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The Giants Shoulder — 161 episodes

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#155 - Meet The World’s Greatest Endogenous DMT Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of

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#154 Meet The Greatest End-Of-Life Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of

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#153 - Meet The Neuroscientist Who Does Recreational Heroin

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#152 - Meet The Biophysicist Who Accidentally Discovered Telepathy

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#151 - Meet the Greatest Lucid Dreaming Scientist You've Never Heard Of

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#150 - World's Greatest Hypnosis Scientist Hijacks My Mind Live On Camera!

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#149 - Meet The Father Of Modern DMT Research

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#148 - Meet The Ibogaine Psychedelic Scientist Who First Unravelled Its Big Mystery

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#147 - No. 1 Mitochondria Psychobiologist: "Mitochondria Create Consciousness and Near-Death Experiences"

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#146 - Meet The Greatest Bioelectricity Scientist You've Never Heard Of

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#145 - Meet the Ibogaine Neuroscientist Revolutionising Addiction Treatment

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#144 - Consciousness Expert Ranks Every Drug By Intensity Of Subjective Experience

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#143 - Meet the World's Greatest Imagination Neuroscientist You’ve Never Heard Of

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#142 - Meet the Philosopher Behind Michael Levin's Strangest Idea The - Platonic Space Of Minds

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#141 - Meet the Neuroscientist Investigating Language and the Platonic Space

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#140 - Meet The DMT Explorer Who's Had 100+ Encounters With Non Human Entities

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#139 - Meet The Greatest Ibogaine Psychedelic Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of

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#138 - Meet The Greatest Ayahuasca Psychedelic Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of.

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#137 - Dennis McKenna: "I've Spent 50 Years Investigating The Entities That Exist Within Ayahuasca"

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#136 - Denis Noble: Neo-Darwinism, Michael Levin & Why The Last 70 Years of Genetics Is Wrong

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#135 - Consciousness Expert Explains The 5 Levels Of The Psilocybin Experience

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

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#133 - Meet The Most Important Man Alive In The History of MDMA

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#132 - Meet the Psychedelic Scientist Proving The Fields Largest Theory is WRONG!

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#131 Neuroscientist Ranks Every Drug By How Hard They Are to Quit! Tier List Part 3

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#130 - The Two Greatest Living Psychedelic Scientists Discuss The Insane Future Of Drugs

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#129 - Meet The Worlds Greatest Emotion Neuroscientist

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#128 - Meet the Neuroscientist Proving Scientists Got Conscious Ai WRONG

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#127 Meet the Neuroscientist Who Gave A Brain to Michael Levins Xenobot’s

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#126 - Michael Levin & Earl Miller: Bioelectricity, Platonic Spaces, Cell Intelligence & Neurobots

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#125 Meet The World’s Greatest Endogenous DMT Psychedelic Scientist

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#124 - Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's

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#123 - Meet The Most Persuasive Panpsychist Alive Today

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#122 - Meet the Psychiatrist Training To Be An Ayahuasca Shaman

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#121 Meet The Neuroscientist Teaching Neuron's in a Dish to Play Video Games

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#120 No.1 Inner Speech Expert: NPCs, Hallucinations, Imaginary Friends, Prayer and Experiential Crossing

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#119 Meet The Inner Speech Expert Proving We Can Conjure Other Conscious Entities

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#118 - Meet The MIT Philosopher Proving Aphantasics Have Unconscious Imagery

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#117 Meet The Neuroscientist Proving We Got Imagination & Aphantasia WRONG!

