In his talk, “Psilocybin Mushrooms and the Mycology of Consciousness,” Stamets revealed that there is new interest in McKenna’s controversial theory due to new studies on the psychological benefits of psychedelic drugs in controlled environments and particularly in very low micro-doses. He described human ancestors leaving their homes and traveling to another land where they came across: “… the largest psilocybin mushroom in the world growing bodaciously out of dung of the animals.”. – the stone ape, stoned ape theory - ? The 'Stoned Ape' Theory Might Explain Our Extraordinary Evolution. That way, not only does it duck attention not amenable to its little prompts - it acts to 'manage its own narrative' like Hillary staying the hell away from anywhere she might walk into 'inconvenient' question (not pre-approved by her campaign). Author admin Posted on April 6, 2020 Leave a comment on Stoned Ape More Progress Capturing Power With Nano Antennas Should make possible solar cells that work at night and don’t wear out. If they rather shield their theory from all all the 'serious consideration' stoned aping calls for - steers the hell clear of any such - gamely resisting the very 'criticism' on which it pretends it's insisting - good, let it play that. Kudos to Sarah Sloat (credited as author of the article linked above) for picking out a real winner of a Terence quote - never mind the uh concept, the verbal toilet paper stuck to his theorizing shoe - “the human-mushroom interspecies CODEPENDENCY" (as he trails it around not even knowing, thinking he's all resplendently attired) - is enough. The Stoned Ape Theory In 1992, Terence McKenna published his book, Food of the Gods, which provided a radically inventive explanation known as the Stoned Ape Theory. What McKenna called his "theory of evolution" is what came to be known as the Stoned Ape Theory: the idea that consumption of wild mushrooms by early hominids had a drastic impact on the evolutionary development of the brain. That the scientific community never heard of 'such a theory' is no mystery - the explanation is real simple. The real impact did come at higher doses, according to McKenna’s theory, because it was at the higher doses that man was inspired to use sound to put images into another’s head. as of last December. This, along with all the other theories, is simply insightful discussion and conjecture. The “stoned ape” theory might explain our extraordinary evolution; ... those of us who forget our keys but don’t want an implant through our skulls. Oh the humanity ... and my aching sides. His degree poses an aggravating factor not a mitigating one by stranding him dead center, with no cover, in his own circus - as one who oughta know better - but with no alibi. Kudos for that, a toast to you. Alas - instead of redeeming him, it damns him. At least an unlettered self-impressed peasant 'expert' like that lage tween you spotlighted (with his circus blog) - could plead reasonable excuse for not knowing what the hell he's talking about - but for how incorrigibly defiant he is, much less inept, to face least fact or reality. Microdosers say tiny hits of LSD make your work and life better. I'm currently listening to a TM lecture that some of you may not have heard before as I've not seen it widely disseminated. Simply detecting and confirming the substantive content of whatever assertion is beyond its pale. At least he didn't fabricate the word - unlike the 'fact' for which he conjures it, some idiotic rip-off of symbiosis (a real thing). The 'Stoned Ape' Theory Might Explain Our Extraordinary Evolution One scientist argues that human consciousness has psychedelic roots. But, seeing as how these substances are shown to promote psychological well-being and provide acute increases in almost all mental functionality, don't you think it's at least a bit possible that some of our earliest ancestors stumbled across these substances throughout nature, ingested them for food (or survival, as it were), and subsequently had their primitive minds blown? Proud to say our contributions have had some success in recent years, beginning with our efforts supporting the cessation of chemical waste dumping from the Teck Cominco smelter in B.C., & more recently kill limit reductions for native redband trout, reduced from five daily, to two (we’re working on getting that reduced to one). The 'Stoned Ape' Theory Might Explain Our Extraordinary Evolution. E.g. Copyright © Mysterious Universe. McKenna's idea was answering a question that already had a better answer, just one that was unknown to him because he lacked the relevant expertise. And oh the irony (mercy) - over a century since poor Baldwin - such determined efforts to 'find the evidence' have ended up 180 degrees opposite: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-011-9155-2 - "How Adaptive Learning Affects Evolution: Reviewing Theory On The Baldwin Effect". Codependence - AKA 'love's evil twin' - has nothing to do with organisms or biology. AFAIK the scientific community has never even heard of Terence McKenna - much less his supposed evolutionary theorizing. As reality - "stranger than we suppose or are humanly able to" - can top anything the imagination can conjure - so by the same principle, even our most talented comedy writers are often outdone by - unintended humor, trying to be anything but funny - and only coming out that way 'in spite of itself' by acting (BADLY) - more serious than seriousness itself. Next - for anyone awestruck, wanting in on such a brilliant stroke of theorizing - came the big money cash prize treasure hunt for - evidence. Oh the injustice that "the scientists whose research could support it" turn deaf ears to the orphan genius. When brain fumes are the starter ingredient, what else is there to do - and how now brown cow? If magic mushrooms didn’t spark cognition, what did? The Stoned Ape theory argues that the effects of magic mushrooms played a pivotal role in the evolution of the species. Which members of the community - you talkin' bout? Just wanted to throw a couple links in here that lend some credence to Stoned Ape. Start with