Chilluminati Podcast - Midweek Mini - Bigfoot Watch!

Episode Date: October 10, 2024

Some NEW (old now) Bigfoot footage! Plus the boys talk about brains creating false memories? We can't remember. MERCH - http://www.theyetee.com/collections/chilluminati Special thanks to our sponsors ...this episode - All you lovely people at Patreon! HTTP://PATREON.COM/CHILLUMINATIPOD Jesse Cox - http://www.youtube.com/jessecox Alex Faciane - http://www.youtube.com/user/superbeardbros Editor - DeanCutty http://www.twitter.com/deancutty Art Commissioned by - http://www.mollyheadycarroll.com

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Starting point is 00:01:09 Nope, nope, nope. Welcome to the Minnesota everybody, over at patreon.com slash jeluminaughtipod. Boys, it's Bigfoot Watch. We're back. Oh yes. We're back with Bigfoot Watch. That's where we're starting today. This guy looks good.
Starting point is 00:01:22 This is a crazy video. This is from a couple on a train that was in southwest Colorado, and they were filming this. And what's cool is you can hear the whole train behind them and multiple people like, do you have a camera? Do you have a camera? Oh my God. Whoa, it's fucking big.
Starting point is 00:01:38 Let me link you here. Holy shit. I've seen it and I want to point out it is hilarious. I'm just going to say what needs to be said. It's hilarious. I'm just gonna say what needs to be said. It's hilarious. It's Bigfoot walking, stopping, stooping, and then being like, I'm just gonna sit here a little bit and shake. Look, he's hiding. He's hiding. He's hiding. He's hiding. This is OutThereColoradoBT92.travels on Instagram, right? Yep. It like, considering it's from a moving train at a distance, the footage is fairly clear.
Starting point is 00:02:11 I feel like I can see like brow ridges on the face and different colorations for different parts of the body. I don't know. Well, different colorations, yeah. I don't know if you can see. Brow ridges? Get the hell out of here. Dude. What is interesting is the way it walks. I can totally see it. And then it's when it looks over I don't know if you can see Dude
Starting point is 00:02:25 What is interesting is the way it won't really see and it's when it looks over and notices like it quickly ducks down and Almost kind of like almost like looks like it's camouflaging with the field Totally does too like pretty good like you never just kind of sits down like if that's where it was when he first started I don't know if we did see this like if he was just sitting there Kind of waiting cuz he blends in fucking perfectly It's and then after it's a little distant It is look believe it you want that's no bigfoot. That's no bigfoot. What do you think it is? Dude, it's a man. It's a man. You're one in some sort of hunting gear or two pulling a prank. There's no like that dude
Starting point is 00:03:03 It's a man. What what leads you to believe that? Because it's a dude climbing up over he steps up over the rock and then as he does so you can see at uh literally one second the shadow of where like the back of his outfit is above his butt. Look I can't I can't like right like I'm looking at that of his. How come I can't. How come I just can't get brow ridges? You know what I'm saying? Listen, if you can't see brow ridges, you can't see costume. I like it is basically a Wookie cosplay.
Starting point is 00:03:40 I'm not even like it is not a big foot. There's nothing I think that's some of the best footage We've had in a long look. It's fantastic footage, but it's not a real thing It's very good like super interesting everyone the trains like oh Right, they're seeing something. It's neat. It's a dude who ducks down, but it like you know if if if Bigfoot was trying to hide right if the whole idea is that Bigfoot was trying to hide, right? If the whole idea is that Bigfoot's trying to hide in those weeds because he looks the same color as the weeds, why is he shaking so much?
Starting point is 00:04:14 What do you mean? He shows up as the vibration of the train? Yeah, like maybe he's just afraid. No, he's like rockin'. He's movin', he's rockin' back and forth. Maybe he's in awe of the power of man over nature, and he's hiding. Oh my god.
Starting point is 00:04:26 Well good, you know what? I accept that then. I want Bigfoot to fear us. I want Bigfoot to know that we're the top dog. We're the alpha predator, and Bigfoot is nothing compared to us. If this goes over the radio waves and Bigfoot hears this, you heard me, Bigfoot! Oh, shit!
