Paul Stamets Rehabilitates the "Stoned Ape" Theory

urbandk · Feb 13, 2020

In the early 1990s, psychedelic advocate and ethnobotanist Terence McKenna published his book Food of the Gods in which he surmised that homo sapiens' cognitive leap forward was due to their discovery of magic mushrooms. The scientific community never took McKenna's theory very seriously, considering it mostly trippy speculation — these days, his ideas have largely been relegated to the spacier corners of Reddit. Now, however, the idea has acquired a new advocate, psilocybin mycologist Paul Stamets, who's suggesting McKenna was right all along.

https://bigthink.com/mind-brain/stoned-ape-return.amp.html

I'm no evolutionary biologist, but I thought this might be of interest to Trek fans.

Dryson · Feb 13, 2020

Was the cognitive leap forward a result of the mushrooms or the body converting the psilocybin to psilocin? Those who use psilocin can be said to have slipped into the psilo stream. While in the psilo stream time is encountered as being different. But why? Does time travel faster or slower while in the stream? Does psilocin allow the human to experience "dark matter" interactions that would not normally be experienced outside of the stream?

By experience I mean interact with. A human cannot see in the UV spectrum of light. We know it exists but we cannot see it therefore we can't see any interactions taking place between the human brain and the UV spectrum. The same is true with Dark Matter.

With Dark Matter being everywhere in the Universe and our bodies evolving to adjust to the effects of Dark Matter, perhaps while in the stream the human brain, not managing itself with modern day environmental standards, could be experiencing Dark Matter interactions that were common in life forms billions of years ago. Such a point of Dark Matter interaction could be said to be the stream that existed two are three billions years after the Big Bang.

NCC-73515 · Feb 14, 2020

That's not how evolution works XD

Mr. Adventure · Feb 15, 2020

Quite the discovery...

publiusr · Feb 15, 2020

XCV330 · Feb 18, 2020

Spot261 · Feb 22, 2020

We got Tilly in, I'm good.

Paul Stamets Rehabilitates the "Stoned Ape" Theory

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