection at all, and that biology has spent a century mistaking one for the other. With Michael Levin he published Natural Induction, which shows that any network whose connections give way under stress will begin to learn on its own. Ecosystems. Gene networks. Possibly the chemistry of the early Earth, long before anything was alive to be selected.Expect to learn:- Cognition before selection: why learning came first and natural selection came second- The spring mechanism: how falling masses solve hard puzzles with no brain, no genes and no designer- Ecosystems that compute: the model where an ecosystem solves a Sudoku without reproducing or inheriting- The limits of the genome: why no amount of sequencing will explain what a cell is actually doing- Medicine as persuasion: treating tissues as cognitive systems to negotiate with, not machines to fixSPONSORSDownload the most scientifically rigorous nutrition app MacroFactor! Use code GIANTS for a 2 week FREE trial - https://app.macrofactor.com/mfgiantsGS EPISODES MENTIONEDMichael Levin - Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: https://youtu.be/LTBZRVKUwyMGUEST LINKSUniversity of Southampton Profile: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5x27lw/professor-richard-watsonPersonal Website: https://www.richardawatson.comNatural Induction (Entropy, 2024, with Michael Levin): https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/26/9/765Publications: https://www.richardawatson.com/publications-1ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard-Watson-10LISTEN ONYouTube - https://youtu.be/wAGFE2S6qXgApple - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249SKOOLWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutFOLLOW EVANhttps://x.com/evan_mcglTIMESTAMPS0:00:00 Trailer0:02:43 The Assumptions Every Biologist Knows Are Wrong0:03:53 "All of Life Is Cognitive"0:06:58 Survival Is a Consequence, Not the Driver0:09:32 How Cognition Could Come Before Natural Selection0:14:03 Adaptation Isn't What Natural Selection Does0:17:57 What a Sudoku Puzzle Teaches About Life0:20:41 Masses, Springs and the Physics of Learning0:23:45 When Springs Start to Remember0:26:18 Learning as "Second-Order Falling"0:28:56 No Selection, No Neural Nets, No Design0:31:03 What "Memory" Actually Means0:35:59 Gene Networks That Learn0:38:13 An Ecosystem Solving Sudoku0:43:22 Natural Selection "Isn't Doing Anything Clever"0:52:08 No Amount of Sequencing Will Answer This0:57:23 Will We Ever Model a Cell? "Bottom Up, Never"1:01:23 Rethinking Medicine: Persuadable Systems1:08:01 Agency, or Just Complex Biochemistry?1:20:47 "I Don't Do Consciousness"1:23:30 Three Things That Changed His Mind1:25:39 Analytic Idealism and the Dream Argument1:33:31 Why Doesn't Your Consciousness Blur Into the Chair?1:35:47 McGilchrist and Why We're Blind to It1:38:47 It Was Never About Survival.....Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected]
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  #157 - Meet The Consciousness Philosopher With No Mind’s Eye 21.09.2026 1t 23min

  🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILYBecome a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇 https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/joinRichard Brown is a philosopher of mind who built one of the leading cognitive theories of consciousness, co-authored the paper with Joseph LeDoux that moved the feeling of fear out of the amygdala, and has just published the full book-length case for it with Oxford University Press. He also cannot picture a chicken. Brown has aphantasia — no voluntary mental imagery whatsoever — and he didn't find out until a graduate seminar, when he realised that everyone around him had been speaking literally all along about seeing things in their heads. This is a man building a theory of inner experience from inside a mind with no pictures in it.Expect to learn:- The blank mind's eye: what a philosopher with no mental imagery reveals about where experience actually happens- Fear without the amygdala: how he and Joseph LeDoux moved the feeling of fear up into the cortex- Fake phenomenology: the TMS study where vision gets more vivid without getting any more accurate- Experience you can't reach: whether you can be having a conscious state and be locked out of it- The state of the field: why the consciousness chapter in most neuroscience textbooks is a coin flipSPONSORSGet One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool) - https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqeGS EPISODES MENTIONEDJoseph LeDoux - Meet The World's Greatest Emotion Neuroscientist You've Never Heard Of: https://youtu.be/u_yCcxQsKn0Andrés Gómez Emilsson - Consciousness Expert Explains The 6 Levels Of The DMT Experience: https://youtu.be/xMdl7zF2MWEAlfredo Spagna - Meet The Neuroscientist Proving We Got Imagination & Aphantasia WRONG!: https://youtu.be/k8SBHefDnEkGUEST LINKSPersonal Site: https://onemorebrown.comConsciousness Live!: https://onemorebrown.com/consciousness-live/Consciousness as Representing One's Mind (OUP, 2025): https://global.oup.com/academic/product/consciousness-as-representing-ones-mind-9780197784006X: https://x.com/onemorebrownBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/onemorebrown.bsky.socialLISTEN ONYouTube - https://youtu.be/RBP-w5Z9t1gApple - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249SKOOLWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutFOLLOW EVANhttps://x.com/evan_mcglTIMESTAMPS0:00:00 Trailer0:02:10 Why You Can't Do Science Without Philosophy0:04:54 "You're Doing Bad Philosophy and You Don't Know It"0:06:26 The Band That Got Him Working With Joseph LeDoux0:11:53 Why the Consciousness Chapter Is a Coin Flip0:17:17 What a Higher-Order Theory Actually Says0:20:43 The Two Kinds of Awareness0:21:59 The Blurry Book That Taught Him About Experience0:26:32 Consciousness as Awareness of Your Own Mind0:27:08 LeDoux, the Amygdala and Where Fear Really Lives0:33:06 "There Is No Unconscious Fear"0:39:17 Two Famous Theories That Are Secretly the Same0:40:15 Aphantasia as Evidence for Higher-Order Theory0:42:57 The Speckled Hen That Broke the Seminar0:44:48 Seven Spots, or Black on Black?0:45:46 What Meditation Showed a Man With No Mind's Eye0:49:38 You Might Be Having Experiences You Can't Reach0:52:21 Ned Block's Overflow and the "Placeholder" Problem0:55:36 India Solved This Before Descartes1:02:26 Subjective Inflation, or "Fake Phenomenology"1:03:38 Zapping the Prefrontal Cortex With TMS1:06:13 The $3 Million Experiment Testing All of This1:09:56 Quality Space Theory and Mental "Dabs of Paint"1:22:08 Why You Can't Swap Your Red for My Green.....Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected]
