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129 results for “Consciousness”

Near-Death Experiences
Neuroscientist: "Your Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness" — NDEs, Telepathy and Terminal Lucidity
1h 36m 0
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…rom her colleagues for over 25 years. She now argues the brain does not produce consciousness — it filters it. Expect to learn: - The Secret: why a career materialist kept …
Near-Death Experiences
Neuroscientist: "Your Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness" — NDEs, Telepathy and Terminal Lucidity
1h 38m 25K
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…m 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 h…
Mental Imagery
Meet the World's Greatest Imagination Neuroscientist You’ve Never Heard Of
1h 40m 0
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…ISODES MENTIONED Adam Zeman - The Blind Mind's Eye: How Aphantasia Is Rewriting Consciousness ! Dr Adam Zeman: https://youtu.be/SgA2up6-Bok Alfredo Spagna - Meet The Neuros…
Near-Death Experiences
Meet The Greatest End-Of-Life Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of
1h 26m 32K
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…1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/USgWrxEFWDA GUEST LINKS X: https://x.com/Alxdr_Batthyany Goo…
DMT
Consciousness Expert Explains The 6 Levels Of The DMT Experience
1h 19m 74K
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Director of Research & President, Qualia Research Institute (QRI). Consciousness mathematician, psychedelic theorist, valence realist, suffering abolitionist.
DMT
No.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness
1h 22m 63K
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…earance to back it up. The GS angle here is radical and precise: Gallimore is a consciousness theorist who uses DMT as an engineering tool to switch the brain's reality chan…
DMT
Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's
1h 40m 0
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…1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/USgWrxEFWDA David Nichols - Meet The Greatest Living Psyched…
Near-Death Experiences
No. 1 Mitochondria Psychobiologist: "Mitochondria Create Consciousness and Near-Death Experiences"
1h 3m 46K
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…ugural $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 y…
Psilocybin
Consciousness Expert Explains The 5 Levels Of The Psilocybin Experience
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…isodes Mentioned Michael Graziano — Challenging a Famous Neuroscientist On When Consciousness First Emerged: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnasmLpY5_8 Guest Links Sheppar…
DMT
Meet The DMT Explorer Who's Had 100+ Encounters With Non Human Entities
2h 2m 0
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…o has taken the molecule over 100 times and completed the same Monroe Institute consciousness programme the CIA funded during the Cold War. He went from suicidal alcoholic t…
Ibogaine
Meet The Greatest Ibogaine Psychedelic Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of
1h 37m 0
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…1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/USgWrxEFWDA David Luke - Meet the Professor of Paranormal Co…
Mental Imagery
Meet the World's Greatest Imagination Neuroscientist You’ve Never Heard Of
1h 42m 73K
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…isodes Mentioned Adam Zeman — The Blind Mind's Eye: How Aphantasia Is Rewriting Consciousness ! Dr Adam Zeman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgA2up6-Bok Alfredo Spagna — M…
AI & Machine Minds
Meet the Neuroscientist Proving Scientists Got Conscious Ai WRONG
1h 50m 4.9K
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…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: …
Mental Imagery
Meet The MIT Philosopher Proving Aphantasics Have Unconscious Imagery
1h 20m 12K
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…chel is the philosopher most likely to demolish the comfortable assumption that consciousness does the heavy lifting in our mental lives. His work is a one-man wrecking ball…
Theories of Consciousness
Donald Hoffman: "Consciousness Within Space-Time Is Doomed"
2h 14m 41K
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…r-old maths behind every observer window - Zero For Trillions: why no theory of consciousness explains a single experience - The Nose Test: why seeing your own nose shows ho…
DMT
Donald Hoffman: “DMT Entities Are Traces of A Fundamental Universal Consciousness”
2h 9m 0
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…r-old maths behind every observer window - Zero For Trillions: why no theory of consciousness explains a single experience - The Nose Test: why seeing your own nose shows ho…
DMT
Consciousness Expert Ranks Every Drug By Intensity Of Experience
2h 6m 25K
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….mindlabpro.com/?a_aid=67fd1cb8d9ad3&a_bid=6d45f5c3 Andrés Gómez Emilsson is a consciousness mathematician at the Qualia Research Institute, and he's back for round two of …