conclusion - then go find some facts to back it up - if you only can. When in fact, as reflects in plain view - scientists have neither knowledge of nor interest in a theory that shields itself from, dodges and ducks - the very attention it crybabies about not getting - while coyly plaing Keep Away From Science. While some proposed eating meat, social competition, or the development of tool use for parts of human evolution, others have rather creative proposals to explain this feat. Or I guess recreational, in that sense, drug use. So, thank you. The evolution of metacognition in Homo Sapiens is certainly not a closed case, and there’s still plenty of room for competing hypotheses within the framework of empirical research in evolutionary biology, psychology, neurochemistry, physical anthropology etc. unintentional pratfalls in every ring, left, right and center - of that tween 'junior expert' you cited, with blog show. It's absolutely riveting and I highly recommend it. E.g. And additionally my own extensive experience with psychedelics for going on 30 years seems to confirm it. And there is no explanation for this sudden increase in the human brain.”. View full text. (Lawyers for stoned apes could not be reached for comment, and - did not reply to inquiries). Whatever he is or might be saying (if that's the case), or trying to say or - pretending to be trying to say (whichever it is) - that guy's tenditious sciencey sounding prattle - is through it's own looking glass. I hope Terence wouldn't consider that plagiarism - since Winkelman openly states he 'got it from Terence' yet without even mentioning it - as published (unless McKenna's name figures in that pdf - and I didn't see it - ?). Unfortunately, he provided no scientific evidence and later studies did not support his examples. "Why?" As for that Baldwin effect blabber - it 'evolved' from - an ambitious psychologist trying to 'Darwinize' - back in the 1800's: Baldwin, James M (1896) "A New Factor in Evolution." One question always seems to come up in discussions of the Stoned Ape Theory and the development of human consciousness. And specifically –. “I present this to you because I want to bring back the concept of the Stoned Ape Hypothesis. Poor guy, honesty schmonesty - can't quite seem to formulate a coherent statement. For gut-busting laughs, stuff you cited (on the 'aping' dream team defense) - can rival anything our best comedy writers can come up with. Tldr; results are inconclusive; black-box it 'til we have further information. Rather than end with conclusion, it starts with it. Like Fukushima, it doesn't just 'clean up' - and it stays hot as hell. 1; 2; 3; Related Content. Might make CSN lyrics, 'petulantly pouting.' With quote, and citation? Especially by reading it - all anyone can do is quote Winkelman's uh, exposition. With such a pretense so overblown by huffing and puffing, beyond its point of no return, his reactor core melted down - there's no helping that mess. (outburst of cheering applause). In a nutshell, the Stoned Ape Theory says that magic mushrooms sped up the evolutionary process and that, ultimately, the psychedelic experience is responsible for the … It's 100% a fringe hypothesis, and one that in its original formulation is soft-Lamarckian. Leave it to a Stamets to try, by crass glad handing cha-ching and self-promo - bringing it back from ... well, whatever state of nonbeing; "not even dead" having never been alive in the first place. Fully understanding the mind with be the nail in the coffin of "free will", I don't particularly have a horse in this race, but I've found Scott Aaronson's account in "The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine" to be the clearest formulation of exactly what conditions are required for us to describe an agent as having "free will" or a system as "deterministic" and how we would know. Rather than 'learning affects evolution' it turns out - other way around babe, au contraire - evolution affects learning: "the ability to learn itself has a genetic basis (McGuire & Hirsch 1977; Dukas 2004). It’s somewhat simplistic to link such a huge evolutionary jump like the doubling of brain size to the lucky consumption of some magic mushrooms, let alone influencing advances in sex and the development of religion, as McKenna also suggested. If some of these unlettered "young master" types could hear what giggles they stir out in cyberspace - what comfort (albeit 'booby prize' type) their unsung genius might take to ease their dis-ease. I think the opposite. Hardly an Oprah episode could go by in the 1990s without 'going there' - Dr Phil territory to this day. My short paper … is to support what he contended about the role of psychedelics in human evolution." Its foundational story goes like this: We were once apes in Africa, living in trees. Almost Humpty Dumptyish. There's a lot more to the paper than that, however -- and he goes into the implications of these and related issues for decision theory, artificial intelligence, whole brain emulation, etc www.scottaaronson.com/papers/giqtm3.pdf, New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the RationalPsychonaut community, Continue browsing in r/RationalPsychonaut. It's never been presented in any scientific context, for critical interest or comment. – "by blocking or short-circuiting the painful feelings that provide the adaptive functions of stimulating avoidance behaviors.” (p 29). He might get a big fat F for - "academic dishonesty" as cheating's called (on kampus). McKenna posited that psilocybin caused the primitive brain’s information-processing capabilities to rapidly reorganize, which in turn kick-started the rapid evolution of cognition that led to the early art, language, and technology written in Homo sapiens’ archeological record. It's titled, "Mushrooms, Evolution, and the Millenium" and can be found here. In it he posits: Inverse - Around two million years ago, these hominids (homo erectus), some of whom eventually evolved into Homo sapiens, began to expand their range beyond Africa, moving into Asia and Europe.
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