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  #156 - Meet The Greatest Time Neuroscientist You’ve Never Heard Of 17.09.2026 1t 25min

  🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILYBecome a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇 https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/joinDean Buonomano is a UCLA neuroscientist and one of the first researchers to ask how the brain encodes time. His work overturned a century-old assumption — that somewhere in your head sits a central clock — by showing that timing falls out of the dynamics of neural circuits themselves. He wrote the bestseller Your Brain Is a Time Machine, then took the argument to physics, co-authoring a paper with Carlo Rovelli on whether the past still exists. He is a presentist in a field that mostly isn't.Expect to learn:- The clockless brain: why there is no central timer anywhere in your head- Timing in a dish: how isolated brain tissue can be taught intervals- Death and religion: how foresight forced our ancestors to invent the afterlife- The ten-second test: the one simple thing no language model can do- Pause the computer: the thought experiment that breaks state-based theories of consciousnessSPONSORSGet Jenni Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off) - http://jenni.ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=inf&utm_campaign=thegiantsshoulderGS EPISODES MENTIONEDGyörgy Buzsáki - Meet the Neuroscientist Who Discovered That Waves Produce Memory, Spacetime and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/95FFRTIiLDYJoseph LeDoux - Meet The World's Greatest Emotion Neuroscientist You've Never Heard Of: https://youtu.be/u_yCcxQsKn0Michael Levin - Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: https://youtu.be/LTBZRVKUwyMMichael Levin & Earl Miller - Meet the Scientist Showing Every Cell In Your Body is Conscious!: https://youtu.be/eNi-_2cOVtcAnil Seth - No. 1 Consciousness Expert: Optical Illusions that Prove Reality is a Lie, Emotions, Books and AI!: https://youtu.be/lOSA06K0l1oGUEST LINKSUCLA Neurobiology Profile: https://neurobio.ucla.edu/people/dean-buonomano-phdBuonomano Lab: http://www.buonomanolab.com/X: https://x.com/DeanBuonoBridging the Neuroscience and Physics of Time (with Carlo Rovelli): https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01976LISTEN ONYouTube - https://youtu.be/G2LaKtxUng0Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249SKOOLWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutFOLLOW EVANhttps://x.com/evan_mcglTIMESTAMPS0:00:00 Trailer0:02:01 The Brain Has No Central Clock0:04:17 How Neural Population Clocks Work0:05:40 Teaching Brain Tissue To Tell Time0:06:57 Prediction Is Really About When0:09:10 Even Bacteria Keep Time0:10:27 Mental Time Travel Built Civilisation0:11:39 Realising You'll Die Invented Religion0:14:57 Squirrels Don't Actually Plan Ahead0:18:19 Waking Up Before Your Alarm0:23:29 Why Time Is Central To Consciousness0:24:01 Block Universe vs Only Now0:29:24 The Runner Who Lost Time0:33:18 Why Marathons Destroy Time Perception0:37:18 The Memories With No Timestamp0:42:02 Your Brain Runs Many Clocks0:43:31 AI Cannot Wait Ten Seconds0:45:38 How Transformers Deleted Time0:49:29 What If You Paused The Computer?0:53:05 Could We Ever Build Conscious AI?0:58:17 Arguing About Time With Carlo Rovelli1:01:40 A Time Traveller Would Prove Me Wrong1:07:05 You Can't Measure Time With Time1:12:25 Which Theory Of Consciousness Is Right?1:21:55 Why We Invented The Soul.....Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected]
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  #155 - Meet The World’s Greatest Endogenous DMT Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of 14.09.2026 1t 26min

  🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILYBecome a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇 https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/joinSteven Barker is the chemist who has spent fifty years proving your brain makes its own psychedelic. He built the mass-spectrometry methods sensitive enough to find DMT in living tissue, and showed it sits in the brain at concentrations rivalling serotonin and dopamine. In 1981 the war on drugs cut his funding and the work stopped for fifteen years. He also synthesised his own supply — and took it.Expect to learn:- The locked cabinet: what his mentor kept behind two locks, and why Barker raided it- The missing neurotransmitter: why DMT meets every formal criterion and nobody noticed- Machine elves: why he calls the term marketing rather than science- DMT immunity: the lab technician who took a full dose and felt nothing- Receptors inside the neuron: the 2023 finding that explains the neuroplasticitySPONSORSDownload the most scientifically rigorous nutrition app MacroFactor! Use code GIANTS for a 2 week FREE trial - https://app.macrofactor.com/mfgiantsGS EPISODES MENTIONEDAndrew Gallimore - No.