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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…
AI & Machine MindsMeet the Neuroscientist Proving Scientists Got Conscious Ai WRONG
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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: …
Theories of ConsciousnessDenis Noble: Evolution Has Purpose, Cell Consciousness & Why The Last 70 Years of Genetics Is Wrong
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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…
Bioelectricity & Basal CognitionChris Fields: Whats Wrong With Quantum Mechanics, Cellular Intelligence and Consciousness
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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 ConsciousnessMeet The Anesthesiologist Who Started The Quantum Consciousness Revolution
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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 …
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet the Neuroscientist Exploring the World of Animal Consciousness
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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 ConsciousnessPhilip Ball: Why Quantum Mechanics is NOT What you think, Consciousness, Brain Organoids, AI & Life!
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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.…
Theories of Consciousness42 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…
Bioelectricity & Basal CognitionNick Lane: Origin of Life, Aliens, Metabolism, Bioelectricity, Consciousness and Ai!
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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 —…
Bioelectricity & Basal CognitionMichael Levin & Earl Miller: Platonic Space of Minds, Bioelectricity, Cell Intelligence & Neurobots
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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…
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet The Scientist Proving Your Cells Are Conscious and Intelligent
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…hy that changes everything about treatment, why genes are tools not bosses, why consciousness can never exist in silicon alone, and much more… Timestamps: 00:00:00 Introduc…
Theories of ConsciousnessJoscha Bach: “The Nature Of Reality is Even Weirder Than We Previously Thought”
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…her, and philosopher of mind whose work has shaped how we think about synthetic consciousness and the architecture of thought itself. He developed the MicroPsi cognitive ar…
Evolution & GeneticsBiology Is Cognition The Whole Way Down! Best of Giant's Shoulder 2025
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…utu.be/LTBZRVKUwyM 2) Philip Ball: Why Quantum Mechanics is NOT What you think, Consciousness, Brain Organoids, AI & Life! - https://youtu.be/nNbG5lnp51E 3) Meet the Scienti…
Theories of ConsciousnessNeuroscientist Explains The 3 Levels Of Sentience: Plants, Animals & Humans
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…science’s biggest questions — how matter can give rise to purpose, meaning, and consciousness. From the physics of snowflakes to the biology of living cells to the mystery o…
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet the Scientist Showing Every Cell In Your Body is Conscious!
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…and The Sentient Cell — books redefining how we understand life, evolution, and consciousness itself. He believes every cell is intelligent — sensing, deciding, and creatin…
Bioelectricity & Basal CognitionMichael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots
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…without a genetic blueprint, why bioelectricity may be the true architecture of consciousness, how Levin’s discoveries could transform medicine, ethics, and AI — and why you…
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet The Neuroscientist Creating New Forms of Sentient Biological Intelligence
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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…
Bioelectricity & Basal CognitionMeet The Philosopher Investigating The Platonic Space of Minds with Michael Levin
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I don't think we make minds. I don't think we create consciousness. I don't think we do it when we make an embryo. I don't think we do it when we …
Bioelectricity & Basal CognitionMeet the Neuroscientist Who Gave A Brain to Michael Levins Xenobots
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I don't think we make minds. I don't think we create consciousness. I don't think we do it when we make an embryo. I don't think we do it when we …
Theories of ConsciousnessPhilip Ball: "Biology Is Infinitely Weirder Than We Thought"
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…re editor of 20 years and the author of over 30 books spanning quantum physics, consciousness, and the strange frontiers of biology. In How Life Works, he argues that everyt…
Bioelectricity & Basal CognitionMeet The Greatest Bioelectricity Scientist You've Never Heard Of
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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 CognitionMeet The Greatest Bioelectricity Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of
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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 CognitionMeet The Scientist Who Created The First Living Robot
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…memory and learning might emerge in systems without brains, why the illusion of consciousness could be evolution’s greatest trick, how Xenobots are influencing the future of…
Meet the Scientist Proving Your Whole Body is Conscious!
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…our self-model, and collaborates with Michael Levin on “From Cells to Selves.” Consciousness isn’t just in your head—**biology is cognition the whole way down**. From co-em…
Evolution & GeneticsMeet the Scientist Running a 50,000 Generation Evolution Experiment!
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…e? 1:31:33 The Future of Lab-Grown Evolution 1:36:10 Could Lab Evolution Create Consciousness? 1:40:02 The Most Surprising Results from Evolution Experiments 1:45:15 Why Pre…