In this episode we dive into a brain-computer interface that gives a paralyzed woman her voice back, the terrifying rise of microplastics in human brains, and a musician “resurrected” using lab-grown neurons.
We also explore dolphin language models, uploading your mind, and the question: are humans still the most conscious beings on Earth?
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Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
01:25 – Paralyzed Woman Speaks via Brain-Computer Interface
03:49 – Stephen Hawking’s Voice, Replaced in Real-Time
05:35 – Is This Superhuman Communication?
07:08 – Neural Telepathy & API for the Brain
10:06 – Speed of Intention: Gaming with Neuralink
12:34 – Could We Merge Brains and Think Together?
15:10 – Thoughts as Queries, Answers as Memory
18:10 – The End of Fate: Tech as Consciousness Liberation
20:05 – The 1mm That Could Separate a Life
22:24 – Story 2: Microplastics Found in Human Brains
23:31 – One Plastic Spoon Worth… In Your Head
25:10 – Dementia, Autism & the Plastic Threat
27:50 – Plastics: A Miracle Turned Menace
29:48 – Exponential Plastic, Contaminated Food Chains
32:16 – There Is No Control Group—We're All Infected
34:09 – What You Can (Maybe) Do About It
36:35 – Processed Food = Plastic Bombs
39:04 – Even ‘Healthy’ Food Might Be Poisoned
41:00 – Are We Totally Screwed?
44:17 – Plastic-Eating Microbes & Biotech Hope
45:10 – Story 3: Resurrecting a Musician with Lab-Grown Neurons
47:00 – Is a Brain Sample Still ‘You’?
49:01 – Talking to Dolphins with Google’s AI
50:52 – Are We the Center of Consciousness?
52:17 – Dolphin Language Mirrors Ours
55:02 – Whales Have 200 Billion Neurons… Are They Smarter?
58:02 – The Real Reason Human Brains Grew So Big
01:00:44 – Evolution’s Dirty Secret: Brains Evolved for Politics
01:02:12 – The Price of Consciousness