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/USgWrxEFWDARick Strassman - Meet The Father Of Modern DMT Research: https://youtu.be/KeAZOj7tYscDennis McKenna - Dennis McKenna: "I've Spent 50 Years Investigating The Entities That Exist Within Ayahuasca": https://youtu.be/gTSBhfZhuD8David Nichols - Meet The Greatest Living Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of: https://youtu.be/6umTgXsW1lQGUEST LINKSResearchGate Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Steven-A-Barker-2164230436N,N-Dimethyltryptamine, an Endogenous Hallucinogen (2018 review): https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.00536A Critical Review of Endogenous DMT in Humans 1955-2010 (with Strassman): https://doi.org/10.1002/dta.422LC/MS/MS Analysis of Rat Pineal Microdialysate (2013, the paper discussed on tape): https://doi.org/10.1002/bmc.2981Administration of DMT in Psychedelic Therapeutics (2022 review): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-022-06065-0LISTEN ONSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5m3Gta5MtIYdk59pb2GJ7MApple - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249SKOOLWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutFOLLOW EVANhttps://x.com/evan_mcglTIMESTAMPS0:00:00 Trailer0:02:15 50 Years Chasing One Molecule0:06:37 Huxley, Osmond and the Birth of "Psychedelic"0:08:01 The Schizotoxin Hypothesis That Started It All0:10:54 Finding DMT in Everyone, Not Just Patients0:11:56 How the War on Drugs Killed the Research0:16:39 The 40 Years of Research We Lost0:18:36 "Have You Ever Taken It Yourself?"0:19:20 Inside the Locked Psychedelic Cabinet0:20:22 The Overabundance He Didn't Want to Waste0:22:51 Why He Won't Describe What He Saw0:23:38 Set, Setting and the Expectancy Problem0:27:16 Dennis McKenna Has Never Seen a Machine Elf0:28:31 "Machine Elf" Was a Marketing Term0:30:40 The Tryptamine Family Tree Explained0:34:21 Bufotenine, 5-MeO-DMT and the Blood-Brain Barrier0:38:36 DMT as a Working Neurotransmitter0:41:34 "DMT Is the Missing Neurotransmitter"0:44:56 You Have Two Brains - and the Gut Makes More0:46:29 Pushing Back on Gallimore's Alien World0:54:04 96% Say the Entity Was Conscious0:57:52 Did the Caveman Experience an Alien?0:59:07 "These Are Not Real Elves"1:06:40 Are Some People Immune to DMT?1:10:51 You Can't Build Tolerance to Your Own Neurotransmitter1:15:46 The Receptors Hiding Inside Your Neurons1:24:24 What a Psychedelic Overdose Actually Is.....Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected]
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  #154 Meet The Greatest End-Of-Life Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of 11.09.2026 1t 26min

  🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILYBecome a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/joinAlexander Batthyány is the philosopher and psychologist who turned a deathbed anecdote into a science. He ran the first modern study of paradoxical lucidity, co-authored the field's founding definition with Bruce Greyson, and has now collected around 450 cases of severely demented patients unexpectedly getting their memory, speech and personality back. Victorian doctors documented the phenomenon at length and called it "lightening up before death"; twentieth-century medicine stopped writing it down because there was no way to phrase it in a case study. He is now working with a group at the Mayo Clinic to put cameras in patients' rooms so the episodes stop being missed. In one case a woman came back for two hours, discussed her own diagnosis, died — and imaging taken immediately afterwards showed no change whatsoever.SPONSORSGet One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool) - https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqeGS EPISODES MENTIONEDRick Strassman - Meet The Father Of Modern DMT Research: https://youtu.be/KeAZOj7tYscAndrew Gallimore - No.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/USgWrxEFWDAGUEST LINKSX: https://x.com/Alxdr_BatthyanyGoogle Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VRL8CPYAAAAJPersonal Site: https://sites.google.com/view/alexanderbatthyany/startViktor Frankl Institute Vienna: https://www.viktorfrankl.org/Threshold (2023): https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250782298/threshold/Psychology Today - Magic Mushrooms and Terminal Lucidity: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/consciousness-and-meaning-at-lifes-end/202607/magic-mushrooms-and-terminal-lucidityBatthyany & Greyson (2021), Spontaneous Remission of Dementia Before Death: https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/360/2021/04/terminal-lucidity-PC.pdfSKOOLWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutFOLLOW EVANhttps://x.com/evan_mcglTIMESTAMPS0:00:00 Trailer0:02:29 What Terminal Lucidity Actually Is0:05:33 Why He'd Rather Call It "Paradoxical Lucidity"0:06:01 "Call Your Grandma - She's Back Again"0:09:11 The Victorians Documented It, Then Medicine Stopped0:10:55 "We Saw It, But We Didn't Write It Down"0:12:58 Frankl's Rule: Treat Them As Fully Present0:17:35 What Brain Age Was She Speaking From?0:18:36 "It Was All As If In A Fog"0:21:11 The Wife Who Filmed It So People Would Believe Her0:25:40 The Art Historian Who Gave Back His Books0:30:27 Is It Comforting For Families, Or Crueller?0:32:02 The Three Shocks Every Family Goes Through0:38:05 450 Cases And Counting0:41:29 Does It Have Anything To Do With Death At All?0:45:12 Steven Pinker: "You're Seeing Figures In Clouds"0:47:10 "Everywhere And Nowhere"0:49:47 They Overdosed Her On Psilocybin. She Woke Up.0:51:37 She Got Her Sense Of Humour Back0:55:18 Dresden: The Brain Hadn't Changed At All0:56:37 "Some Of Our Personhood Is Platform Independent"1:02:40 Near-Death Experiences vs Paradoxical Lucidity1:05:52 Rick Strassman, DMT And Neuroprotection1:11:22 "How Can We Get Them Out?"1:20:20 When Vienna Gave Psychiatric Patients Malaria.....Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected]
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  #153 - Meet The Neuroscientist Who Does Recreational Heroin 07.09.2026 1t 14min

  🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILYBecome a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇 https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/joinCarl Hart is a human drug scientist — the Mamie Phipps Clark Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Columbia University and Chair of its Department of Psychology, who runs one of the very few laboratories on earth licensed to give people real doses of crack cocaine, methamphetamine and MDMA. His volunteers live inside a sealed four-room lab for weeks at a time, originally built for NASA to study astronauts, with no contact with the outside world while he measures their sleep, their food intake and how much they speak. He started that work believing drugs were what had gone wrong in neighbourhoods like the one he grew up in. Thirty years of data refused to agree with him.Expect to learn why there is no such thing as drug addiction in a rat, why "hard drugs" is a category the human body doesn't recognise, why he refuses to use the word "psychedelic", how one extra methyl group is the only difference between methamphetamine and the main ingredient in Adderall, why psychiatry still runs on a theory formalised in 1967 when only six neurotransmitters were known, what heroin actually feels like and why the real danger is constipation rather than overdose, why addiction tracks access rather than pharmacology, and much more…SPONSORSGet Jenni Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off) - http://jenni.ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=inf&utm_campaign=thegiantsshoulderGS EPISODES MENTIONEDDavid Luke - Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://youtu.be/qLKD1gt1X5oGUEST LINKSColumbia Psychiatry Profile: https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/profile/carl-hart-phdPersonal Website: https://drcarlhart.com/X: https://x.com/drcarlhartDrug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Use_for_Grown-UpsHigh Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Price_(book)FOLLOW EVANhttps://x.com/evan_mcglTIMESTAMPS0:00:00 Trailer0:02:16 Why Human Rights Became His Whole Mission0:03:45 "I Believed the Bullshit About Drugs"0:07:42 The Brain-Imaging Studies That Prove Nothing0:10:32 Why "Hard Drugs" Is a Made-Up Category0:12:42 There Is No Such Thing as Addiction in a Rat0:14:18 Put Cocaine on Your Gum and See What Happens0:15:50 Rat Models for Autism, ADHD and Depression0:18:03 How Many Hoops to Give a Human Crack Cocaine0:20:38 "Psychedelic" Is a Political Word, Not a Real Thing0:22:40 Why the One-Receptor Story Is Bullshit0:23:56 Psychiatry Is Still Running on a 1967 Theory0:31:17 One Methyl Group: Meth vs Adderall0:34:41 The Lab NASA Built for Astronauts0:37:45 The Phenomenology Gap Nobody Studies0:39:01 "I Was a Virgin to These Drugs, And Not Even Curious"0:44:14 What Heroin Actually Feels Like0:47:04 The Real Danger Is Constipation0:52:47 The Overdose Myth He's Trying to Destroy0:55:39 Education, Not Harm Reduction0:58:40 Addiction Isn't About Drugs, It's About Access1:01:38 Not Whether to Legalise, But How1:05:30 Dublin's Cocaine Problem, Evan Pushes Back1:06:46 "That's Quite Arrogant of You"1:09:05 The Same Argument That Delayed Emancipation1:12:50 "We Put People on the Moon. This Is Not Complicated.".....Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected]
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  #152 - Meet The Biophysicist Who Accidentally Discovered Telepathy 03.09.2026 1t 38min

  JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILYBecome a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing👇 https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/joinLuca Turin is a biophysicist who has spent thirty years arguing that the nose reads a molecule's vibrations rather than its shape, published in Nature at twenty-three, and co-wrote the definitive critical guide to perfume with his wife Tania Sanchez. The vibrational theory of olfaction was declared dead twice before he revived it, and he is still waiting for the one experiment that would settle it. His newest result has nothing to do with smell: fruit flies sealed in separate opaque wells, with no sight, sound or scent between them, coordinate their movement anyway — and the coordination vanishes the moment the plate is made of metal. This is a scientist who went looking for anaesthesia and found something that looks like insect telepathy.Expect to learn why creating a smell stimulus is nothing like creating a colour, how a startup elicited smell sensations with ultrasound for the first time in history, why the only two chemical groups in the universe that share one vibration are also the only two that smell of rotten eggs, how a receptor could read vibrations with no lenses or prisms anywhere in your nose, why the famous "trillion smells" figure was a mathematical error, why nobody in pharmacology can predict what a drug will do once it binds, how Google Quantum AI's xenon question led to fruit flies, what happened when the plates were swapped for aluminium, why radio frequency would be the perfect brain-wide reward signal, and much more…SPONSORSDownload the most scientifically rigorous nutrition app MacroFactor! Use code GIANTS for a 2 week FREE trial - https://app.macrofactor.com/mfgiantsGS EPISODES MENTIONEDEarl K Miller - Meet the MIT Neuroscientist Showing Brain Waves Are the Secret Engine Behind Consciousness: https://youtu.be/7OFb-NG3jIwMarjorie Woollacott - Neuroscientist: "Your Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness" — NDEs, Telepathy and Terminal Lucidity: https://youtu.be/mDWtmfmIUHAGUEST LINKSGoogle Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fgXXdQYAAAAJWi-Fly Project: https://wi-fly.eu/X: https://x.com/LucaTurinSubstack: https://lucaturin.substack.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lucaturinSKOOLWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutFOLLOW EVANhttps://x.com/evan_mcglTIMESTAMPS0:00:00 Trailer0:02:20 Biophysicists Are Dreamers, Biologists Are Doomed0:07:07 The Startup That Triggered Smells With Ultrasound0:12:22 The Rotten-Egg Coincidence That Convinced Him0:18:34 What The Receptor Is Actually Reading0:19:54 Electron Tunnelling, Explained Simply0:23:33 The Trillion-Smells Figure Was A Maths Error0:28:21 What Perfumers Perceive That You Don't0:32:14 Why Every Drug Receptor Might Be Electrical0:33:12 The Mystery Nobody Admits: Drug Efficacy0:39:28 "Cascade" Is A Word That Masks Ignorance0:44:04 The Receptor As A Transistor0:48:40 Google Quantum AI And The Xenon Puzzle0:52:24 Two Years Of Work, A Definite Maybe0:53:55 30 Flies Freeze Like The Guards At Buckingham Palace0:55:28 One Fly Per Well, No Way To Communicate0:56:17 To My Total Astonishment, They Coordinate0:58:45 Metal Plates Kill The Signal0:59:36 The Wi-Fly: A Radio Network For Flies1:11:26 Radical Pairs: How A Fly Could Listen1:16:34 What Is The Brain's Reward Signal?1:19:59 Standing Waves And The Binding Problem1:23:58 Could Humans Ever Do This?1:27:46 Ramanujan And Latent Abilities1:36:16 Giving Fruit Flies DMT.....Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected]
