Is science based in intuition?  Can we trust logic?  What do psychedelics have to do with culture and feminism? We explore the ideas of renowned ethnobotanist & psychonaut Terence McKenna.

References:

McKenna on intuition: https://youtu.be/YTOZn7ZMacU

Transistors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor

A computer cannot simulate itself: https://wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2014/09/15/could-scientists-perfectly-simulate-the-entire-universe-in-a-computer-down-to-the-last-atom/

Inteligence is compression of information:

Emergence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence

Slime Mold: https://www.ted.com/talks/heather_barnett_what_humans_can_learn_from_semi_intelligent_slime?language=en

NP-Complete: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/210829/what-is-an-np-complete-in-computer-science#:~:text=NP%2DComplete%20means%20the%20problem,solution%20to%20all%20NP%20problems.

ASI Singularity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

What it's like to be a bat episode: https://www.post-wave.com/11-whats-it-like-to-be-a-bat

Quantum field theory: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quantum-field-theory/#:~:text=Quantum%20Field%20Theory%20(QFT)%20is,matter%20physics%20and%20statistical%20mechanics.

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwhere_(novel)

Paul Stamets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stamets

Outro music — Dreaming of Zeno by Trevor Villwock: https://soundcloud.com/trevor-villwock/dreaming-of-zeno