Dr. Neil Theise: Overcome the Illusion of Separation

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Dr. Neil Theise (professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine) joins us to discuss how his adult stem cell and interstitium research led him to his "theory of everything", how complexity actually helps simplify our understanding of the universe, the illusion that humans are separate individual beings, and the scientific explanation of mysticism. He explains why philosophy, religion, and quantum mechanics fall short without incorporating intuition and human experience, how low-level randomness allows for adaptation, and why we can’t live forever no matter what we do. Dr. Theise opens up about his mother’s metaphysical experience with talking to dead people, his depression that stemmed from coming to terms with his sexuality, the impact of being a child of Holocaust survivors, and where his personal faith comes into play within his scientific work. He also breaks down healers and shamanism, chaos and information theories, the real definition of compassion, and the function and importance of microbiomes.

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0:00.0	You two are sitting there and you look like objects in your room and I'm over here and
0:07.7	if you bring the same room, it might be a third object in your room.
0:10.8	Our boundaries are our skin and that's the way we think of ourself.
0:14.2	But at the cellular level, where are our boundaries?
0:16.7	So you're setting skin cells into the environment all the time.
0:20.3	The dust in your room is in large part just your dead skin cells, which is a little disgusting,
0:25.4	but I'm a pathologist so I can put it in.
0:27.7	I'm okay with it.
0:30.5	But now we know about the microbiome, which are the bacteria and other living things that
0:35.8	line the surfaces of your body and all the crevices inside your body.
0:41.2	And we know that without our microbiome, if we were completely sterile, we would die within
0:46.2	days.
0:47.2	Our skin would start to crack, we'd get infections, we'd be unable to absorb food, our immune
0:52.9	systems would go haywire.
0:55.4	So we're not a living human body without our microbiome.
0:59.2	And current estimates are 50% of your cells, your human cells and 50% of your living body
1:06.0	necessarily are these bacteria and other stuff.
1:09.5	So at the cellular level, where are your boundaries?
1:12.5	All the people who share a home and their pets all share a single microbiome.
1:20.5	You come in with your own microbiomes, but in a very short time, this has been studied
1:24.6	and measured, your microbiomes emerge into one single system.
1:28.4	So at the cellular level, where are your boundaries?
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