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💻🍄🧙🏼‍♂️ 211 - Adam Aronovich on A Cultural Anthropology for The Psychedelic Internet
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💻🍄🧙🏼‍♂️ 211 - Adam Aronovich on A Cultural Anthropology for The Psychedelic Internet

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This week on Future Fossils we pierce the veil with Adam Aronovich, cultural anthropologist and psychedelic integration therapist, to talk about the strange brew of web-connected healing and web-inflicted paranoia and delusions of grandeur, conspiracy epistemics, how people are being treated as robots, and robots are being treated as people, and engaging reality directly versus engaging through the manipulation of symbols. Among other things! It’s a perfect treat for tricky times…

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 A mostly-but-not-entirely-complete list of references:

An Oral History of The End of Reality
MAPS Psychedelic Science 2023
“A general model for the origin of allometric scaling laws in biology” by Geoffrey West, James Brown, Brian Enquist
New Religions of the 21st Century (Yuval Noah Harari’s Google Tech Talk)
The Matrix (franchise)
A Glitch in The Matrix (documentary)
Doug Rushkoff “fractalnoia” (FF 67)
Stanislav Grof
“So You Want To Be a Sorcerer in the Age of Mythic Powers?” on The Emerald Podcast
William Irwin Thompson - The Borg or Borges
Jorge Luis Borges - On Exactitude in Science
Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulations
ChatGPT
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (Encyclopedia Galactica)
Simon DeDeo on plural epistemology (interviewed by MG on Complexity Podcast 72)
Erik Davis (FF 132)
Bruce Damer (FF 109)
Ken Adams (FF 209)
Shane Mauss (FF 58)
What the heck happened to Reality Sandwich?
Mondo 2000 + R.U. Sirius

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Future Fossils with Michael Garfield
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Join paleontologist-futurist Michael Garfield and an avalanche of amazing guests for deep but irreverent discussions at the edge of the known and knowable: on prehistory and post-humanity and deep time, non-human agency and non-duality, science fiction and self-fulfilling prophecies, complex systems and sustainability (or lack thereof), psychedelics as a form of training for proliferating futures, art and creativity as service and as inquiry. New episodes on a roughly biweekly basis. Get bonus material and support the show at patreon.com/michaelgarfield or michaelgarfield.substack.com