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fromWIRED
1 week agoApple Pioneer Bill Atkinson Was a Secret Evangelist of the 'God Molecule'
Bill Atkinson advocated lower-dose 5-MeO-DMT use to maximize benefits and reduce harm while participating in a private psychonaut community.
"I know what it feels like to fall in love, and to feel sad, and to feel envy, and to feel joy, and to feel accomplishment, and to feel shame," Johnson said on the Core Memory podcast on Thursday. "But what else?" Johnson said he wanted to create a "map" of human consciousness to explore the convergence of mind and machine. "If you can, in fact, pair the brain with AI, what could AI do with you, in terms of exploring consciousness?" he said.