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Giants Shoulder

A Biology & Consciousness podcast chronicling the bio-singularity. 3x times per week I speak with leading scientists at the bleeding edge of Neuroscience, Consciousness and Biology. No idea is too strange, tackled with genuine curiosity and technical rigour. Come follow the journey as I have my brain melted and ontology warped on a regular basis. Evan has a Neuroscience degree from Trinity College Dublin and is founder of Giants Shoulder.

Website ↗ Last published 2 November 2026 175 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Giants Shoulder

“I believe we are boring our cells to death. In cell culture, they're longing for input. They want to compute something. So they're forming circuits. They are spontaneously active. And when I first showed this, the patterns of neurons firing, some people were shocked because I said, yeah, they're thinking. And then I said, no, no, don't worry. They have nothing to think about. It has no input and no output.” — Thomas Hartung, Giants Shoulder
Thomas Hartung · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Some people have told me that if you have anendophasia, that is really hard to do because you might have negative thoughts, but they're not so tangible. It just feels like a vast sea of negative thought instead of this specific statement that I can grasp onto and then challenge.” — Johanne Nedergaard, Giants Shoulder
Johanne Nedergaard · 22 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I used to also think that inner speech … was completely fundamental to the way that humans think. That there's a lot of the thinking that we do that we could not do without language. And I'm not so sure about that anymore. … I've received so many emails from people who have this experience themselves and they're all saying like thoughts do not need words. I don't understand why it seems so inefficient to think in the restricted medium of language. So happy I'm not doing that.” — Johanne Nedergaard, Giants Shoulder
Johanne Nedergaard · 22 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Only about 10% of people actually survive from resuscitation. Resuscitation is not very effective. So you go from 500 to 50 people. Of those, only five or six had near-death experiences. And none of them, in none of the cases, was their consciousness in a location that they could perceive the visual target.” — Janice Holden, Giants Shoulder
Janice Holden · 12 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Our obsession by measurement is really dominating science today. And I think we must go back to the meaning, not only the quantity, because quantity can be irrelevant, totally irrelevant. … You can measure whatever about the book. You will never know what this book means actually without focusing on that aspect.” — Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Giants Shoulder
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic · 2 Oct 2026 Listen →
“We were reading this paper about the speckled hen, and they were saying: visualize a chicken with spots, then answer the question, how many spots did it have? And people were answering that question. They were saying six… I was like, what are you guys talking about? … They were just as shocked that I was not able to do this. They were like, do you enjoy reading? I was like, all I do is read.” — Richard Brown, Giants Shoulder
Richard Brown · 21 Sep 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Giants Shoulder is hosted by Evan McGloughlin .

Recent Episodes

  1. 2 Nov 2026

    #169 - Top Cognitive Scientist: Salvia, DMT Entities, Ibogaine & Lucid Dreaming

    With Anderson Todd

  2. 29 Oct 2026

    #168 - Meet The Scientist Growing Mini Brains In A Lab

    With Thomas Hartung

  3. 26 Oct 2026

    #167 - No.1 Plant Neurobiologist: Plant Conciousness, Root Brains & The Sentient Cell

    With František Baluška

  4. 22 Oct 2026

    #166 - Meet the Neuroscientist Who Discovered That Some People Have No Inner Speech

    With Johanne Nedergaard

  5. 19 Oct 2026

    #165 - Donald Hoffman: Are DMT Entities Traces Of A Fundamental Universal Consciousness?

    With Donald Hoffman

  6. 15 Oct 2026

    #164 - Meet The Scientist Seriously Investigating Alien Time Travellers

    With Michael Masters

  7. 12 Oct 2026

    #163 - Meet The Greatest Near-Death-Experience Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of

    With Janice Holden

  8. 8 Oct 2026

    #162 - Meet The Scientist Who Says We've Gotten Cancer Completely Wrong

    With Carlos Sonnenschein

  9. 5 Oct 2026

    #161 - Meet The Psychonaut Who Survived Extended-State DMT

    With Alexander Beiner

  10. 2 Oct 2026

    #160 - Meet The Physicist Proving The Universe Builds Itself Out Of Information

    With Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic

  11. 28 Sep 2026

    #159 - No. 1 Biopsychist: Michael Levin's Platonic Minds & Cognition All The Way Down

    With John Vervaeke

  12. 24 Sep 2026

    #158 - Meet The Evolutionary Theorist Redefining Intelligence With Michael Levin

    With Richard Watson

Guests

David Nutt (4 episodes), Kevin Mitchell (3 episodes), Paul Cisek (3 episodes), Robert Plomin (3 episodes), Robert Prentner (2 episodes), Steven Barker (2 episodes), Mark Solms (2 episodes), William B. Miller Jr. (2 episodes), Russell Hurlburt (2 episodes), Philip Ball (2 episodes), Amy Williams , Johannes Kleiner , and 136 more.