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Daniel Oblak

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
192 total appearances

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The Last Show with David Cooper
Daniel Oblak: You Emit A Visible Light - January 9, 2026

For example, bird navigation is probably the most commonly and well-established area.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Daniel Oblak: You Emit A Visible Light - January 9, 2026

So in order to sense a magnetic field, the birds use sort of molecules that have spins in them that depend on, they can sort of feel which direction the magnetic field is.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Daniel Oblak: You Emit A Visible Light - January 9, 2026

But of course, you know,

The Last Show with David Cooper
Daniel Oblak: You Emit A Visible Light - January 9, 2026

When we're thinking about quantum mechanics in the brain, you could ask ourselves, well, first of all, does it play a role?

The Last Show with David Cooper
Daniel Oblak: You Emit A Visible Light - January 9, 2026

Is there a reason to believe it plays a role?

The Last Show with David Cooper
Daniel Oblak: You Emit A Visible Light - January 9, 2026

And yeah, there are unanswered questions in neuroscience, you know, the question of consciousness.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Daniel Oblak: You Emit A Visible Light - January 9, 2026

anesthesia and the binding problem where you can say, okay, this is not really answered.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Daniel Oblak: You Emit A Visible Light - January 9, 2026

So let's enroll quantum mechanics and see if that could help.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Daniel Oblak: You Emit A Visible Light - January 9, 2026

And, you know, these spooky things that, you know, entanglement sounds a little bit like something like consciousness, but, you know, this is more like hypothesis.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Daniel Oblak: You Emit A Visible Light - January 9, 2026

And then we're looking for, okay, what is it that transmits this information?

The Last Show with David Cooper
Daniel Oblak: You Emit A Visible Light - January 9, 2026

And that's where these photons could come into play.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Daniel Oblak: You Emit A Visible Light - January 9, 2026

If

The Last Show with David Cooper
Daniel Oblak: You Emit A Visible Light - January 9, 2026

you know, all living processes, all living beings emit light even very dimly.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Daniel Oblak: You Emit A Visible Light - January 9, 2026

Well, let me say something unspooky.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Daniel Oblak: You Emit A Visible Light - January 9, 2026

Biochemistry.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Daniel Oblak: You Emit A Visible Light - January 9, 2026

Scary, yes, but spooky, not necessarily.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Daniel Oblak: You Emit A Visible Light - January 9, 2026

I mean, we could think of it a little bit like... So what is happening is that when we metabolize in our body, we're...

The Last Show with David Cooper
Daniel Oblak: You Emit A Visible Light - January 9, 2026

It's a form of combustion, right?

The Last Show with David Cooper
Daniel Oblak: You Emit A Visible Light - January 9, 2026

I mean, it's energy being converted from chemical energy to another form of energy.

The Last Show with David Cooper
Daniel Oblak: You Emit A Visible Light - January 9, 2026

And so it involves reaction, chemical reactions.