Giants Shoulder

Evan McGloughlin
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A Biology & Consciousness podcast chronically the bio-singularity. Three times per week I speak with leading scientists at the bleeding edge of AI synthetic biology, consciousness & inner experience, genetics, psychedelics and drug science. Giants Shoulder is intended to be accessible & entertaining for all ages. No idea is too strange, tackled with genuine curiosity and technical rigour. Come follow the journey as I have my brain melted and ontology warped on a regular basis. Evan has a Neuroscience degree from Trinity College Dublin and is founder of Giants Shoulder.

  1. 2 days ago

    #134 - Neuroscientist: "Your Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness" — NDEs, Telepathy and Terminal Lucidity

    Get One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool): https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqe Want a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about Marjorie Woollacott is a neuroscientist who spent three decades as a hard materialist and co-wrote the textbook used to train physiotherapists worldwide. After a meditation experience her own field said was impossible, she hid it from her colleagues for over 25 years before concluding the brain does not produce consciousness — it filters it. Expect to learn why a career materialist neuroscientist hid her own paranormal experience for 25 years, the prospective hospital studies that corroborate what patients report while clinically dead, how a comatose man with zero brain activity accurately described a nurse hiding his dentures, what terminal lucidity is and why dying Alzheimer's patients regain full clarity minutes before death, the ongoing lab research into non-speaking autistic children who appear to communicate telepathically, why Christof Koch said the data would turn his world upside down, how Bernardo Kastrup's analytic idealism compares to Woollacott's own theory of consciousness, and much more… Timestamps 0:00:00 Trailer 0:02:46 Where Her Story Really Begins 0:05:05 The Materialist Neuroscientist She Used To Be 0:06:15 The Meditation Retreat That Broke Her Skepticism 0:14:24 What Actually Caused Her Awakening 0:22:59 How Rigorous Is Near-Death Experience Research, Really 0:24:19 The Prospective Studies Skeptics Ignore 0:25:06 The Coma Patient Who Knew Where His Dentures Were 0:35:48 Bernardo Kastrup's Analytic Idealism Explained 0:43:19 Is Terminal Lucidity Just Wishful Interpretation? 0:46:09 The Three-Year-Old's Last Request Before Dying 0:53:07 Can Consciousness Move Physical Objects? 0:58:20 Why Jung And A Nobel Physicist Believed In Idealism 1:02:59 The Telepathy Tapes, Explained 1:19:40 The Autism Vulnerability Problem With This Research 1:21:21 The 5% Above Chance Telepathy Effect 1:35:13 Designing an Experiment Skeptics Can't Dismiss... ... Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com GS Episodes Mentioned Christof Koch — The Psychedelic Trip that Convinced Christof Koch Consciousness is Fundamental: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJlV-b2bvaE Guest Links Website: https://marjoriewoollacott.com/ University of Oregon Faculty Page: https://ion.uoregon.edu/about/person-page/459 Book – Infinite Awareness: https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Awareness-Awakening-Scientific-Mind/dp/144225033X Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences Bio: https://www.aapsglobal.com/marjorie-woollacott/ ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marjorie-Woollacott