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#116 Meet The World’s Greatest Psychedelic Receptor Scientist

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#115 Consciousness Expert Explains The 6 Levels Of The DMT Experience

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#114 No.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness

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#113 - Meet The Neuroscientist Decoding Your Bodies Cannabis System

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#112 - No. 1 Music Neuroscientist: How Music Hijacks Our Collective Unconscious, Emotion and Imagination

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#111 - Tim Maudlin: Consciousness, Turing Machines, Problems with Quantum Mechanics and Ai

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

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#109 Dr Wendy Suzuki: How The Hippocampus Weaves Your Memories Into Consciousness

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#108 - Meet The Greatest Living Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of

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#107 Robin Carhart-Harris: Your Consciousness Exists Between Order and Chaos | Entropic Brain

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#106 The Story Of How CO₂ Created ALL Life, Intelligence and Consciousness

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#105 Meet the AI Researcher Proving Machines Will NEVER Be Conscious!

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#104 GIANT'S DEBATE - Whats The SECRET to Engineering Artificial Consciousness? Cognition Vs Feeling

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#103 Meet The Social Neuroscientist Proving We’re All Living In A Collective Consciousness

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#102 Meet The Scientist Proving Cells Are Conscious and Intelligent

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#101 Meet The Physicist Who Believes Time Doesn’t Exist

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#100 Meet The Scientist Who Wrote the Blueprint for Conscious Machines

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#99 Matt Segall: Panexperientialism, God, Metaphysics and What Neuroscience Is Getting Wrong!

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#98 Chris Fields: Whats Wrong With Quantum Mechanics, Cellular Intelligence and Consciousness

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#97 Matt Ridley: COVID Lab Leak, Jeffrey Epstein and Failures In Science

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#96 Stuart Hameroff: Meet The Anaesthesiologist Who Started The Quantum Consciousness Revolution

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#95 Philip Ball: "Biology Is Infinitely Weirder Than We Thought"

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#94 Meet The Scientist Who Created The First Living Robot

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#93 Dr Tommy Wood: "Cognitive Decline Is Not Inevitable. Here’s Why."

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#92 Joscha Bach: “The Nature Of Reality is Even Weirder Than We Previously Thought”

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#91 Meet the Philosopher Questioning Everything Neuroscience Assumes About Consciousness

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#90 Meet The World’s Leading Executive Function Neuroscientist

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#89 The Real Reason We Should Revive Extinct Animals

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#88 Meet The Neuroscientist Who Created The Best Universal Theory Of Brain Function

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#87 Challenging a Famous Neuroscientist On When Consciousness First Emerged

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#86 Meet The Most Influential Social Scientist Of The Last 50 Years

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#85 Meet the Psychologist Who’s Guided 100+ Mushroom Trips

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#84 Neuroscientist Ranks Every Drug By How Hard They Are to Quit! Tier List Part 2

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#83 Meet The Leading Behavioural Change Neuroscientist for 2026

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Biology Is Cognition The Whole Way Down! Best of Giant's Shoulder 2025

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52 Minutes Celebrating Inner Experience, Aphantasia & Neurodiversity 2025

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#82 I Spent 90 Days With The No.1 Inner Experience Expert To Discover If I Really Inner Speak

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#81 Meet the Scientist Who Mathematically Proved Reality is an Illusion Round 2!

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59 Minutes of The Best Drug Science and Psychedelics Moments 2025

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#80 Meet the Scientist Creating The Mathematics Of Consciousness

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42 Minutes of the Best Moments in Consciousness Science Giant's Shoulder 2025

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#79 Adam Frank: Consciousness, Quantum Mechanics, AI & Search for Alien Civilisations!

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#78 Dr Kevin Mitchell: Bad Science, Autism, Tylenol & The Gut Microbiome!

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#77 Lee Cronin: Origin Of Life, Aliens, Controversial New Theories, Digitising Chemistry & Consciousness

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#76 Meet the MIT Neuroscientist Proving Brain Waves Are the Secret Engine Behind Consciousness

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# 75 Meet the Greatest Scientist You've Never Heard Of

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#74 Psychedelics Expert: Who is Blocking Psychedelic Research? Cannabis Vs Alcohol, MDMA & Ayahuasca

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#73 Mysteries of the Female Brain: The Pill, Attraction, Sex, Emotions & Hormones! Dr Sarah McKay

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#72 Neurofeedback Expert: Training Your Brain To IMPROVE Mental Health, ADHD and Motivation!

