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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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: …

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Director of Research & President, Qualia Research Institute (QRI). Consciousness mathematician, psychedelic theorist, valence realist, suffering abolitionist.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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…ent five decades at Stanford proving hypnosis is a measurable, altered state of consciousness. Speaker 2 He made my left hand dissociate from my body alive, and it genuine…

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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’…

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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 —…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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…

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…erviews with me. He has a fantasia and zero samples of Inner speech, and he's a consciousness philosopher. So I mean, right away sort of just dispels any notion you might ha…

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…se I think it's a fundamental human right that we should be able to explore our consciousness. So it shouldn't be against the law. We should punish people for behavior, but …

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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…

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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. …

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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 …

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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 …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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…f the most original thinkers working at the intersection of mathematics, AI and consciousness. He reverse-engineered how the human visual cortex processes reality using the …

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…ld. Expect to learn why information processing feels like anything at all, how consciousness is built from a hierarchy of selves, why a fly has experience but a slime mold …

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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…

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… your brain is a "time capsule" containing the complete illusion of a past, how consciousness might add all the colour and motion to a bare mathematical skeleton, why Newton…

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…f Physics of the World-Soul and Crossing the Threshold — two books arguing that consciousness isn't produced by the brain but is woven into the fabric of reality itself. Exp…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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…rence reveals about emotion and the self, how psychedelics relax beliefs, where consciousness might fit in a predictive hierarchy, and why this theory may be one of the deep…

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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…

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…e of the most rigorous methods ever developed for studying inner experience and consciousness from the first-person perspective. We tend to assume our inner world is obviou…

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…id Partnership by BetterHelp) Dr. Robert Prentner is a philosopher of mind and consciousness researcher whose work bridges mathematics, phenomenology, information theory, a…

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…ou About Cannabis" 09:42 Christof Koch: "The Psychedelic Trip That Convinced Me Consciousness is Fundamental" 23:17 Joanna Moncrief: "Debunking the Serotonin Hypothesis of …

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…arge language models like ChatGPT are fundamentally broken, the neuroscience of consciousness and the six resonances that give rise to awareness, why attention and emotion a…

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…d Clapping: A Natural History of the Mind — a groundbreaking exploration of how consciousness, memory, and intelligence evolved from the simplest forms of life. In this epi…

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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…

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…ble: https://remarkable.pxf.io/7aE2BQ Gualtiero Piccinini is a philosopher and consciousness researcher whose work is reshaping how we understand our own inner lives. Usin…

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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…

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…tures aimed at conscious AI, and he’s the author of Will AI Become Conscious?. Consciousness, he argues, isn’t magic—it’s the brain’s internal simulation engine. Kanai is t…

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…n potential. Flow isn’t just a feeling — it’s a measurable, trainable state of consciousness that radically enhances performance, learning, and even our sense of self. In f…

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…rk, and how it changes memory, emotion, identity, imagination, trauma, and even consciousness itself. Expect to learn what mental imagery is really for, why people with aph…

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…nversation We’re Not Having Enough 1:22:14 – Quantum Mechanics, Continuums, and Consciousness 1:25:33 – Why Theories of Mind Matter for Cures 1:28:56 – What Science Still Do…

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… and Behavior 01:00:33 The Influence of Genetics on Political Ideology 01:03:54 Consciousness and Its Biological Underpinnings 01:07:04 Psychopathy and Romantic Relationship…

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….io/9LXagy and Code GIANTSMANTA10) Johnjoe McFadden is a molecular geneticist, consciousness theorist, and best-selling co-author of Life on the Edge — the book that brough…

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… Education 01:08:49 The Intersection of Language and Self-Identity 01:13:27 Consciousness and AI: A Philosophical Inquiry 01:18:18 Human Behavior vs. AI: The Greater C…

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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…

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…lly like. ... 01:55 Understanding Aphantasia: The Basics 04:59 The Spectrum of Consciousness 07:52 Mental Health and Aphantasia 10:48 Coping with Aphantasia 13:57 Memory an…

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…hape neural circuits, the shocking difference between left and right hemisphere consciousness, what happens when the fear and judgment centers go offline, how Jill rebuilt h…

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Dr. Robert Prentner is a philosopher of mind and consciousness researcher working alongside Donald Hoffman, co-authoring the *Conscious Agent …

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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…

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…cement Learning in Evolution 45:52 Evolutionary Leaps: From Water to Land 54:41 Consciousness and Its Emergence 01:03:47 The Complexity of Brain Function and Evolution 01:24…

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… the brain and the challenges of understanding it. He highlights the mystery of consciousness and the difficulty in explaining emotions. The conversation then shifts to the …

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…Language Models 01:02:42 Mimicking the Human Brain in AI 01:10:31 Understanding Consciousness in AI 01:16:29 Exciting Advances and Concerns in the Next Decade of Science To…