Description

On this episode of the Epoch Podcast we have our first monthly off-the-cuff discussion, starting with some crazy experiments Chinese scientists have gotten themselves into and going all over the place from there, LOL.




https://youtu.be/6bXefwVIK2U








Topics we get into:



* Explanation of these monthly episodes* Scientists experimenting with a human gene in monkey brains* Matt reveals his hair* Animal testing* Where consciousness, memory, intuition, emotion come from...* Treating the human body like a machine instead of the more complex superorganism it is* The effects of yogurt on your mood* Fecal transplants* Sympathetic pains* How psychology is stuck in old ways of thought* The line between science and spirituality becoming blurred* Matt's experience with self-healing 14-year chronic knee pain* Where traditional medical practice falls short* Jen's experience with self-healing stressed liver numbers with milk thistle* The memory palace method* How memory and learning is structured and accessed like a GPS* Christina's experience with aphantasia/mental blindness* Imagination and spirituality* The difference between creative art and constructive art* Matt's experience with Huperzine A and Alpha GPC (or source of choline) AlphaBrain, for focus and dream life* Austin's prediction about humanity's understanding of the mind* The effect the industrial age has had on our way of thinking and how we are starting to change that* Why we don't really need to worry about true artificial intelligence (AKA machines becoming conscious) anytime soon* An interesting mental exercise you can follow along with* A machine that learned how to do things without being told* Disabling memories and implanting false memories* What consciousness really is* How to read Thomas Troward



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Resource/s Mentioned




https://theepoch.org/why-you-should-want-robots-to-steal-your-job/








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