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00:34:03

Giant Moment #5 The Incredible Connection between AI...

Giants Shoulder ·

2025/04/10

Dr. Paul Cisek is a professor of neuroscience at the University of Montreal, and focuses on understanding how the brain controls behaviour. Particularly through the lens of motor control and decision-making. His interdisciplinary approach combines neurophysiological recordings, computational modelling, and evolutionary biology to explore how the brain mediates interactions with the world. This type of knowledge makes for an incredibly interesting conversation! Check out the Full Podcast with the

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00:20:38

Giant Moment #4 Why Parenting Matters... But your DNA...

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2025/04/04

This Giant Moment was taken from #10 Behavioural Geneticist Dr Robert Plomin - How DNA impacts Personality and the Future of Genetic Testing and ManipulationCheck out the full episode here - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0vIhY07qFBNms01I1yJvc2?si=InaapK9iTWKHJJU4me8TJQ

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01:20:59

#26 No. 1 Consciousness Expert: Optical Illusions...

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2025/04/02

Anil 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 captivated over 17 million viewers, and his groundbreaking book Being You explores the incredible mystery of perception and consciousness.Buy Being You (It's Genuinely Great) - https://amzn.to/4ccATngYour brain is constantly hallucinating your reality—it's predicting, guessing, and making mistakes every moment of your life

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02:01:53

#25 Evolution Expert: Meet the Scientist Running a...

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2025/03/31

Dr. Will Ratcliff is an evolutionary biologist, professor, and researcher pioneering groundbreaking experiments in evolutionary biology and synthetic biology.Understanding how complex life evolved from single-celled organisms is one of biology's greatest mysteries. By evolving yeast from simple single cells into increasingly complex multicellular forms in his laboratory, Dr. Ratcliff is unlocking the fundamental rules that govern evolution itself. So how does life go from microscopic simplicity

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01:03:39

#24 Psychiatrist Daniel Lieberman: Everything you...

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2025/03/26

Dr. Daniel Z. Lieberman is a clinical professor of psychiatry and author of *The Molecule of More*, one of the most influential neuroscience books of the last decade.Dopamine drives our ambition, creativity, addictions, obsessions, and even our experience of love — but it’s not the pleasure molecule you think it is. It’s the molecule of *desire*. And understanding how it works could change your life.Expect to learn why wanting and liking are completely different systems in the brain, how dopamine

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00:12:21

Giant Moment #3 - Are Psychedelics the Answer to the...

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2025/03/22

Giant Moment taken from Dr Christof Koch - Consciousness, Psychedelics and Mental Health Giants Shoulder 3

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00:22:31

Giant Moment #2 - Dr Kevin Mitchell Debunks the...

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2025/03/15

Kevin Mitchell is an associate professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. His research is aimed at understanding the genetic program specifying the wiring of the brain and its relevance to variation in human faculties, especially to psychiatric and neurological disease and to perceptual conditions like synaesthesia.

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01:23:26

#23 Sleep Expert Reveals SHOCKING Stories: Murder,...

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2025/03/13

Get the Comfiest Sleep Mask on the Planet at https://bit.ly/4ilzfBL (use Code GIANTSMANTA10)Dr. Guy Leschziner is a neurologist, world-renowned sleep expert, and acclaimed author specialising in the fascinating complexities of sleep disorders and their extraordinary impact on human behaviour.Sleep is not just an 'on or off' state—it's a complex spectrum where different parts of our brains can independently switch between waking and sleeping. From sleepwalkers who cook meals, drive cars,

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02:05:14

#22 Social Neuroscientist: "What Everyone Gets Wrong...

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2025/03/10

Dr Taylor Guthrie is a social neuroscientist, researcher, and one of the leading experts in how our sense of self emerges from our relationships, our goals, and the powerful social forces around usWe all assume we know what’s happening inside our own minds. But what if the way you describe your identity—your inner narrative, your motivations, your beliefs—turns out to be incomplete? What if you’ve spent your entire life overlooking how deeply social context shapes you? Taylor’s research suggests

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02:17:00

#21 No 1 Gut & Poo Expert Reveals the Hidden Mental...

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2025/03/06

Dr. Will Bulsiewicz is a board-certified gastroenterologist, bestselling author, and a leading expert on the microbiome.Understanding your gut is a lifelong journey. Repairing a troubled microbiome, fueling your “second brain,” and harnessing the power of short-chain fatty acids are all part of the process. So how do we move beyond the confusing myths around gut health to support our mood, energy, and overall well-being?Expect to learn how gut microbes influence motivation and ambition, how to use

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00:23:13

Giant Moment #1 The Most DISTURBING Psychological...

