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Coming up today on the video.
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The code is not like that.
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You can look away, you can look back, it's right there.
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You can move the light around it, you can move your head around it.
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It behaves like it's there.
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If the insectoids created this universe, is there a point?
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Is there a teleology?
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Something that we're actually working towards?
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Or are we just a visual, experimental, you know, spectacle to the insectoid?
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Can you practice just letting go of everything to know?
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Just kind of being in love.
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Today I have a really exciting guest for you.
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Joining me is Danny Goller, researcher and co-founder of Code of Reality, a nonprofit group investigating whether the mysterious text or codes seen during DMT experiences are real and an external signal or a projection of the brain.
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Danny has been developing a protocol using diffractive lasers to make the code visible.
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And now he's conducting a series of new experiments in which DMT experiencers may be able to map and systematize a hidden source code using diffracted lasers and photography.
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Danny, welcome to the podcast.
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Dan, thank you so much for having me.
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Always a pleasure.
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Yeah, man.
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Just for the audience's uh background, just a little bit, we've done a few podcasts together on various topics, and um we've known each other for quite some time.
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And I say all this because I think because I know you personally, it went muted a little bit just how big this topic and your name has become online.
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And I want to dive into what the phenomena is, but I just want, you know, to recount the story of how I found you.
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It was Anton Bilton sent me, I think one of the first videos that you put out there, and you said, there's this phenomena.
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I'm probably butchering what you actually said, but there's this phenomena.
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I'm noticing it.
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I understand what the naysayers will say, but I have to, I have to speak about this phenomena that's coming up.
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Um, and I watched that and I was like, dude, I have to share you with all the people that I know.
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And eventually we ended up meeting each other in Nosada.
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We did a little um Brazilian jujitsu um with Brandon McCatherine at 10th
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Uh, really cool way of getting to know you.
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But since that time, your name just keeps popping up on my feed.
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And um, before we get into exactly what the premise is of your work, I just want to know how has this experience been for you?
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The wild ride of like pe getting people's attention, having a controversial kind of topic to talk about that could really be settled by somebody just actually doing the thing that you're talking about.
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How has this ride been for you?
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Well, thank you so much for this wonderful intro.
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And yes, we're we're actually good friends, which is uh always a giant plus when you're doing an interview with someone.
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Um so uh yeah, I mean, that's a great question.
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I think that my focus always remains on the simple moment to moment.
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I know it sounds super chewed up and cheesy, but it it it's how I keep sanity, and also I feel like that's how I don't lose track of what's important.
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Uh so even though, of course, you know, uh it's nice to be recognized for what you do and for the work that you're doing, but in the end of the day, I do feel like the whole thing, uh, you and I, I know from our very deep and long conversations, we align on the point that uh ultimately whatever process is unfolding is unfolding through us and it's informing us in real time if we can pay enough attention.
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And so what I'm what I believe is that this whole process of my work becoming more known, all of that stuff, it it has a certain pace, it has a certain rhythm, uh, and it wants to unfold at at that pace.
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And if I try to push beyond that pace, usually um, you know, it doesn't work out as well.
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And I learn to just listen to the signal, just relax, and just basically just enjoy the ride.
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And that's how I'm going about it, usually.
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So that actually uh you know bears really nice fruit in terms of the right amount of attention, the right messaging at the right time.
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So, for example, I'm noticing that it's almost like clockwork, almost like magic.
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Like I would go to this event.
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I just I'd just been to Contact in the Desert, invited by Paul Heinek, who's also now um uh you know a really good friend.
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And I went and I you know you know I I gave a few public talks before, but this was probably the the largest room I spoke to.
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And and it was phenomenal because even I didn't know that we've arrived at that level of communication.
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And what's interesting is that as I'm evolving as both the speaker and as I'm polishing the message, the right events come along to then you know, meet that message or meet that level of communication.
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So as long as I trust that, everything aligns perfectly.
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So I usually, you know, I just kind of focus on the smaller things.
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You know, you're a father.
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I I uh I I uh I admire you in many ways because I don't know how you're handling uh what is it for now?
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It's like I I have one and I'm you know saying that I'm handling it is an overstatement, but thank you for the compliment.
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Yeah, uh I mean you're you're well way looking way less tired than I would expect, but maybe that's just a really good, really good uh you know uh interview interviewing skills.
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Uh but I uh but I'm focusing on my family, uh, and that really keeps me grounded.