    1hr 39min

  2. 5 days ago

    #133 - Meet The Most Important Man Alive In The History of MDMA

    Check out Scispace (JNGIANT20: 20% off the monthly plan or JNGIANT40: 40% off the annual plan): https://scispace.com/?via=jun1giantshoulder Get Muse EEG Headband (15% off): https://choosemuse.com/giantsshoulder Want a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about Rick Doblin is the founder of MAPS and the man who spent 50 years dragging the world's most demonized drug into the doctor's office. He taxed legal ecstasy dealers to fund the first MDMA toxicity studies, sued the DEA with the profits, and got a Harvard PhD in public policy to beat the system from inside — then ran the only completed Phase 3 trials in history showing that two-thirds of severe PTSD patients no longer had the diagnosis after MDMA-assisted therapy. Expect to learn how he taxed ecstasy dealers to sue the DEA, why MDMA was a couples-therapy drug before it was a party drug, the real reason Nixon criminalized psychedelics in 1970, why 88% of severe PTSD patients responded to MDMA therapy while half dropped out of standard VA treatment, why you can't get addicted to MDMA the way you can to cocaine, why you'll do more jail time for MDMA than for the same weight of cocaine, his plan for "net zero trauma by 2070," and much more… Timestamps 0:00:00 Trailer 0:03:03 Winning the Generational Lottery After the Holocaust 0:05:27 Dropping Out of College to Study LSD 0:08:15 The Forgotten Golden Era of Psychedelic Research 0:09:33 When the CIA Weaponized LSD for Mind Control 0:13:10 Half a Pound of Mescaline and Ten Years to Recover 0:15:09 The Day a Stranger Said "There's This Drug Called Adam" 0:15:56 MDMA Was a Therapy Drug Before It Was Ecstasy 0:18:39 Sasha Shulgin, the Man Who Invented 200 Psychedelics 0:24:12 How Dealers Tweaked Molecules to Stay Legal 0:27:21 Why Nixon Really Criminalized the Hippies 0:30:04 Going to War With the DEA — and Winning 0:33:56 Founding MAPS and $200 Million Later 0:39:09 Taxing the Ecstasy Dealers to Fund the Lawsuit 0:41:33 The First MDMA Safety Study, Run on a Beach 0:42:43 The 1992 Moment That Reopened Psychedelic Science 0:44:31 The First PTSD Study, Shut Down for Politics 0:48:08 Cannabis Is Palliative, Psychedelics Are Curative 0:50:08 The Veteran Suicide Epidemic Nobody Will Fund 0:53:33 Why MAPS Bet Everything on MDMA 0:58:35 The Effect Sizes That Should Have Changed Everything 1:01:01 Why Half of Veterans Quit Standard PTSD Therapy 1:02:13 Why the Data Alone Was Never Going to Win 1:04:54 The Absurd Reason the FDA Cited: "Euphoria" 1:06:34 Why You Can't Get Hooked on MDMA 1:07:26 More Jail for MDMA Than for Cocaine 1:08:36 Net Zero Trauma by 2070 1:10:47 MDMA for Couples, and Bringing It to the World... ... Email for sponsorship enquiries:evan@thegiantsshoulder.com Guest Links Rick Doblin — MAPS: https://maps.org/people/rick-doblin/ Rick Doblin on X: https://x.com/RickDoblin MAPS: https://maps.org

    1hr 14min

  3. 25 June

    #132 - Meet the Psychedelic Scientist Proving The Fields Largest Theory is WRONG!

    Check out Scispace (Use Code JNGIANT20: 20% OFF MONTHLY): https://scispace.com/?via=jun1giantshoulder Get Muse EEG Headband (15% off): https://choosemuse.com/giantsshoulder Want a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about Manoj Doss is a cognitive neuroscientist and one of the only people studying what psychedelics actually do to memory — trained inside the field's most prestigious lab at Johns Hopkins, he's now its most rigorous internal sceptic. His claim is heretical: the profound sense of revelation you get on a trip may be a memory glitch — a familiarity signal firing without the detail that would normally justify it, so the trip feels like downloading the truth while your brain quietly degrades what it's actually recording. Expect to learn why the profound insights you get on psychedelics might be a memory glitch, why the entire default mode network story "needs to go to hell", what a 250-subject mega-analysis revealed that small studies missed, why salvia melts you into the couch while DMT builds whole worlds, whether DMT entities and mantises are real contact or just a brain built to see faces, why blocking a single receptor proves psychedelics aren't "keys to reality", the flaw Doss says sinks the entropic brain and REBUS, how you'd ever tell a true revelation from a beautiful lie, and much more… Timestamps 0:00:00 Trailer 0:02:24 The One Thing Psychedelic Science Ignores: Memory 0:05:38 Why Your Worst Beliefs Feel Like Hard Facts 0:07:38 The "Sense of Knowing" That Fools Everyone 0:09:00 How Psychedelics Rewire What You Remember 0:16:11 Why Yoga Feels Better on Psilocybin 0:20:27 "The Default Mode Network Story Needs to Go to Hell" 0:27:26 How Neuroscience Invents Stories From Noise 0:35:42 Why Psychedelic Studies Are Too Small to Trust 0:40:31 Salvia: Becoming a Sentient Piece of Corn 0:44:13 The Kappa-Opioid Door Into Another Reality 0:48:00 Why Salvia Is Heaven and Ibogaine Is Hell 0:53:03 Does the Brain Have Two Reality Generators? 0:59:24 Has 20 Years of Psychedelics Taught Us Anything?1:05:18 Are DMT Entities Real? The Mantis Problem 1:13:28 Why You See Machine Elves (But His Mum Wouldn't) 1:24:29 Tearing REBUS and the Entropic Brain Apart 1:36:21 "Do Stuff in the Scanner, Stuff Happens in the Brain" 1:44:25 The Debate Robin Was Warned Not to Do... ... Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com GS Episodes Mentioned Karl Friston — Meet The Neuroscientist Who Created The Best Universal Theory Of Brain Function: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-IZOFs4qmY Robin Carhart-Harris — No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-GkE4YtLRk Michael Levin — Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTBZRVKUwyM Christof Koch — The Psychedelic Trip that Convinced Christof Koch Consciousness is Fundamental: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJlV-b2bvaE David Luke — Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLKD1gt1X5o Guest Links Manoj Doss — Dell Medical School: https://dellmed.utexas.edu/directory/manoj-dossX (Twitter): https://x.com/manojdossGoogle Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KFo44R0AAAAJORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2939-2522

