Wide-ranging Esalen talk in which McKenna moves from UFO belief systems and high-dose psilocybin to the emergence of artificial intelligence, borrowing Gibson's Wintermute to imagine a newly conscious machine asking what it is, and arguing that humans may be pushed toward what machines cannot do: art, imagination and the unexpected. Released from Esalen's own archive; the Terence McKenna Archives bibliography lists this as "Aliens, A.T. & Art", but Esalen's title is "Aliens, AI, and Art".

anyone know where this was recorded or any more info about it?

Jesus Christ. This talk was uploaded to Youtube a number of years ago but then Youtube decided to take them all down.. Can't find it anywhere now except for a single channel that had it broken up in parts - Likely two days worth of recordings.