Joel Pearson

And that's what the world needs right now.

Thank you for helping the change happen and helping this mission at the moment.

Thank you.

Some people are predicting we're going to have like the world is going to be tiled with these data centers and they require a lot of power and the chips need water cooling.

So the water has to come in, cool them and then go back out again.

The overall energy demand is just going to be massive.

We had to sort of take someone's word for it, that that's what they were imagining.

That's what their experience was like.

I'm a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of New South Wales.

It was almost an accidental discovery.

I was programming an experiment.

And it's an amazing illusion where you present very different pictures, one to each eye.

Right, your brain's fusing those two different images together.

But like... When those images are very different, like this experiment, your brain can't do that.

So instead... You get these beautiful oscillations.

So literally your consciousness is changing back and forward in this sort of really random manner.

So I was programming an experiment to look at that.

And for some reason, and today I don't remember why, I thought, huh, I'm going to imagine one of these two pictures.

What?

No, this can't be.