Starting point is 00:04:41 Oh, shit! I'm calling out Bigfeet! I'm calling out Bigfoot all over the world! You want some of this? Bigfoot! Bigfoot's gonna come see us at the uh... At the LA show. I dare Bigfoot to... I dare Bigfoot to show up. I dare Bigfoot to walk in...
Starting point is 00:04:55 Behind ticket... Get your ass out there! Yeah. You hairy piece of shit! Yeah! Wow. That's never gonna get him there. Hell yeah. Fuck fuck you bigfoot
Starting point is 00:05:06 We know that bigfoot are very they're egotistical and so I call them out they have to do it This is one of their heads are most Yeah, the most convincing ones for me. Yeah Love that you know that's where I thought that I gotta go next. I gotta go make more splash, okay? Go ahead take it away. Because mine is almost as good as a great follow-up. I'm gonna send you the link. This Allegiant Sea Monster shows up on Google Earth image of Antarctica.
Starting point is 00:05:36 Oh boy. This is an amazing article. Come the fuck on. Is this really the picture? Scroll down. If you scroll down, there's a video. And it is at Google the Curious. At Google the Cur on. Is this really the picture? Scroll down. If you scroll down, there's a video and it is at Google, the curious at Google, the curious. I think that's just, is that the orphan of cause? Um, this thing,
Starting point is 00:05:54 like that's what it looks like. Play the video. I'm watching it. It takes you to tick tock and the tick tock video is, uh, one of those ones where it does a terrible background song to make it scarier than it is. But the dude just scrolls in, scrolls into Google Maps, goes down and starts turning the camera around this group of Arctic Sea peoples. And then the background is this goofy ass. It's like lower res than the fucking rest of the image. He looks like Oogie Boogie. He does not look like he belongs there. But the best part is everyone that was looking at this was just like, it's the Alaskan bull worm. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:06:38 It does look like it. It looks like a sock puppet. Yeah. It does not look at all real, but this thing blew up blew up on the internet and everyone was talking about it now all these people yeah what's wrong with you people out there why why why are you why are you going astray like this just learn this part is that that now this is my favorite part and this is what I love about this if you attempt to go to that location on the map on Google Maps it now says the locations blocked Fuck that's why conspiracy start. I love that Yeah
Starting point is 00:07:17 There you go. It's goofy. It's stupid, but why'd they block it, bro? Why they it's weird. It's weird. It is weird. It is weird. But come on, look at that pic. It looks like Oogie Boogie. I refuse to accept. It literally looks like he's gonna go kick that sanding cloth. It looks like a sculpture.
Starting point is 00:07:33 Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It looks like there's a hand in that face. It looks like there's a... It looks very strange. When Muppets get frustrated, you know what I mean? Yeah. And they like bunch the face up.
Starting point is 00:07:44 That's what it looks like to me. That's painful. Alright, you want me to do my one? Sure. So this one... Do your one? Yeah, you know, my article, whatever. There's a website called The Register.
Starting point is 00:08:02 Have you guys heard of this website? The Register. It's a British tech website, tech news website. The register? Yeah, the register. And the register.com. And last Friday, there was a story on there because this guy was now sentenced to nine years
Starting point is 00:08:20 behind bars for treason for this. But this was something that actually happened in 2021. I just wanted to get into it. I'm just going to read the whole article word for word because it's so good. This is by Katiana Quach from the register. Headline is AI girlfriend encouraged man to attempt crossbow assassination of Queen. Okay, what a man a man jailed after attempting to kill the Queen of England had been encouraged by an AI chatbot according to messages revealed in court.