Theories of Consciousness
Denis Noble: Evolution Has Purpose, Cell Consciousness & Why The Last 70 Years of Genetics Is Wrong
1h 30m 8.4K
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…The Edge Of Order And Chaos 1:15:27 Do Plants Have Experience? 1:27:31 How Does Consciousness Fit Into Systems Biology? ... ... Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegia…
DMT
Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's
1h 45m 19K
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…apes are and why they show 100% success rates, why physics gets to be weird but consciousness doesn't, what a neo-pagan shamanically-informed lazy mystic actually believes a…
Theories of Consciousness
Tim Maudlin: Consciousness, Turing Machines, Problems with Quantum Mechanics and Ai
1h 39m 4.4K
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…itute 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 pani…
Theories of Consciousness
Meet the Neuroscientist Who Discovered That Waves Produce Memory, Spacetime and Consciousness
2h 13m 4.0K
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…e Out — a radical rethinking of how the brain generates perception, memory, and consciousness. We’ve been asking the wrong questions about the mind. Memory isn’t storage. P…
Theories of Consciousness
Dr Wendy Suzuki: How The Hippocampus Weaves Your Memories Into Consciousness
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…me models and models become selves, what the default mode network reveals about consciousness, how exercise physically grows new brain cells even into your 90s, why the boun…
DMT
No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities
2h 6m 11K
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… a brain scanner in over 40 years. His Entropic Brain Hypothesis proposes that consciousness exists on a spectrum from order to chaos — and that psychedelics work by dissol…
Theories of Consciousness
The Story Of How CO₂ Created ALL Life, Intelligence and Consciousness
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…15 Is Earth’s Climate Crisis a Rehearsal of Past Catastrophes? 01:15:49 Carbon, Consciousness, and Why We’re Here to Begin With 01:22:06 What Would a Geologist See If They D…
Theories of Consciousness
GIANT'S DEBATE - Whats The SECRET to Engineering Artificial Consciousness? Cognition Vs Feeling
1h 51m 2.5K
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… for a system to become conscious — and can we engineer it? Expect to learn why consciousness might be raw feeling rather than complex cognition, why your cortex may not act…
Theories of Consciousness
Meet The Neuroscientist Proving We’re All Living In A Collective Consciousness
1h 38m 7.5K
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…e neuroscience — and his work has completely changed how we understand reality, consciousness, and mental illness. In this episode, you’ll learn why perception is just a co…
Bioelectricity & Basal Cognition
Chris Fields: Whats Wrong With Quantum Mechanics, Cellular Intelligence and Consciousness
1h 22m 6.3K
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…ating with Michael Levin and Karl Friston to rewrite how we understand life and consciousness. His central claim: nothing in the universe has a real boundary. Every object y…
Theories of Consciousness
Meet The Anesthesiologist Who Started The Quantum Consciousness Revolution
1h 50m 5.6K
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…s://betterhelp.com/giantsshoulder Dr. Stuart Hameroff is an anesthesiologist, consciousness researcher, and co-creator of the Orch-OR theory — a radical and controversial …
Psychedelic Science
Meet the Philosopher Questioning Everything Neuroscience Assumes About Consciousness
1h 33m 4.9K
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… of mind and leading voice on psychedelics, panpsychism, and the metaphysics of consciousness. He’s a lecturer at the University of Exeter and author of Noumenautics and Mod…
Theories of Consciousness
Is This Greatest Consciousness Theory You’ve Never Heard Of
1h 49m 1.5K
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…tention Schema Theory — one of the most provocative scientific explanations for consciousness to date. He argues that awareness isn’t magic or mystery — it’s the brain’s si…
Theories of Consciousness
Meet the Scientist Creating The Mathematics Of Consciousness
1h 44m 2.4K
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…s a mathematician, physicist, and one of the leading architects of mathematical consciousness science — an emerging field attempting to describe subjective experience with t…
Theories of Consciousness
42 Minutes of the Best Moments in Consciousness Giants Shoulder 2025
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I've condensed the best moments from a year of consciousness conversations on The Giant's Shoulder 2025 into 42 minutes. Truly the most Gian…
Theories of Consciousness
Adam Frank: Consciousness, Quantum Mechanics, AI & Search for Alien Civilisations!