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#71 Meet the Neuroscientist Who Proved Every Cell in Your Body Has a Memory!

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#70 Meet the Neuroscientist Driving the New Science of Mental Health!

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#69 NASA Scientist Reveals What We Really Found on Mars!

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#68 Meet the Neuroscientist Who has Scanned Over 5000 Psychopathic Brains!

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#67 Mind-Body Expert: The New Science of Emotion, Nervous System Mastery & Psychedelics!

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#66 Meet the Scientist Exploring Consciousness Through Thermodynamics!

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#65 Meet the Scientist Proving Every Cell In Your Body is Conscious!

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#63 Inner Experience Expert: Inner Monologue, Aphantasia and Why You Can’t Trust Your Own Thoughts

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#62 Meet the Scientist Proving Your Whole Body is Conscious!

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#61 Meet the Neuroscientist Unifying Consciousness, Free Energy & Psychedelics!

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#64 Philip Ball: Why Quantum Mechanics is NOT What you think, Consciousness, Brain Organoids, AI & Life!

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#60 The Slime Mold "Intelligence" Illusion, Artificial Life and Why De-Extinction Is Mostly Marketing!

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#59 Meet the Philosopher Proving that Consciousness is Physical!

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#58 Robert Plomin Round 2: Intelligence, Mental Health, Personality and the Future of Designer Babies

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#57 Meet the Neuroscientist Building the Internet of Brains! Dr Ryota Kanai

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#55 The Blind Mind’s Eye: How Aphantasia Is Rewriting Consciousness ! Dr Adam Zeman

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#54 Alex Hutchinson: The Lie That Unlocked Human Limits, Tricking Perception & Aphantasia!

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#53 Philosopher of Mind: Consciousness, Out-Of-Body Experiences & The Illusion of Self! Thomas Metzinger

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#52 Meet The Scientist Who Trains Navy Seals To Enter Flow! Steven Kotler

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#51 Meet the Scientist Proving Dreams Hold the Key to Consciousness! Dr Mark Solms

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#50 Meet the Neuroscientist With No Mental Imagery! Dr Merlin Monzel

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#49 Emotion Neuroscientist: Psychedelics, Neuroplasticity, AI and the Future of Mental Health!

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#48 Neuroscientist Ranks Every Drug By How Hard They Are to Quit! Tier List

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#47 Meet the Neuroscientist Dissecting the Brains of Psychopaths!

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#46 Meet the Psychiatrist Debunking The Chemical Imbalance Myth That Fooled Millions!

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#45 Meet the Scientist Who Brought Quantum Mechanics to Biology!

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#44 Meet the Neuroscientist Using AI to Unlock the Secrets of Language! Dr Evelina Federenko

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#43 Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Aliens, Metabolism, Bioelectricity, Consciousness and Ai!

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#40 Learning Expert: Hallucinated Reality, Rewiring Baby Brains, Emotions, Learning & Ai!

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#39 Consciousness Expert: Alien Minds, Insane Biology and the Evolution of Subjectivity!

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#38 Meet the Drug & Brain Expert Fired For Exposing the Truth! Dr David Nutt

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#37 Expert Palaeontologist: Direwolf De-Extinction, Dinosaur Myths, Brains and Sex! Dr David Hone

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#36 I Challenged the World’s #1 Child-Attachment Expert! Erica Komisar

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#35 What People Who Taste Triangles Reveal About Consciousness! Dr Anina Rich

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#34 Meet the Psychiatrist Redefining Mental Illness! Dr Nicholas Fabiano

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#33 Meet the Neuroscientist Unlocking the Hidden Language of Intelligence! Dr Chris Summerfield

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#32 Meet the Man with ZERO Mental Imagery! Tom Ebeyor

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Giant Moment #6 Your Emotions Are Not What you Think! Dr Anil Seth

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#31 Meet the Harvard Neuroscientist Who Watched Her Own Brain Die! | Dr Jill Bolte Taylor

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#30 Dr Nick Enfield Language Expert: How Language Warps Your Memory, Emotions, Beliefs and Reality itself!

