Terence McKenna
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The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
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…designed around a single mathematical problem. General purpose scientific computation required first the invention of floating point numbers by Wilkinson in 1961. So there is a conjunction in these two chronologies between, let's say the first popular usage of…
5:14
…say the first popular usage of marijuana and the arrival of LSD on university campuses and so on. Not to say that Wilkinson was an acid head, but this is anyway looking for causal links. We have to pay attention to the comparative chronologies. Then,…