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#152 - Meet The Biophysicist Who Accidentally Discovered Telepathy

#152 - Meet The Biophysicist Who Accidentally Discovered Telepathy

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Luca Turin is a biophysicist who has spent thirty years arguing
that the nose reads a molecule's vibrations rather than its
shape, published in Nature at twenty-three, and co-wrote the
definitive critical guide to perfume with his wife Tania Sanchez.
The vibrational theory of olfaction was declared dead twice
before he revived it, and he is still waiting for the one
experiment that would settle it. His newest result has nothing to
do with smell: fruit flies sealed in separate opaque wells, with
no sight, sound or scent between them, coordinate their movement
anyway — and the coordination vanishes the moment the plate is
made of metal. This is a scientist who went looking for
anaesthesia and found something that looks like insect telepathy.

Expect to learn why creating a smell stimulus is nothing like
creating a colour, how a startup elicited smell sensations with
ultrasound for the first time in history, why the only two
chemical groups in the universe that share one vibration are also
the only two that smell of rotten eggs, how a receptor could read
vibrations with no lenses or prisms anywhere in your nose, why
the famous "trillion smells" figure was a mathematical error, why
nobody in pharmacology can predict what a drug will do once it
binds, how Google Quantum AI's xenon question led to fruit flies,
what happened when the plates were swapped for aluminium, why
radio frequency would be the perfect brain-wide reward signal,
and much more…

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GS EPISODES MENTIONED

Earl K Miller - Meet the MIT Neuroscientist Showing Brain Waves
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Marjorie Woollacott - Neuroscientist: "Your Brain Doesn't Create
Consciousness" — NDEs, Telepathy and Terminal Lucidity:
https://youtu.be/mDWtmfmIUHA

GUEST LINKS

Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fgXXdQYAAAAJ

Wi-Fly Project: https://wi-fly.eu/

X: https://x.com/LucaTurin

Substack: https://lucaturin.substack.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lucaturin

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00:00 Trailer

0:02:20 Biophysicists Are Dreamers, Biologists Are Doomed

0:07:07 The Startup That Triggered Smells With Ultrasound

0:12:22 The Rotten-Egg Coincidence That Convinced Him

0:18:34 What The Receptor Is Actually Reading

0:19:54 Electron Tunnelling, Explained Simply

0:23:33 The Trillion-Smells Figure Was A Maths Error

0:28:21 What Perfumers Perceive That You Don't

0:32:14 Why Every Drug Receptor Might Be Electrical

0:33:12 The Mystery Nobody Admits: Drug Efficacy

0:39:28 "Cascade" Is A Word That Masks Ignorance

0:44:04 The Receptor As A Transistor

0:48:40 Google Quantum AI And The Xenon Puzzle

0:52:24 Two Years Of Work, A Definite Maybe

0:53:55 30 Flies Freeze Like The Guards At Buckingham Palace

0:55:28 One Fly Per Well, No Way To Communicate

0:56:17 To My Total Astonishment, They Coordinate

0:58:45 Metal Plates Kill The Signal

0:59:36 The Wi-Fly: A Radio Network For Flies

1:11:26 Radical Pairs: How A Fly Could Listen

1:16:34 What Is The Brain's Reward Signal?

1:19:59 Standing Waves And The Binding Problem

1:23:58 Could Humans Ever Do This?

1:27:46 Ramanujan And Latent Abilities

1:36:16 Giving Fruit Flies DMT

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