"Brave New World" - Real History with Melissa - Ep. 93 - November 21, 2024

Why is Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", written in 1931 and published in 1932, still significant today? - 1958 Mike Wallace interview with Huxley - The 1962 Berkeley speech. - What are some ways in which Aldous Huxley's writing might have been shaped by family breeding, class, and education? - Huxley's use of LSD and mescalin. - What are some of the downsides of the intensive "inbreeding" in the upper classes? - "Everyone belongs to everyone else." - Some letters that Aldous wrote his brother Julian (first president of UNESCO, birth control, coined term "transhumanism") - What are some ideas that Huxley conveys about the individual in Brave New World? - The technologies that exist to rewire and control us. - Perpetual childhood. "Ending is better than mending." - The importance of standardized behavior and stability in a Utopian system. - Hallucinogenic drugs: can they deliver a genuine spiritual experience? - Why do the billionaire philanthropists always have the same concerns? Overpopulation, birth control, saving the Earth. What book is Nick Heys covering right now on his channel Heys Reviews?

Cutting Through the Matrix
https://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/

Nick Heys - Heys Reviews
https://www.youtube.com/@HEYSREVIEWS

May 18, 1958, Mike Wallace Interviewed Aldous Huxley About Threats To Freedom, Propaganda & More
https://archive.org/details/youtube-B1ToUzy4fi0

Aldous Huxley - The Ultimate Revolution 'Brave New World' (Berkeley Speech 1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WaUkZXKA30

A New Frontier: The Convergence of Nanotechnology, Brain Machine Interfaces, and Artificial Intelligence
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6250836/

Constructing organoid-brain-computer interfaces for neurofunctional repair after brain injury
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53858-2

Designing Brain-Computer Interfaces That Connect Neurons to the Digital World
https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/designing-brain-computer-interfaces-connect-neurons-digital-world

Thinker invariance: enabling deep neural networks
for BCI across more people
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/abb7a7/pdf

Self-Assembly of DNA Molecules: Towards DNA Nanorobots for Biomedical Applications
https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/2021/9807520

Asking Ai To Make A Hit Country Song Called Driveway!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpBVDSJorlU

[Book Club] Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Session One (Chapters 1-3) ft. Jay Dyer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=C0rdl1lMGic&list=PLWSZ77eh_iflbnB5RDJyp7ziObshA2Fzi&index=1