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Again, I understand that it might sound a little cheesy to some, but I I that's really that's what anchors us to something that where the rubber touches the road, right?
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Because you have ultimately every day you have to come back home and just have that interaction, right?
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And then everything blossoms.
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So I'm I feel very blessed to to have found that balance between what the you know the message is in my personal life, and I'm gonna keep doing it that way.
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And it and it truly surprises me every time that you know the scale of what is unfolding, and at the same time, how wonderfully smooth the the the it when I trust that pace, it it takes care of everything.
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Both what comes out of in terms of what comes out of my mouth, to whom, and also you know, the slow growth the slow but but steady grow growth of you know of of the project.
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That's amazing.
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Let's let's dive into the project.
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Um you know, so for me, if if I had to in my own words, and I would love for you to kind of clarify where and how I might be off in this summary of your premise, but it's basically as simple as it started with those who ingest DMT the right way, meaning not through the stomach, but in a way where you can have a hallucinatory effect, but not blast off so much that you're dissociated.
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If you are able to get close enough and look at the effect of a refracted laser upon any object, but let's just say a wall, and you look at the effect of it, what is revealed is something like codes.
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We don't have to go into like what it looks like you've done it that enough on your old podcast, but the uh on DMT, where you're still not completely dissociated, maybe you see it then, but you can speak to it better when you're still kind of here.
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You see some kind of phenomena like codes following the contour of the objects that the laser is diffracting off of.
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That is the full premise.
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And you are then just kind of picking that apart and seeing what you can see about this phenomena.
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How close was I on what the phenomena actually is?
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And and we can go from there.
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Well, for the only difference, the only thing uh is that it's diffracted laser versus refracted laser.
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But the funny thing is you're in good company because literally in the first video I ever put out, I also said refracted, even though it is diffracted.
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And actually, Charles Eisenstein corrected me when we were in Masara.
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Uh because I confused the two terms.
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It doesn't really matter that much because we do know that actually refraction, and it doesn't really matter that much, but just for people to understand.
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So diffraction is basically any scattering of light, and in a diffracted lens, they it's basically specifically engineered to have the right amount of slits at a certain distance to match the wavelength.
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So it's kind of like a specific lens for that.
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And refraction means just bending of the light through a medium, so like in water and things like this.
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I also said refraction in the first video, so again, you're in great company.
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Uh but uh yeah, but but but it it is interesting because the refraction from water, if you put it through water, you can actually also see it through that.
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Uh after it hits the wall, you see it even better.
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So if you diffract and then refract, it and and all of these are data points, by the way.
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They're not uh they're not moot points, uh, or moo points, if we're gonna use uh Joey Trubiani's uh uh definition.
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Um so um so that everything you said is correct.
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You project a diffracted laser on a wall.
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You if you happen to be on DMT, as one does sometimes, you will see what seems to be like a some kind of a self-executing code.
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Uh and some people voice to me that they're confused by me saying self-executing.
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What does that mean?
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It just means it kind of does a thing, like it just kind of happens, like something is just like in a matrix, something is happening, right?
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But but there's but there's other degrees of freedom to it than than just cascading rain of code.
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And the reality of it, you raise a wonderful point that has it's like a Jenga tower.
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There's so many, there's so many different things in there that needs to be kind of touched without making the whole tower collapse.
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That I'll I'll try my best to keep it succinct.
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Um, the first thing to say is that if somebody does it for themselves, and if they see the code in full, we do know now that there's like 30% of people that are having a hard time, and some people we have encountered that are really they seem to not be able to see it.
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That is a data point for us, by the way.
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It's a problem from a scientific perspective, for sure, and we would fully we're in full admission of this, and we believe we will solve this, but we actually think that when we will solve this, it will give us something, a fundamental point about consciousness.
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This I think that the reason for that is technical.
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I think there's something about how certain people cast their attention or how their neurons are receiving uh photons.
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Uh it there's something there that we believe that can actually tell us something very fundamental about the situation.
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But we don't know yet, of course.
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However, if you do see it in full, there's a kind of realism to it that basically makes you understand right there on the spot that you do not need anyone else to tell you or verify it with you.
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You know you're looking at something real.
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That's how convincing it is.
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Now, this comes with a train of you know, of caveats, of like, of course, of course, that we wanna stay skeptical still.
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Of course, we are you know very open to the possibility that all of this can be like a very sophisticated trick of the brain.
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Whatever it is in the end of the day, from a scientific perspective, it's still interesting because we've never seen anything like this where you can literally replicate the experience this methodically, right?