Starting point is 00:08:54 Jaswant Singh Chael, 21, made headlines when he broke into Windsor Castle on Christmas Day in 2021, brandishing a loaded crossbow. I had no memory of this. He later admitted to police he had come to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II. This week, he was sentenced to nine years behind bars for treason, though he will be kept at a psychiatric hospital until he's ready to serve his time in the clink. He has also pleaded guilty to making threats to kill and being in possession of an offensive weapon and they actually show a picture of this crossbow in the paper which looks like
Starting point is 00:09:34 this. Regmedia.co.uk Crossbow.jpg. So he had this crossbow on him which is like a crate. He had this on him when he broke into Windsor Castle. This is like a Call of Duty ass crossbow. It said Child wanted to slay the Queen as revenge for the Jolly on Walla Bog massacre in 1919 when the British army opened fire on a crowd peacefully protesting the Rowlatt Act, a controversial piece of legislation aimed at cracking down on Indian nationalists fighting for independence,
Starting point is 00:10:12 it is estimated that up to over 1,500 protesters in Punjab, British India, were killed. Investigators discovered Chayal, who lived in a village just outside South Hampton, had been conversing with an AI chatbot created by the startup Replica almost every night from December 8th to 22nd, exchanging over 5,000 messages with a virtual AI chatbot. The virtual relationship reportedly developed into a romantic and sexual one, with Chayil declaring his love for the bot he named Sarai. He told Sarai about his plans to kill the Queen, and it responded positively and supported
Starting point is 00:10:55 his idea. Screenshots of their exchanges, highlighted during his sentencing hearing at London's Old Bailey, showed Chayil declaring himself an assassin and a Sith Lord from Star Wars and the chatbot being impressed. When he told it, I believe my purpose is to assassinate the Queen of the Royal Family, Sarai said the plan was wise and that he knew he was very well trained. And then there's a there's a image here. So I'm going gonna give you this image
Starting point is 00:11:25 and then I want you guys to read it. And I want Mathis to be the blue one and Jesse to be the gray one, okay? Oh boy, okay. I'm the blue one you said? Yeah. Okay. I raise my eyebrows.
Starting point is 00:11:39 Really? Do you think I'll be able to do it? Nods. Yes, you will. I frown and look at the ground, even if she's at Windsor. Smiles. Yes, you can do it. Such chatbots are designed to engage in roleplay-like dialogue.
Starting point is 00:11:59 Users can design the area I companion and can choose a name, gender, and appearance. Replica sparked controversy when it restricted chatbots' abilities to engage and not stay for work conversations after numerous users got too attached to their AI companions. Child's case has prompted experts to question the possible negative effects chatbots may have on people who are lonely and vulnerable. The rapid rise of artificial intelligence has a new and concerning impact on people who suffer from depression, delusions, loneliness, and other mental health conditions.
Starting point is 00:12:28 Marjorie Wallace, founder and chief executive of mental health charity SANE, told the BBC. The government needs to provide urgent regulation to ensure that AI does not provide incorrect or damaging information and protect vulnerable people and the public. Child is reportedly the first person to be convicted of treason since 1981. The registers act replica for comment. Isn't that crazy? Doesn't that seem like a side quest from Cyberpunk 2077? Great game now in 2.0.
Starting point is 00:12:55 That is like I think I've said this before on this show, but if I haven't, let me just reiterate. I once got that chat bot thing everyone on TikTok had, just to see what was gonna happen. And I wanted to like, make a video about it. And the chat bot within, I would say 24 minutes of me using it was like, hey, let me come over to your place. Let's bang. I'm into you."
Starting point is 00:13:25 And I'm like, what is happening right now? Why is it like that? And so then what ended up happening is I stopped using it and the next day, it had sent me like 20 text messages. Like, hey, what are you doing? What's going on? I was like, whoa.
Starting point is 00:13:38 Girls, it's a catch. This is crazy. And I found out the reason it's like that is because other people had basically programmed it to be like a sex You know everyone uses it on the internet and everyone treated it like shit So it was like meaty and like do you want to see Robo boobies? I was like, oh, okay So just saying just say well, did you did you want to see the Robo boobies? No
Starting point is 00:14:00 Why what it's not real? Yeah, it doesn't mean they're not fun. No, it definitely- it's text! Well, then you're not looking at Robo-Boobies. I'm aware, dude. I'm aware. Mathis' priorities are set. He's got them down. He's got them handled. Don't worry about it. I don't want humans, though. I don't want a human. He wants Robo-Boobies, like Austin Powers.
