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. 3 days ago

    #153 - Meet The Neuroscientist Who Does Recreational Heroin

    🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILY Become a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇 https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/join Carl 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… SPONSORS Get Jenni Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off) - http://jenni.ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=inf&utm_campaign=thegiantsshoulder GS EPISODES MENTIONED David Luke - Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://youtu.be/qLKD1gt1X5o GUEST LINKS Columbia Psychiatry Profile: https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/profile/carl-hart-phd Personal Website: https://drcarlhart.com/ X: https://x.com/drcarlhart Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Use_for_Grown-Ups High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Price_(book) FOLLOW EVAN https://x.com/evan_mcgl TIMESTAMPS 0:00:00 Trailer 0:02:16 Why Human Rights Became His Whole Mission 0:03:45 "I Believed the B******t About Drugs" 0:07:42 The Brain-Imaging Studies That Prove Nothing 0:10:32 Why "Hard Drugs" Is a Made-Up Category 0:12:42 There Is No Such Thing as Addiction in a Rat 0:14:18 Put Cocaine on Your Gum and See What Happens 0:15:50 Rat Models for Autism, ADHD and Depression 0:18:03 How Many Hoops to Give a Human Crack Cocaine 0:20:38 "Psychedelic" Is a Political Word, Not a Real Thing 0:22:40 Why the One-Receptor Story Is B******t 0:23:56 Psychiatry Is Still Running on a 1967 Theory 0:31:17 One Methyl Group: Meth vs Adderall 0:34:41 The Lab NASA Built for Astronauts 0:37:45 The Phenomenology Gap Nobody Studies 0:39:01 "I Was a Virgin to These Drugs, And Not Even Curious" 0:44:14 What Heroin Actually Feels Like 0:47:04 The Real Danger Is Constipation 0:52:47 The Overdose Myth He's Trying to Destroy 0:55:39 Education, Not Harm Reduction 0:58:40 Addiction Isn't About Drugs, It's About Access 1:01:38 Not Whether to Legalise, But How 1:05:30 Dublin's Cocaine Problem, Evan Pushes Back 1:06:46 "That's Quite Arrogant of You" 1:09:05 The Same Argument That Delayed Emancipation 1:12:50 "We Put People on the Moon. This Is Not Complicated." .....Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com

  2. 6 days ago

    #152 - Meet The Biophysicist Who Accidentally Discovered Telepathy

    JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILY Become a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing👇 https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/join Luca 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… SPONSORS Download the most scientifically rigorous nutrition app MacroFactor! Use code GIANTS for a 2 week FREE trial - https://app.macrofactor.com/mfgiants GS EPISODES MENTIONED Earl K Miller - Meet the MIT Neuroscientist Showing Brain Waves Are the Secret Engine Behind Consciousness: https://youtu.be/7OFb-NG3jIw Marjorie Woollacott - Neuroscientist: "Your Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness" — NDEs, Telepathy and Terminal Lucidity: https://youtu.be/mDWtmfmIUHA GUEST LINKS Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fgXXdQYAAAAJ Wi-Fly Project: https://wi-fly.eu/ X: https://x.com/LucaTurin Substack: https://lucaturin.substack.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lucaturin SKOOL 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 FOLLOW EVAN https://x.com/evan_mcgl TIMESTAMPS 0:00:00 Trailer 0:02:20 Biophysicists Are Dreamers, Biologists Are Doomed 0:07:07 The Startup That Triggered Smells With Ultrasound 0:12:22 The Rotten-Egg Coincidence That Convinced Him 0:18:34 What The Receptor Is Actually Reading 0:19:54 Electron Tunnelling, Explained Simply 0:23:33 The Trillion-Smells Figure Was A Maths Error 0:28:21 What Perfumers Perceive That You Don't 0:32:14 Why Every Drug Receptor Might Be Electrical 0:33:12 The Mystery Nobody Admits: Drug Efficacy 0:39:28 "Cascade" Is A Word That Masks Ignorance 0:44:04 The Receptor As A Transistor 0:48:40 Google Quantum AI And The Xenon Puzzle 0:52:24 Two Years Of Work, A Definite Maybe 0:53:55 30 Flies Freeze Like The Guards At Buckingham Palace 0:55:28 One Fly Per Well, No Way To Communicate 0:56:17 To My Total Astonishment, They Coordinate 0:58:45 Metal Plates Kill The Signal 0:59:36 The Wi-Fly: A Radio Network For Flies 1:11:26 Radical Pairs: How A Fly Could Listen 1:16:34 What Is The Brain's Reward Signal? 1:19:59 Standing Waves And The Binding Problem 1:23:58 Could Humans Ever Do This? 1:27:46 Ramanujan And Latent Abilities 1:36:16 Giving Fruit Flies DMT .....Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com

