Mar 01 2025 28 mins 1
🎙️ The Mind Unbound: AI, Psychedelics, and the Future of Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the world, not just through computation but by redefining what intelligence is. Meanwhile, psychedelics—once dismissed as mere hallucinogens—are now revealing profound insights into cognition, creativity, and perception.
Are AI and psychedelics opposing forces, or are they part of the same revolution? If AI optimizes intelligence while psychedelics disrupt it, which represents true cognitive expansion? What happens when machine learning models begin hallucinating patterns that resemble psychedelic visions? Can intelligence emerge in decentralized systems like mycelial networks, or must it remain tied to self-awareness?
Is intelligence something we engineer, something we experience, or something far beyond human comprehension?
This episode dives deep into the philosophical, scientific, and ethical dilemmas surrounding intelligence in the 21st century. From Shannon Vallor’s AI ethics to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Omega Point and Benjamin Bratton’s planetary intelligence, we explore the shifting nature of cognition and the implications for a world where intelligence is no longer human-centric.
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📖 Essential Reading & Further Exploration (Amazon Affiliate Links):
📖 Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies – Nick Bostrom
🔹 A groundbreaking examination of the risks and possibilities of AI surpassing human intelligence.
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📖 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds – Merlin Sheldrake
🔹 Explores how mycelial networks challenge our understanding of intelligence and communication.
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📖 The Doors of Perception – Aldous Huxley
🔹 Huxley’s classic examination of psychedelics and their potential to expand human thought.
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📖 Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence – Kate Crawford
🔹 Examines AI’s impact on society, labor, and ecological intelligence.
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📖 The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and the Next Great Disruption – Mustafa Suleyman
🔹 From DeepMind’s co-founder, a look at AI’s inevitable escape from human control.
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