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  #151 - Meet the Greatest Lucid Dreaming Scientist You've Never Heard Of 31.08.2026 1t 19min

  🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILYBecome a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇 https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/joinKaren Konkoly is a dream scientist who led the first study to hold a real-time, two-way conversation with a person inside a dream, putting maths problems to sleepers in REM and getting answers back through their eye movements. She is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cambridge Consciousness and Cognition Laboratory, completed her PhD in the Paller Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at Northwestern University, and has spent her career building tools to engineer dreams — from targeted lucidity reactivation for narcolepsy nightmares to planting unsolved problems into REM sleep. She has also asked a dream character to swap bodies with her, and woken up inside it. This is the strangest conversation we have had on the channel.Expect to learn how scientists prove someone is awake inside a dream, why you still cannot fly in your own dream even when you know it is a dream, what happened when Karen swapped bodies with a dream character, whether time really slows down while you sleep, why practising darts in a lucid dream works about as well as practising awake, what galantamine and acetylcholine actually do to REM sleep, the exact protocol for having your first lucid dream, why Karen no longer believes lucidity is the key to consciousness, and much more…SPONSORSGet One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool) - https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqeGS EPISODES MENTIONEDDavid Spiegel - World's Greatest Hypnosis Scientist Hijacks My Mind Live On Camera!: https://youtu.be/eCtRBZHIsgQGUEST LINKSPersonal Website: https://www.karenkonkoly.com/Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=teYHEFIAAAAJ&hl=enCambridge Consciousness & Cognition Lab: https://www.ccc-lab.org/Dust Systems (Dream Engineering): https://www.dust.systems/people/karen-konkolyX: https://x.com/KarenKonkolyLISTEN ONSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5m3Gta5MtIYdk59pb2GJ7MApple - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249SKOOLWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutFOLLOW EVANhttps://x.com/evan_mcglTIMESTAMPS0:00:00 Trailer0:03:18 What Lucid Dreaming Actually Is0:05:37 Wake Back To Bed: The 4am Method0:06:40 Why You Still Can't Fly In Your Own Dream0:09:20 How You Prove Someone Is Lucid In A Dream0:11:53 Are The Sleep Stages Even Real?0:15:28 When A Dream Dissolves But You Don't Wake Up0:19:19 The Reality Check You Can Do Tonight0:21:00 Does Time Run Slower Inside A Dream?0:24:45 Trying And Failing To Become Her Dog0:26:10 Swapping Bodies With A Dream Character0:27:51 Is Lucidity A Glitch In Consciousness?0:33:37 Hyperphantasia And Maladaptive Daydreaming0:37:53 Practising Darts While You're Asleep0:41:52 When Lucid Dreaming Is A Bad Idea0:46:09 Why A Giraffe Can't Appear While You're Awake0:49:54 Galantamine, Acetylcholine And Dream Drugs0:52:17 The Squat Experiment0:58:38 The Full Protocol, Step By Step1:04:55 What This Teaches Us About Consciousness1:09:15 Who Are Your Dream Characters?1:12:55 "You're Not You"1:14:41 Hypnosis, David Spiegel And Lucid Dreaming1:18:20 What She's Working On Next.....Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected]
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  #150 - World's Greatest Hypnosis Scientist Hijacks My Mind Live On Camera! 27.08.2026 1t 34min

  🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILYBecome a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/joinDavid Spiegel is the world's leading hypnosis scientist — fifty years at Stanford spent proving that trance is a measurable brain state rather than a stage trick, across thirteen books, four hundred papers and roughly seven thousand patients hypnotised personally. I told him to his face that I thought his entire field was a scam, so he ran the hypnotisability test on me live on camera, my left arm floated off the desk and stopped obeying me for the next forty minutes, and he scored me seven out of ten.Expect to learn what hypnosis actually is and the three components it breaks down into, how stage hypnotists secretly screen their audiences before the show even starts, what changes in three separate brain networks the moment you go under, why "suggestibility" is the wrong word and cognitive flexibility is the right one, how hypnotised subjects cut their brain's electrical response to pain by 50%, why one in four smokers quit after a single session, the two very different childhoods that both produce highly hypnotisable adults, why eight-year-olds are the most hypnotisable people alive, how Rory McIlroy used self-hypnosis to break a seven-year Masters curse, what it feels like to have your own arm stop belonging to you, and much more…SPONSORSTry Reveri, Dr David Spiegel's Self-Hypnosis App (use code SPIEGEL20 for your discount) - https://reverihealth.app.link/e/spiegelGet One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool) - https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqeGUEST LINKSStanford Profile: https://profiles.stanford.edu/david-spiegelReveri: https://www.reveri.com/Reveri on X: https://x.com/reveri_healthStanford Center on Stress and Health: https://med.stanford.edu/stresshealthcenter.htmlTrance and Treatment (his clinical textbook): https://www.appi.org/Products/Hypnosis/Trance-and-Treatment-Second-EditionSKOOLWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutFOLLOW EVANhttps://x.com/evan_mcglTIMESTAMPS0:00:00 Trailer0:02:27 Who Is David Spiegel?0:03:39 What Hypnosis Actually Is0:05:37 Why He Calls Stage Shows "Dumb Shows"0:06:29 How Hypnotists Secretly Screen The Audience0:09:08 The Student Who Relived Being A Newborn0:10:46 What Hypnosis Does To Three Brain Networks0:13:23 It's Not Suggestibility, It's Cognitive Flexibility0:16:12 Cutting The Brain's Pain Signal By 50%0:17:05 One In Four Quit Smoking In A Single Session0:18:33 The Meditator Whose Migraines Vanished0:22:36 Why Hypnotisability Is Partly Genetic0:23:54 The Two Childhoods That Make You Hypnotisable0:27:16 Hypnosis, Flow States And Peak Performance0:32:54 How Rory McIlroy Broke His Masters Curse0:38:05 Why You Can Forget Your Own Name0:44:29 Filtering The Hurt Out Of Pain0:55:00 The Hypnotisability Test, Live On Camera1:00:15 "It's Actually Going Up"1:08:52 Evan Scores 7 Out Of 101:18:42 Trying To Erase The Number Four1:31:04 "Please Don't Do This On My Other Arm".....Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected]
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  #149 - Meet The Father Of Modern DMT Research 24.08.2026 1t 21min

  🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILYBecome a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing: https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/joinRick Strassman is the psychiatrist who ran the first new American psychedelic research in a generation — five years of DMT studies at the University of New Mexico, the first rating scale ever built specifically to measure a psychedelic experience, and the book that made DMT famous. DMT: The Spirit Molecule sold a quarter of a million copies and effectively created machine-elf culture. Thirty years on, he is the most sceptical man in the room about what those entities actually are.Expect to learn why your brain spends energy importing DMT across the blood-brain barrier, why the pineal gland story he made famous fell apart, how brain DMT sits at the same concentration as serotonin and dopamine, why DMT floods the visual cortex of a dying brain, why a molecule that shrinks strokes and protects kidneys should not be psychedelic at all, what the endomatrix is and why it raises the simulation question, why he now thinks psychedelics are super placebos, what a DMT entity actually is and why talking to one is like talking to an AI, how you would actually test whether the entities are real, why only one scientist on Earth is studying endogenous DMT, and much more…SPONSORSGet Jenni Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off) - http://jenni.ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=inf&utm_campaign=thegiantsshoulderJoin the Outskill AI Mastery Sprint (Free This Weekend) - https://links.outskill.com/GIASHOULAUG2GS EPISODES MENTIONEDSteven Barker - Meet The World's Greatest Endogenous DMT Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of: https://youtu.be/gTc5QjyZuvYDavid Luke - Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://youtu.be/qLKD1gt1X5oDeborah Mash - Meet The Ibogaine Psychedelic Scientist Who First Unravelled Its Big Mystery: https://youtu.be/z7eRtXV6ptARobin Carhart-Harris - No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities: https://youtu.be/t-GkE4YtLRkAndrew Gallimore - No.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/USgWrxEFWDAGUEST LINKSOfficial Site: https://www.rickstrassman.com/Books & Publications: https://www.rickstrassman.com/publications/Substack: https://rickstrassman.substack.com/YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/RickStrassmanBiosynthesis and Extracellular Concentrations of DMT in Mammalian Brain (Dean et al., Scientific Reports 2019): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45812-wTIMESTAMPS0:00:00 Trailer0:04:31 The First Legal DMT Studies in a Generation0:07:41 The Bomb-Maker Who Became a Psychedelic Scientist0:14:13 The Iron Curtain Reason We Know DMT Works0:22:32 Why Your Brain Spends Energy Importing DMT0:28:26 Your Brain Makes DMT at Serotonin Levels0:29:26 DMT Floods the Dying Brain's Visual Cortex0:30:28 Stroke, Kidneys and Heart — DMT as a Survival Molecule0:32:39 The $64,000 Question Nobody Can Answer0:36:33 Does DMT Regulate How Real Reality Feels?0:39:32 Only One Person on Earth Studies This0:43:52 The Endomatrix and the Simulation Question0:49:48 "Psychedelics Are Super Placebos"0:55:12 The Man Who Wrote Down "Bananas Are Really Yellow"1:03:50 The Barking Patient — Entities as Dream Logic1:05:42 Talking to Entities Is Like Talking to an AI1:06:40 The Prime Number Test for Proving Entities Are Real1:13:36 Half His Volunteers Met Beings — And a Conscious Apartment1:18:08 "Your Brain On Drugs" vs Another Dimension1:26:58 The Entities That Curse You1:29:09 "Have You Started Yet?" — The Man Immune to DMT1:33:30 Why DMT Is the Only Psychedelic Without Tolerance1:36:12 Blocking 5-HT1A Tripled the Effect — Buried 30 Years1:39:06 Aphantasia and Seeing For the First Time.....Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected]
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  #148 - Meet The Ibogaine Psychedelic Scientist Who First Unravelled Its Big Mystery 20.08.2026 1t 2min

