Tokyo. 作家. Neurobiologist, pharmacologist, writer on psychedelics, especially DMT. "Death by Astonishment", OUT NOW: bit.ly/DeathbyAstonishment
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“His conclusions are astonishing…
And to some they will be horrifying.
This book is not to be missed."
— Dennis McKenna, PhD
DEATH BY ASTONISHMENT: Confronting the Mystery of the World’s Strangest Drug. (St. Martin’s Press, Macmillan).
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What an amazing event! Huge thanks to the whole Trace team!
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Hangin’ in Compton before the big sit down with Don the Hoffman 👽
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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…
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Jun 8
FREE EVENT: Dr. Donald Hoffman x Dr. Andrew Gallimore
A rare live conversation on their new paper, “Traces of the Other: Are DMT Entities Real?”
June 13 • 11am–1pm
The Lighthouse Campus, Venice Beach
Extremely limited space. Apply ASAP. 👽
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Jun 5
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.
Jun 4
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]
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Andrew Gallimore retweeted
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
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Jun 4
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]
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Jun 3
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…
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Jun 2
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!
May 27
“We propose that DMT induces a profound perturbation of our perceptual interface, expanding the accessible region of experience space and allowing consciousness to reach regions with entirely different dynamical regimes”
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8q…
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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/
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Jun 2
“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!
We will never know the full truth of reality, but we aim to get closer than anyone has before.
traceinstitute.org
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Another decent explanation of our collaborative paper with @donalddhoffman and @Niffe on DMT entities as traces of normally imperceptible conscious agents...
Link in reply...
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The preprint itself:
May 27
Pre-print of "Traces of the Other: Are DMT Entities Real?" (Gallimore, Hermansson, & Hoffman):
doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8qvg…
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Don gets it. 👽
MIT scientist says aliens are likely all around us! We just can't see them...
Donald Hoffman says the mathematics indicates embodied consciousness like ours is a rare exception in the universe.
The universe should be teeming with intelligence more advanced than humans, operating without traditional bodies.
Hoffman calls our human form one of the cheapest, most restrictive "virtual reality headsets" in existence.
The default state of consciousness, according to the math, has no body at all.
"Embodiment is very, very small."
"The universe would be teeming with life that is more advanced than humans and also doesn't have traditional bodies."
"Our particular kind of view of the world, the kind of, I'll call it a headset, the virtual reality headset that we're using for our embodiment, is one of the more trivial kinds of headsets."
"Our headset is one of the cheapest, most restrictive possible."
"There are all sorts of variations that are far more interesting and complicated than what we've got."
"Embodiment is the exception, not the rule."
Full episode with Donald Hoffman out now.
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May 29
Decent summary of our (with @donalddhoffman, and @Niffe) 'Traces of the Other' DMT entities paper...
"The paper’s core proposal is that DMT perturbs the human perceptual interface sufficiently to push consciousness outside the consensus reality space, into regions where different dynamical rules apply and where traces of normally imperceptible conscious agents can be rendered as stable, coherent, meaningful structure."
Link in reply.
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