Jim talks with Bruce Damer about genius and the use of psychedelics for creative thinking. They discuss the roots of genius, the discovery of fire, Einstein’s four great discoveries, building blocks of genius, endotripping vs exotripping, set, setting, & setup, the danger of over-relying on LLMs for knowledge, geniuses in the scanner, crosstalk in the brain, the prepared mind, Bruce’s lifelong experience of endotripping, rapid retripping, lucid dreaming, getting psilocybin from Terence McKenna, ayahuasca, Steve Jobs’s LSD experience, external constraints, Bruce’s epiphany about the origins of life, hypothesizing as a non-rational process, the stoned ape theory, psychedelics in Eleusis, human brain sizes & assisted birth, hypnagogic trip states, casualties of the early psychedelic era, a call for serious practitioners, a proposal for string theorists, Charles Manson & the importance of screening for wisdom, the increasing need for genius, and much more.
Download: JRSC-091-Bruce-Damer.mp3
Download: JRSC-091-Bruce-Damer.mp3

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Date: 2023-04-28 04:10 (UTC)Ни фига себе, как интересно!
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Date: 2023-04-28 05:30 (UTC)https://vak.dreamwidth.org/905874.html
Несколько лет назад мы заезжали к нему в гости в Boulder Creek.
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Date: 2023-04-28 05:39 (UTC)Я двоих на этой фотке узнаю.
И калифорнийский обычай носить сандали с носками тоже радует.
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Date: 2023-04-28 06:02 (UTC)А ещё Брюс Дэймер - официальный хранитель архива Тимоти Лири. Давал мне полистать его диссертацию.
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Date: 2023-04-28 06:21 (UTC)Ого.