Topic
Consciousness
The hard problem of what it means to be aware, and whether a machine that produces identical outputs to a human mind is doing the same thing.
Health
Carl Hayden Smith says 78% of IV DMT users see entities, and some meet the entities' children
The claim is wild, oddly domestic, and a useful reminder that psychedelic research keeps producing data that sounds like a Pixar sequel written in a hospital ward.
Culture
Carl Hayden Smith says DMT entities told him he was not scheduled to die in an fMRI scanner
The psychedelic researcher’s wildest claim is not that DMT produces entities, but that those entities appeared to treat his lab scan like a cosmic false alarm.
The Diary of a CEO·Culture
Graham Hancock on Death, Lost Civilizations, and the Enemies He Can't Forgive
The ancient-history provocateur comes in reflective and leaves a little raw.
The Diary of a CEO·Culture
John Lennox on Hell, AI, and Why the Output Is Not the Point
The Oxford mathematician and Christian apologist comes to Diary of a CEO to argue that consciousness, not computation, is what separates humans from machines, and that hell is something you choose.