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#29 Dopamine Expert: How to Rewire your Brain for Meaning in a World Addicted to MORE!

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#28 No. 1 Intuition Expert: Harnessing your Subconscious, Aphantasia and The Future of AI Relationships

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#27 Meet the Scientist Who Mathematically Proved that Reality is an Illusion! Dr Robert Prentner

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Giant Moment #5 The Incredible Connection between AI and Brain Evolution! Dr Paul Cisek

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Giant Moment #4 Why Parenting Matters... But your DNA Matters More - Dr Robert Plomin

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#25 Evolution Expert: Meet the Scientist Running a 50,000 Generation Evolution Experiment!

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#24 No. 1 Psychiatrist: Everything you NEED TO KNOW about the Molecule Controlling your Life! Dr Daniel Lieberman

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Giant Moment #3 Are Psychedelics the Answer to the Mental Health Crisis? - Dr Christof Koch

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Giant Moment #2 Dr Kevin Mitchell Debunks the BIGGEST Brain Myths

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#23 Sleep Expert Reveals SHOCKING Stories: Murder, Motorcycles, and Midnight Madness | Dr Guy Leschziner

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#22 Social Neuroscientist: "What Everyone Gets Wrong about Dopamine & Serotonin"

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#21 No 1 Gut & Poo Expert Reveals the Hidden Mental Health Triggers in Your Microbiome | Dr Will Bulsiewicz

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Giant Moment #1 The Most DISTURBING Psychological Case in a 50 Year Career

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#20 No 1 Inner Experience Expert - Inner Monologue, Aphantasia and How Your Mind Lies to You

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#19 Dr William Li - Dementia & Cancer May Start in the Blood Vessels

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#18 750 Million Years of Brain Evolution in 2 Hours 3 Minutes - Dr Paul Cisek

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#17 Dr Luis Favela - The Mind Is NOT a Computer: Rethinking Consciousness, Perception and Intelligence

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#16 The Investigative Journalist Taking on Wim Hof, Andrew Huberman, Peter Attia and David Sinclair

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#15 Clinical Neuropsychologist - Mechanisms of Remembering, Confabulation and the Weirdest Cases of Amnesia

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#14 Faceblind Journalist - "How at 38 I Turned my Neurodiversity into my Superpower"

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#13 Politics & Biology: The Shocking Link Between Brain Differences and Political Ideologies!

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#12 Dr Tony Zador NeuroAI Expert - “How to Model the Human Brain and Build Brain Based AI”

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#11 Brain Decline Expert: “Why Alzheimer’s Research Is Failing and How We Can Win”

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#10 Dr Robert Plomin: Controversial Findings in Behavioural Genetics, Parenting, Obesity & Divorce!

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#9 Computational Neuroscientist Dr Mark Humphries: Brain Computers, NeuroAI and the Mystery of Dark Neurons

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#8 Luke O’ Neill - How COVID Affects the Brain, Master Drug for Inflammation and Pandemic Scandals

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#7 Autism Expert Dr Laura Andreae - We Don't know what Autism is, Is Social Media Rewiring our Brains and AI Fears

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#6 Spatial Neuroscientist Dr Hugo Spiers - The Incredible way our Brain Constructs the World Around Us

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#5 Neuroscience Communicator (SenseOfMind) - Tools to build Emotional Resilience and increase Intrinsic Motivation.

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#4 Social Neuroscientist Dr Redmond O' Connell - How we make Decisions, Free Will and How Intelligent is AI really?

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#3 Dr Christof Koch - Consciousness and Sharing Personal Psychedelic Experiences

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#2 Neuroscientist Shane O'Mara - Walking, Creativity and Dopamine

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#1 Neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell - Free Will, Neuroplasticity, Microbiome Misinformation