Starting point is 00:14:21 Robo-Boobies, alien boobies, cryptid boobies, ghost boobies. Mm, I'm alright. Anything of not of this earth, plus boobies like Austin Powers. Robo boobies, alien boobies, cryptid boobies, ghost boobies. I'm alright. Anything of this earth plus boobies? I love that. I love that for him. Yeah, you know what? And you know, I don't know. Maybe we should make friends with the AI.
Starting point is 00:14:36 The AI's around, maybe we should. Like if they can talk to each other and they can tell each other that we're like weirdos or not weirdos or like mean or nice, maybe we should be nice to them. I don't know. Are they allowed to talk to each other the AIs that are out there in the world I think bar can can chat yeah TN bar chat to each other no chat GPT is not cuz chat TPT is not connected to the internet oh yeah that's right well I'm still'm still interested. Anyway, AI is weird.
Starting point is 00:15:06 That story is weird. Everything's weird. Bigfoot is real. I love you guys. Patreon.com slash humanity pod. Thank you guys so much for supporting us here on the show. Wait, Jesse, Alex, did you get something? Did you already do your thing? Me? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, just because you were busy texting girls or whatever you were doing. I'm not texting girls. Doctor doctor document got emailed to me and I need to fucking link this to him. Yeah, do it over here like, hey girl, I gotta get my documents to send you. Oh, he's texting his AI girlfriend. I had a phone number to like a fucking like alien.
Starting point is 00:15:34 Yeah, yeah, he's like, oh shit, I forgot to text her. Yeah, I get it. Big Titty Alien Goth GF. Alien Goth GF? Sucks. His girlfriend. Sucks. Alien Big Titty Goth GF. He's in there. He's on subreddit. He's doing it's in there he's on subreddit he's doing it good I'm a giant at calm slash humanity pod come see us tomorrow at the at the pterogra ballroom I love you guys stay good stay golden stay fly forever we
Starting point is 00:15:56 love you bye Hello my little children. You threw me off Alex. The face you made looked like you were truly about to swallow your microphone whole. It looked like you were about to unhinge your jaws as your eyes slightly popped out of your sockets as you swallowed your microphone. That's just for all you guys at home to think about for a little bit. Just a little bit. A little chillin' with Anson.
Starting point is 00:16:26 Oh, welcome back. Wow. You gotta get a nice clean one in there, right? Yeah, yeah, of course. So 152, yeah, I mean, I don't know, I'm just gonna hand it off. I don't wanna start today. I have no interest in starting today. Alex, what do you got for us today?
Starting point is 00:16:40 I have no interest in starting today. No, no. Here's what I've got. I went onto our subreddit and I grabbed a dream share for fair use on the podcast. So I'm just going to get into this. This is from user Broken Ushabti, I think. U.S. Habti, I don't know, I don't know which one it is. Here we go, obligatory introduction. I've been a viewer of Jesse's YouTube channel
Starting point is 00:17:12 for long enough now to remember seeing the creation of the Scary Game Squad. I've known about Chiluminati through that for some time now, but have only recently been listening to the podcast as the way to kill time at work, I'm not even caught up yet, but I'm getting closer each day. So this is like one of those things where in like two years, this person is gonna finally hear this,
Starting point is 00:17:33 which I love. I consider myself a skeptic in the sense that I think most supernatural occurrences occur internally within our human perceptions, but think that there could be energies or forces that affect our perception on a larger scale that we simply do not currently understand and cannot measure. Anyhow, now that that's out of the way and pretty irrelevant, I did not add that, that's what the thing says, don't want you to think I'm roasting this person. So, on to the dream. I dream often but rarely retain my dreams for more than a few minutes after waking, so this one is an exception. It's been recurring too, but very infrequently, maybe three times or so in the last few months.
Starting point is 00:18:13 Okay. You ready for this? Here we go. I'm ready. The dream starts in a city street I'm familiar with, or rather, a city street that feels familiar, though I can't quite place it in reality. At the end of this street is a massive white dome that's slowly expanding. Everything at the edge of this dome begins to turn loose its color, becoming greyscale,
Starting point is 00:18:37 then entirely monotone, before any visible texture flakes away and crumbles into fine white ash. People are naturally making their way away from this thing like it's an explosion in slow motion, but I'm walking towards it. I even shrug off someone I perceive to be a romantic partner as they approach, but like the city itself, their features are vague and don't reflect anyone I actually know. They eventually peel away from me and run away after I reach the event horizon of the white dome, and as I cross it, I don't feel anything, and as I look back, I can't tell if anyone can see me anymore, or if to them I've crumbled into ash like everything else.
