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Evan McGloughlin
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A Neuroscience podcast. Each week I talk with experts on a range of topics from consciousness and neuroplasticity to evolution and everything in between. I have a particular interest in consciousness and understanding our inner subjective conscious experience. Evan has a Neuroscience degree from Trinity College Dublin and is the co-founder of 2 (failed) edtech startups. He is a professional tennis coach and Triathlete enthusiast.

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    Meet The MIT Philosopher Proving Aphantasics Have Unconscious Imagery

    Get A Full Breakdown Of Your Own Conscious Inner Experience (100% Free): https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutMatthias Michel is an MIT philosopher and co-founder of the MIT Consciousness Club who has developed one of the most provocative theories of consciousness in recent years: Perceptual Reality Monitoring. He argues your brain runs a constant reality check on every signal it receives — deciding what's real and what's noise — and that this mechanism IS consciousness.Expect to learn how your brain tells the difference between perception, memory, imagination and noise, why conscious vision lags 400 milliseconds behind reality, why every fast action you've ever taken was driven entirely unconsciously, why fish probably have no conscious visual experience at all, how aphantasics may have mental imagery they can't consciously access, why conscious mental imagery might actually be a bug in the system, what blindsight patient GY's experience reveals about unconscious vision, and much more…Timestamps: 0:00 Matthias Michel — What Is Perceptual Reality Monitoring?2:58 How does the brain tell reality from imagination?5:30 Snake fear in Malaysia: when prediction systems misfire6:22 Blood vessel shadows and the stuff your brain erases7:50 Motion-induced blindness: your brain deleting real objects9:50 Is schizophrenia a broken reality monitor?11:02 Where does reality monitoring happen in the brain?12:53 Can you be conscious without a frontal cortex?15:49 Mark Solms and brainstem consciousness18:15 What does it mean to see without conscious vision?18:40 "Tell me what it's like to see behind your head" — blindsight patient GY20:48 Do fish have conscious vision?22:05 Why conscious vision is 350-400ms too slow for action24:07 Two visual systems: one conscious, one not25:30 The hollow face illusion fools your eyes but not your hand26:21 Binocular rivalry: your eyes know things you don't29:24 Sensory horizons: why water limits conscious vision33:17 Could coral reef fish or octopuses be the exception?37:31 Are fish complete zombies? (60% confidence)39:18 Should we still protect fish even if they're unconscious?42:47 Aphantasia through the lens of reality monitoring46:00 Why conscious imagery might be a "bug"48:06 Blank access: using imagery without experiencing it50:17 What is an unconscious visual representation?55:54 The strongest counterevidence to unconscious imagery58:50 Pupil dilation and Joel Pearson's results1:01:18 How do we falsify unconscious imagery?1:04:30 The PRM explanation for aphantasia: threshold differences1:07:50 The future of consciousness and aphantasia research1:10:29 Vividness is multidimensional — lessons from Russell Hurlburt1:13:35 Brain imaging limitations and the next breakthrough...Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com GS Episodes MentionedMark Solms — https://youtu.be/nMWaQ1U6dccAdam Zeman — https://youtu.be/SgA2up6-BokRussell Hurlburt (R1) — https://youtu.be/j0gKl-g3DNgRussell Hurlburt (R2) — https://youtu.be/TfSuvAJB3JUMerlin Monzel — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g21AqnSV1X4Joel Pearson — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I_7HrWYMQ0Alfredo Spagna - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8SBHefDnEk

    1h 21min

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    #117 Meet The Neuroscientist Proving We Got Imagination & Aphantasia WRONG!

