Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke

Shamil Chandaria is an expert in artificial intelligence and computational neuroscience as well as an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and meditator, and is also a good friend. He was a founder of the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London, the world's first psychedelic research centre, He provides funding for the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford University as well as for research on the neuroscience of meditation at Harvard University and UC Berkeley. In 2022 he was awarded an OBE in the UK for services to Science and Technology, Finance and Philanthropy. Today we talk about one of the topics he is most passionate about, the connections between awakening and the contemporary model of the brain as a prediction machine. Shamil Chandaria is an expert in artificial intelligence and computational neuroscience as well as an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and meditator, and is also a good friend. He was a founder of the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London, the world's first psychedelic research centre. He provides funding for the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford University as well as for research on the neuroscience of meditation at Harvard University and UC Berkeley. In 2022 he was awarded an OBE in the UK for services to Science and Technology, Finance and Philanthropy. Today we talk about one of the topics he is most passionate about, the connections between awakening and the contemporary model of the brain as a prediction machine. The Bayesian Brain and Meditation talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg3cQXf4zSE&ab_channel=ShamilChandaria https://www.youtube.com/@ShamilChandaria

I'm very pleased to announce the creation of the Innerspace Institute. The institute will have both an online presence at innerspaceinstitute.org and a physical base at The Surrender Homestead in the mountains of southern Portugal. We conduct scientific research on consciousness, altered states, & psychedelics and will be offering courses on the brain, consciousness, complexity science, & scientific approaches to spirituality, as well as the neuroscience of cognition, emotion, psychedelics, & meditation. Join the mailing list now at innerspaceinstitute.org/contact to make sure you don't miss out on our upcoming offerings. @innerspaceinstitue on Instagram @innerspaceinst on Twitter

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Paco Calvo is a Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Murcia in Spain where he runs the Minimal Intelligence Lab, also known as MINTlab. He is a leading figure in the philosophy of plant behaviour and signalling, a field also known as plant neurobiology. His research is situated at the intersection of plant biology and cognitive science, and he is the author of the new book planta sapiens. Today we discuss plant intelligence and the possibility of plant consciousness.

Comedian Duncan Trussell discusses impending fatherhood, DMT, ketamine, and the bhakti yoga path of love. Topics explored include the power of love and mindfulness, blending science and spirituality, speculations on the DMT realm and the Bardo in Tibetan Buddhism, projection and fabrication in society, and the benefits and mechanisms of ketamine in psychotherapy.

Apologies for the audio issues in this episode, I've attempted to filter out the noise. The tech issue will be fixed for the next episode. topics in order addressed: wu wei, nondual intimacy, how to keep one's heart open in hell, fatherhood, conscious subjects, process philosophy, lmitations of the words 'feelings', 'body' and 'mind'

In this AMA I share thoughts on Love, nonduality, Fasting, top-down causality, free will, ideas & social change, panexperientialism, and Highlights from my time podcasting.

Rosalind Watts is a clinical psychologist working on psychedelic therapy. She has worked as the Clinical Lead for Imperial College London's pioneering trial of psilocybin for depression and now works as the Clinical Director at Synthesis Institute, a psilocybin retreat in the Netherlands. Dr Watts's research focuses primarily on the mechanisms of psychedelic therapy, where she has explored the importance of acceptance, connection, and embodiment, which make up her ACE model of psychedelic integration. She has recently launched the ACER Integration community, an approach to psychedelic integration with a strong focus on nature connectedness.

In this AMA I answer questions on fear of death, wearables, healing in traumatic environments, bitcoin, & procrastination