This was absolutely brilliant. Bruce Damer is someone that I feel grateful to virtually meet. His insights into abiogenisis are fascinating, but at some point I was feeling a teleology in what he was saying. I have been through the doors of perception many times. What I saw was that life is an emergent property from the universe itself. We start out with the big bang and we get hydrogen, helium and a little lithium. Given time these simple elements are fused into heavier elements through various super nova. Complexity is conserved. Terrence spoke at length about this process. Carbon is cooked in stars, with it's perfect four covalent bond - what a boon for life. Due to the measurement problem, the problem of consciousness and qualia, I find myself in my seventh decade looking with favor at Panpsychism. At any rate, thank you so much Dennis for this conversation!
“What is going on” is that reality is stranger than we CAN suppose. There are only three fundamental universal rules as far as i can tell. Rule #1: The only universal constant is change. Rule#2: Universal consciousness requires novelty at any cost. Rule #3: Novelty requires constantly evolving stories.
Bruce asks if the vegetation behind Dennis is chicruna. Dennis answers, "No. It's Ayuahuasca". As he and we all know, Ayuahuasca is a combination. Flaky response by Dennis.
I just listened to this episode over on Spotify and I harve to say it's the best episode of this podcast I've listened to so far - absolutely fascinating on every end! I must say though I'm a little disappointed to see the use of seemingly AI-generated media in your video, and on the website. AI-generated images are a very useful tool, but it really turns a lot of people off in regards to really listening to the (amazingly insightful) things you have to say. I think to promote your message further, maybe you shouldn't make use of these synthetically generated images, just to avoid people getting up in arms about it. Once again, this episode was fantastic - I even sat up to listen for much of it! - and I hope to see Damer again on this podcast soon - what a man!
It’s crazy to me that all these videos have so few views when it’s Dennis McKenna interacting with such brilliant minds great stuff 👍
Usually I listen via the podcast app, not via youtube.
Agreed!
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This was absolutely brilliant. Bruce Damer is someone that I feel grateful to virtually meet. His insights into abiogenisis are fascinating, but at some point I was feeling a teleology in what he was saying. I have been through the doors of perception many times. What I saw was that life is an emergent property from the universe itself. We start out with the big bang and we get hydrogen, helium and a little lithium. Given time these simple elements are fused into heavier elements through various super nova. Complexity is conserved. Terrence spoke at length about this process. Carbon is cooked in stars, with it's perfect four covalent bond - what a boon for life. Due to the measurement problem, the problem of consciousness and qualia, I find myself in my seventh decade looking with favor at Panpsychism. At any rate, thank you so much Dennis for this conversation!
“What is going on” is that reality is stranger than we CAN suppose. There are only three fundamental universal rules as far as i can tell.
Rule #1: The only universal constant is change.
Rule#2: Universal consciousness requires novelty at any cost.
Rule #3: Novelty requires constantly evolving stories.
Darn garnet
Bruce asks if the vegetation behind Dennis is chicruna. Dennis answers, "No. It's Ayuahuasca".
As he and we all know, Ayuahuasca is a combination. Flaky response by Dennis.
Fantastic conversation!
Hearing Bruce's experience really helped me not feel crazy about my own.
I just listened to this episode over on Spotify and I harve to say it's the best episode of this podcast I've listened to so far - absolutely fascinating on every end!
I must say though I'm a little disappointed to see the use of seemingly AI-generated media in your video, and on the website. AI-generated images are a very useful tool, but it really turns a lot of people off in regards to really listening to the (amazingly insightful) things you have to say. I think to promote your message further, maybe you shouldn't make use of these synthetically generated images, just to avoid people getting up in arms about it.
Once again, this episode was fantastic - I even sat up to listen for much of it! - and I hope to see Damer again on this podcast soon - what a man!
Hi there.
What essay and where?
You can locate the essay link in the RUclips description under Episode Links: "Dr. Bruce Damer’s Psychedelic Journey to the Origin of Life."