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EPISODE · Apr 9, 2026 · 2H 13M

#110 - Meet the Neuroscientist Who Discovered That Waves Produce Memory, Spacetime and Consciousness

from The Giants Shoulder · host Evan McGloughlin

Upgrade Your Shaving Experience With Henson (100 FREE BLADES): https://hensonshaving.com/thegiantsshoulderDr. György Buzsáki is one of the world’s most influential neuroscientists and the author of The Brain from Inside 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. Perception isn’t passive. Time and space aren’t sensed — they’re constructed. And the rhythms of our own bodies may be the hidden scaffolding behind everything we think, feel, and remember.Expect to learn why the brain doesn’t record the world but predicts it, how neural rhythms act like syntax to structure our thoughts, why time is not an input but a product of the brain’s internal cycles, how space and memory emerge from the same temporal code, why consciousness might just be a performance built from nested oscillations, what happens when brain–body rhythms fall out of sync, how we can think about memory as musical replay not archival storage, how rhythm breakdown may underlie mental disorders, and much more…Timestamps: 00:00 Intro01:22 The Evolution of Neuroscience Techniques05:13 Understanding Feedforward Inhibition08:13 The Paradigm Shift in Brain Function12:07 The Role of Rhythms in Prediction14:28 Overcoming Technological Barriers in Research16:45 Mapping the Hippocampus and Microcircuitry25:30 The Complexity of Brain Connectivity26:24 The Future of Connectomics34:36 The Inside Out Brain: A New Framework42:28 The Brain's Survival Mechanism45:00 Local and Global Brain Interactions48:47 Evolution of Brain Complexity52:56 Inside-Out Thinking in Neuroscience59:32 The Importance of Body Rhythms01:17:42 The Interconnectedness of Mind and Body01:26:43 Understanding Brain Dynamics in Psychiatric Disorders01:29:04 The Future of Diagnosing Mental Health Conditions01:32:56 The Role of Technology in Neuroscience01:35:47 Exploring the Nature of Memory02:06:25 Consciousness and Its Complexities...Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected] ❤️ Subscribe to our main channel - https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder?sub_confirmation=1💚 Follow on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5m3Gta5MtIYdk59pb2GJ7M?si=Ka2rAQv7TyqiC9wvGwERpA💜 Follow on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249Download my FREE EBook 26 Neuroscience Books for 2026 HERE: https://thegiantsshoulder.com/

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