    Dr. Alfredo Spagna is a Cognitive Neuroscientist at Columbia University who discovered the Fusiform Imagery Node — the brain region that activates every time you imagine anything. But when he scanned people with aphantasia using an ultra-high-field 7T brain scanner, the node was firing perfectly — it just wasn't connected to the frontal lobe, suggesting that consciousness itself might depend not on what your brain computes, but on what it connects. Expect to learn how imagination hijacks the brain's perceptual system, why aphantasia shattered 40 years of assumptions about mental imagery, what the "visualizer fallacy" is and why it affects everything from therapy to education, how a painter with aphantasia creates art without ever seeing it in his mind, why your brain imagining a lemon makes you salivate even though there's no lemon, what the 7T brain scanner revealed about the architecture of imagination, how aphantasia may support the Global Neuronal Workspace theory of consciousness, why Olympic athletes spend hours visualizing routines they never physically perform, and much more… Timestamps 00:08 What Happens in the Brain When You Imagine 01:02 Where Imagination and Perception Diverge 03:44 Would Perfect Imagination Be Hallucination? 05:49 Voluntary vs Involuntary Imagination 06:50 Why Do People with Aphantasia Still Dream? 07:33 What Is Aphantasia — The Discovery That Changed Everything 09:30 The Dissociation That Frightened Scientists 11:06 The Visualizer Fallacy 12:01 How Aphantasics Solve Problems Without Images 14:31 Evan's Sister Discovers Aphantasia at 31 16:55 Could Imagery Be Unconscious in Aphantasia? 18:19 The Architect Who Lost His Imagination 21:11 Eric the Painter — Creating Art Without Seeing It 24:51 The Inner Speech Fallacy and Neurodiversity 29:02 "I Can't Visualize My Mom's Face" 29:57 Why Aphantasia Breaks Psychotherapy 33:06 Empathy, Conflict and How Inner Experience Shapes Society 36:42 The Chemistry Exam Problem 39:09 Is Hypervisualization Actually a Disadvantage? 41:21 Imagination as a Double-Edged Sword 43:37 What Is the Fusiform Imagery Node? 46:10 The Cafeteria Conversation That Started It All 50:07 Three Bombshells From One Meta-Analysis 52:23 Domain-General vs Domain-Specific Imagination 54:05 The Brain Still Imagines in Aphantasia — It Just Disconnects 56:36 Is Aphantasia a Disconnection Syndrome? 58:59 Step-By-Step: What Your Brain Does When You Imagine an Apple 1:05:05 Non-Visual Imagination — Taste, Touch, Sound 1:09:38 What Aphantasia Reveals About Consciousness 1:13:26 Does This Support IIT or Global Workspace Theory? 1:15:49 Can Aphantasia Be Trained Away? 1:18:53 The Olympic Skier Who Visualized Gold 1:22:25 $10 Billion to Solve Imagination — Where Would You Spend It? ... Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com ❤️ Subscribe to our main channel - https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder?sub_confirmation=1💚 Follow on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5m3Gta5MtIYdk59pb2GJ7M?si=Ka2rAQv7TyqiC9wvGwERpA💜 Follow on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249Download my FREE EBook 26 Neuroscience Books for 2026 HERE: https://thegiantsshoulder.com/

    1h 29min

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    #116 Meet The World’s Greatest Psychedelic Receptor Scientist

    Bryan L. Roth is a drug receptor scientist who solved the crystal structure of LSD inside a serotonin receptor and took $26.9 million from DARPA to build a non-hallucinogenic psychedelic — a compound that hits the same receptor as psilocybin, produces antidepressant effects in mice, and doesn't cause a trip. Expect to learn how his mother's schizophrenia launched a 40-year career in pharmacology, why Salvia divinorum has zero serotonin activity and works entirely through the kappa opioid receptor, why serotonin and opioid receptors converge in the claustrum, why DARPA funded non-hallucinogenic alternatives for soldiers, how his lab screens a trillion compounds that don't physically exist, why only 100 of 26,000 protein targets have ever been drugged, and much more… Timestamps: 00:00 Bryan L. Roth — The Man Who Builds Non-Hallucinogenic Psychedelics 02:41 Falling Into Receptor Science by Accident 04:58 When Only 5 People on Earth Studied Psychedelic Receptors 06:07 Why "Psychedelic" Was Banned From Research Grants 07:28 The 2016 Papers That Changed Everything 08:26 The Scientist Friend Who Got "Cured" by Psilocybin 10:41 The Vietnam Vet With a Gun in His Mouth — Ibogaine's Power 12:50 What Is Ibogaine and Why Can It Kill You? 18:06 Why the Kappa Opioid System Breaks Reality 19:07 The Hidden History of Psychotomimetic Opioids 22:16 Why Opioid Researchers Deny Kappa Causes Hallucinations 23:18 The Claustrum: Where Serotonin and Opioid Receptors Meet 24:14 Multiple Entry Points Into Reality-Altering Brain Systems 28:35 Why Psychedelic Experiences Feel So Meaningful 29:58 DMT: "More Real Than Reality" — And Nobody Knows Why 31:28 Salvia: Becoming Plaid on a Wall 33:48 Trump's $50M Psychedelic Order Won't Buy One Clinical Trial 35:33 No Other Psychedelic Touches the Kappa Receptor 38:10 The Real Reason He Built a Non-Hallucinogenic Psychedelic 41:33 DARPA: More Psychiatric Casualties Than Physical in the Military 44:48 Biased Agonism: Stripping the Trip From the Therapy 47:19 How GPCRs Work and Why Drug Design Is Still Trial and Error 49:50 People Who Will Never Touch a Psychedelic But Do Cocaine Weekly 52:27 "I Don't Discuss That" — Whether He's Taken Psychedelics 52:47 Screening a Trillion Drugs That Don't Exist 55:02 The Real Bottleneck: 26,000 Targets, Only 100 Drugged... Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com ❤️ Subscribe to our main channel - https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder?sub_confirmation=1💚 Follow on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5m3Gta5MtIYdk59pb2GJ7M?si=Ka2rAQv7TyqiC9wvGwERpA💜 Follow on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249Download my FREE EBook 26 Neuroscience Books for 2026 HERE: https://thegiantsshoulder.com/