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Aside from somebody pointed it out to me, and I think it's a fair pointing out, which is that the Shapibo tribe, which is when they invoke the particular patterns by singing the Ikaras in a particular way, so they seem to be reliably be able to invoke certain imagery.
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But I would say even there, again, it's a fair point, but I would say even there, when you're looking at the Shapibo patterns, it's nothing like what you see in the in the laser.
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So like they they are they are pretty, they're still kind of geometric in nature.
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They don't seem to be linguistic in nature, which is different.
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There seems to be meaning instantiation in linguistics that isn't the same for just kind of symbolic.
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Because the reason is because psychedelics are really good at playing with edge detection.
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So it's very possible that just by looking at certain surfaces, it will kind of align them in a particular way, right?
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But when you're looking at a at a Japanese character, right?
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Katakana or kanji or it doesn't matter, it it's it's too intentional.
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There's just too much intention in it.
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There's a there's a certain uh there's a certain there's a certain optimization for meaning instantiation.
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If I just give you, it's an example that I give in my talks now.
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Like if I I show people a bunch of dots, and then I say, Do you think this is language?
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Now, obviously, if you want to be a smart ass, you can say, well, maybe it's a kind of like Morse code, like sure, you can instantiate meaning in anything, but on the surface, just for what it is, would you say that do you think those are characters of a language?
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The answer, of course, is no.
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But what if I do it with lines?
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Again, aside from like thinking about it in terms of Morse code, do you think that's language?
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The answer is no.
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So you see where this is going, right?
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So we make the lines a little bit more complex, and eventually we're gonna arrive at a point where there's gonna be kind of like a oh, wait, wait, wait, that that's probably somebody tried to do something here.
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It's not it, it cannot just be kind of like, or very unlikely that this is just kind of arose naturally from something, right?
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And then there's an optimal spot where you're absolutely certain, or to the degree that anyone can be certain of anything, that this was done intentionally with meaning instantiation.
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But notice what happens.
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If you keep doing this, if you make it too complex, it's like like super, super now again, all of a sudden it's like, no, no, no, that's just there's no way this is like it's too complex, there's too much here.
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Interesting.
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So there seems to be a sweet spot for how we represent information in terms of characters.
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And whatever
you see in the code is not the same like the Shapibo pattern, because the Shapibo pattern is still in the in the previous camp.
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Like it's not complex enough.
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The characters are exactly the right complexity, it seems.
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And and it, but it's not just that, it's just the the how the whole gestalt is, how the whole frame appearing to you.
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It's uh it's almost like me saying to you, okay, this hat that I'm very proudly wear now, right?
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If I'm if if you would see if you would see this just inside the laser, just kind of hovering, like a bunch of these hats, with like literally like code like this, and like it looks exactly like a hat, it's a silly example, but like imagine that happening.
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You'd be like, wait, what?
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Like, and then you say, Well, we're just imagining hats.
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Yeah, but why are they hovering exactly like this and they're not moving?
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And it's like, or seeing a microwave or something, like something that's just kind of there, right?
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That's the level of realism that we're talking about.
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We're not talking about like even with hallucinations, even though with DMT they can be very realistic, uh, they have they have a something that is like it's it's it's evolving.
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There's a there's a certain um almost like a like a sliding quality to them that they can kind of be this and then they can be that, and then they're unpredictable very often.
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The code is not like that.
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You can look away, you can look back, it's right there.
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You can move the light around it, you can move your head around it, it behaves like it's there.
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That all of these parameters together, and then on top of all of that, everybody seems to be reporting the same thing, and we're now in in the process of actually actually discerning whether they're saying the same thing, and we can talk about this.
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And one final point I want to tie this whole thing with because you you made a very important point about certain criticisms.
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Uh, I understand the the whole you know concept of just kind of like commenting on it without looking.
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Because technically, if I am claiming that it's really there, then according to how we do things in science currently, it makes sense to say I don't need to do this to comment on it scientifically, I should be able to probe it without ever doing it.
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However, I think this is where w how modern science does things currently suffers from an ontological blind spot, which it kind of knows
but it ignores, which you the qu it usually requires a degree philosophy to see.
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But everything we know in science is built on top of first somebody experiencing it, and that is definitely not a moot point.
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So, you in order to experience even know that we need to investigate light, we first had to have eyes and have any contact with light at all.
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If we wouldn't have that, we might have never come up with the idea that light is a thing.
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So we always start from there, right?
