The Huberman Lab Podcast discusses neuroscience: how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health. We also discuss existing and emerging tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured Professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. His laboratory studies neural regeneration, neuroplasticity, and brain states such as stress, focus, fear, and optimal performance. For more than 20 years, Dr. Huberman has consistently published original research findings and review articles in top-level peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, Science, Cell, Neuron, and Current Biology. He is a regular member of several National Institutes of Health review panels and a Fellow of the McKnight Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Dr. Huberman regularly consults for technology development companies, professional athletic organizations, and various units of U.S. and Canadian Special Operations.
What Humans, Animals and Plants Tell Us About Consciousness | Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is a renowned author, journalist and professor at UC Berkeley. He is best known for his influential works on how humans and plants have shaped each other at the level of food, medicine, health, and culture. In this episode we discuss consciousness—what it is and how the recognition between our self vs others contributes to-- but also can impair, certain aspects of conscious experience. We discuss psychedelics, the microbiome, caffeine, and how the unconscious dialogue between our body and brain impacts our thoughts and feelings. Pollan offers a hopeful perspective on how our relationship with plants and animals – including other humans, can lead us to a healthier, and far richer experience of life.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) Michael Pollan
(00:02:50) Wendell Berry, Nature
(00:06:30) Consciousness; Sentience
(00:10:04) Environmental Response, Plant Intelligence; Self-Recognition
(00:13:52) Sponsors: Eight Sleep & Rorra
(00:20:49) Plants, Communication, Sentience, Symbiosis
(00:27:37) Self-Awareness, Time; Xenobots, Instinct
(00:34:32) Microbiome, Influence & Symbiosis
(00:40:28) Meaning; Cortex vs Brain Stem, Homeostatic Feelings
(00:47:17) Sponsor: AG1
(00:48:36) Body & Brain Communication, Vagus Nerve
(00:57:21) Collective Consciousness, Psychedelics, Ego, Awe
(01:08:14) Filter Theories of Consciousness
(01:13:28) Sponsor: Function
(01:15:06) AI, Consciousness, Feelings; Memory; Quantum Effects
(01:21:27) Childhood, Gardening, Interacting with Nature
(01:27:08) Hope, Nature & Agency, Food Industry
(01:32:21) Advocacy, Psychedelics, Food Industry
(01:39:50) Sponsor: Mateina
(01:44:52) Psychedelics, Ibogaine, Veterans, Politics; MDMA, Psilocybin; Risk
(01:52:18) Caffeine, Caffeine Fast, Health Benefits
(02:00:21) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter
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