  3. 31 Aug

    #151 - Meet the Greatest Lucid Dreaming Scientist You've Never Heard Of

    🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILY Become a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇 https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/join Karen 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… SPONSORS Get One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool) - https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqe GS EPISODES MENTIONED David Spiegel - World's Greatest Hypnosis Scientist Hijacks My Mind Live On Camera!: https://youtu.be/eCtRBZHIsgQ GUEST LINKS Personal Website: https://www.karenkonkoly.com/ Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=teYHEFIAAAAJ&hl=en Cambridge Consciousness & Cognition Lab: https://www.ccc-lab.org/ Dust Systems (Dream Engineering): https://www.dust.systems/people/karen-konkoly X: https://x.com/KarenKonkoly LISTEN ON Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5m3Gta5MtIYdk59pb2GJ7M Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249 SKOOL 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 FOLLOW EVAN https://x.com/evan_mcgl TIMESTAMPS 0:00:00 Trailer 0:03:18 What Lucid Dreaming Actually Is 0:05:37 Wake Back To Bed: The 4am Method 0:06:40 Why You Still Can't Fly In Your Own Dream 0:09:20 How You Prove Someone Is Lucid In A Dream 0:11:53 Are The Sleep Stages Even Real? 0:15:28 When A Dream Dissolves But You Don't Wake Up 0:19:19 The Reality Check You Can Do Tonight 0:21:00 Does Time Run Slower Inside A Dream? 0:24:45 Trying And Failing To Become Her Dog 0:26:10 Swapping Bodies With A Dream Character 0:27:51 Is Lucidity A Glitch In Consciousness? 0:33:37 Hyperphantasia And Maladaptive Daydreaming 0:37:53 Practising Darts While You're Asleep 0:41:52 When Lucid Dreaming Is A Bad Idea 0:46:09 Why A Giraffe Can't Appear While You're Awake 0:49:54 Galantamine, Acetylcholine And Dream Drugs 0:52:17 The Squat Experiment 0:58:38 The Full Protocol, Step By Step 1:04:55 What This Teaches Us About Consciousness 1:09:15 Who Are Your Dream Characters? 1:12:55 "You're Not You" 1:14:41 Hypnosis, David Spiegel And Lucid Dreaming 1:18:20 What She's Working On Next .....Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com

  4. 27 Aug

    #150 - World's Greatest Hypnosis Scientist Hijacks My Mind Live On Camera!

    🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILY Become a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇 https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/join David 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… SPONSORS Try Reveri, Dr David Spiegel's Self-Hypnosis App (use code SPIEGEL20 for your discount) - https://reverihealth.app.link/e/spiegel Get One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool) - https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqe GUEST LINKS Stanford Profile: https://profiles.stanford.edu/david-spiegel Reveri: https://www.reveri.com/ Reveri on X: https://x.com/reveri_health Stanford Center on Stress and Health: https://med.stanford.edu/stresshealthcenter.html Trance and Treatment (his clinical textbook): https://www.appi.org/Products/Hypnosis/Trance-and-Treatment-Second-Edition SKOOL 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 FOLLOW EVAN https://x.com/evan_mcgl TIMESTAMPS 0:00:00 Trailer 0:02:27 Who Is David Spiegel? 0:03:39 What Hypnosis Actually Is 0:05:37 Why He Calls Stage Shows "Dumb Shows" 0:06:29 How Hypnotists Secretly Screen The Audience 0:09:08 The Student Who Relived Being A Newborn 0:10:46 What Hypnosis Does To Three Brain Networks 0:13:23 It's Not Suggestibility, It's Cognitive Flexibility 0:16:12 Cutting The Brain's Pain Signal By 50% 0:17:05 One In Four Quit Smoking In A Single Session 0:18:33 The Meditator Whose Migraines Vanished 0:22:36 Why Hypnotisability Is Partly Genetic 0:23:54 The Two Childhoods That Make You Hypnotisable 0:27:16 Hypnosis, Flow States And Peak Performance 0:32:54 How Rory McIlroy Broke His Masters Curse 0:38:05 Why You Can Forget Your Own Name 0:44:29 Filtering The Hurt Out Of Pain 0:55:00 The Hypnotisability Test, Live On Camera 1:00:15 "It's Actually Going Up" 1:08:52 Evan Scores 7 Out Of 10 1:18:42 Trying To Erase The Number Four 1:31:04 "Please Don't Do This On My Other Arm" .....Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com

