Join us for an introductory discussion on how the history of research into psychedelics from the 1950's through the modern day informed new ways of viewing consciousness and understanding, and how this exposes both the good and bad of modern approaches to the search for artificial general intelligence and how it may inform a new path for the future.

1. Psychedelics, Consciousness, and Modern AGI – Pt 1
Lancaster AIRichard Everts
Co-Founder, CEO, Sugey
Founder, Lancaster AI
rich@richardeverts.com
All opinions are my own and not representative of my companies, organizations, or clients

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Timothy Leary, PhD
LSD
Aldous Huxley
Mescaline, LSD
Terence McKenna
Psilocybin
Rick Strassman, MD
DMT

3. Psilocybin
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Griffiths RR, Richards WA, McCann U, Jesse R
John Hopkins University Study
2006, 2011, 2020
Decriminalization:
Denver, Oakland, Santa Cruz
Over 100 pending US cities
In contrast, marijuana decriminalization
started as recent as 2012

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Panspermia Theory
Interstellar Reproduction
Biological Age and
Resiliency
600+ Million Years
Are mushrooms more than they appear?

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A connective super-highway
Francis Crick, Co-founder of DNA, wrote about it on
his dying day in the hospital (2005)
Griffiths, John Hopkins, 2020: "psilocybin acutely
alters the functional connectivity of the claustrum with
brain networks that support perception, memory, and
attention."
Reduction of processing speeds by 30% – 50%
Brain effects and the claustrum

6. Common subjective experiences of the psilocybin “trip”
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Ego
Dissolution
“Oneness”
Machine
elves
“Inter-
dimensionality”
Also common to
DMT
Time
Distortion
“Beyond Time”
Voice of the
Shroom
“Illumination”

7. Let’s focus on time distortion and ideas
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1. Potential dissolution of ego comes from time dilation?
2. McKenna Attractors – The future pulls the past towards
itself
3. Scaling of time where epi-genetic changes transition
information to language and accelerating network impacts

8. Multi-temporal information exchange
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Found it’s way into 2D Res-Net to off-
set vanishing gradient, or loss of
information over time (which is the
semantic representation stored in RAM)

9. Potential ways forward on multi-temporal
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Quantum Networks
Without DL
Multi-state 4D Recurrent
Networks

10. McKenna attractors and GANs
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Traditional networks map topology
of information in a single closed
system, whereas GAN’s represent
mapping topology of a present
and future system

11. Potential ways forward on attractors
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Quantum GAN Supremacy
https://medium.com/syncedreview/tsinghua-
university-proves-quantum-supremacy-on-gans-
d2809bd2e2a3
Yang-Mills w/ isolated t variable
and microtubules?
Descriptor for 5-6 dimensional quantum fields currently at
levels far below atomic nuclei – design of 1st
Markov
Isolation of time as an independent variable
Micro-tubules, symmetry, coherence, and cognition

12. Scaling of time
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https://medium.com/@rayzer42/holochain-and-collective-intelligence-avoiding-a-technological-singularity-ca9d98920e72

13. Epigenetic changes from DNA to language
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McKenna: On every dimension is
the imprint of the hyper-
dimensional force that made it.
Like reverse engineering the role
of wind on sand dunes through
time.

14. Language as reality builder
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I-Ching and
the Tao
Base-16
Cognitive Theoretic Model
of the Universe
Christopher Langan-
Reality is a language that is talking to
itself about itself
Christianity
John 1:1
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15. Language as an instruction set
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English phonemes are the source
code bound by a temporal clock
Compiler
Real: I am awesome
Embeddings: A = 1, B = 2, C = 3 …
Symbolic: If { i = awesome } …
Critical theory is a type of compiler,
similar to rational enlightenment or
material reductionism
Language is the instruction set.

16. Perhaps a unique instruction set for embodied agents?
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1. Language connected to motor
activations, using HTM style
networks?
2. Currently undeveloped
instruction set for handling
massively parallel information
processing
3. Transition to bio-computing

17. Be wary of treading on the domain of the gods
There are old shamans, bold shamans, but no brave and old shamans.
- Terence McKenna
For those that decide to investigate (which I do not promote!)
1. Setting and mindset
2. Buddies
3. Respect the power
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18. Questions
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