“Neuroscientists who stand up and say ‘we have souls’ are few and far between,” says pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor. “But when you look carefully at the neuroscience—the best neuroscience over the past century—it clearly points to the existence of the soul and to the existence of aspects of our mind that don’t come from the brain.” Egnor himself started off as a materialist and atheist. But 40 years and more than 7,000 brain surgeries later, he concluded that reason and free will do not reside in the brain. In this episode, he reveals what he’s found. “Neuroscience is just fundamentally wrong in a lot of ways … because of the materialist bias in neuroscience. We can’t get away from this machine analogy, [but] we’re not machines, and we don’t work like machines work. And there’s overwhelming evidence in neuroscience for the existence of a soul,” he says. Dr. Egnor is a professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at Stony Brook University, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, and the co-author of the book “The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon’s Case for the Existence of the Soul.”
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Top Neuroscientist Demonstrates What’s Behind Reality
He was called “The Einstein of Brain Science.” A neuroscientist whose ideas quietly reshaped how we understand the mind, perception, and reality itself. In this talk, he doesn’t speculate. He demonstrates. What he shows challenges one of our deepest assumptions: that reality is simply out there, waiting to be perceived. Decades ahead of his time, Karl Pribram proposed a model of the brain so radical that it forced science to reconsider what perception actually is, and where reality truly comes from.
James Webb Just Revealed The True Scale of the Universe!
The James Webb Space Telescope is showing us something humanity has never seen before — not just distant galaxies, but the true scale of reality itself. What we once believed was a manageable universe has turned out to be vastly larger, far more crowded, and shaped by forces we barely understand. Webb has revealed an observable universe 93 billion light-years across, uncovered hundreds of thousands of galaxies in regions once thought empty, and detected massive structures forming when the universe was only a few hundred million years old. These discoveries challenge how fast galaxies should form, how black holes grow, and even how space itself expands. This video explores how Webb looks back in time, why much of the universe is permanently hidden beyond our cosmic horizon, and how dark matter and dark energy shape everything we can see. This isn’t just a bigger universe — it’s a different one.
Megahertz Brain Waves, Microtubule Time Crystals, and the Physics of Consciousness | Stuart Hameroff
“Consciousness may not emerge from neurons firing — it may be the quantum music playing inside them.” At Deep Tech Week San Francisco 2025, Dr. Stuart Hameroff, anesthesiologist, professor, and co-creator of the Orch-OR theory of consciousness with Sir Roger Penrose, delivers a mind-bending exploration into the quantum physics of the brain — and why megahertz brain waves and microtubule time crystals could be the hidden heartbeat of awareness itself. In this talk, Hameroff reveals over 40 years of research connecting neuroscience, quantum mechanics, and anesthesia — from the origins of life and cognition to the possibility of consciousness before biology itself. Drawing on experimental data from nanotechnology labs in India, EEG studies, and ultrasound brain stimulation, Hameroff shows that consciousness might operate across a hierarchy of frequencies — from hertz-level cortical oscillations to megahertz and terahertz vibrations deep inside neurons.
Emergent Complexity
Here is Emergent Garden’s thoughts on emergent complexity. I go through a tour of simple systems that produce unexpected complexity, and try to break down emergence into more general and useful ideas. We talk about snowflakes and ant colonies, cellular automata and universe simulations, and the many weird ideas of Stephen Wolfram. I also offer some advice for creating and encouraging emergent behavior. This video is important to me. Emergence is the most interesting thing in the universe.
The Highest Levels of Thinking | Why Society is Stuck at the bottom
Human civilization is built on pyramids. Not just the stone ones baked under the Egyptian sun, but invisible structures, hierarchies of thought, layers of meaning, and levels of thinking that range from the most basic impulses to the heights of true revelation. And yet, despite the astonishing tools, knowledge, and information available to us today, most people never climb past the very first steps. In school, in politics, in culture, and especially online, the majority of society still operates at the lowest layers of thinking: remembering , or more accurately, simply regurgitating everything they’ve been told.
