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Through the Quantum Portal: AI, Psychedelics, and the Future of Human Consciousness
From Sam Altman’s OpenAI to Journey Colab’s mescaline research — intelligent machines and mind expansion
This is an excerpt from Sky Gods and the Recipe for Immortality: The secret influence of psychoactivity over science, society, and the supernatural.
Instead of replacing humans outright, AI will likely amplify today’s best biological thinkers. Thinking machines will never replace true human personality or be able to experience the mystical. Machines may one day master the material universe yet likely never the spiritual.
However, assuming AI’s current limitations are a technical problem yet to be solved — will it ever become a threat to humanity? AI will significantly transform society for better and worse, and we should race to understand it fully. As the legendary science fiction writer H.G. Wells once proclaimed:
“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”
Computers cannot experience the broader universe via the five senses and beyond — feeling sensations, emotions, or the ineffable. In this sense, machines cannot be sentient despite being hyper-intelligent. Computers draw from humanity’s collective information on the…