  5. 24 Aug

    #149 - Meet The Father Of Modern DMT Research

    🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILY Become a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing: https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/join Rick 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… SPONSORS Get Jenni Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off) - http://jenni.ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=inf&utm_campaign=thegiantsshoulder Join the Outskill AI Mastery Sprint (Free This Weekend) - https://links.outskill.com/GIASHOULAUG2 GS EPISODES MENTIONED Steven Barker - Meet The World's Greatest Endogenous DMT Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of: https://youtu.be/gTc5QjyZuvY David Luke - Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://youtu.be/qLKD1gt1X5o Deborah Mash - Meet The Ibogaine Psychedelic Scientist Who First Unravelled Its Big Mystery: https://youtu.be/z7eRtXV6ptA Robin Carhart-Harris - No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities: https://youtu.be/t-GkE4YtLRk Andrew Gallimore - No.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/USgWrxEFWDA GUEST LINKS Official Site: https://www.rickstrassman.com/ Books & Publications: https://www.rickstrassman.com/publications/ Substack: https://rickstrassman.substack.com/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/RickStrassman Biosynthesis and Extracellular Concentrations of DMT in Mammalian Brain (Dean et al., Scientific Reports 2019): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45812-w TIMESTAMPS 0:00:00 Trailer 0:04:31 The First Legal DMT Studies in a Generation 0:07:41 The Bomb-Maker Who Became a Psychedelic Scientist 0:14:13 The Iron Curtain Reason We Know DMT Works 0:22:32 Why Your Brain Spends Energy Importing DMT 0:28:26 Your Brain Makes DMT at Serotonin Levels 0:29:26 DMT Floods the Dying Brain's Visual Cortex 0:30:28 Stroke, Kidneys and Heart — DMT as a Survival Molecule 0:32:39 The $64,000 Question Nobody Can Answer 0:36:33 Does DMT Regulate How Real Reality Feels? 0:39:32 Only One Person on Earth Studies This 0:43:52 The Endomatrix and the Simulation Question 0:49:48 "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 Logic 1:05:42 Talking to Entities Is Like Talking to an AI 1:06:40 The Prime Number Test for Proving Entities Are Real 1:13:36 Half His Volunteers Met Beings — And a Conscious Apartment 1:18:08 "Your Brain On Drugs" vs Another Dimension 1:26:58 The Entities That Curse You 1:29:09 "Have You Started Yet?" — The Man Immune to DMT 1:33:30 Why DMT Is the Only Psychedelic Without Tolerance 1:36:12 Blocking 5-HT1A Tripled the Effect — Buried 30 Years 1:39:06 Aphantasia and Seeing For the First Time .....Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com

  6. 20 Aug

    #148 - Meet The Ibogaine Psychedelic Scientist Who First Unravelled Its Big Mystery

    🧠 JOIN THE GIANT’S SHOULDER FAMILY Become a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing: https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/join Deborah 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... SPONSORS Get Jenni Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off) - http://jenni.ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=inf&utm_campaign=thegiantsshoulder Join the Outskill AI Mastery Sprint (Free This Weekend) - https://links.outskill.com/GIASHOULAUG2GS EPISODES MENTIONED David Nutt - Meet the Neuroscientist Fired For Exposing the Truth! Dr David Nutt: https://youtu.be/BLk6a5Vb2O0 David Nutt - Neuroscientist Ranks Every Drug By How Hard They Are to Quit! Tier List: https://youtu.be/G-OZ_UBGvvo GUEST LINKS University of Miami Faculty Profile: http://neurology.med.miami.edu/about-us/faculty-list/deborah-c-mash-ph-d X: https://x.com/drdeborahmash Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4383E7wAAAAJ&hl=en DemeRx: 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/full 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 FOLLOW EVAN https://x.com/evan_mcgl TIMESTAMPS 0:00:00 Trailer 0:02:00 Why Ibogaine Is Suddenly Everywhere 0:02:22 Trump's Executive Order and What It Actually Does 0:05:55 The Drug That Breaks the Cycle of Addiction 0:08:07 Why One Drug Treats Addiction, Depression and Trauma 0:11:30 Noribogaine: The Metabolite Nobody Talks About 0:14:20 The Real Risks Nobody Reports Properly 0:16:36 How Ibogaine Became a Vast Underground Experiment 0:17:44 Veterans, Brain Trauma and the Testimonials 0:22:55 The Master Molecule: Why Ibogaine Stands Alone 0:23:30 Sasha Shulgin Draws Four Boxes 0:26:48 Is a Psychedelic Just a Hard Reboot? 0:28:11 Four Weeks of Neuroplasticity, Longer Than Anything Else 0:28:44 Fast, Slow and Ultra-Rapid Metabolisers 0:31:39 The First Patient in St. Kitts, Decades Later 0:34:35 Do You Need the Trip to Reach the Destination? 0:35:05 One Molecule, Every Addiction 0:37:39 Miami Vice and the Bodies at the Morgue 0:41:18 The Man Who Slept Through His Own Trip 0:44:11 Why America Will Lead on Ibogaine 0:47:51 Dual Dosing: The Second Stage of the Rocket 0:54:52 Why More Than 80% Never Want to Repeat It 0:57:33 What Would Ibogaine Do to a Healthy Brain? 0:58:18 Why She's Never Taken Ibogaine 0:59:39 Psychedelics, Longevity and Ageing Brains ......Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com