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So maybe we're experiencing, we're interacting with a certain quality of experience that once again requires us to first go in and experience it and then build the proper tools to see how we probe it from the outside, which is what we purport to do in codal reality, and we call this whole field cognitive physics, basically the the um the physics of cognition itself.
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I really appreciate the point that you put in there because feedback from anybody is great.
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And being able to parse through maybe some things they didn't do perfectly in their reasoning, which to me is oftentimes speaking with a conviction of the herd rather than the exploration of the what if.
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Um, that's what I felt in Hamilton Morris, but I don't even knock them for it because I I also get it.
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And you know what's funny is you and I are friends, and I still have not experienced this.
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I have in this desk that I'm sitting in front of, that laser that you gave me when you interviewed me in this very same room.
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Um and I appreciate that.
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And there's things that we also need to put to bed very briefly for people, such as there was somebody who said, I think I reposted something about you online, and somebody said, um, if you put the laser next to uh uh a prism, that code will shine on the wall, whether or not you're on DMT or not, because it's in the laser, it's a part of the technology.
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Let's put that to bed right now because I don't think that's actually what happens.
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Oh, that's right.
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I don't think you actually see yeah, very easy.
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Yeah.
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Because when you move the light, so so help me put that to bed real quick.
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That's it.
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If you move the light, it's not moving with it.
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That's the end of that discussion.
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So if I've put a laser, I've I've never put your laser in front of a prism, but you don't see characters on the wall.
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No, like so.
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I haven't I'm saying that even if you're saying that somehow, well, first of all, that would be interesting all by on its own right.
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So like if you if you would uh smoke DMT and somehow you would see the thing through Prism or or let's say you would see it without you know with a prism, whatever.
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First of all, I don't know if that's true, and that would be awesome to find out because that would probably be a data point.
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But if you uh move the light after you see the code, if it's inside, so like if the the the content is here, right?
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That means that the if I take a projector that shows a movie, if I move the projector, the movie, the movie's moving, right?
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Right.
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But in this case, if I move the projector, it's just revealing other parts of the movie.
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That's the end of that discussion.
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So like it's like a flashlight in the dark, it's not moving with whatever it is.
00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:41.680
Now there's there are more sophisticated ways to still hold this criticism.
00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:57.519
For example, that maybe what's happening is that there's some kind of a holographic illusion happening, and then the stochastic nature, just the random nature of the repeating pattern of the speckle itself, allows your brain to kind of paint this thing on top of it.
00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:00.480
But notice that now we basically shifted the argument.
00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:05.599
Now we're saying there's something about the brain projecting out, which by the way, I'm very open to.
00:20:05.759 --> 00:20:07.440
And there's some very interesting theories there.
00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:11.279
One that was written, uh brilliant paper written by Anthony Ness.
00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:14.640
It was more of an of an article, but it was almost like a paper.
00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:18.160
And I actually interviewed him for my channel because I really liked the way he thought.
00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:23.279
Uh, ultimately, my personal take is that it's not gonna wash his theory, but uh, but I love it.
00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:26.960
And and I love it because it's testable, it's very neatly formulated.
00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:28.480
He thought about it very deeply.
00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:34.160
His idea, which uh man, I I I almost want it to be true because it's so neat, it's so beautiful.
00:20:34.319 --> 00:20:40.480
Um, he's he basically used some concrete data, so he didn't just kind of guess, right?
00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:42.640
But he
basically okay.
00:20:42.720 --> 00:21:01.359
So the premise, first of all, is that what might be happening, and the reason that everybody's seeing the same thing, is because essentially we're looking, all of us are looking with this experiment, we're looking into our own architecture of the brain, and because the architecture of the brain is similar to a very large degree, it's like a microscope into our own network, basically.
00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:03.200
That's why it kind of appears the same.
00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:07.039
So, specifically, what he says, there's a network in the brain called V1.
00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:12.160
It's responsible for moving photons from the retina to the visual cortex.
00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:14.480
It's the same micrystalline structure.
00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:28.799
So, what he's saying is that what might be happening is because DMT, we do know that it reduces activity in a lot of uh auxiliary uh uh networks, a lot of the content is being um basically demoted, suppressed, or yeah, yeah.
00:21:29.039 --> 00:21:34.799
And then what you basically see, what you're left with, is just V1 working and almost nothing else.
00:21:35.119 --> 00:21:41.920
And then what's happening is that because V1 it's responsible for just basically edge edge connection and edge detection.