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…of Rochester whose work spans the cosmos—from dying stars to the deep nature of consciousness. In this episode, we explore why life—not black holes—is the most mind-blowing…
Theories of Consciousness
Lee Cronin: Origin Of Life, Aliens, Chemical Consciousness and More Controversial New Theories!
1h 26m 1.3K
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…he thinks life on other planets won’t look like Earth at all, why chemistry and consciousness are linked through causation, and much more… Timestamps: 00:02:30 Celebrating…
Theories of Consciousness
Meet the MIT Neuroscientist Showing Brain Waves Are the Secret Engine Behind Consciousness
1h 38m 6.6K
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…ize vast networks of neurons, shaping working memory, decision-making, and even consciousness itself. Expect to learn why the prefrontal cortex is the brain’s command centr…
Psychedelic Science
Meet the Neuroscientist Unifying Consciousness, Free Energy & Psychedelics!
1h 35m 650
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…scientist and former research fellow at Johns Hopkins’ Center for Psychedelic & Consciousness Research, now a staff scientist with Michael Levin at Tufts’ Allen Discovery Ce…
Theories of Consciousness
Meet the Philosopher of Mind Proving that Consciousness is Physical!
2h 5m 3.8K
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… is a philosopher of mind at King’s College London and author of Thinking About Consciousness and The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience, a leading voice who has shaped today…
Dreams & Hypnosis
The Blind Mind’s Eye: How Aphantasia Is Rewriting Consciousness ! Dr Adam Zeman
1h 31m 26K
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…trum of imagination reveals about memory, dreams, emotion, creativity, and even consciousness itself. He is also the author of Consciousness: A User’s Guide, A Portrait of t…
Theories of Consciousness
Philip Ball: Why Quantum Mechanics is NOT What you think, Consciousness, Brain Organoids, AI & Life!
2h 16m 5.8K
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…re, Philip has spent decades translating the frontiers of biology, physics, and consciousness into ideas that challenge our deepest intuitions about life, mind, and reality.…
Near-Death Experiences
Philosopher of Mind: Consciousness, Out-Of-Body Experiences & The Illusion of Self! Thomas Metzinger
1h 49m 4.9K
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…gloughlin4209355084 Thomas Metzinger is a professor of theoretical philosophy, consciousness researcher, and author of The Ego Tunnel, Being No One and The Elephant and the…
Dreams & Hypnosis
Meet the Scientist Proving Dreams Hold the Key to Consciousness! Dr Mark Solms
1h 43m 6.1K
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…oanalyst, and author of The Hidden Spring, one of the most influential books on consciousness in recent years. He revolutionised sleep science by proving that dreaming isn’…
Bioelectricity & Basal Cognition
Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Aliens, Metabolism, Bioelectricity, Consciousness and Ai!
2h 35m 18K
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… we think about the origin of life, complexity, and the deep chemistry powering consciousness. Life, Lane argues, didn’t begin in a soup but in the cracks of the seafloor —…
Theories of Consciousness
Meet the Neuroscientist Exploring the World of Animal Consciousness
1h 23m 1.2K
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…d author of Other Minds and Metazoa — two of the most important works on animal consciousness ever written. His research explores the octopus not just as an animal, but as a…
Theories of Consciousness
What People Who Taste Triangles Reveal About Consciousness!
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…in decides what to notice (and what to ignore), what synesthesia tells us about consciousness, why your brain doesn’t just perceive the world but predicts it, and how unders…
Mental Imagery
Meet the Neuroscientist Measuring Consciousness! Dr Joel Pearson
1h 55m 377
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…d founder of Future Minds Lab at UNSW — a cutting-edge research group exploring consciousness, intuition, mental imagery, and the psychology of decision-making in the age of…
Theories of Consciousness
No. 1 Consciousness Expert: Optical Illusions that Prove Reality is a Lie, Emotions, Books and AI!
