Theories of Consciousness
Denis Noble: Evolution Has Purpose, Cell Consciousness & Why The Last 70 Years of Genetics Is Wrong
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…www.amazon.com/Understanding-Living-Systems-Life/dp/1009277367 The Third Way of Evolution: https://www.thethirdwayofevolution.com/people/view/denis-noble
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet The Anesthesiologist Who Started The Quantum Consciousness Revolution
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…e in the lab got fixated on the chromosomes. This is the dawn of the genetic, revolution, the genetic engineering, or just beginning to, you know, decode and, DNA and t…
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet The Neuroscientist Who Mapped 750 Million Years of Brain Evolution
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…y approach combines neurophysiological recordings, computational modelling, and evolutionary biology to explore how the brain mediates interactions with the world. This …
AI & Machine MindsMeet The Scientist Redefining Intelligence With Michael Levin
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…/join Richard Watson is a professor of artificial intelligence and theoretical evolutionary biology at the University of Southampton and the author of Compositional Evo…
DMTNo.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness
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…truction 20:34 Attractor States Explained 24:21 Why DMT’s Stability Suggests an Evolutionary Role 27:25 Parallel Lives — The DMT Sleep Cycle Hypothesis 28:36 What Was th…
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet The Scientist Proving Your Cells Are Conscious and Intelligent
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….com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about William B. Miller Jr. is a Medical Doctor, Evolutionary Biologist, and author of Bioverse and co-author of The Sentient Cell — one o…
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet The Greatest Mathematician You've Never Heard Of
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…a Theory of Recognisability ... Buy Barbours Books The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics: https://amzn.to/4liP9zy The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time: http…
Bioelectricity & Basal CognitionChris Fields: Whats Wrong With Quantum Mechanics, Cellular Intelligence and Consciousness
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… whether bacteria can experience space, and much more... Timestamps: 00:00 The Evolution of a Scientific Career 02:06 Understanding Boundaries in Science 09:59 Quantum …
Theories of ConsciousnessPhilip Ball: "Biology Is Infinitely Weirder Than We Thought"
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…what all of this means for consciousness — and much more… Timestamps 00:00 The Evolution of Biological Understanding 04:54 Rethinking Genes and Their Functions 10:59 Th…
Mental ImageryMeet The MIT Philosopher Proving Aphantasics Have Unconscious Imagery
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…3-page target article synthesising behavioural, psychophysical, and comparative-evolutionary evidence on the timescale and function of visual consciousness. They review …
Near-Death ExperiencesNeuroscientist: "Your Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness" — NDEs, Telepathy and Terminal Lucidity
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…n doing the creation of physical reality, it starts at the bottom of atoms. And evolution is the primary way that we evolve as human beings. And we work our way up, to, …
Theories of ConsciousnessNo.1 Biopsychist: Michael Levin's Platonic Minds & Cognition All The Way Down
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…what you're seeing is the incredible plasticity of life and the fact that, what evolution did here in creating the frog genome is not create a specific solution to a spe…
Near-Death ExperiencesNeuroscientist: "Your Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness" — NDEs, Telepathy and Terminal Lucidity
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…n doing the creation of physical reality, it starts at the bottom of atoms. And evolution is the primary way that we evolve as human beings. And we work our way up, to, …
DMTConsciousness Expert Explains The 6 Levels Of The DMT Experience
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…ikely that symmetrical structures are persisted and maintained through time and evolutionary? Is that sort of, I know a really simplified way, but is that sort of a way …
Theories of ConsciousnessTim Maudlin: Consciousness, Turing Machines, Problems with Quantum Mechanics and Ai
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… Could Someone Invent a New Explanatory Framework? 01:31:13 Why Pain Hurts: The Evolutionary Story 01:33:12 What Newton Would Think of General Relativity ... Email for …
Psychedelic ScienceMatt Segall: Panexperientialism, God, Metaphysics and What Neuroscience Is Getting Wrong!
