Podcast 704 Terence McKenna: Drugs, Computers and Other Stuff

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

Personal Journals, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences, Philosophy

4.8 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: In this insightful talk, Terence McKenna delves into the intricacies of human cognition, emphasizing the stark difference between smart and less intelligent individuals as a matter of pattern recognition from the same data. He challenges the conventional notion of language being an innate, genetically driven trait by highlighting its unique emergence compared to other natural processes. McKenna further explores the transformative power of consciousness, likening the hunt for arrowheads to an intentional act distinct from natural occurrences like lightning. This discussion underscores the profound impact of human intent and the shaping of our world through conscious action. Books by Nick Herbert Herbert's books, such as "Quantum Reality" and "Faster Than Light," brought quantum mechanics to a broader audience and inspired discussions about the interpretation of quantum mechanics, the EPR paradox, and Bell's inequality. These discussions, in turn, contributed to the ongoing development of quantum computing by fostering a deeper understanding of the fundamental principles and paradoxes underlying quantum theory.

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0:00.0	Three-dimensional transforming musical linguistic objects.
0:07.0	Helperience.
0:14.0	Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.
0:18.0	This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.
0:23.0	And we are once again about to listen to another recording that Terrence McKenna gave in October of 1995.
0:30.2	And I should remind you that when you hear Terrence giving what was the then-accepted story about men being hunters and women being gatherers,
0:39.0	well, that story has lately been uprooted with some new information. So instead of taking
0:44.4	Terrence's version of the story is fact, which is what I've done for a long time, it may be worth
0:50.3	your time to do a little reading about the new direction the hunter-gatherer's story is
0:54.5	taking. That said, well, there's nothing wrong with taking Terrence's version as sort of a high-level
1:00.5	view of what was thought to be true back then. So now let's listen to yet another Terrence
1:05.6	mechanic podcast where he doesn't miss a beat and begins by distinguishing between smart and stupid people.
1:13.1	And his distinction, by the way, I find really worth thinking about.
1:16.9	See if you don't agree.
1:18.9	Oh, and one more thing.
1:20.5	About midway through this conversation, you'll hear Terence talking about his website.
1:26.0	When he does, keep in mind the fact that this talk was given
1:29.1	in October of 1995, almost 30 years ago, and back then the web was only a couple years old.
1:37.1	What he says sounds kind of primitive compared to where we are today, but at that time, only
1:42.4	one in ten Americans were even connected to the net, and most of them were using a 300-baud dial-up modem to connect.
1:49.0	Having his own website meant that, well, he was on the leading edge of this new technology.
1:54.0	It was a really exciting time for us all.
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