00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:50.559
So basically, there's only really three orientations that two lines can have with one another topologically T, L, X.
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That's it.
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There's no other orientations.
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Everything else is perturbation of these three.
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With these three, you can build exactly 36 uh different symbols.
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Everything else is orientation of these symbols.
00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:05.839
So if I made this, let's say, right?
00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:07.519
This is the same.
00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:09.359
It's just a different orientation of the same thing.
00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:15.599
So then you can kind of create this like very relatively sophisticated kind of like family of symbols that you can see.
00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:24.880
It'll be very similar across individuals because everybody's mind or the crystalline, semi-crystalline structure of V1 is pretty much the same.
00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:26.640
Here's how it's testable.
00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:32.880
Well, first of all, I really love this idea because it's it's deeply thought through, and there's a lot everybody should read the article.
00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:38.000
And you know, I I put I I recorded a conversation with Anthony and I posted the article there.
00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:43.759
But here's how we it helped us actually thinking about this in much more critical ways in our experimentation.
00:22:44.000 --> 00:23:07.359
So one of the things that we're planning to do now, one of the things we already did, which is that uh, and Anthony agreed that if we prove
that it's not kind of similar between people, but if we see as we're gonna talk probably in a bit, but we took a very uh clear image of the just the band of light on the wall, we cleaned the image, and then we put it inside of Apple Vision Pro.
00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:12.799
So for all intents and purposes, you're inside the VR and you're looking at the an image of the laser, basically.
00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:17.200
If you're on DMT, what's interesting is that all of a sudden the code pops out.
00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:20.480
So it's almost like we took a picture of the code, but it's not moving.
00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:21.680
So it's not moving.
00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:24.720
It's in in reality, it's moving, in the picture, it's not moving.
00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:36.640
Now, actually, well, this is super interesting, but it actually creates more problems than it solves at this stage because you shouldn't be able to record holographic information with a photo.
00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:43.599
That's not that should not be possible because camera, as you very well know, because you're a filmmaker, only picks up amplitude.
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It does not pick up phase.
00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:46.640
So, how does that happen?
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Which means it does imply projection, either to some degree or to a complete degree.
00:23:51.279 --> 00:24:04.559
However, what we can now do because the characters are frozen, we developed a little software with the help of uh Sterling Cooley, our um uh brain scan expert, and our actually producer on the film Chris Paris, they're both brilliant brilliant.
00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:11.440
They both set out and built software for Apple Vision Pro where you basically go inside, you own DMD, you're seeing the symbols.
00:24:12.400 --> 00:24:13.440
You you label.
00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:15.519
So now your brain is being scanned, right?
00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:22.480
You click on a symbol that you see, the moment then you click, the computer registers the location, the exact location.
00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:28.880
Apple Vision Pro is really good at like locating exactly right coordinates, and it registers the moment where you recorded it.
00:24:28.960 --> 00:24:37.759
So now it has your brain state correlated with exactly where you clicked, and it gives a tail five seconds before the event, five seconds after the event in the brain scan.
00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:50.240
So now you have an event, two tails, you have location, and it opens a radio menu with six symbols that we've identified uh uh topologically what are the most common things that people report.
00:24:50.400 --> 00:24:58.480
So we're essentially asking you the event is already recorded, so now you have all the time in the world, and obviously I'm asking you, okay, which one is the closest to what you think you saw?
00:24:58.640 --> 00:24:59.359
You label it.
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So now you have location, brain state, what you reported,
and then you keep doing this location, brain state, what you reported, location, brain state, what you report.
00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:23.839
Eventually, when we have thousands of those for each individual, the AI will analyze and will create a pretty good Rosetta Stone of how all of those three correlate, literally a triangulation, and it will start promoting from a larger set of, let's say, from all the 36.
00:25:24.160 --> 00:25:30.960
And it would start, because it already will know kind of like what you usually guess around this kind of a state, it will start promoting six for you.
00:25:31.119 --> 00:25:32.799
So now it's dialing it in for you.
00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:34.880
So now we're getting even closer to what it really is.
00:25:35.039 --> 00:25:44.799
And eventually after that process, which will take a second, but after we do that, if I have my Rosetta Stone, then I bring Ben in and I'm creating your Rosetta Stone.
00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:46.960
Now I'm gonna I can start comparing with the same image.
00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:57.279
I can start comparing yours with mine, and my AI will tell me actually, you did report exactly the same character, exactly at the same place.