    1h 2min

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    #115 Consciousness Expert Explains The 6 Levels Of The DMT Experience

    Andrés Gómez Emilsson runs research at the Qualia Research Institute and thinks consciousness has a literal mathematical shape. We walk through the six geometric levels of DMT, why phenomenal space goes hyperbolic at high doses, why bad trips are competing symmetries fighting for territory in your visual field, and why he thinks AI on silicon will never be conscious. Expect to learn why pleasure is symmetry, what makes DMT phenomenologically alien at the topological level, why your breath being out of phase with your heartbeat might be most of what anxiety is, where the free energy principle stops being a theory of consciousness, and why a swimming pool full of logic gates breaks every computational theory of the mind. Timestamps 00:00 The 6 Geometric Levels of DMT 02:30 Can Subjective Experience Be Studied Like Physics? 03:58 Mapping Experience as a Hypergraph 09:33 Introducing the Symmetry Theory of Valence 12:19 What Symmetry Actually Is (And Why Physics Cares) 19:21 Why Energetic Blockages Feel Bad — Yoga, Jhanas and Wave Propagation 23:06 Is Pleasure Necessarily Symmetrical? 26:31 The Annealing Metaphor: Healing a Broken Cymbal 29:18 Symmetries in the World vs Symmetries in the Brain 32:54 The Bucket Brigade: Why Coupled Oscillators Have to Be in Phase 36:27 Where the Free Energy Principle Stops Being a Theory of Consciousness 39:33 Marr's Levels: Why Friston Describes But Doesn't Explain 42:12 What's Actually Symmetric in the Brain? (Thalamus and Biorhythms) 47:52 Anxiety as Hyperpressurisation 50:13 Connectome Harmonics and the Brain as a Musical Instrument 52:18 The Six Levels of DMT — Threshold, Symmetry Hotel, Magic Eye 55:06 The Magic Eye Level Explained 57:31 Crystal Worlds and the Waiting Room 59:48 The Breakthrough: When Topology Itself Changes 01:01:43 Why Bad Trips Are Competing Symmetries, Not Missing Ones 01:04:35 Square vs Hexagon Universes Fighting for Territory 01:05:54 The LSD Christianity Example 01:07:32 Andrew Gallimore's Alien Worlds — Pre-Configured Reality? 01:09:04 Beam Splitter Holography and the Brain as a Non-Linear Optical Computer 01:10:21 Why DMT Feels So Real — Cross-Modal Coherence and the Tactile Field 01:12:48 The Coupling Kernel and Opposite-Phase Oscillators 01:13:53 DMT Archetypes and the Specificity of Encounters ... 🔗 GS Episodes ReferencedAndrew Gallimore (DMT, alien worlds): https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/search?query=Gallimore Elizabeth Margulis (music neuroscience): https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/search?query=Margulis Mark Solms (homeostatic theory of valence): https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/search?query=Solms 🔗 Andrés Gómez Emilsson Qualia Research Institute: https://qri.org Qualia Computing (blog): https://qualiacomputing.com Substack: https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.comEmail for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com

    1h 20min

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    #114 No.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness

    Andrew Gallimore is a neurobiologist, pharmacologist and chemist who developed the DMTx protocol — a technology that extends the most intense psychedelic experience known to science from minutes to hours. He is the author of Alien Information Theory, Reality Switch Technologies and Death by Astonishment, and is Director of Noonautics, a nonprofit dedicated to the scientific exploration of consciousness. He currently lives and works in Tokyo.Expect to learn why your brain builds alien worlds on DMT, what thalamocortical loops and attractor states actually are, why DMT may have once been an ancient neurotransmitter, why 94% of users encounter non-human entities, what Jungian archetypes can and can't explain about DMT, where Andrew disagrees with Robin Carhart-Harris on the reality of entities, what the DMTx extended state protocol is and how it works, why DMT is the only psychedelic that doesn't produce tolerance, what happens when entities deny you access to the DMT world, what darkness retreats and breathwork have to do with endogenous DMT, and much more...Timestamps:0:00 Trailer2:11 What Is the Building Alien Worlds Thesis?4:06 What Makes DMT Unique Among Psychedelics?6:57 World Space Landscape and Consensus Reality8:11 DMT Entities — Prevalence and Types11:04 Consistency of Entity Interactions13:31 Is the DMT World Real or a Hallucination?17:34 Thalamocortical Loops and World-Model Construction20:34 Attractor States Explained24:21 Why DMT’s Stability Suggests an Evolutionary Role27:25 Parallel Lives — The DMT Sleep Cycle Hypothesis28:36 What Was the Evolutionary Purpose of the DMT World?33:35 Melatonin, Serotonin and DMT — Pharmacological Cousins35:57 Is DMT Still Doing Something Important in the Brain?36:36 Noonautics and Endogenous DMT Research38:43 Debunking DMT Breathwork Courses and Pineal Myths40:45 What Does a Stable Pattern of Brain Activity Actually Look Like?43:53 Order Within Chaos — Chris Timmermann’s DMTx Findings47:16 Robin Carhart-Harris and the Jungian Archetype Debate48:37 What Jungian Archetypes Actually Are53:36 Why Archetypes Can’t Explain Alien Entities54:32 The Directed World Model — Do Entities Control Access?56:55 DMT Lockout — When Entities Deny You Entry58:30 Can You See Entities in Brain Scans?1:00:06 Future Brain Scanning Technology1:01:24 The Speed of the Switch as Evidence1:04:40 Dimensionality and Topology of the DMT World1:06:39 DMTx — What Is the Extended State Protocol?1:09:03 Target-Controlled Intravenous Infusion Explained1:11:23 Sending Specialists Into DMT Space1:13:35 Time Perception on DMT1:16:16 Surprises from DMTx Experiments1:18:15 The Future of DMT Consciousness Research1:19:12 Andrés Gómez Emilsson and the Mathematics of DMT Space...Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com ❤️ Subscribe to our main channel - https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder?sub_confirmation=1💚 Follow on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5m3Gta5MtIYdk59pb2GJ7M?si=Ka2rAQv7TyqiC9wvGwERpA💜 Follow on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249Download my FREE EBook 26 Neuroscience Books for 2026 HERE: https://thegiantsshoulder.com/

    1h 22min

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    #113 - Meet The Neuroscientist Decoding Your Bodies Cannabis System

