# #110 - Meet the Neuroscientist Who Discovered That Waves Produce Memory, Spacetime and Consciousness

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Podcast: [Giants Shoulder](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-giants-shoulder-6943930)
Published: 2026-04-09T11:56:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/evanmcgloughlin/episodes/110---Meet-the-Neuroscientist-Who-Discovered-That-Waves-Produce-Memory--Spacetime-and-Consciousness-e3het99
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## Resource

Upgrade Your Shaving Experience With Henson (100 FREE BLADES): https://hensonshaving.com/thegiantsshoulder Dr. György Buzsáki is one of the world’s most influential neuroscientists and the author of The Brain from Inside Out — a radical rethinking of how the brain generates perception, memory, and consciousness. We’ve been asking the wrong questions about the mind. Memory isn’t storage. Perception isn’t passive. Time and space aren’t sensed — they’re constructed. And the rhythms of our own bodies may be the hidden scaffolding behind everything we think, feel, and remember. Expect to learn why the brain doesn’t record the world but predicts it, how neural rhythms act like syntax to structure our thoughts, why time is not an input but a product of the brain’s internal cycles, how space and memory emerge from the same temporal code, why consciousness might just be a performance built from nested oscillations, what happens when brain–body rhythms fall out of sync, how we can think about memory as musical replay not archival storage, how rhythm breakdown may underlie mental disorders, and much more … Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:22 The Evolution of Neuroscience Techniques 05:13 Understanding Feedforward Inhibition 08:13 The Paradigm Shift in Brain Function 12:07 The Role of Rhythms in Prediction 14:28 Overcoming Technological Barriers in Research 16:45 Mapping the Hippocampus and Microcircuitry 25:30 The Complexity of Brain Connectivity 26:24 The Future of Connectomics 34:36 The Inside Out Brain: A New Framework 42:28 The Brain's Survival Mechanism 45:00 Local and Global Brain Interactions 48:47 Evolution of Brain Complexity 52:56 Inside-Out Thinking in Neuroscience 59:32 The Importance of Body Rhythms 01:17:42 The Interconnectedness of Mind and Body 01:26:43 Understanding Br…

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