00:25:57.440 --> 00:25:59.920
And you did that at 80% of locations.
00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:03.519
Now, to be clear, we did not discover this, we do not know this yet.
00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:05.920
I'm just telling you kind of like how we're trying to go about this.
00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:18.319
This will this definitely will give us like a demarcation line between and Anthony agreed, if it is in fact the same characters in the same space, then his whole thing falls apart, and that means the information is in the image, right?
00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:20.400
So that's one way in which we're approaching it.
00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:25.599
The other thing we're trying to think, which I really love, it's it's it's absolutely and I spoke to Andrew Galmore about this.
00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:30.880
He said, that's that's perfect, you should keep doing this, and it's gonna be really great if you find something.
00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:47.599
Um, and um the other way that I'm really excited about because just it it's just gonna be a lot of fun trying to do this, but if what is because what he essentially is saying, all that's left is the canvas on which later things are painted with more networks of the brain, right?
00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:53.519
Because from the edges, then there's like all the other things combined to more complex forms with color and all that stuff.
00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:54.400
Okay, great.
00:26:54.559 --> 00:27:05.599
So what we do, if we're assuming that only the canvas is present, or the majority is just the canvas is present, how about we use intracranial magnetic stimulation to stimulate particular portions of the brain?
00:27:05.759 --> 00:27:15.440
Of course, we're gonna have to do it with experts who know exactly how to you know target, and then let's say I'm stimulating the part responsible for b-b-dih, I don't know, whatever it is, right?
00:27:15.680 --> 00:27:21.759
So I want to see if I can bring back content on on command.
00:27:21.839 --> 00:27:29.279
Like if I have the canvas, if I stimulate this part of the brain, do I bring that kind of content back into the picture or what happens there?
00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:30.240
Like I want to see, right?
00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:32.000
So, like, can we actually influence?
00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:34.480
So that would be another really, really fun way to do this.
00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:44.240
And now finally, our our brain scan expert uh Sterling, who's absolutely brilliant, is uh is working on his PhD right now, and uh, you know, he finally saw the code.
00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:54.240
We did we did the uh because he didn't see it before, he was just kind of like he's really into microtubules, he's he worked closely uh, you know, on this on this whole microtubules thing for a long time.
00:27:54.559 --> 00:27:58.079
Uh so and he knows a lot about it, obviously.
00:27:58.240 --> 00:28:04.319
And so he was just kind of interested because it's kind of fun and wild, but now he saw it, so we made sure that he saw it.
00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:08.079
He saw it and he goes, dude, oh my god.
00:28:08.640 --> 00:28:10.079
He's like, let's go.
00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:13.039
Like he's like, he's like, now that he saw it, he's like, that's crazy.
00:28:13.119 --> 00:28:16.559
So now we're like locked in to to to really figure this out.
00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:20.240
So I love that that's a turning point for people.
00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:39.839
Like when you see it, you're what you're kind of speaking to is is the definitive nature of exactly like people know that it's there, and that's something like the DMT experience, experiencers often say there's something more real about this than normal reality.
00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:52.160
And it's not like I'm not a guy who propagates theories often, but I often wondered, because I work with uh John Chavez who you know we're both friends with DMT Quest.
00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:56.640
And um you know part of the thing that we're finding.
00:28:57.519 --> 00:28:57.839
What's that?
00:28:58.079 --> 00:28:58.480
No, no, no.
00:28:58.559 --> 00:29:02.960
Just just want to I I think it's worth mentioning that John is also one of our largest investors in the film.
00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:04.240
So shout out to John.
00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:06.559
Yeah, shout out to John.
00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:17.119
Um is the fact that like he's one of the only people that's really trying to study why it DMT is endogenous and how much it's endogenous.
00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:26.160
Uh you know, the latest studies, I can't get into it because the film isn't out yet, but it's more DMT in the brain around the clock than we originally thought.
00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:42.000
Um and I just at one point was wondering like, I wonder if DMT, if we don't know
what the function is, why it's there at such a substantial level, more so than classical neurotransmitters, could it have something to do with the feeling of realness?
00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:52.480
And when you upregulate it, it feels more real because this is something that is associated with the feeling that this is cohesive, this makes sense, just the feeling of it.
00:29:52.720 --> 00:30:09.599
So I don't know if that like plays into it at all, but what uh what I'm still kind of stuck on, which is awesome, is so you took a high-res photo of a defracted laser, um, but you haven't done these these tests that you're talking about yet, or you've done some, you just don't have the data points back.