1h 21m 11K
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…nil Seth is a neuroscientist, author, and one of the world's leading experts in consciousness research. His TED talk Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Experience has ca…
Theories of Consciousness
Neuroscientist: Hacking Consciousness, Dangers of Neuralink and The Enduring Mystery of Dark Neurons
1h 35m 374
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…We See Infrared Like Snakes? 1:25:40 Why Neuroscientists Still Don’t Understand Consciousness 1:29:08 The Mystery of Dark Neurons: Your Brain’s Hidden Wiring ... Follow My …
Psychedelic Science
The Psychedelic Trip that Convinced Christof Koch Consciousness is Fundamental
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…nate/?hosted_button_id=L38HCUYY5TDTG Dr. Christof Koch discusses the nature of consciousness, its research, and the boundaries of consciousness in various organisms. He als…
Theories of Consciousness
No.1 Biopsychist: Michael Levin's Platonic Minds & Cognition All The Way Down
1h 25m 19K
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…University of Toronto, where he directs the Cognitive Science programme and the Consciousness and Wisdom Studies Laboratory. He helped pioneer relevance realisation — the cl…
AI & Machine Minds
Meet The Scientist Redefining Intelligence With Michael Levin
1h 44m 23K
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…dable Systems 1:08:01 Agency, or Just Complex Biochemistry? 1:20:47 "I Don't Do Consciousness" 1:23:30 Three Things That Changed His Mind 1:25:39 Analytic Idealism and the D…
Telepathy & Psi
Meet The Biophysicist Who Accidentally Discovered Telepathy
1h 38m 38K
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… - Meet the MIT Neuroscientist Showing Brain Waves Are the Secret Engine Behind Consciousness: https://youtu.be/7OFb-NG3jIw Marjorie Woollacott - Neuroscientist: "Your Brain…
DMT
Meet The Father Of Modern DMT Research
1h 21m 199K
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… Of: https://youtu.be/gTc5QjyZuvY David Luke - Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://youtu.be/qLKD1gt1X5o Deborah M…
DMT
Meet The DMT Explorer Who's Had 100+ Encounters With Non Human Entities
2h 4m 160K
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…o has taken the molecule over 100 times and completed the same Monroe Institute consciousness program the CIA funded during the Cold War. He went from suicidal alcoholic to …
Ibogaine
Meet The Greatest Ibogaine Psychedelic Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of
1h 42m 221K
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…56 Six Months Later — What Actually Changed 1:36:01 Did This Change His View of Consciousness? ... ... Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com GS Episo…
Ayahuasca
Meet The Greatest Ayahuasca Psychedelic Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of
1h 14m 21K
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…ulder.com GS Episodes Mentioned David Luke — Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLKD1g…
Ayahuasca
Dennis McKenna: "I've Spent 50 Years Investigating The Entities That Exist Within Ayahuasca"
1h 31m 130K
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…1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USgWrxEFWDA David Luke — Meet the Professor of…
Psychedelic Science
Meet the Psychedelic Scientist Proving The Fields Largest Theory is WRONG!
1h 46m 3.8K
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…in Carhart-Harris — No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-GkE4YtLRk Michael Levin — Mi…
Emotion & Feeling
Meet The World's Greatest Emotion Neuroscientist You've Never Heard Of
1h 15m 7.5K
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…ns 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 Reg…
Mental Imagery
Meet The Neuroscientist Proving We Got Imagination & Aphantasia WRONG!
1h 29m 23K
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…iring 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. …
Theories of Consciousness
Psychologist: The Mind Is NOT a Computer, Rethinking Consciousness, Perception and Intelligence
1h 52m 775
Mental Imagery
No. 1 Inner Experience Expert: Inner Monologue, Aphantasia & How Your Mind Lies To You
1h 24m 0
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…ng. And the question is what one of that was, was before the footlights of your consciousness. And it and I, as I recall that it was the orange ness of the jersey rather tha…
Dreams & Hypnosis
World's Greatest Hypnosis Scientist Makes My Arm Levitate Live On Camera!