  🧠 JOIN THE GIANT’S SHOULDER FAMILYBecome a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing: https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/joinDeborah Mash is a neuropharmacologist who holds the first FDA licence ever granted to give ibogaine to a human being, built one of America's largest brain banks, and discovered noribogaine — the metabolite now entering its first US clinical trial. She has spent over thirty years on a drug that appears to interrupt addiction after a single dose. This April a US president named it specifically. This is the scientist who was right three decades early.Expect to learn what Trump's executive order actually changes for ibogaine, why Sasha Shulgin put ibogaine in a box of its own, how noribogaine blocks nicotine, alcohol, cocaine and opioid use in animal models, why ibogaine holds the brain's neuroplasticity window open for four weeks when ketamine manages days, why some patients get the full therapeutic benefit with no psychedelic experience at all, why the reported ibogaine deaths are almost impossible to interpret, why more than 80% of her patients said they never wanted to repeat it, and much more...SPONSORSGet Jenni Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off) - http://jenni.ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=inf&utm_campaign=thegiantsshoulderJoin the Outskill AI Mastery Sprint (Free This Weekend) - https://links.outskill.com/GIASHOULAUG2GS EPISODES MENTIONEDDavid Nutt - Meet the Neuroscientist Fired For Exposing the Truth! Dr David Nutt: https://youtu.be/BLk6a5Vb2O0David Nutt - Neuroscientist Ranks Every Drug By How Hard They Are to Quit! Tier List: https://youtu.be/G-OZ_UBGvvoGUEST LINKSUniversity of Miami Faculty Profile: http://neurology.med.miami.edu/about-us/faculty-list/deborah-c-mash-ph-dX: https://x.com/drdeborahmashGoogle Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4383E7wAAAAJ&hl=enDemeRx: https://www.demerx.com/team/deborah-c-mash-phd/2018 Frontiers in Pharmacology paper (St. Kitts cohort): https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pharmacology/articles/10.3389/fphar.2018.00529/fullWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutFOLLOW EVANhttps://x.com/evan_mcglTIMESTAMPS0:00:00 Trailer0:02:00 Why Ibogaine Is Suddenly Everywhere0:02:22 Trump's Executive Order and What It Actually Does0:05:55 The Drug That Breaks the Cycle of Addiction0:08:07 Why One Drug Treats Addiction, Depression and Trauma0:11:30 Noribogaine: The Metabolite Nobody Talks About0:14:20 The Real Risks Nobody Reports Properly0:16:36 How Ibogaine Became a Vast Underground Experiment0:17:44 Veterans, Brain Trauma and the Testimonials0:22:55 The Master Molecule: Why Ibogaine Stands Alone0:23:30 Sasha Shulgin Draws Four Boxes0:26:48 Is a Psychedelic Just a Hard Reboot?0:28:11 Four Weeks of Neuroplasticity, Longer Than Anything Else0:28:44 Fast, Slow and Ultra-Rapid Metabolisers0:31:39 The First Patient in St. Kitts, Decades Later0:34:35 Do You Need the Trip to Reach the Destination?0:35:05 One Molecule, Every Addiction0:37:39 Miami Vice and the Bodies at the Morgue0:41:18 The Man Who Slept Through His Own Trip0:44:11 Why America Will Lead on Ibogaine0:47:51 Dual Dosing: The Second Stage of the Rocket0:54:52 Why More Than 80% Never Want to Repeat It0:57:33 What Would Ibogaine Do to a Healthy Brain?0:58:18 Why She's Never Taken Ibogaine0:59:39 Psychedelics, Longevity and Ageing Brains......Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected]
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  #147 - No. 1 Mitochondria Psychobiologist: "Mitochondria Create Consciousness and Near-Death Experiences" 17.08.2026 1t 3min

  Get Jenni Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off) - http://jenni.ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=inf&utm_campaign=thegiantsshoulderJoin the Outskill AI Mastery Sprint (Free This Weekend): https://links.outskill.com/GIASHOULAUG2Want a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutMartin Picard is a mitochondrial psychobiologist at Columbia University who just won the inaugural $1.5 million Baszucki Prize for a new theory of life. His radical claim: consciousness doesn't just run on energy, it might actually be made of it, generated inside your mitochondria rather than your brain.Expect to learn why calling mitochondria "the powerhouse of the cell" does them a disservice, how mitochondria might generate consciousness rather than just power the brain that has it, why some of history's most rigorous physicists ended up believing consciousness is more fundamental than matter, how psychedelics might work by reshaping the way energy is patterned through your body, why grey hair can reverse itself within weeks of a stressful period lifting, how a simple blood test might one day predict whether you're about to have a good or bad trip, why "no drug actually heals you" and what does instead, and much more.Timestamps:0:00:00 Trailer0:02:00 What Actually Keeps You Alive (Not What You Think)0:04:40 Why There's No Experience Without Energy Flow0:07:11 Are You Conscious Because of Matter, or Despite It?0:10:13 Why History's Greatest Physicists Became Idealists0:17:17 The Doctor Who Watched Patients Come Back From Death0:22:09 Don Hoffman and the Day the Beach Disappeared0:24:12 What Actually Triggers a Near-Death Experience0:24:51 You Are an Eddy in a River of Consciousness0:31:59 Bernardo Kastrup's Idealism, Tested Live0:33:34 Could We Scan Your Energy and Predict Your Mind?0:39:37 Stop Calling Mitochondria "The Powerhouse"0:40:03 Your Cells Are Basically Tiny GPUs0:41:04 How Psychedelics Might Rewrite Your Energy Pattern0:49:10 The Study Testing Whether Psilocybin Changes Your Mitochondria0:52:06 "It's Not the Drug That Heals You"0:52:38 A Blood Test That Predicts Your Best (and Worst) Trip0:57:27 The Psychedelic Paradox: Less Brain, More Experience0:58:57 Aldous Huxley's "Reducing Valve" Theory of the Brain1:02:03 "The Brain Is Overrated"... Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected] Episodes Mentioned:Robin Carhart-Harris - No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities: https://youtu.be/t-GkE4YtLRkGuest Links:Columbia Faculty Profile: https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/profile/martin-picard-phdPersonal Website: https://www.martinpicard.energy/X (Twitter): https://x.com/MitoPsychoBioGoogle Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IG2t_uMAAAAJ&hl=enMitochondrial Psychobiology Lab: https://www.picardlab.org
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  #146 - Meet The Greatest Bioelectricity Scientist You've Never Heard Of 13.08.2026 1t 15min

