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Billionaires are no longer just investing — they’re tinkering with life itself. In this episode, George Monty examines the intersection of bioengineering, high-stakes innovation, and the mythic allure of “magic beans” — the promises and perils of manipulating biology on a planetary scale.

From genetic engineering to speculative futures, this conversation unpacks how wealth, science, and imagination converge — and what it means for ethics, evolution, and society.

In this episode:

• The role of billionaires in advancing bioengineering and biotech
• Promises and dangers of genetic manipulation
• How innovation blends with myth, storytelling, and cultural aspiration
• Ethical and societal implications of controlling life itself
• Speculative visions for the future of human evolution

Transcript:Speaker 0 (0s): Hello, my friends. And welcome back to another edition of the TrueLife podcast. I've been on vacation for a little bit, but I'm bad. I was thinking about you guys. I hope everything is going well. I hope your COVID free care-free and free to do what it is you think is right. I'm going to start off with a quick joke today. I hope it makes you laugh and that makes you smile. There's a businessman and he has started a company in his garage. 

He's been working hard on it for the last six months. And lo and behold, he gets a call from an investment banker in the big apple, New York city. The investment banker says, I have noticed your product and I would like to make you an offer. Can you come and meet me and my team in New York to hear that offer a gentleman says sure, a day of the, he exits off the plane. 

The day of the meeting, he's there pretty early. However, he finds his flight was delayed. And now as he's exiting the airport, he's beginning to scramble. He realizes that he is supposed to meet these investment bankers in front of Carnegie hall. However, he's never been in New York city. And so he is beginning to worry. As he comes out of the airport, he sees a young woman exiting a cab and she is carrying a violin case. 

So he runs up, she's dressed nice. And he says, maybe she'll know. And so he runs up to her and he says, ma'am do you play in the symphony? And she says, well, yes, I do. He says, fantastic. Could you tell me how to get to Carnegie hall? And she pauses for a minute. She looks him up and down and she says, practice, practice. I thought that was kind of funny. 

I'm so fascinated by all the things that are happening in our lives today. And it has been such a, a culture shock. It has been such a cultural divide, a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, or maybe both. If man has in fact part of nature, then maybe it's both. And that's kind of a subject that I wanted to get in today. I've been revisiting this book called the master in his emissaries, and it's about left right brain lateralization. 

And what goes on in between those two hemispheres, they've done plenty of research on victims that have had lesions in their left brain, in lesions, in their right-brain. And for those of you who have done some research on it, I'm sure you're aware of this. And for those of you who have yet to do some research on it, I hope to peak your interest. Let me just give you a couple examples of what happens when there's trauma on each side of the brain. 

So when there's trauma on the left side of the brain, it tends to cause people to forget how to speech or ruin their speech patterns or makes it very difficult for them to communicate via their speech. They can be paralyzed on the right side of their body. However, if the stroke or the trauma victim can overcome this, they can teach themselves how to speak again. 

And they can at times learn how to walk again or gain mobility in the side of their body. That is paralyzed, which would be the right side. If indeed the trauma's on the left, a lesion on the right side is completely different. It, it causes someone to no longer be able, excuse me, to no longer be able to understand the in implicitness has that a word. 

It causes people to be that changes their worldview. You see the right brain, the right hemisphere of the brain holds all the context and concepts, the underlying meaning what the situation is telling us, the body language, the, the humor, the, all these parts of communication that aren't words are done in the right hemisphere of the brain. 

And there's been some fascinating, fascinating experiments done. One area that I wanted to talk about, and this is just kind of coming off of that book and kind of my own theories about what's happening again. The guy that the book that I'm referencing is the master in his Emissary, in his, by Ian McGilchrist. It's a fascinating read. He's actually got another book coming out pretty soon. I highly suggest that you get an opportunity to check it out. I think you'll enjoy it. 

The right hemisphere of the brain has these just beautiful notions of an art and seeing the world in a way that is not hyper analytical. It may help to see it may help to follow this conversation. If you think of the left hand or the left side of the brain is a scalpel. That's constantly dissecting. It's constantly criticizing. It's constantly making sense of it's kind of crazy, but I like to think of it as like this arrogant, cocky, no, at all. 

And I know that seems kind of hard. Like, you know what to think about yourself like that, but it's necessary and it's necessary for the left side of the brain to act that way. Like it needs to be able to categorize stuff so that you can function in this world. It needs to be able to say like, okay, is that a, is that something I could eat? Or does it not? You know, what has to be a definitive? Whereas the right hemisphere of the brain is trying to see things the way they've never been seen before and say, why not? 

It's constantly looking for a little idiosyncrasies or looking for little bits of detail that are very difficult to describe. And in fact, when you even talk about the right hemisphere of the brain, it's difficult because you have to translate it in the left side of the brain. The right side is the master. That left side is the Emissary. It's another good way to think about it. Any type of a metaphorical thinking is usually done on the right when you find yourself, here's a, here's a, here's an interesting thing. 

If you find yourself grasping for language, see the term grasp to reach out on the left side of the brain. That means to actually pinch something or grab it, or to reach out, to get something. But on the right side of the brain, the grasp means to get a hold of and understand in reaching out can mean more than just extending your arm. It can mean trying to connect with something else beside yourself. 

Okay? So that's kind of a little bit of a background now that I'm going to try to tie this into another thought, a couple of thoughts I've been having, especially since this pandemic is, you know what you should really, if you can do this, here's a strategy of a music. If you can try to see yourself in everybody, around you, if you can't begin to understand that the person you're talking to is a different version of you, right? 

And I promise you, regardless of how different that person is, you can...