Ivan Pekar

CortexCast - A Neuroscience Podcast

Title	Description	People	Date
Season 3 Episode 4 \| Building Intelligence Beyond Biology: In Conversation with Prof. Ed Boyden	What would happen if we truly understood the brain from the bottom up? Prof. Ed Boyden (MIT) explores ground truth, AI, consciousness and the technologies that could reshape neuroscience and, potentially, intelligence itself.	Ed Boyden, Yicheng Su, Ivan Pekar	19 October, 2026
Season 3 Episode 3 \| Between Order and Chaos: Exploring the Entropic Brain	Why do psychedelics, dreams, and mental illnesses feel so different from everyday awareness? We unpack the Entropic Brain Hypothesis and what it tells us about flexibility, rigidity, and the architecture of conscious experience.	Yicheng Su, Ivan Pekar	26 January, 2026
Season 3 Episode 2 \| Our Brains, Our Selves: In Conversation with Prof. Masud Husain	If memory fades or motivation disappears, what remains of the self? In this episode, Professor Masud Husain reflects on how neurological disorders illuminate the fragile yet resilient architecture of human identity	Masud Husain, Ivan Pekar	10 November, 2025
Season 3 Episode 1 \| Through the Looking Glass: How Your Eyes Decode the Light Show	How does the human eye transform waves of light into the vivid, detailed experience we call vision?	Ivan Pekar	9 October, 2025