It cannot be understood… It cannot be brought under the aegis of rational apprehension… Reality outran apprehension… You do not measure the depth of a universal mystery with the neural network of a primate… Our role is not to understand but to appreciate… T.M. (video by We Plants Are... Happy Plants)show more

Or to try to understand and appreciate that we never really will, and that's the magic of it. Endless exploration, forever and ever. And everyone is both the explored and the explorers.

Maybe reality is too vast for our little primate brains to ever fully comprehend, but that doesn’t mean we should stop looking for clues. What kind of creative intelligence would leave little cosmic chemical breadcrumbs scattered through the machinery of our own biology? DMT, THC, the receptors in our brains that respond to these compounds like locks waiting for keys. We’re walking around in meat suits, carrying a chemical toolbox we barely understand, occasionally stumbling across a switch that makes the walls of reality peel back like cheap wallpaper. Did evolution just get lucky, or are we looking at something stranger? Some cosmic bastard left the keys under the doormat, and we’ve spent millions of years walking past them. Maybe the universe doesn’t need us to understand the machinery completely. Maybe it left us a few ways to peek behind the curtain. The question is, what kind of intelligence would build a system like this, and what the hell were we designed to discover?

Hey Andrew. I wanted to tell you that I just finished "Death by astonishment" and I really enjoyed it. Thanks!!

Thank you! 🙏

Appreciation comes after understanding, it’s a false dichotomy. Same goes for a mystery, to see it you need a primate neural network. It seems Terrence under appreciated what we have a little bit here :)

so full of shit , learn the pattern

It can only be temporarily noesis’d

Have you heard of Stephen Wolfram's concept of the "Ruliad"? Wouldn't that perfectly fit with your observations on DMT reality? Certain chemicals might work like a prism and thus shift the picture/angle we see within the ruliad (=> observable reality changes, but without moving).

Existence treadmill

Terrence IS the poet that should have gone in the machine of Contact.

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Terrance surely was a prophet, imo he found the philosphers stone with mushrooms and DMT and accessed interdimensional knowledge which enhanced him with an incredible oratory ability and intelligence capable of sharing knowledge with us

It's pragmatically useful to model as much of reality as possible, even if reality will keep slipping away by always turning out to be more complicated than we can comprehend at any given moment. The whole of civilization was built on those attempts.

A great reminder

No blood on the leaf @kanyewest

Yeah.... there's all-ways more.