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2025/02/25

This first giant moment is from episode #20 with inner experience expert Dr Russell Hurlburt. In this clip Dr Hurlburt talks about the clinical case that shaped his 50 year career in the field of Inner Experience research. It blew my mind. Dr Russell Hurlburt is a psychologist, researcher, and one of the leading experts in the study of inner experience.We all assume we know what’s happening inside our own minds. But what if the way you describe your inner thoughts—your inner monologue, mental

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01:24:29

#20 No 1 Inner Experience Expert - Inner Monologue,...

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2025/02/10

Dr Russell Hurlburt is a psychologist, researcher, and one of the leading experts in the study of inner experience.We all assume we know what’s happening inside our own minds. But what if the way you describe your inner thoughts—your inner monologue, mental images, emotions—isn’t accurate? What if you’ve spent your entire life mischaracterizing your own experience? Russell’s research suggests that most people don’t truly understand how their minds work.Expect to learn why you might not actually have

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00:56:09

#19 - Dementia & Cancer May Start in the Blood...

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2025/01/31

Dr William Li is a medical doctor, internet personality with over a million combined followers and author of Eat to Beat Disease. His viral Ted Talk “Can we Eat to Starve Cancer” has been viewed over 11* million times where he lays out his pioneering work in the field of angiogenesis. The process by which our body forms new blood vessels. Correction from video as I state only 5 Million times. In 1994 he co-founded the Angiogenesis Foundation with the mission of using advances in angiogenesis to

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02:03:48

#18 750 Million Years of Brain Evolution in 2 Hours 3...

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2025/01/23

Dr. Paul Cisek is a professor of neuroscience at the University of Montreal, and focuses on understanding how the brain controls behaviour. Particularly through the lens of motor control and decision-making. His interdisciplinary approach combines neurophysiological recordings, computational modelling, and evolutionary biology to explore how the brain mediates interactions with the world. This type of knowledge makes for an incredibly interesting conversation! Timestamps: 00:00 The Evolutionary

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01:54:39

#17 Dr Luis Favela - The Mind Is NOT a Computer:...

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2024/12/30

In this episode, we dive into the revolutionary field of ecological psychology with Dr. Luis Favela, author of The Ecological Brain. What if the brain isn't a computer, but part of a dynamic system that includes your body and the world around you? Discover how this paradigm shift challenges traditional cognitive psychology and neuroscience, and why it could redefine how we understand perception, action, and intelligence.Dr. Favela shares compelling insights from his work, exploring key concepts

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01:15:08

#16 The Investigative Journalist Taking on Wim Hof,...

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2024/12/17

Scott Carney is a New York Times Best Selling Author, Youtuber and Investigative Journalist. He's risen online from his popular investigations into the ethics and business dealings of popular health influencers like Andrew Huberman, Peter Attia, David Sinclair and Wim Hof. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 03:30 Introduction to Scott Carney's Journey 09:27 The Rise of Wim Hof and Ice Bathing 15:26 The Science Behind Cold Exposure 21:18 The Ethics of Health Influencing 40:39 The Influence of Joe Rogan 50:19

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01:02:03

#15 Clinical Neuropsychologist - Mechanisms of...

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2024/12/04

Dr. Brian Levine is a senior scientist at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences, professor in the Departments of Psychology and Medicine (Neurology), University of Toronto, and a clinical neuropsychologist. He is interested in the function and dysfunction of large-scale neural systems as expressed in complex human behaviours, including episodic and autobiographical memory and executive functioning.Donate to my Paypal. Thank you so

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01:15:39

#14 The Woman Who Can't See Faces

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2024/11/26

Donate to my Paypal. Thank you so much!https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=L38HCUYY5TDTG Sadie Dingfelder, also known online as the Faceblind Journalist is a Scientific Communicator and lives with one of the most severe cases of prosopagnosia ever recorded. Sadie lived for 38 years without any idea she was born with this remarkable brain until she came across prosopagnosia at her work. 02:13 Introduction to Sadie and Prosopagnosia03:15 The Neuroscience of Facial Processing10:18

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01:19:09

#13 Political Biologist Dr Kevin Smith - "There are...

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2024/11/19

Dr. Kevin Smith studies the biology and psychology of individual-level differences in political attitudes and behaviour. In this conversation, Dr. Kevin Smith discusses the intersection of psychophysiology and political behavior, exploring how individuals respond to political stimuli and the physiological and psychological impacts of political stress. Skip to parts that interest you 00:00 Intro 02:23 Introduction to Psychophysiology and Political Responses 05:22 The Impact of Political Stimuli on

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02:10:05

#12 Dr. Tony Zador NeuroAI Expert - “How to Model the...

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2024/11/11

Tony Zador is a Computational Neuroscientist from the Cold Harbour Springs Laboratory who is attempting the gargantuan task of modelling all the connections in the human brain using a fascinating and novel approach that he developed. Using Viruses! Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:36 - Introduction to Connectomics 05:00- The Ambitious Goal of Mapping Neural Circuits 11:20 - Insights into the Human Brain from Connectomics 27:58 - Delivery of Barcoded Viruses to Neurons 34:11 - Output and Findings of

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