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…'ve done seem quite convincing to me, at least, where they've they've ran these evolutionary game simulations. And then they can determine that agents will evolve based …
Telepathy & PsiMeet The Biophysicist Who Accidentally Discovered Telepathy
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…touch because I want to know what's happening. So we may be about to witness a revolution in the olfaction field. If you can elicit reliable sensations by stimulating bi…
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet The Neuroscientist Proving We’re All Living In A Collective Consciousness
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…to a few times throughout this conversation how you think consciousness and the evolution of consciousness is connected into this web of topics that we've been covering,…
DMTMeet The DMT Explorer Who's Had 100+ Encounters With Non Human Entities
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…o the Akashic Records. I want to know the fucking, you know, the basis of human evolution. Like. All right, if I. If I know how powerful this realm is and it's infinite …
Inner SpeechNo. 1 Inner Speech Expert: NPCs, Hallucinations, Imaginary Friends, Prayer and Experiential Crossing
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… to Believe Others Think Differently 42:26 Neurodiversity and the Inner Speech Revolution 44:35 The Dialogical Inner Speech Model Explained 49:55 Multiple Identities Ins…
PsilocybinMeet The Greatest Living Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of
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…e economic incentives, these are very large institutions that do not want this revolution to happen. I mean, that's fair to say, right? David Nichols (31:30.381) Yeah. …
Psychedelic ScienceMeet the AI Researcher Proving Machines Will NEVER Be Conscious!
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… has this rich inner lives like we do. Because I think this is actually more an evolutionary principle. We have a whole gradient of experiences and not just experiences …
Mental ImageryNo. 1 Inner Experience Expert: Inner Monologue, Aphantasia & How Your Mind Lies To You
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…ing that we've evolved and maybe it's a, it's a social, it's a sort of a social evolutionary wiring to also assume assume oh I'm getting a massive echo again. Hello. I'…
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet The Neuroscientist Creating New Forms of Sentient Biological Intelligence
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…resemble intelligence. Speaker 2 And so I suppose you could say it began with evolution. But to bring us up just a little bit more recent history began with a question…
Mental ImageryMeet The Neuroscientist Proving We Got Imagination & Aphantasia WRONG!
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… 12 years ago, 2015, 11 years ago, 2015, more or less. And that has completely revolutionized the field. So kudos to Alan Zieman to really being able to find a condition…
Mental ImageryNo. 1 Music Neuroscientist: How Music Hijacks Our Collective Unconscious, Emotion and Imagination
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…anges How You Feel About Music 26:31 The Speech-to-Song Illusion 32:05 Is Music Evolutionary? The Case for Social Bonding 36:36 Psychedelics and Music: What's Really Dri…
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet the Neuroscientist Who Discovered That Waves Produce Memory, Spacetime and Consciousness
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…y underlie mental disorders, and much more… Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:22 The Evolution of Neuroscience Techniques 05:13 Understanding Feedforward Inhibition 08:13 The…
Theories of ConsciousnessThe Story Of How CO₂ Created ALL Life, Intelligence and Consciousness
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…s, why hydrothermal vents may hold the key to alien life, how volcanoes rewrote evolution, the truth about the most catastrophic extinction in Earth’s history, how CO₂ s…
Psychedelic ScienceMeet the Philosopher Questioning Everything Neuroscience Assumes About Consciousness
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…fining Mind and Its Ambiguities 09:01 Historical Perspectives on Mind 11:49 The Evolution of Consciousness 14:57 Philosophical Positions on Consciousness 17:41 The Inter…
Theories of Consciousness42 Minutes of the Best Moments in Consciousness Giants Shoulder 2025
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… Do bacteria have primitive feelings? Why are nervous systems so central to the evolution of subjectivity? Could machines ever develop inner experience? And is conscious…
Theories of ConsciousnessNeuroscientist Explains The 3 Levels Of Sentience: Plants, Animals & Humans
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…nd mind emerge from the physical world. Deacon’s work connects thermodynamics, evolution, and neuroscience to tackle one of science’s biggest questions — how matter can…
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet the Scientist Showing Every Cell In Your Body is Conscious!