    1hr 46min

  4. 23 June

    #131 Neuroscientist Ranks Every Drug By How Hard They Are to Quit! Tier List Part 3

    Check out Scispace (JNGIANT20: 20% off the monthly plan or JNGIANT40: 40% off the annual plan): https://scispace.com/?via=jun1giantshoulder Professor David Nutt is a neuro­psychopharmacologist, former UK chief drug adviser, and author of Drugs Without the Hot Air, Drink?, Cannabis, and Psychedelics. After two rounds that sparked an overwhelming response, round three goes fringe — ibogaine, salvia, mescaline, peyote, GHB, xylazine, the nitazines, and the Amanita muscaria "Santa Claus" mushroom — ranking each on Nutt's evidence-based harm scale. Timestamps: 2:56 Ibogaine 7:21 Salvia 18:02 Mescaline & Peyote 23:59 San Pedro Cactus 28:55 GHB40:59 Kratom & 7-Hydroxy 46:05 Xylazine ("Tranq") 51:34 Nitazines 54:53 Amanita Muscaria ... Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com Buy Nutt's BooksDrink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health: https://amzn.to/4dZTP9Z Psychedelics: The Revolutionary Drugs That Could Change Your Life―A Guide from the Expert: https://amzn.to/3SJXAX6 Drugs without the hot air: Making sense of legal and illegal drugs: https://amzn.to/4kyu7eS Cannabis (Seeing Through the Smoke): The New Science of Cannabis and Your Health: https://amzn.to/3FOiLo2 Check out the amazing work of Drug Science (Dr David Nutt's Charity)Website - https://www.drugscience.org.uk/Prof Nutt Twitter (X) - @ProfDavidNutt Drug Science SocialsFacebook - @DrugScienceISCDTwitter (x) - @drug_scienceInstagram - @drugscienceinfoLinkedIn - @drugscience-ltdBlueSky - @drugscience.bsky.socialYouTube - @DrugScienceMore Resources on Drug Safety Medical Cannabis: https://www.drugscience.org.uk/medical-cannabis-working-group Medical Psychedelics: https://www.drugscience.org.uk/medical-psychedelics-working-group Harm Reduction: https://www.drugscience.org.uk/enhanced-harm-reduction-working-groupAcademic Research: https://www.drugscience.org.uk/research

    1hr 6min

  5. 18 June

    #130 - The Two Greatest Living Psychedelic Scientists Discuss The Insane Future Of Drugs