How Light Becomes Matter (and Back Again) | SLEEP SCIENCE STORIES
What if everything around you — every atom, every object, even you — once existed as pure light? In tonight’s Sleep Science Story, we explore one of the most mind-bending truths in physics: light can become matter, and matter can turn back into light. Relax as we dive into the strange world of E=mc², particle creation, and the dance between energy and mass that shapes our universe. From the heart of stars to the vacuum of space, discover how the cosmos continuously transforms light into life.
The Geometry of Consciousness: Understanding the Divine Pattern
This podcast explores a bold new theory proposing that every feeling, thought, or dream may have an actual shape. The Phenomenal Manifold Hypothesis by Éric Reis suggests that consciousness can be mapped as a geometric structure—a “phenomenal manifold” (Ψ). Instead of asking why experience exists, it focuses on describing its structure, much like thermodynamics described heat before molecular theory. According to the model, each conscious experience corresponds to a point in a vast multidimensional landscape, and the distance between points reflects how similar two experiences are. The geometry of Ψ is determined by three measurable properties of brain dynamics: Integration (I), representing how unified and irreducible a conscious moment is; Coherence (Γ), measuring how synchronized neural regions are; and Differentiation (Δ), capturing the richness and variety of possible brain states. These three forces define the curvature, dimensionality, and shape of your inner world at each moment. The theory predicts that different states of consciousness correspond to distinct geometries. Wakefulness forms a high-dimensional space with moderate curvature. Deep sleep or anesthesia collapses the manifold into a low-dimensional, nearly flat structure. Psychedelic states expand the geometry dramatically into a highly complex, high-dimensional manifold with high Differentiation but often lower Coherence. Certain meditative states contract the manifold into a unified, low-volume geometry that may shrink to less than 20% of its waking size. Crucially, the model is testable and falsifiable. It must accurately reconstruct known phenomenological structures—such as color relationships—or it fails. It also predicts that the intrinsic dimension of consciousness should remain relatively stable across healthy individuals; large variations would falsify the theory. The hypothesis also offers a framework for evaluating machine consciousness. By analyzing an AI system’s informational dynamics, researchers could compute Integration, Coherence, and Differentiation. The theory proposes minimal thresholds—such as Imin ≈ 0.15 bits and dimensionality n ≥ 3—for a system to be considered a potential candidate for consciousness. If an AI meets these criteria, the precautionary principle suggests treating it as potentially phenomenal. Ultimately, this podcast discusses how the Phenomenal Manifold Hypothesis proposes that consciousness may have a discoverable geometry. By translating neural information dynamics into geometric structure, it offers a scientific bridge between objective brain activity and subjective experience, opening new ways to map the hidden landscapes of the mind.
Francis Lucille: A Masterclass In Non-Duality
Francis Lucille, originally trained in mathematics and physics, is a contemporary spiritual teacher in the Advaita Vedanta tradition, highly regarded for his clear and experiential articulation of non-duality. In this conversation with Natalia Vorontsova, Lucille explains that Advaita Vedanta is grounded in a single axiom: there is only one reality, which he equates with consciousness. The apparent multiplicity of selves, worlds, bodies, and minds is an appearance arising within this one consciousness. An important value of Advaita Vedanta, in the myriad of idealist spiritual traditions, is that it focuses not so much on achieving altered states of consciousness, but rather offers a method to recognize that consciousness is the single, universal reality.
Scientists Reveal a Theory Suggesting Another Reality Has Been Intersecting Ours
Right now, while you watch this, another version of you made a different choice. In a lab in California, a particle just passed through two separate slits at the exact same time. Scientists have discovered that reality itself might be splitting into countless copies every single second. We are talking about the Many-Worlds Interpretation, a theory suggesting that infinite parallel universes exist right here, overlapping with ours. If you enjoy exploring these mind-bending ideas, subscribe and hit that like button. Prepare yourselves. We begin.