Joe Rogan Experience #2496 - Julia Mossbridge

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   Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night. All day. [upbeat music] Hello, Julia.

4. JMJulia Mossbridge0:14

   Hello, Joe.

5. JRJoe Rogan0:14

   Pleasure to meet you.

6. JMJulia Mossbridge0:16

   Yeah, I'm very excited.

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   So you said you had questions for me?

8. JMJulia Mossbridge0:19

   Yeah.

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   We can start with your questions.

10. JMJulia Mossbridge0:20

    Excellent. Um-

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    First of all, tell everybody what you do.

12. JMJulia Mossbridge0:23

    Okay. Let me just change the angle of this.

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    Just so f- folks just tuning in right now are gonna like, "Who is this young lady?"

14. JMJulia Mossbridge0:29

    [laughs] Thank you.

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    "What do you do?"

16. JMJulia Mossbridge0:30

    I'm a year younger than you. [laughs]

17. JRJoe Rogan0:32

    [laughs] There you go. Then you're young.

18. JMJulia Mossbridge0:35

    Nice. Um, what do I do? I am... As, I was trained as a scientist, cognitive neuroscience and computer science, and, uh, did some AI stuff, did some stuff with the human brain in terms of trying to understand how time works in the human brain. And then I got really interested in how funky time works in the human brain, like precognition-

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    Mm

20. JMJulia Mossbridge0:58

    ... which is, of course, predicting future events in ways that we don't normally think about.

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    That's how I found out about you, yeah.

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    That's you, is the Popular Mechanics article.

23. JRJoe Rogan1:06

    Yeah, believe so.

24. JMJulia Mossbridge1:07

    Yeah.

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    And then a bunch of other stuff that I looked at.

26. JMJulia Mossbridge1:09

    And then a bunch of other stuff, yeah.

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    Yeah.

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    And then I got interested in just the idea of exce- what we call exceptional human performance. So, um, I actually don't think it's that exceptional. I think people have these capacities, and they've been dampened down. And, uh, they're in us, and they can be developed, and some people have them just sort of naturally. I'm a person who has some of them just naturally, not all of them. But there are people all over who have these different gifts, and, and how does that work? And so that became a question that was interesting to me.

29. JRJoe Rogan1:36

    Well, it's always interesting when it's this, this question is asked by an actual scientist. So you approach it by let's, let's try to gather data. Let's try to find out what we can actually show. Because so many people have feelings that there's something else. Like there's, you have intuition, you have some sort of pre-knowledge of events and some feeling of something. You're thinking of someone and they call you. Is that real? You know, that, that kind of stuff has always puzzled people.

30. JMJulia Mossbridge2:06

    Yeah.

Episode duration: 2:42:42