  Try Mind Lab Pro, The Universal Nootropic For A Sharper Brain: https://www.mindlabpro.com/?a_aid=67fd1cb8d9ad3&a_bid=6d45f5c3Join The Outskill Claude Mastery Sprint (2 Days, Free): https://links.outskill.com/GIASHOULAUG2Want a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutMin Zhao is the UC Davis professor whose lab discovered the first genes ever found in electrical signalling — proof that every cell in your body runs on a current, not just your brain. He can reverse the polarity of a field and watch a living cell physically turn around and walk the other way.Expect to learn why every wound in your body generates its own measurable electric current, how a single postdoc's "failed" experiment revealed a force that overrides genetics, how reversing an electric field can make a cell physically turn around mid-migration, how a damaged potato generates the same electrical signal that guides wound healing in humans, why Min stops short of fully agreeing with Michael Levin on whether cells count as agents, and where the fight between bioelectricity and genetics currently stands.Timestamps0:00:00 Trailer0:02:20 What Everyone Gets Wrong About Wound Healing0:07:20 Your Skin Is Secretly Electric (And So Is Everything Alive)0:11:09 The 200-Year-Old Discovery Hiding in Every Wound0:15:19 The Postdoc Result That Changed the Whole Lab0:19:19 How Do Cells Know Where to Grow? (Five Fingers, Not Six)0:21:19 The Potato Experiment That Reveals How Infections Start0:25:24 Reverse the Field, Watch a Cell Turn Around0:38:10 The Bioelectricity Nobody Taught in Biology Class0:44:17 Is Bioelectricity More Fundamental Than Genes?0:45:33 "No Electricity, No Life"0:49:14 When Electric Fields Override Genetics Entirely1:03:40 Michael Levin's Xenobots, Debated1:12:22 Do Cells Have Agency? The Fuzziest Question in Biology1:15:16 To Be Continued... (Members Get the Rest)... Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected] Episodes MentionedMichael Levin — Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTBZRVKUwyMPhilip Ball — Philip Ball: "Biology Is Infinitely Weirder Than We Thought": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SseGx0R0fYDenis Noble — Denis Noble: Evolution Has Purpose, Cell Consciousness & Why The Last 70 Years of Genetics Is Wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqw-DaWVK24Michael Levin & Earl Miller — Michael Levin & Earl Miller: Platonic Space of Minds, Bioelectricity, Cell Intelligence & Neurobots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mU5nN5nlLAGuest LinksUC Davis Faculty Profile: https://health.ucdavis.edu/dermatology/faculty/zhao.htmlZhao Lab (UC Davis Dermatology): https://health.ucdavis.edu/dermatology/research/lab/zhao.htmlGoogle Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=G7-zWBcAAAAJ&hl=enNeuroengineering at UC Davis: https://neuroengineering.ucdavis.edu/people/min-zhao-md-phdUC Davis Profiles (Publications): https://profiles.ucdavis.edu/min.zhao
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  #145 - Meet the Ibogaine Neuroscientist Revolutionising Addiction Treatment 10.08.2026 1t 31min

  Get One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool): https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqeUpgrade Your Shaving Experience With Henson (100 FREE BLADES): https://hensonshaving.com/thegiantsshoulderWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutKirsten Cherian is the Stanford neuropsychologist who gave Special Forces veterans with traumatic brain injuries a single dose of ibogaine — a psychedelic root used in African shamanic ritual for millennia — and watched their injury scores collapse from severe to normal in a month. It's a weak agonist for nearly every receptor in the body, yet it somehow delivers a tailor-made result to each person — a form of pharmacology science has never seen before.Expect to learn why veteran suicide outpaces combat deaths, how one dose collapsed PTSD, depression, and anxiety at once, why users describe their brains being "defragged," a researcher's 12-hour "conversation" with the ibogaine molecule itself, the bizarre phenomenon of "DMT blocking" by hostile entities, why ibogaine has no single receptor target — "matrix pharmacology," how brain age dropped by over a year in a single month, and why the results contradict science's leading theory of consciousness.Timestamps0:00:00 Trailer0:02:11 How This Ibogaine Study For Veterans Began0:04:06 Veteran Suicide Now Outpaces Combat Deaths0:07:31 The 30-Veteran Study With Staggering Effect Sizes0:12:22 Ibogaine Isn't A Trip, It's A Waking Dream0:13:14 Vivid Trip Imagery: Slideshows And "Defragged" Brains0:15:02 Reconciling Trauma By Talking To The Dead0:20:01 What A Bad Ibogaine Trip Actually Looks Like0:24:50 Purging "Black Demons" In A Room Full Of Strangers0:27:23 The Scientist Who Talked To The Ibogaine Molecule0:33:36 Why Elite Special Forces Veterans Still Broke0:34:30 DMT Blocking: When Entities Refuse To Let You In0:41:22 The Psilocybin Researcher Who Believes In Telepathy0:43:00 Why Ibogaine Has No Single Target In The Brain0:46:25 The 1920s Thought Experiment That Proves We're Too Skeptical0:49:38 Ibogaine As A Full-System Diagnostic, Not A Drug1:03:36 Measurable Brain Change From An African Tree Fruit1:05:19 Brain Age Dropped Over A Year After One Dose1:17:21 The Finding That Contradicts The Leading Theory Of Consciousness1:20:28 If Ibogaine Research Got A Blank Billion-Dollar Check1:23:21 Could Ibogaine Help Parkinson's And ALS Patients?... Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected] Episodes MentionedDalibor Sames — Meet The Greatest Ibogaine Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9whp_wtCocAndrew Gallimore — No.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USgWrxEFWDADavid Luke — Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLKD1gt1X5oMatthew Johnson — Consciousness Expert Explains The 5 Levels Of The Psilocybin Experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHyy3aW09skRobin Carhart-Harris — No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities: https://youtu.be/t-GkE4YtLRkGuest LinksStanford Profile: https://profiles.stanford.edu/kirsten-cherianStanford Brain Stimulation Lab: https://bsl.stanford.edu/MISTIC Study (Nature Medicine, 2024): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38182784/ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kirsten-CherianVETS — Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions: https://vetsolutions.org/