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Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…what's called stochastics where things are kind of random. That a glass of water does more computation than all the macs like Terence's Mac in the world, and that the medium of life is vastly different from the medium of computing and that I spent the…
…as a culture is that we have a clash of operating systems almost similar to the clash between 7.5 running on the Mac, Windows 95 and OS two. These are mutually exclusive domains of language that are very, very difficult to communicate across. And when…
…I don't know how many of you are familiar with it, but if you deal with the Macintosh posh computer, the operating system of the Mac is the genius of it. And what makes it the best in the biz is that it attempts to trick you into believing that…
…So every time I say something like this, I get, oh, you wouldn't. I mean, people are so attached to their computers, the Mac users, they flood me with vicious, ugly, heat filled mail. When we come back, we're going to go to the phone. Stay right…
…not breathing, dude. So and so what? The thing to do is to sit up and, you know, your favorite shamanic chant, fleetwood Mac recitation or whatever, just belt it out. It doesn't really matter. I mean, it may matter. I mean, if you choose certain mantras…
…I live in Hawaii, up a terrible road with no telephone in, but I have a wireless modem out and I have an excellent Mac, and I don't make any. I don't believe in the distinction between nature and technology. I am happiest when I am totally immersed in…
…reality. And I knew the minute I understood the concept, I knew, in the same way that I knew when I heard about the first Mac and LSD and potassium sugar perchlorate rocket fuels, that this was going to be the next great thing as a tool of art, as a…
…new material and revision. When that's done, when true hallucinations, invisible landscape, archaic revival, the time wave software in the Mac and MS DOS version, when all that's out there, that's essentially the bit. And I may be considerably less in…
…about buying and bringing a windows box to the house in Hawaii, where we would reconvene for some serious experimentation. Terrence's Mac couldn't run virtual worlds. I hope Ralph found the experience interesting as well, because I knew that he was into 3d…
…is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon. And before I introduce today's program, I first want to thank Mac and Marcella for yet another donation to the salon to help offset some of the expenses associated with these podcasts. I really…