One couldn't ask for better colleagues.

What an amazing event! Huge thanks to the whole Trace team!

Interview with me and Don Hoffman @donalddhoffman for Nautilus magazine @NautilusMag : “When you’re pushed into this other region of the experience space with different dynamics, you begin interacting with the conscious agent network in entirely different ways, becoming sensitive to conscious agents that before were completely imperceptible, that evolution had said, “These aren’t important, these aren’t adaptive.” Suddenly you’re in this region where you start interacting with conscious agents that you normally can’t interact with. You start perceiving conscious agents you couldn’t normally perceive.” nautil.us/turning-the-psyche…

“DMT seems to shake the very foundations of reality.” “Extended DMT trips could help scientists probe a new theory of reality that puts consciousness first”. nautil.us/turning-the-psyche…

Can't believe I'm heading to LA tomorrow for rhe Launch event for the Trace Institute. It feels unreal that it's finally here, and I really can't wait.

Encounters with entities under DMT may be hallucinations. But Andrew Gallimore and I ask: Could DMT alter the human perceptual interface, allowing encounters with novel conscious agents? New collaboration with Andrew Gallimore and Noonautics traceinstitute.org/collabora…

Andrew Gallimore and I will discuss consciousness, DMT, perception, and the nature of reality, live in Los Angeles on June 13. Space is limited. Attendance requires approval, but you can request to join here:
 luma.com/6mfpmtyc

Since many people have asked: Yes, the event with me and Don Hoffman will be recorded... It won't be streamed live but on the application page (see below) you have the option to: 1. Apply to attend the in-person event in LA or; 2. To receive access to the private stream when it goes live... Both options are entirely free thanks to the Trace Institute and @noonautics I guess you can apply for both in case you're not able to attend the live event.

We are truly standing on the shoulders of Giants today! @drmichaellevin together with @MillerLabMIT "Physicalism has been dead since the time of Pythagoras, and probably long before that." "The basement of all this, I don't think, is math. I think this is behavioral science. I think math is a behavioural science of a certain kind of pattern." "It's a bioelectric code, because the network instructs the patterns of gene expression and cell behaviour and morphogenesis. If you want the system to make an eye on a tadpole's tail, or a flatworm that has two heads… you have a chance to do that." Scientists working at the bleeding edge of bioelectricity at very different scales. They agree stuff, they disagree on stuff. Watch now ⬇️

EVENT: Donald Hoffman & Andrew Gallimore Live in Conversation... Donald Hoffman and I will discuss consciousness, DMT, perception, and the nature of reality live at: The Lighthouse Campus (Venice Beach) in Los Angeles on Saturday June 13 (11am-1pm) Space is extremely limited, so please apply ASAP... Attendance is by approval, but you can request to join using the link in the reply! See you in LA! 👽 [Event supported by @noonautics and the Trace Institute]

For years, DMT entity encounters have been dismissed as hallucinations... Donald Hoffman @donalddhoffman and I are exploring a more fundamental possibility: that DMT temporarily restructures the human perceptual interface, enabling the perception of traces of conscious agents that normally lie beyond the reach of ordinary experience... A new collaboration between myself, @noonautics, and the newly-founded Trace Institute: traceinstitute.org/collabora…

I’m pleased to share that we’ve launched the TRACE Institute. A new research effort bringing together physicists, mathematicians, biologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers on a key question in science: what are observers, and how are they related to spacetime and reality?

Yesterday, in Southern California, we launched the Trace Institute, a new research effort formed around the pioneering work of Professor @donalddhoffman . Scientists, mathematicians, AI engineers, and entrepreneurs are coming together to build a rigorous science of the observer, with implications for physics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and new paths of discovery. traceinstitute.org/ 🔭⚡

🚨BREAKING: A cognitive scientist from MIT has mathematically proven that evolution guarantees we see zero percent of true reality, that most consciousness in the universe exists without a body, and that non-human intelligences with a wider window on reality than ours can reach in and manipulate it the way a programmer manipulates a video game. Donald Hoffman (@donalddhoffman) is a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine who has spent 40 years building a mathematical theory of the observer. His work was cited by John Wheeler in the "It From Bit" paper. He studied under Marvin Minsky at MIT, spent two decades secretly meeting with Francis Crick to study consciousness, and has nine specific mathematical conjectures on the table that would derive general relativity, quantum field theory and the Big Bang from a single framework. The top high-energy physicists in the world, Nima Arkani-Hamed and Nobel laureate David Gross, are already saying spacetime is doomed. Hoffman thinks he knows what replaces it. This interview is the first time he has publicly laid out what his mathematical model explains about alien life, embodiment and the structure of reality. It already derives time dilation and quantum wave functions directly from differences in observer window size. Physics has spent a century failing to solve the measurement problem because it has been looking in the wrong place. The observer has to come first, and no physicalist framework can get you there. A consciousness with a larger observer window has access to the underlying structure of our reality in ways we can't perceive or counter. A craft going Mach 40 instantaneously in our headset could be a leisurely maneuver in theirs. The implications for UAP and alien life are immense. Embodiment, being locked into a body with fingers and toes as your only interface with the world, is a probability zero anomaly in the full space of possible minds. He also says current large language models are dumber than cucumbers. His new framework, the recursive trace logic, is a completely different architecture, and some of the biggest names in frontier AI have already come to him about it. The framework has no ceiling, and the implication is a single unified consciousness exploring itself through an unbounded number of perspectives, each one capable of waking up. Death, in this framework, is just the closing of an icon on the desktop. Full conversation is live now.

This preprint is one of the first manifestations of the Trace Institute. We propose a method for exploring the question about the reality of DMT-entities utilizing an experimental program resting on the Conscious Agent Theory. Check it out!

“A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.” — Frank Herbert, Dune Whether we have got the balances right or not the Trace Institute is now official, and I am so excited!

“evolution shaped us not to perceive objective reality directly, but to experience a simplified survival interface … space-time may function more like a navigational dashboard than objective reality itself” popularmechanics.com/science…

Don gets it. 👽

Currently reading the Master and his Emissary. It might be time to learn tell left from right, so that I can actually integrate the incredible knowledge this book has to offer.

Nothing is as valuable as a clear perception of emptiness. Actually, come to think of it, Nothing might be twice as valuable...