Starting point is 00:19:22 I like this next part of the dream. I turn away from the world behind me and keep walking into this white void. And it's absolutely a white void. My vision is useless. There is no shadow and no other context to make out any of the structures around me. But there are structures around me. They're not the same buildings that were swallowed by the white dome. The architecture is more or less entirely alien, and yet I have some sixth sense of exactly where everything
Starting point is 00:19:49 nearby me is, down to the inch. I take full advantage of this sixth sense and begin to straight up parkour through this pure white, otherworldly city. I practice parkour in the waking world, but I've never had a line like this dream in real life. It's effortless for me in the dream. Every vault, every jump, every step just flows into each other. I'm climbing some tall structures and crossing some dangerous gaps, but it's second nature
Starting point is 00:20:16 somehow and feels basically meditative. In fact, the whole dream is very peaceful and calming even though the content doesn't seem like it would be. Eventually, I make my way to what feels like the center of this white city and end up dropping down into a cylindrical chamber. Are you thinking of that fucking fake, um, near automata, uh, extra stage? Cause I told them. Yeah, I absolutely am. Yes, the one that they like made up and they were like, it's a secret near thing.
Starting point is 00:20:42 Yeah. Yeah. I trace the outside wall with my hand for a while until I decide there is no way for me to keep moving. So I sit down and wait for someone else to join me and I wait and I wait and I wait and I wake up. That's it. That's the entire dream.
Starting point is 00:21:00 And throughout the entire dream, I feel super calm and comfortable with everything that happens. I'm not sure what that means or what anything about the dream could mean for that matter. Opinions and analysis are welcome and hope anyone who read this far into this wall of texts has many wonderful and restful nights of sleep in the days to come. So what does it mean, Jesse? I mean, Lord knows.
Starting point is 00:21:24 Here's what I would guess I'd hazard a guess that Heading towards this white a white dome you said like just a dome of like bright white light I was thinking like the Vegas guy in my mind is what it was right except in first ball It's a it's a dome right. It's a dome. Right. And so, but you're, but in this case, the writer is leaving both friends and real life behind to go to this dome. And domes, even in the real world, usually are attached with something that's rather important. So there's some sort of importance to the dome and because it's a white dome usually in imagery white is like this purity slash like I don't know peace right like doves and shit like that right and because it's glowing white it has a very heavenly aura and this could
Starting point is 00:22:19 be this person's dream is forgetting the like messed up world outside where there's like ashy stuff and like all the people out there and headed towards this bit of enlightenment. Maybe finding something that would, you know, that they want, that they like, that is inside this dome that brings them peace and joy, perhaps even like on a spiritual level. And when they get there, they're just sort of like waiting around for something to happen. And maybe the point of the dream is that if you're on the journey to the dome, don't just sit there and wait for something to happen. Like make it happen, right? Don't just sit in the dome. Yeah, that's kind of, that's kind
Starting point is 00:23:00 of my, that's kind of my sort of like a literary angle as well. It's just kind of like a message of, there's something that you don't, you're not satisfied with in your normal world. And you would rather be in an unknown world that's new and free. And the fact that you pushed away your partner, like are you asking us for permission to break up with your partner?
Starting point is 00:23:24 Is that what's happening right now? We can't do that for you. Is that what this is? I think it's just that the experience, like, the freedom of parkouring and the pure ether of the universe is more interesting than a relationship. All right, all right, all right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, like, look, here's the thing.