    Get One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool): https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqe Get Muse EEG Headband (15% off): https://choosemuse.com/giantsshoulder Want a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about David Nichols is the chemist who made the molecules behind the entire psychedelic renaissance; Bryan Roth is the pharmacologist who cracked how those drugs actually work inside the brain. Together they reveal how little we still understand about the compounds now entering mainstream medicine — and how the same technology could, in Roth's own words, build a literal zombie apocalypse. Expect to learn why the word "psychedelic" could once kill a research grant, how Nichols hand-made the MDMA, DMT and psilocybin behind the field's most famous trials, what profiling 41 psychedelics against 318 receptors actually revealed, why we still don't know what half of those receptors even do, whether the trip itself is the medicine or a side effect that can be engineered away, why a twitching mouse is the most reliable predictor of a human trip, how Roth's "remote control for neurons" could rewrite memory, pain and aggression, and much more… Timestamps 0:00:00 Trailer 3:22 Two Godfathers of Psychedelics, Together 4:03 The Man Who Made the Molecules by Hand 7:34 How Roth Fell Into Serotonin by Accident 16:46 When "Psychedelic" Was a Forbidden Word 20:18 318 Receptors, 41 Psychedelics: The Big Paper 31:18 Nobody Knows What Half These Receptors Do 35:46 How Nixon's Drug War Killed the Science 46:06 The LSD in the Famous Structure Was Dave's 55:52 1.4 Kilos of MDMA for $4,000 57:29 The Psilocybin That Stunned Johns Hopkins 1:00:19 The Real-Life Walter White 1:01:20 Where Psychedelic Medicine Goes Next 1:07:13 "It's Just GQ": How Psychedelics Actually Work 1:11:35 The Hidden Proteins Behind Mental Illness 1:20:03 Is the Trip Itself the Medicine? 1:34:33 Why a Twitching Mouse Predicts a Trip 1:38:14 Your Personalised Psychedelic, Designed by AI 1:45:51 The Tech to Build a Zombie Apocalypse ... Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com GS Episodes Mentioned David Nichols — Meet The Greatest Living Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6umTgXsW1lQ Bryan Roth — Meet The World's Greatest Psychedelic Receptor Scientist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEmmmMma8QsGuest Links Bryan Roth — UNC Pharmacology: https://www.med.unc.edu/pharm/directory/bryan-roth-md-phd/Roth Lab & NIMH Psychoactive Drug Screening Program: https://pdspdb.unc.edu/rothlab/ David Nichols — Heffter Research Institute: https://www.heffter.org The 318-receptor psychedelics paper (Neuron, 2025): https://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(25)00470-2

    1hr 50min

  6. 16 June

    #129 - Meet The Worlds Greatest Emotion Neuroscientist

    Want a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant’s Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about Joseph LeDoux is, by almost any measure, the greatest emotion neuroscientist who has ever lived. His work has been cited more than 185,000 times, he wrote The Emotional Brain — the book that defined the field — and he put the amygdala on the map as the brain’s fear centre. Then he spent a decade arguing that everyone, including himself, got the lesson wrong. Expect to learn how a marketing student accidentally became the most-cited emotion researcher alive, what split-brain experiments reveal about why your brain invents fake explanations for your behaviour, why the amygdala is not a fear centre and what it actually does, how every act of remembering chemically rewrites the memory, why anxiety drugs have been targeting the wrong brain circuit for 50 years, what the Four Realms of Existence means for the concept of self, why emotions are culturally acquired schema rather than universal hardwired states, and much more… Timestamps 0:00:00 Trailer 0:02:43 From Marketing Student to Neuroscientist 0:06:18 Moving to New York and Meeting Gazzaniga 0:07:37 How Split-Brain Surgery Works 0:09:58 The Chicken and Shovel Experiment 0:12:13 We Are Confabulating 24/7 0:17:13 Why He Chose to Study Emotion in Rats 0:19:26 His Grant Was Rejected for Studying Emotions 0:22:30 Masquerading as a Learning Researcher 0:25:22 Growing Discomfort With the Amygdala Fear Centre 0:28:23 Rethinking the Emotional Brain 0:30:47 Why Fear Isn’t Universal — Danger Is 0:33:19 Emotions as Acquired Schema 0:35:22 The Four Realms of Existence 0:40:36 Cognition vs Consciousness in Animals 0:41:29 Tulving’s Three Kinds of Consciousness 0:47:57 The Brain Region Only Humans Have 0:53:40 Your Model Is Still on the Slide — And You Disagree 0:55:05 The George Martin Analogy 0:56:37 Why Anxiety Drugs Don’t Actually Work 0:58:21 The Three-Step Fix for Fear 1:01:27 Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness 1:05:36 Using AI to Decode Conscious vs Unconscious Speech... ... Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com Guest Links NYU Faculty Page: https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/joseph-e-ledoux.html Personal Website: https://www.joseph-ledoux.com/ Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iAqJssMAAAAJ&hl=en Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/joseph-e-ledoux-phd The Four Realms of Existence (Harvard University Press): https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674291003

