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

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

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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't.

Expect to learn:

- The clockless brain: why there is no central timer anywhere in
your head

- Timing in a dish: how isolated brain tissue can be taught
intervals

- Death and religion: how foresight forced our ancestors to
invent the afterlife

- The ten-second test: the one simple thing no language model can
do

- Pause the computer: the thought experiment that breaks
state-based theories of consciousness

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GUEST LINKS

UCLA Neurobiology Profile:
https://neurobio.ucla.edu/people/dean-buonomano-phd

Buonomano Lab: http://www.buonomanolab.com/

X: https://x.com/DeanBuono

Bridging the Neuroscience and Physics of Time (with Carlo
Rovelli): https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01976

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00:00 Trailer

0:02:01 The Brain Has No Central Clock

0:04:17 How Neural Population Clocks Work

0:05:40 Teaching Brain Tissue To Tell Time

0:06:57 Prediction Is Really About When

0:09:10 Even Bacteria Keep Time

0:10:27 Mental Time Travel Built Civilisation

0:11:39 Realising You'll Die Invented Religion

0:14:57 Squirrels Don't Actually Plan Ahead

0:18:19 Waking Up Before Your Alarm

0:23:29 Why Time Is Central To Consciousness

0:24:01 Block Universe vs Only Now

0:29:24 The Runner Who Lost Time

0:33:18 Why Marathons Destroy Time Perception

0:37:18 The Memories With No Timestamp

0:42:02 Your Brain Runs Many Clocks

0:43:31 AI Cannot Wait Ten Seconds

0:45:38 How Transformers Deleted Time

0:49:29 What If You Paused The Computer?

0:53:05 Could We Ever Build Conscious AI?

0:58:17 Arguing About Time With Carlo Rovelli

1:01:40 A Time Traveller Would Prove Me Wrong

1:07:05 You Can't Measure Time With Time

1:12:25 Which Theory Of Consciousness Is Right?

1:21:55 Why We Invented The Soul

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