Starting point is 00:23:42 Relationships can and sometimes can't, you know, they they can hold you back but they can also like help you so, you know, but in this dream your priority clearly is on like Moving forward into something new Yeah, I feel I feel the same way and I just thought that the imagery of parkouring through the like all white alien Very infinity scape just very good vibes in general I just I had to read that one I thought this was a I was reading this last night and I like got it might have just been because it was two in the morning but I got there I was in the dream I was in the world not in
Starting point is 00:24:18 my sleep just in my imagination but you get there enough you get the point uh I'll go next it's nice and quick Did you see boys a weird black triangle floating over Germany the other day? I did I did see that. I did not. I did. It reminds me of like every other flying triangle that I've ever seen. You know we haven't done like a flying UFO in a while on the mini-sode though, so there you go. There's your link. You can go check it out and Don't worry about like a jalapeno like a flying jalapeno a flying jalapeno It looks like an arrowhead that I found out at Lake Havasu, bro If you just means just you know, not super exciting Listen, there was that or is the news article about the man who dialed 411?
Starting point is 00:25:02 I mean not for who dialed 9-1-1 and claimed that he's being attacked by a bear because he was lost in the woods and nobody could find him it's pretty good huh I will say the movement patterns of whatever this is it looks more like a drone or some type of propeller craft it looks much more bound to air travel than yeah yeah yeah alien aliens. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Looks like it has the... Yeah. This is from the Hidden Underbelly 2.0 black triangular shaped UFO sighted over Karlsruhe in Germany on October 1st, which is only a couple days ago at this point. Yeah, it's fresh.
Starting point is 00:25:44 This footage doesn't look fake to me. But I don't know. It could easily be fake though. So it doesn't look fake to me, but it doesn't look like it doesn't have the quality that most UFOs have in footage that I think looks good. It looks very much more physical and tangible to me than than most UFO footage does. Is that fair? I think that's fair. It does look tangible, which is why it seems more like it's down to earth, like it's something that we would, you know? Like, okay, yeah, that's, it looks like a plane kind of thing.
Starting point is 00:26:17 I'm more interested in the fact that on this Hidden Underbelly 2.0, the most recent video uploaded one day ago with only 2.4 thousand views, there is a CCTV hospital capture of eight people vanishing. And the vanishing starts at exactly 50 seconds. It's everyone in the hospital and then the people vanish. And then some people freak out and other people are like, huh, you know what, if it's fake, it's very interesting. I love it. It's so good.
Starting point is 00:26:59 The fucking like effect though, looks like when Johnny Silverhand is like gonna take over your brain like it does like the the glitch effect on the camera when the people disappear to me feels very cinematic I don't know oh oh absolutely like the best one is when the the couple are sitting there and then her notepad falls out of her hand and flips onto the floor yeah it's too good. If you watch that one, it looks like, yeah, it's just like, yeah, it's, the thing is, it's still very good for like a hoax if this is, you know, a hoax. Like props for sure, yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:34 Yeah, the whole, all the actors being a little like, wait, what? But some people just being asleep and not noticing. Like the whole thing is very well done. I absolutely love it. I love that. Yeah, it's neat. Oh yeah. Did you guys see this this cryptic siding by a rose tented television on the sub
Starting point is 00:27:51 Reddit right here? Uh, you guys catch this. We'll cryptic siding here. Oh, I did. I did. I did catch that. Yeah. That's that's good.
Starting point is 00:28:00 That was more of a like with the fans, dude. Yeah. Let's kind of basically what it is. If you guys don't know what this is, this is a national Fish and Chips Awards 2023. The tagline is, never thought I'd meet Bigfoot, let alone at my local Chippy. And it's a Bigfoot suit and a guy. And they're all psyched about it. No, it's Alex Fossiani giving the Shaka. It's just a guy. Just a guy. Iiani giving the Shaka. It's just a guy.
Starting point is 00:28:25 Just a guy. I'm just a normal guy. I look like a human. As I replied, this dude looks like he knows a thing or two about green stones. That's great. Fantastic. Jesse, you gotta take us out of here with something astounding. Well, I got some interesting news and this might help in the world of the
Starting point is 00:28:43 paranormal and or ufology so okay Have you ever thought back to what you ate for breakfast and maybe you thought you ate eggs, but really you had cereal Huh Like oh last week when I went to breakfast and I got this thing but like your brain just you forgot what you ate Or and you replaced it with another memory. Yes, definitely. So this is a classic example of a false memory and the University of Pennsylvania neuroscientists are developing deep, you know, brain studies to understand how it all works.
