#156 - Meet The Greatest Time Neuroscientist You’ve Never Heard Of

<p>🧠 JOIN THE GIANT&#39;S SHOULDER FAMILY</p><p>Become a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇 </p><p>https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/join</p><p><br></p><p>Dean Buonomano is a UCLA neuroscientist and one of the first researchers to ask how the brain encodes time. His work overturned a century-old assumption — that somewhere in your head sits a central clock — by showing that timing falls out of the dynamics of neural circuits themselves. He wrote the bestseller Your Brain Is a Time Machine, then took the argument to physics, co-authoring a paper with Carlo Rovelli on whether the past still exists. He is a presentist in a field that mostly isn&#39;t.</p><p><br></p><p>Expect to learn:</p><p>- The clockless brain: why there is no central timer anywhere in your head</p><p>- Timing in a dish: how isolated brain tissue can be taught intervals</p><p>- Death and religion: how foresight forced our ancestors to invent the afterlife</p><p>- The ten-second test: the one simple thing no language model can do</p><p>- Pause the computer: the thought experiment that breaks state-based theories of consciousness</p><p><br></p><p>SPONSORS</p><p>Get Jenni Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off) - http://jenni.ai/?utm_source=youtube&amp;utm_medium=inf&amp;utm_campaign=thegiantsshoulder</p><p><br></p><p>GS EPISODES MENTIONED</p><p>György Buzsáki - Meet the Neuroscientist Who Discovered That Waves Produce Memory, Spacetime and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/95FFRTIiLDY</p><p><br></p><p>Joseph LeDoux - Meet The World&#39;s Greatest Emotion Neuroscientist You&#39;ve Never Heard Of: https://youtu.be/u_yCcxQsKn0</p><p><br></p><p>Michael Levin - Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces &amp; Xenobots: https://youtu.be/LTBZRVKUwyM</p><p><br></p><p>Michael Levin &amp; Earl Miller - Meet the Scientist Showing Every Cell In Your Body is Conscious!: https://youtu.be/eNi-_2cOVtc</p><p><br></p><p>Anil Seth - No. 1 Consciousness Expert: Optical Illusions that Prove Reality is a Lie, Emotions, Books and AI!: https://youtu.be/lOSA06K0l1o</p><p><br></p><p>GUEST LINKS</p><p>UCLA Neurobiology Profile: https://neurobio.ucla.edu/people/dean-buonomano-phd</p><p>Buonomano Lab: http://www.buonomanolab.com/</p><p>X: https://x.com/DeanBuono</p><p>Bridging the Neuroscience and Physics of Time (with Carlo Rovelli): https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01976</p><p><br></p><p>LISTEN ON</p><p>YouTube - https://youtu.be/G2LaKtxUng0</