    Dr. Matt Hill is one of the world’s leading cannabis neuroscientists, former president of the International Cannabinoid Research Society, and a researcher with over 21,000 citations studying how the endocannabinoid system regulates the brain and body.Cannabis affects different people in completely opposite ways — calming one person while causing crippling anxiety in another — and Hill explains why the biology makes this inevitable, why both sides of the cannabis debate are getting it wrong, and why legalisation in Canada accidentally destroyed the very research that could have answered our biggest questions.Expect to learn why CB1 is the most widely distributed receptor in the brain yet almost nobody has heard of it, how endocannabinoids work backwards across the synapse unlike any other signalling system, why low-dose THC calms the amygdala but high-dose THC causes paranoia and anxiety, why women get higher than men on the same dose of cannabis due to a liver enzyme difference, why only a third of people genuinely benefit from medical cannabis while a third get nothing, how cannabis triggers schizophrenia in genetically vulnerable people without actually causing the disease, why Canadian legalisation killed cannabis clinical trials through a bureaucratic GMP-versus-GPP standoff, what the real cardiovascular risks of chronic cannabis use are, why cannabis users paradoxically have lower obesity rates, and much more…Timestamps: 00:00 Trailer02:00 Dr. Matt Hill — Cannabis Neuroscientist02:25 The Endocannabinoid System: Your Body’s Own Cannabis04:23 Every Biological Function It Controls06:30 The Most Distributed Receptor Nobody’s Heard Of07:20 Why Cannabis Science Is So Politically Toxic09:35 Both Sides Are Wrong: The Three Blind Men Problem10:23 The Frustrating Polarity of the Cannabis Debate12:37 Your Personal Experience Doesn’t Generalise16:25 Why Cannabis Feels Like a Different Drug for Different People17:52 Retrograde Signalling: How Cannabis Works Backwards20:08 Low Dose Calms, High Dose Causes Paranoia — Here’s Why22:24 Women Produce More 11-Hydroxy-THC Than Men25:52 Why Receptor Distribution Makes Cannabis Unpredictable27:11 The PET Scan Problem: Why We Can’t Map Your Receptors29:04 Why Cannabis Companies Don’t Fund Real Research31:25 How Legalisation Accidentally Killed Cannabis Science34:46 The GMP vs GPP Bureaucratic Disaster38:09 David Nutt: Drug Policy Driven by Politics Not Science43:01 Why You Can’t Standardise Cannabis Dosing Like Alcohol49:44 The Three Thirds Rule: Benefit, Side Effects, or Nothing53:05 The Best Evidence: Where Cannabis Actually Works53:36 Schizophrenia Risk — It’s a Trigger, Not a Cause55:52 Cardiovascular Risk: The Under-Discussed Real Danger57:02 Does Exercise Cancel Out Cannabis Heart Risk?58:14 The Obesity Paradox: Why Cannabis Users Are Thinner01:01:03 Chronic Pain, MS, Epilepsy and PTSD — The Medical Evidence01:03:18 Final Thoughts and a Plea for Billionaire Stoners...Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com ❤️ Subscribe to our main channel - https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder?sub_confirmation=1💚 Follow on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5m3Gta5MtIYdk59pb2GJ7M?si=Ka2rAQv7TyqiC9wvGwERpA💜 Follow on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249Download my FREE EBook 26 Neuroscience Books for 2026 HERE: https://thegiantsshoulder.com/

    1h 4min

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    #112 - No. 1 Music Neuroscientist: How Music Hijacks Our Collective Unconscious, Emotion and Imagination

    Upgrade Your Shaving Experience With Henson (100 FREE BLADES): https://hensonshaving.com/thegiantsshoulder Dr. Elizabeth Margulis is a professor of music cognition at Princeton University and author of Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams. When strangers listen to the same unfamiliar music, they independently imagine the same vivid stories — down to specific words like "frolic" and "pirates." This may be one of the most surprising findings in modern cognitive science, and it challenges everything we assume about the privacy of our own thoughts. Expect to learn why strangers imagine the same stories when listening to identical music, how a cross-cultural experiment between the US and rural China revealed completely different imagined worlds to the same sounds, how repeated speech spontaneously transforms into song, the surprising link between psychedelic therapy and modern music therapy, why the Mozart Effect misled state legislatures, what makes certain songs irresistibly groovy, and much more … Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:45 From Concert Pianist to Cognitive Scientist 06:27 What Does a Brain Look Like Listening to Music? 09:04 How Musical Processing Differs from Speech 10:53 The Irresistible Urge to Dance 16:18 Can Animals Keep a Beat? The Snowball Experiment 23:42 Why Repetition Changes How You Feel About Music 26:31 The Speech-to-Song Illusion 32:05 Is Music Evolutionary? The Case for Social Bonding 36:36 Psychedelics and Music: What's Really Driving the Healing? 42:28 The Mozart Effect Myth 47:42 How to Raise a Musical Prodigy 49:25 Musical Daydreams: Why Strangers Imagine the Same Stories 53:11 The China Experiment: Same Music, Different Stories 1:06:57 Psychedelic Hallucinations and Musical Archetypes 1:16:17 Can Music Teach Us About Consciousness? ... Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com ❤️ Subscribe to our main channel - https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder?sub_confirmation=1💚 Follow on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5m3Gta5MtIYdk59pb2GJ7M?si=Ka2rAQv7TyqiC9wvGwERpA💜 Follow on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249 Download my FREE EBook 26 Neuroscience Books for 2026 HERE: https://thegiantsshoulder.com/

