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The Giants Shoulder

Evan McGloughlin

A Neuroscience podcast. Each week I talk with experts on a range of topics from consciousness and neuroplasticity to evolution and everything in between. I have a particular interest in consciousness and understanding our inner subjective conscious experience. Evan has a Neuroscience degree from Trinity College Dublin and is the co-founder of 2 (failed) edtech startups. He is a professional tennis coach and Triathlete enthusiast.

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01:58:35

#34 Meet the Psychiatrist Redefining Mental Illness!...

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2025/05/23

Get Manta Sleep Mask. Use Code GIANTSMANTA10 - https://bit.ly/4ilzfBLGet 1 Year FREE Consensus AI. Use Code GIANTSSHOULDER for 1 Year Free Premium Sub - [https://consensus.app](https://consensus.app/)Dr. Nicholas Fabiano is a psychiatrist, researcher, and rising star in the world of mental health who’s challenging the foundations of how we diagnose and treat mental illness.He believes depression isn’t just in your head — it’s in your whole body. From prescribing exercise as medicine to exploring the

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01:04:47

#33 Meet the Neuroscientist Unlocking the Hidden...

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2025/05/09

Get 1 Year FREE Consensus AI: (Use Code GIANTSSHOULDER for 1 Year Free Premium Sub) https://consensus.appDr. Chris Summerfield is a neuroscientist, cognitive scientist, and author of These Strange New Minds — a groundbreaking exploration of whether machines like ChatGPT are starting to think, and what that reveals about human intelligence itself.Buy His Book (These Strange New Minds): https://amzn.to/4jKowBOSummerfield has spent his career studying how the brain perceives, predicts, abstracts, and

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01:19:12

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

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2025/05/07

Tom Ebeyer is the founder of the Aphantasia Network, the world’s largest organisation dedicated to understanding the invisible differences in how people experience mental imagery — or in some cases, don’t experience it at all.Aphantasia is the inability to visualise images in the mind’s eye — a condition that affects how we remember, dream, feel emotion, and even plan for the future. Most people who have it don’t even realise it.Expect to learn how Tom discovered he couldn’t picture anything in his

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00:22:47

Giant Moment #7 Your Emotions Are Not What you Think!...

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2025/05/03

Check out the Full Podcast with leading consciousness researcher Dr Anil Seth here - https://youtu.be/lOSA06K0l1oAnil 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

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01:37:53

#31 Meet the Harvard Neuroscientist Who Watched Her...

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2025/05/01

Get 1 Year of Premium Consensus.AI Completely Free (Use Code THEGIANTSSHOULDER) - https://consensus.app/Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist and author of My Stroke of Insight, one of the most powerful and widely viewed neuroscience stories of all time.At 37, Dr. Taylor suffered a catastrophic hemorrhagic stroke that shut down the entire left hemisphere of her brain. As a brain scientist, she watched her mind unravel from the inside out—losing language, identity, memory, and

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01:47:27

#30 Dr Nick Enfield Language Expert: How Language...

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2025/04/25

Dr. Nick Enfield is a linguistic anthropologist and author of Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists, a mind-bending exploration of how words shape — and distort — the world we live in.Buy Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists: https://amzn.to/4cHQImjLanguage isn’t just a tool for communication. It’s a tool for persuasion, manipulation, and coordination. It rewires our perception, memory, emotions, and beliefs — often without us even realizing

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01:18:14

#29 Dopamine Expert: How to Rewire your Brain for...

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2025/04/18

Rules to Enter Competition to WIN Hardback Author Signed Copy of Taming the Molecule of More. 1) Subscribe to the Giant's Shoulder Youtube Channel 2) Like the Video 3) Comment Below Why you would like to Read the Book 4) BONUS ENTRY: Share on instagram or X and tag me. X: https://x.com/evan_mcglInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/giantsshoulder/Mike Long is a playwright, speechwriter, and co-author of Taming the Molecule of More — the practical sequel to the bestselling neuroscience book The

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01:55:37

#28 No. 1 Intuition Expert: Harnessing your...

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2025/04/15

Dr. Joel Pearson is a psychologist, neuroscientist, and 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 AI.He’s the world’s leading expert on aphantasia — the inability to visualize mental images — and author of The Intuition Toolkit, a science-backed guide to harnessing the power of the subconscious mind.Buy the Intuition Toolkit: https://amzn.to/3EjYupBExpect to learn how

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01:34:41

#27 Meet the Scientist Who Mathematically Proved that...

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2025/04/10

Dr. Robert Prentner is a philosopher of mind and consciousness researcher working alongside Donald Hoffman, co-authoring the *Conscious Agent Theory* — a radical scientific framework that challenges our deepest assumptions about reality.Buy The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes - https://amzn.to/42uSB11According to their work, we don’t perceive the world as it truly is. Our brains evolved not for truth, but for *useful illusion*. Space and time? Icons. Objects

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00:34:03

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

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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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