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Dr. William B. Miller Jr. is a physician, evolutionary biologist, and author of The Microcosm Within, Bioverse, and The Sentient Ce…
Mental ImageryInner Experience Expert: Inner Monologue, Aphantasia and Why You Can’t Trust Your Own Thoughts
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…n and Mental Imagery 62:01 The Future of Inner Experience Research 01:04:45 The Evolution of Psychological Science 01:06:20 Exploring Aphantasia and Visualization 01:09:…
Dreams & HypnosisThe Blind Mind’s Eye: How Aphantasia Is Rewriting Consciousness ! Dr Adam Zeman
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…al Insights into Aphantasia 42:13 The Complexity of Mental Imagery 49:10 The Co-evolution of Perception and Imagery 52:16 Potential Benefits of Aphantasia 57:29 The Trai…
Theories of ConsciousnessPhilip Ball: Why Quantum Mechanics is NOT What you think, Consciousness, Brain Organoids, AI & Life!
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…and Consciousness 01:01:46 Agency and Cognition in Living Beings 01:14:59 Evolution of Cognition and Mindedness 01:17:33 Understanding Agency Across Species 0…
Dreams & HypnosisMeet the Scientist Proving Dreams Hold the Key to Consciousness! Dr Mark Solms
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…pring, one of the most influential books on consciousness in recent years. He revolutionised sleep science by proving that dreaming isn’t confined to REM sleep, and he …
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet the Scientist Who Brought Quantum Mechanics to Biology!
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…d could be the seat of your conscious experience — plus what that means for AI, evolution, and the very nature of reality... Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:50 Introduction …
Bioelectricity & Basal CognitionNick Lane: Origin of Life, Aliens, Metabolism, Bioelectricity, Consciousness and Ai!
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….pxf.io/9LXagy and Code GIANTSMANTA10) Nick Lane is a biochemist, Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry at University College London, and author of Transformer, The Vi…
Emotion & FeelingLearning Expert: Hallucinated Reality, Rewiring Baby Brains, Emotions, Learning & Ai!
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…cience to Daily Life ... 📚 RECOMMENDED READING The Connected Species: How the Evolution of the Human Brain Can Save the World: https://amzn.to/44gSTcv … _Follow My Ne…
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet the Neuroscientist Exploring the World of Animal Consciousness
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… just 1 to 2 years, mate once, and die — raising a profound question: why would evolution build a mind this sophisticated, only to delete it almost immediately? Expect …
AI & Machine MindsMeet the Neuroscientist Unlocking the Hidden Language of Intelligence! Dr Chris Summerfield
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… from the machines we’ve built — and no longer fully understand. ... 01:40 The Evolution of Deep Learning 04:41 Language Generation Breakthroughs 07:43 Human vs AI Lang…
Theories of ConsciousnessMeet the Scientist Who Mathematically Proved that Reality is an Illusion!
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…etan Prakash for the difficult mathematics. Buy The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes - https://amzn.to/42uSB11 According to their work,…
PsilocybinConsciousness Expert Explains The 5 Levels Of The Psilocybin Experience
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…had talked about, you know, psychedelics being important in their psychological evolution. I was reading, books about psychedelics. I became familiar with the the older …
Inner SpeechMeet The Inner Speech Expert Proving We Can Conjure Other Conscious Entities
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…eople just happen to do that. Some people don't be quick. It could be a kind of evolutionary byproduct of other systems. And it doesn't. It might not mean anything. You …
Theories of ConsciousnessGIANT'S DEBATE - Whats The SECRET to Engineering Artificial Consciousness? Cognition Vs Feeling
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…d I, I, I loved the part in your lectures where you talked about the why of, of evolution and feeling your way through a problem. I completely agree with all that. I thi…