1h 34m 14K
MDMA & Ketamine
Meet The Most Important Man Alive In The History of MDMA You've Never Heard Of
1h 13m 2.4K
Inner Speech
No. 1 Inner Speech Expert: NPCs, Hallucinations, Imaginary Friends, Prayer and Experiential Crossing
1h 8m 7.5K
Inner Speech
Meet The Inner Speech Expert Proving We Can Conjure Other Conscious Entities
1h 3m 18K
Near-Death Experiences
Meet The Near-Death Experiencer RESURRECTED After 47 Minutes
1h 30m 5.7K
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…1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/USgWrxEFWDA GUEST LINKS Living God's Light: https://livinggo…
Near-Death Experiences
Meet The Man Who Was Declared Dead For 47 Minutes
1h 28m 0
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…1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/USgWrxEFWDA GUEST LINKS Living God's Light: https://livinggo…
Ibogaine
Meet the Ibogaine Neuroscientist Revolutionising Addiction Treatment
1h 27m 0
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…1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/USgWrxEFWDA David Luke - Meet the Professor of Paranormal Co…
DMT
Top Cognitive Scientist: Salvia, DMT Entities, Ibogaine & Lucid Dreaming
2h 5m 53K
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…com/@thegiantsshoulder/join Anderson Todd is a cognitive scientist who studies consciousness from the inside. He teaches cognitive science at the University of Toronto, is …
DMT
Top Cognitive Scientist: Salvia, DMT Entities, Ibogaine & Lucid Dreaming
2h 4m 0
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…rsation with Anderson Todd. Anderson Todd is a cognitive scientist who studies consciousness from the inside. He teaches cognitive science at the University of Toronto, is …
No.1 Plant Neurobiologist: Plant Conciousness, Root Brains & The Sentient Cell
1h 18m 12K
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…://youtu.be/xrV5oGyyKSI Denis Noble - Denis Noble: Evolution Has Purpose, Cell Consciousness & Why The Last 70 Years of Genetics Is Wrong: https://youtu.be/xqw-DaWVK24 Phi…
Meet The Greatest Plant Neurobiologist You've Never Heard Of
1h 16m 0
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…ligent: https://youtu.be/xrV5oGyyKSI Denis Noble - Evolution Has Purpose, Cell Consciousness & Why The Last 70 Years of Genetics Is Wrong: https://youtu.be/xqw-DaWVK24 Phi…
Inner Speech
Meet the Neuroscientist Who Discovered That Some People Have No Inner Speech
1h 9m 22K
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….be/j0gKl-g3DNg Adam Zeman - The Blind Mind’s Eye: How Aphantasia Is Rewriting Consciousness ! Dr Adam Zeman: https://youtu.be/SgA2up6-Bok Alex Hutchinson - Alex Hutchinso…
Inner Speech
Meet the Neuroscientist Who Discovered That Some People Have No Inner Speech
1h 6m 0
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….be/j0gKl-g3DNg Adam Zeman - The Blind Mind's Eye: How Aphantasia Is Rewriting Consciousness ! Dr Adam Zeman: https://youtu.be/SgA2up6-Bok Alex Hutchinson - The Lie That U…
Evolution & Genetics
Meet The Scientist Who Thinks Aliens Are Actually Humans From The Future
1h 37m 22K
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…1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/USgWrxEFWDA Rick Strassman - Meet The Father Of Modern DMT R…
Evolution & Genetics
Meet The Scientist Seriously Investigating Alien Time Travellers
1h 36m 0
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…1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/USgWrxEFWDA Rick Strassman - Meet The Father Of Modern DMT R…
Near-Death Experiences
Meet The Greatest Near-Death-Experience Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of
1h 23m 130K
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…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…
Near-Death Experiences
Meet The Greatest Near-Death-Experience Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of
1h 41m 0
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…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…
DMT
Meet The DMTx Explorer Who Came In Contact With Planet Sized DMT Entities
1h 0m 36K
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…in Carhart-Harris - No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities: https://youtu.be/t-GkE4YtLRk David Luke - Meet the Professor o…
Theories of Consciousness
Meet The Physicist Proving The Universe Builds Itself Out Of Information
1h 25m 26K
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…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-compu…
Theories of Consciousness
Meet The Physicist Proving The Universe Builds Itself Out Of Information
1h 24m 0
