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