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Aliens, AI, And Art
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".
David Graeber on Debt at THBTP Salon
Anarchist anthropologist and lecturer at Goldsmiths University, David Graeber discusses his new book 'Debt; the first 5000 years' at THBTP salon. He discusses the relevance of debt to understanding our world today, the direct relationship of debt to morals, three modes of interaction (of which debt,
The Final Taboo
This item is from the Leary Audio collection compiled by M. Horowitz Leary Audio #18 The Final Taboo Huntington Beach, CA, June, 1980