Spectral Skull Session
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Spectral Skull Session
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I think this line of research raises several intriguing questions. Firstly, it is observed that modern humans have lineage-specific mutations for 5HT2A, not found in our closest human relatives (Neanderthals and Denisovans). Considering these differences, we can ask whether DMT had quite divergent effects on our brains compared to theirs. These differences may also play key roles in our recursive cognitive abilities, which could, in turn, impact the processing of DMT experiences. Secondarily, I am thinking about the 'cosmic IT help desk' hypothesis. The findings of @alieninsect can potentially be open to an interpretation in which DMT (and potentially other psychedelics) allow humans to contact something like a help desk staffed by nonhuman intelligence. Ok, well that is a zany idea, but so what, we can consider the possibility. In that model, we would expect the human genome to have anomalous regions (exactly like HARs cough cough) linked to novel cognitive functions, endogenous psychedelic production and neuronal architecture involved in utilisation of psychedelic compounds. The NHI meddled with the genome during the very early part of the Homo sapiens story (<800kya), initiating our divergence. Before leaving us to our fate, they engineer a mechanism for us to make contact with them at some later time, as and when it might become appropriate. You can't just leave a galactic telephone; it would need to be something we can't lose or fail to recognise, something internal seems very appropriate.








Rule Number One: Do not take a selfie to sign up for a gossip app while working on the flight line at a secret military base.


The peak of this Chizhevsky clock cycle is mid July. Understand: A clock does not make time, it shows time.



AI tools are retarding people. They are also prompting a range of novel psychosis. Most of us have heard the stories of people being 'groomed' by their AI assistant (really through their own prompts) into believing they are talking to an alien sentience or have opened a portal into universal knowledge. Worse still, recent studies have identified that reliance on ChatGPT for essay writing induced 47% reduction in brain connectivity. 83.3% of ChatGPT users couldn’t quote from essays they wrote minutes earlier using the tool. This is a death spiral for human cognition. It is now very obvious how humanity ends up with the long predicted embedded AI hardware (intelligent neurotech) or interfaces to AI hubs, not so much to keep up, but to compensate. My advice is to use Ai tools sparingly and with targeted precision. Don't outsource your thinking wholesale. You'll thank me later.