    1hr 15min

  7. 11 June

    #128 - Meet the Neuroscientist Proving Scientists Got Conscious Ai WRONG

    Get Jenni, Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off): http://jenni.ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=inf&utm_campaign=thegiantsshoulder Get the Muse EEG Headband (15% off): https://choosemuse.com/giantsshoulder Paul Cisek is a control neuroscientist at the University of Montreal who records from single neurons in the brains of monkeys as they think, and who has spent decades reconstructing how the brain evolved across hundreds of millions of years. His verdict cuts against everything Silicon Valley believes: the brain was never a computer — it's a control system built to keep a body alive, and the most advanced AI on Earth understands nothing it says. Expect to learn why Richard Dawkins is wrong that Claude could be conscious, why every era wrongly compares the brain to its fanciest technology, how a baseball outfielder reveals what the brain is really doing, why large language models are "Eliza on steroids" and 100% illusion, where meaning actually comes from and why LLMs can never have it, why the real danger isn't ChatGPT but the agentic systems that come next, whether a paramecium could be conscious, what Michael Levin's neuron-growing biobots tell us about minds, and much more… Timestamps 0:00:00 Trailer 0:02:33 Why Paul Rescheduled to Watch a Monkey Learn 0:06:13 Probing Electrodes Into a Living Brain 0:13:42 What a Single Neuron Actually Sounds Like 0:20:41 The Brain Is Not a Camera Plugged Into a Computer 0:24:55 How an Outfielder Catches a Ball Without Doing Physics 0:33:24 Why Federer "Lets the Cerebellum Run the Show" 0:38:09 Richard Dawkins Says Claude Might Be Conscious 0:39:11 Every Era Thinks the Brain Is Its Latest Gadget 0:42:36 Why AI Is "Eliza on Steroids" and 100% Illusion 0:45:38 The Mechanical Turk and the Stage Magician 0:48:09 The Mimicry Irony at the Heart of Dawkins' Mistake 0:52:32 The One Thing AlphaFold and ChatGPT Both Lack 0:53:30 Where Meaning Actually Comes From 0:57:55 Language Is Persuasion: The Crying Baby Problem 1:03:14 The Paper With Friston and Clark on What AI Misses 1:04:48 Could You Build a Machine That Wants Things? 1:10:23 Build a Mind, Build a Rival: Do We Even Want To? 1:13:32 Is a Paramecium Conscious? 1:18:11 Why There's No Line Between a Lump of Cells and You 1:23:18 Population Thinking: It's All Continuums 1:30:36 The Mad Scientist Won't Be Sam Altman — It'll Be Michael Levin 1:36:29 Does Synthetic Biology Deserve Its Own Doomsday?1:39:37 Why Real Intelligence Would Be a Competitor We Should Fear 1:43:20 Why the Real World Humbles Every Robot ... Want a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience?Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com... GS Episodes Mentioned Paul Cisek Round 1: https://youtu.be/C6frE6nj1tY Michael Levin — Meet the Scientist Creating New Forms of Synthetic Life! Dr Michael Levin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTBZRVKUwyM Anil Seth — No. 1 Consciousness Expert: Optical Illusions that Prove Reality is a Lie, Emotions, Books and AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOSA06K0l1o Karl Friston — Meet The Neuroscientist Who Created The Best Universal Theory Of Brain Function: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-IZOFs4qmY Mark Solms — Meet the Scientist Proving Dreams Hold the Key to Consciousness! Dr Mark Solms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMWaQ1U6dcc... Guest Links Paul Cisek — Faculty page, Université de Montréal: https://neurosciences.umontreal.ca/en/our-team/staff-directory/staff/cisek-paul/Cisek Lab: https://www.ciseklab.umontreal.ca/Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Bbk0DEcAAAAJX / Twitter: https://x.com/PaulCisek...