00:30:09.839 --> 00:30:10.559
Yeah, yeah, we've done it.
00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:11.519
We've done one already.
00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:13.839
We've done the session with the labeling.
00:30:14.079 --> 00:30:15.599
We haven't done the are you at late.
00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:16.880
Do I go ahead?
00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:20.319
Well, I was gonna say, are you at liberty to share what you're finding yet?
00:30:20.559 --> 00:30:21.279
Or is that all in the film?
00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:28.559
So just to be clear, our website, codoreality.org, anybody can go there if you feel uh called, please donate.
00:30:28.640 --> 00:30:30.000
It helps the cost tremendously.
00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:45.039
But in it, you can also find tools for the public like veilbreak.ai, which uh my uh business partner uh David Carter and uh and our uh one of our software engineers, um uh Carmelo, and well, I guess also Laszlo build the code of reality.
00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:50.960
But that they they basically build up a repository of the laser experiment for people to go and observe.
00:30:51.039 --> 00:30:55.599
So there's a lot of stuff that everything is for the public available all the time.
00:30:55.680 --> 00:31:00.559
That literally uh bailbreak.ai is essentially the GitHub of the laser experiment.
00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:03.680
You can go watch people can do this anonymously if they want.
00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:07.039
They leave the full experiment exactly how they did it with all the details.
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:09.039
You can ask the AI, hey, did you try this?
00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:09.759
Did you try that?
00:31:09.920 --> 00:31:14.000
Everything is there for the picking, and and and it's we're we're very proud of these tools.
00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:16.799
So, to your question, yes, of course I can talk about it.
00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:20.319
Um and um so far, I mean, it is just the beginning.
00:31:20.400 --> 00:31:22.720
So, like the labeling is gonna take a while.
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:28.559
So, like it it will show some results probably in eight months when we have quite a few of those.
00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:35.839
Realistically, we need I think maybe 300 to 500 label labeling events per person.
00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:37.039
Good ones.
00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:44.880
Like, if you would you also have to kind of like practice because you're in state, it's kind of hard to focus, and you've your short-term memory is very skewed.
00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:49.839
So, this is why dialing in the the software to help you do that in real time.
00:31:50.079 --> 00:31:55.599
So, for example, the radio menu is is something that we understood we have to do right after the first test.
00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:58.400
In the first test, it would be it was it was easier.
00:31:58.559 --> 00:32:03.359
Uh, a menu would open up kind of like on the side with like nine, I think, letters on the side.
00:32:03.599 --> 00:32:05.039
But here's the issue with that.
00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:09.279
Like, this is how this is how specific you have to think about this.
00:32:09.599 --> 00:32:14.400
If I click on it, because I'm on DMT, short-term memory suffers a lot.
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:19.039
So the second I click on it, already I'm having a hard time remembering exactly what it was.
00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:29.359
So I either have to voice it to people, kind of like say so they can function like my short-term memory, or if I have to travel with my eyes, it's very hard to remember what I just saw, actually.
00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:30.400
That's how hard it is.
00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:36.559
So the radio menu solves this because I keep staring at the thing because we're really good at interacting with our periphery.
00:32:36.640 --> 00:32:40.480
So I can just, it's gonna be just around where I'm looking, and I don't really have to look away.
00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:42.400
So this is how specific it has to be.
00:32:42.640 --> 00:32:44.079
So you have to also practice.
00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:52.160
But the second we we get better at this and we have enough labels and we're gonna compare between two or three people, real data will emerge.
00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:57.759
And by the way, it might it might point to a completely different direction than what we thought, and we're happy to follow it.
00:32:57.839 --> 00:33:00.640
It's you know, ultimately we're interested in what's true.
00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:02.319
Yeah, yeah.
00:33:03.200 --> 00:33:16.880
There's a couple other quick points that I want to mention is when we were in Nosara together, um, you would mention to me that it is possible, or some people see the very same phenomena on psilocybin.
00:33:17.279 --> 00:33:20.559
Yeah, we know is that true all tryptomines work.
00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:26.640
We know that surprisingly, 5MEO produces even a more coherent image of the code.
00:33:26.799 --> 00:33:33.839
In fact, it looks a lot like, even though you still see the code, just like in the movie Contact, which Joddy Foster Foster?
00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:34.720
Yeah, Jodie Foster.
00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:35.839
Jodie Foster, yeah.
00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:37.039
Yeah, Jodie Foster.
00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:37.599
There you go.