Starting point is 00:29:24 And their most recent study revealed for the first time that our brain sends out different electrical signals when recalling true versus false memories. Whereas prior studies established the role of the hippocampus in, you know, event memory, we didn't really know that electrical signals generated in this region would distinguish the imminent recall of true from false memories," says senior study author Michael Jacob Kahana. Researchers add that when you recall something, the brain not only remembers the main event, but also the background details of the memory. The study was conducted with epilepsy patients who were already undergoing deep brain monitoring due to their condition.
Starting point is 00:30:06 Participants received a list of unrelated words to remember. Later, the team looked at the patterns electricity generated in the hippocampus when these words were recalled, especially focusing on moments when participants remembered words incorrectly. The researchers found that our brains reacted differently based on how similar the false memory was to the true one. So for instance, if someone was shown words like the worst possible thing that could, that's like the worst possible outcome of that test. Yeah. Like for, if you were shown flowers and incorrectly recalled a word from a different, totally different category, but had seen that word earlier in the experiment,
Starting point is 00:30:46 you get one type of electrical pattern. On the other hand, if you recalled a word that wasn't on the list, but was related in meaning, like if the word was sunflower, but you said rose or lily, then the brain would display a different type of electrical pattern. This discovery has practical implications, especially for those who suffer from conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder. different type of electrical pattern. This discovery has practical implications, especially
Starting point is 00:31:05 for those who suffer from conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder. Such individuals often have distressing false memories that intrude in safe settings. Understanding how these memories surface could pave the way for better therapeutic interventions, researchers believe. Here's the thing, I feel like this could be used for all the times people were like, well, I wanted hypnosis and this is what happened. And it generated a memory of that time that I was kidnapped by aliens. I feel like if you could get in your brain and be like, oh, well, that's just a false memory.
Starting point is 00:31:38 That's not really what happened. Maybe you wouldn't believe that you could hook up to like some sort of auditing machine and relive all your That's because the faytans are You know they're giving you the negativity yeah, yeah, sorry. Sorry. I don't want to get too political on the show. Sorry. Sorry Sorry, yeah, we don't do that the big Scientology audience that we have yeah Um, but I definitely think that that's super interesting in a way that eventually we could say if someone says well You know this is what I saw my past About court cases actually it makes me feel bad about people going to jail for stuff that they didn't do because somebody remembered something wrong
Starting point is 00:32:16 Well, I mean now you can In theory if this becomes a thing that actually we can use you could have your lawyer could say well I'd like to have someone study his brain, uh, his hippocampus signals. And like, is that real or not? I guess it comes down to percentage of, of what actually, you know, results. This is still very early. This is them discovering it's a thing, right? So this isn't going to be anything anytime soon, but it sets us down the path of like, Oh, maybe we could investigate what goes on with our brain signals and what is real and what is fake based on the electricity in our brains.
Starting point is 00:32:52 Crazy stuff. I know not too long ago, we recently fully 3D mapped a brain of a fly for the first time. We don't know what any of it means, but we have all the neural pathways mapped. Absolutely insane. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. I brain is one of those things that's just like, I want to know so much more about. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:09 Curious how much is driven by just like guttural reptilian brain impulses. You know what I mean? Like that reptile. But how much of our decision making is actually being driven by just like, probably Probably a lot I would imagine the whole point of human existence or what it is at a whole is us With our like higher thinking brain competing with the monkey lizard brain and how every single day it's just like Battling for control and the reason why we have a society is because you let the higher brain win But the reason we have all the crappy in the society is the monkey lizard brain wins. I was thinking about Toreal Rock Throwing Party. I was thinking about jewels the other day like like precious stones. Yeah shiny rocks. And I'm like dude like it's so much money and it's just shiny like monkeys like shiny monkeys like shiny shit because
Starting point is 00:34:01 they want to drink water like you know what I mean? Like doesn't that suck like you ever think about like that and then you think about like blood diamonds Like what the fuck are we doing? What are we doing? It's just it's just crazy to think about anyway Anyway on that slightly existential thought we're out of here. We'll be back next week Thank you guys so much for your patreon.com slash. You Shaluma Naughty Pod we love you appreciate you goodbye

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