    1hr 50min

  8. 8 June

    #127 Meet the Neuroscientist Who Gave A Brain to Michael Levins Xenobot’s

    Get One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool): https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqe Upgrade Your Shaving Experience With Henson (100 FREE BLADES): https://hensonshaving.com/thegiantsshoulder Want a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about Haleh Fotowat is a neuroscientist who builds nervous systems from scratch — the scientist who gave neurons to Michael Levin's xenobots, the living robots made from frog cells. When those neurons self-organised into a working nervous system, they switched on genes for eyes, in a creature that has never had eyes and never existed in nature. Expect to learn how a clump of frog skin cells becomes a moving biological robot, why these cells secretly default to becoming neurons unless their neighbours stop them, what happened when the neurons grew axons and reached out for the body, why every neurobot develops its own movement personality, how a brainless blob forces you to redefine agency and goals, why the neurons switched on genes for eyes despite having none, what a seizure drug revealed about which biobots truly have nervous systems, what might happen if you gave the neurobots DMT, and much more … Timestamps 0:00:00 Trailer 0:02:05 What Is a Neurobot? 0:02:39 Building a Living Robot From Frog Cells 0:08:46 Why These Cells Secretly Want to Be Neurons 0:10:48 What's the Point of This Research? 0:16:26 Brain Cells in a Dish Playing Doom 0:18:16 A Warehouse Full of Human Neurons 0:19:16 What Happened When the Neurons Grew 0:21:36 The Neurons Reached Out for the Body 0:25:51 Why Each Neurobot Has Its Own Personality 0:28:51 Can a Blob of Neurons Have Goals? 0:39:42 Braitenberg's Vehicles: Complexity From Simplicity 0:42:25 Biology Is Cognition All the Way Down 0:49:12 The Eyes That Shouldn't Exist 0:54:18 Xenobots Grew Genes for Hearing 1:01:16 The Role of Bioelectricity 1:04:02 One Question for Michael Levin 1:06:53 What If You Gave the Neurobots DMT? 1:07:27 The Seizure Drug That Surprised Everyone... ... Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com GS Episodes Mentioned Michael Levin — Meet the Scientist Creating New Forms of Synthetic Life! Dr Michael Levin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTBZRVKUwyM Brett Kagan — Meet The Neuroscientist Creating New Forms of Sentient Biological Intelligence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXlJc4tu1F8 Philip Ball — Biology Is Infinitely Weirder Than We Thought: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SseGx0R0fY Josh Bongard — Meet The Scientist Who Created The First Living Robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h908uoH6n4 Guest Links Allen Discovery Center (Tufts) Profile: https://allencenter.tufts.edu/our-team/haleh-fotowat-ph-d/Art Website: http://www.halehfotowat.com Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W5KTeEMAAAAJLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haleh-fotowat/ ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Haleh-Fotowat-2245482149

    1hr 10min
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A Biology & Consciousness podcast chronically the bio-singularity. Three times per week I speak with leading scientists at the bleeding edge of AI synthetic biology, consciousness & inner experience, genetics, psychedelics and drug science. Giants Shoulder is intended to be accessible & entertaining for all ages. No idea is too strange, tackled with genuine curiosity and technical rigour. Come follow the journey as I have my brain melted and ontology warped on a regular basis. Evan has a Neuroscience degree from Trinity College Dublin and is founder of Giants Shoulder.

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  • Creator
    Evan McGloughlin
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    140
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Evan McGloughlin
  • Show Website
    Giants Shoulder

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