    1h 22min

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    #111 - Tim Maudlin: Consciousness, Turing Machines, Problems with Quantum Mechanics and Ai

    Upgrade Your Shaving Experience With Henson (100 FREE BLADES): https://hensonshaving.com/thegiantsshoulder Tim Maudlin is a philosopher of physics at NYU and founder of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. In 1989 he published a paper proving that consciousness cannot arise from computation — thirty-five years before the world started panicking about whether ChatGPT can think. Expect to learn why no computer programme will ever be sufficient for consciousness, why large language models operate nothing like human brains, the critical difference between intelligence and consciousness that the AI industry keeps collapsing, why Penrose's arguments about consciousness are wrong, why quantum mechanics has nothing to do with the mind, why the mind-body problem may be the most intractable problem in all of science, and much more… Timestamps: 00:00 Why Consciousness Is Not Computable 02:35 Maudlin's 1989 Paper: Computation and Consciousness 06:01 The Thought Experiment: Beer Cans, Windmills and Conscious Machines 08:11 Why Running a Programme Can't Be Enough for Consciousness 10:36 Counterfactuals: What the Machine Would Have Done 13:56 The Cog and Wheel Machine: Stripping It Down 16:18 The Strange Anaesthesia: Jamming the Gears 19:10 Why Computational Structure Is the Wrong Level 20:08 Is This For or Against Computationalism? 23:01 The 2026 AI Consciousness Debate 25:06 Why the Turing Test Is Trivially Defeatable 27:00 Neural Nets Are Nothing Like Brains 29:12 Why the Brain Is Far More Than Neurons 31:01 HAL 9000 and How Children Actually Learn 33:27 The Car Wash Question That Breaks ChatGPT 35:18 Defining Intelligence and Consciousness 37:53 Twin Earth: Why Definitions Don't Work the Way You Think 43:06 Locked-In Syndrome and the Lobster Problem 47:08 Computation Can't Explain Pain Either 48:01 Intelligence vs Consciousness: Why You Must Separate Them 50:45 Can Anything Be Intelligent Without Being Conscious? 53:09 Is the Turing Machine Argument About Intelligence Too? 54:04 What Does Memory Actually Mean? 57:00 Can Mathematics Capture the Structure of Qualia?01:00:02 Scott Aaronson's Demolition of Integrated Information Theory 01:03:26 Why Formalising Consciousness Is a Fetishisation of Maths 01:09:00 Why There Is No Simple State Space for Vision 01:13:22 Does Quantum Mechanics Explain Consciousness? 01:18:25 The Problem with Penrose and Hameroff's Microtubule Theory 01:21:31 How Do We Actually Make Progress on Consciousness? 01:24:45 Does the Body Matter or Is It All in the Brain? 01:27:00 The Mysterian View: Why the Mind-Body Problem May Be Unsolvable 01:29:47 Could Someone Invent a New Explanatory Framework? 01:31:13 Why Pain Hurts: The Evolutionary Story 01:33:12 What Newton Would Think of General Relativity ... Email for sponsorship enquiries: [evan@thegiantsshoulder.com](mailto:evan@thegiantsshoulder.com)❤️ Subscribe to our main channel - https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder?sub_confirmation=1💚 Follow on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5m3Gta5MtIYdk59pb2GJ7M?si=Ka2rAQv7TyqiC9wvGwERpA💜 Follow on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249Download my FREE EBook 26 Neuroscience Books for 2026 HERE: https://thegiantsshoulder.com/

    1h 37min
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A Neuroscience podcast. Each week I talk with experts on a range of topics from consciousness and neuroplasticity to evolution and everything in between. I have a particular interest in consciousness and understanding our inner subjective conscious experience. Evan has a Neuroscience degree from Trinity College Dublin and is the co-founder of 2 (failed) edtech startups. He is a professional tennis coach and Triathlete enthusiast.

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  • Criado por
    Evan McGloughlin
  • Anos de atividade
    2024 - 2026
  • Episódios
    124
  • Classificação
    Livre
  • Copyright
    © Evan McGloughlin
  • Site do podcast
    The Giants Shoulder

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