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…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-compu…
Meet The Greatest Time Neuroscientist You’ve Never Heard Of
1h 25m 24K
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… Pause the computer: the thought experiment that breaks state-based theories of consciousness SPONSORS Get Jenni Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off) -…
DMT
Meet The World’s Greatest Endogenous DMT Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of
1h 26m 98K
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…1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/USgWrxEFWDA Rick Strassman - Meet The Father Of Modern DMT Re…
Addiction & Drugs
Meet The Drug Expert Who Does Recreational Heroin
1h 14m 17K
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…tsshoulder GS EPISODES MENTIONED David Luke - Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://youtu.be/qLKD1gt1X5o GUEST LI…
Dreams & Hypnosis
Meet the Greatest Lucid Dreaming Scientist You've Never Heard Of
1h 19m 133K
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… their eye movements. She is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cambridge Consciousness and Cognition Laboratory, completed her PhD in the Paller Cognitive Neuroscienc…
Bioelectricity & Basal Cognition
Meet The Greatest Bioelectricity Scientist You've Never Heard Of
1h 15m 27K
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…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=x…
Bioelectricity & Basal Cognition
Meet The Greatest Bioelectricity Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of
1h 37m 0
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…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=x…
Ibogaine
Meet the Ibogaine Neuroscientist Revolutionising Addiction Treatment
1h 31m 22K
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…r in a single month, and why the results contradict science's leading theory of consciousness. Timestamps 0:00:00 Trailer 0:02:11 How This Ibogaine Study For Veterans Began…
Bioelectricity & Basal Cognition
Michael Levin & Earl Miller: Platonic Space of Minds, Bioelectricity, Cell Intelligence & Neurobots
1h 39m 56K
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…waves and not a telegraph of wires, how three different anaesthetics switch off consciousness through one mechanism reductionism can't explain, why consciousness may just be…
DMT
Meet The World’s Greatest Endogenous DMT Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of
1h 46m 14K
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… Building A New Psychedelic Religion? 1:42:11 50 Years of DMT and The Nature of Consciousness 1:44:26 Why He's Still A "Proud Reductionist" ... Email for sponsorship enquir…
Theories of Consciousness
Meet The Most Persuasive Panpsychist Alive Today
1h 17m 11K
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…201&awc=33583_1779690645_251084a070c8c8f9b8ca60d829b2d201 Want to go deeper on consciousness? Join our community where we run live discussions, inner experience challenges …
Ayahuasca
Meet the Psychiatrist Training To Be An Amazonian Ayahuasca Shaman
1h 39m 43K
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…TIONED: Robin Carhart-Harris — Entropic Brain, How Psychedelics Really Work and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/t-GkE4YtLRk Andrew Gallimore — DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worl…
Theories of Consciousness
Meet The Neuroscientist Creating New Forms of Sentient Biological Intelligence
1h 17m 1.7K
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…y): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTBZRVKUwyM Philip Ball (Quantum Mechanics, Consciousness, Brain Organoids): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNbG5lnp51E Andrés Gómez Emi…
Mental Imagery
No. 1 Music Neuroscientist: How Music Hijacks Our Collective Unconscious, Emotion and Imagination
1h 21m 4.6K
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…chedelic Hallucinations and Musical Archetypes 1:16:17 Can Music Teach Us About Consciousness? ... Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com ❤️ Subscrib…
Psilocybin
Meet The Greatest Living Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of
1h 35m 53K
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…d people, why the DMT pineal gland theory is scientifically impossible, whether consciousness lives in the brain at all, and much more… Timestamps: 00:00 The Greatest Livin…
Psychedelic Science
Meet the AI Researcher Proving Machines Will NEVER Be Conscious!
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