  7. 17 Aug

    #147 - No. 1 Mitochondria Psychobiologist: "Mitochondria Create Consciousness and Near-Death Experiences"

    Get Jenni Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off) - http://jenni.ai/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=inf&utm_campaign=thegiantsshoulder Join the Outskill AI Mastery Sprint (Free This Weekend): https://links.outskill.com/GIASHOULAUG2 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 Martin 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 Trailer 0:02:00 What Actually Keeps You Alive (Not What You Think) 0:04:40 Why There's No Experience Without Energy Flow 0:07:11 Are You Conscious Because of Matter, or Despite It? 0:10:13 Why History's Greatest Physicists Became Idealists 0:17:17 The Doctor Who Watched Patients Come Back From Death 0:22:09 Don Hoffman and the Day the Beach Disappeared 0:24:12 What Actually Triggers a Near-Death Experience 0:24:51 You Are an Eddy in a River of Consciousness 0:31:59 Bernardo Kastrup's Idealism, Tested Live 0:33:34 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 GPUs 0:41:04 How Psychedelics Might Rewrite Your Energy Pattern 0:49:10 The Study Testing Whether Psilocybin Changes Your Mitochondria 0:52:06 "It's Not the Drug That Heals You"0:52:38 A Blood Test That Predicts Your Best (and Worst) Trip 0:57:27 The Psychedelic Paradox: Less Brain, More Experience 0:58:57 Aldous Huxley's "Reducing Valve" Theory of the Brain 1:02:03 "The Brain Is Overrated" ... Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com GS Episodes Mentioned: Robin Carhart-Harris - No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities: https://youtu.be/t-GkE4YtLRk Guest Links: Columbia Faculty Profile: https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/profile/martin-picard-phd Personal Website: https://www.martinpicard.energy/ X (Twitter): https://x.com/MitoPsychoBio Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IG2t_uMAAAAJ&hl=en Mitochondrial Psychobiology Lab: https://www.picardlab.org

  8. 13 Aug

    #146 - Meet The Greatest Bioelectricity Scientist You've Never Heard Of

    Try Mind Lab Pro, The Universal Nootropic For A Sharper Brain: https://www.mindlabpro.com/?a_aid=67fd1cb8d9ad3&a_bid=6d45f5c3 Join The Outskill Claude Mastery Sprint (2 Days, Free): https://links.outskill.com/GIASHOULAUG2 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 Min 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. Timestamps 0:00:00 Trailer 0:02:20 What Everyone Gets Wrong About Wound Healing 0:07:20 Your Skin Is Secretly Electric (And So Is Everything Alive) 0:11:09 The 200-Year-Old Discovery Hiding in Every Wound 0:15:19 The Postdoc Result That Changed the Whole Lab 0:19:19 How Do Cells Know Where to Grow? (Five Fingers, Not Six) 0:21:19 The Potato Experiment That Reveals How Infections Start 0:25:24 Reverse the Field, Watch a Cell Turn Around 0:38:10 The Bioelectricity Nobody Taught in Biology Class 0:44:17 Is Bioelectricity More Fundamental Than Genes? 0:45:33 "No Electricity, No Life" 0:49:14 When Electric Fields Override Genetics Entirely 1:03:40 Michael Levin's Xenobots, Debated 1:12:22 Do Cells Have Agency? The Fuzziest Question in Biology 1:15:16 To Be Continued... (Members Get the Rest) ... Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com GS Episodes Mentioned Michael Levin — Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTBZRVKUwyM Philip Ball — Philip Ball: "Biology Is Infinitely Weirder Than We Thought": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SseGx0R0fY Denis Noble — Denis Noble: Evolution Has Purpose, Cell Consciousness & Why The Last 70 Years of Genetics Is Wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqw-DaWVK24 Michael Levin & Earl Miller — Michael Levin & Earl Miller: Platonic Space of Minds, Bioelectricity, Cell Intelligence & Neurobots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mU5nN5nlLA Guest Links UC Davis Faculty Profile: https://health.ucdavis.edu/dermatology/faculty/zhao.html Zhao Lab (UC Davis Dermatology): https://health.ucdavis.edu/dermatology/research/lab/zhao.html Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=G7-zWBcAAAAJ&hl=en Neuroengineering at UC Davis: https://neuroengineering.ucdavis.edu/people/min-zhao-md-phd UC Davis Profiles (Publications): https://profiles.ucdavis.edu/min.zhao

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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
    159
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Evan McGloughlin
  • Show Website
    Giants Shoulder

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