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All right.
Now, the term psychedelic is usually
associated with mind-expanding chemicals,
consciousness-expanding drugs that grow on the earth.
But the root of the word psychedelic
actually means to make manifest the mind.
Now, you can see why psychedelic substances bring our visions
into being.
We call it active hallucinations.
But is this not, in many ways, the same thing
as our imagination?
And is technology not, in many ways, a manifestation
of the human mind, embodied imagination,
the actualization, the rendering of our hallucinations
into existence?
You know, the creature that ate the mushrooms
and then started doing art on the caves
is the same species that hallucinated starships
into existence.
Technology is literally psychedelic.
It literally is outsourced cognition
and how we extend the boundaries of the human mind.
The goals of mind expansion, the counterculture 1960s
ethos of expand your horizons, transcend your reality,
make that cognitive leap is no different
than the manifestation of our information technology.
Google is the first psychedelically informed
super power.
Its visions of inter-connectivity,
inter-conductivity and repository
of all of human knowledge becomes almost like Gaea,
like a collective consciousness.
So again, the whole notion is that we should really
come to understand that the whole psychedelic revolution
from the '60s ended up being literalized by the information
technologies that have transformed
our world over the last 30 years.
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