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:41.200
I don't know why that specific last name I
had a name.
00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:41.680
Yeah.
00:33:41.920 --> 00:33:44.000
No, no, just my accent came out out of nowhere.
00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:52.000
Uh, but um so uh in the movie Contact, when they figure it out, there's this moment where it becomes schematics, remember?
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:53.119
Right.
00:33:53.839 --> 00:33:56.559
Everything clicks and they're like three-dimensional schematic, right?
00:33:56.880 --> 00:33:57.279
Exactly.
00:33:57.440 --> 00:33:59.519
That's exactly what it looks like on 5MEO.
00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:00.319
It's wild.
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:04.720
It's almost like it becomes a more of what it really is.
00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:17.599
And it almost like you, it's almost like whomever they are who are I'm claiming is actually simulating the space, it's almost like they're standing behind your shoulder, like a almost like a proud parent, and they go like, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:18.559
Yeah.
00:34:18.719 --> 00:34:19.280
What else?
00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:19.760
What else?
00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:20.159
What else?
00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:22.239
It's like you're getting there.
00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:22.800
What is it?
00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:25.920
And it's almost like they're waiting for you to understand what you're looking at.
00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:27.519
It's it's it's very exciting.
00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:34.639
Um, and um and another case that I can tell you, I don't remember if I told you this in person, but that was fascinating to us.
00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:47.679
We had an individual who is, for all intents and purposes, in terms of his as far as we can vet an individual, very clear-headed, he's a software engineer, very brilliant man.
00:34:48.159 --> 00:34:54.320
Uh he has a condition where DMT binds differently in his brain, he can't experience it.
00:34:54.719 --> 00:34:55.840
He cannot see hallucination.
00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:56.079
Wow.
00:34:56.320 --> 00:34:58.079
Not LSD, not DMT.
00:34:58.159 --> 00:35:00.480
He can smoke a whole cartridge, nothing will happen to him.
00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:02.320
Here's the interesting part.
00:35:02.719 --> 00:35:07.519
And he has an eye patch, by the way, which is just extra interesting because some people say like the ocular vision, you know.
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:09.119
Uh because of his condition.
00:35:09.199 --> 00:35:11.199
He had like a thing with his eye.
00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:19.599
If he smokes DMT, and only if he smokes DMT, even though he can't see hallucinations, he looks into the laser, he sees the code.
00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:23.440
And he sees it clearer than anyone else.
00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:26.079
Which implies there's no distortion for him.
00:35:26.239 --> 00:35:28.719
He I know he saw it because he rendered it for me.
00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:31.519
He's a he's a he's a brilliant computer scientist.
00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:34.159
He rendered a thing, like a visual for me.
00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:35.199
He's like, that's what I saw.
00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:37.440
As like, that's exactly what we're seeing.
00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:45.199
So that was there's so many questions that unlock there, but I have to go back to the they.
00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:47.920
So we haven't talked about it.
00:35:48.079 --> 00:36:03.599
Like, there is something inhabiting this space, or so it seems, to people beyond, you know, like just all the way back to Terrence McKenna and beyond, people have been talking about specifically DMT and not FiveMeO.
00:36:03.840 --> 00:36:09.519
I think it's super fascinating that 5MEO uh clarifies um the characters even more.
00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:21.920
But to put that aside for right now, a lot of people claim clockwork elves, crystalline beings, light beings, manted beings, all these different kinds of creatures that seem to inhabit this space.
00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:23.440
They all have different demeanors.
00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:26.960
Some of them want, some of them don't seem to want anything from us.
00:36:27.199 --> 00:36:36.960
But take me back to that part because, and we don't have to stay glued to your specific premise, because I know you've also done extended state DMT.
00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:40.480
For those who don't know what that is, DMT is very short-acting.
00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:41.679
And when you're back, you're back.
00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:43.519
You're not groggy, you're just back.
00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:52.400
Extended state DMT is uh going uh at peak state or roughly peak state continuous drip infusion uh intravenous.
00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:54.400
And you've done that as well.
00:36:54.639 --> 00:36:57.760
But I wanna I wanna hover around the they real quick.
00:36:57.920 --> 00:37:04.000
Your experience personally with the they, and then we can get into a little bit what that might mean.
00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:04.800
Sure.
00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:07.920
So, first of all, the extended state is the only way we do it now.
00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:13.920
It's the only way I do it now, and we've done all the tests that way because it's really not really Wait, even for the laser?
00:37:14.239 --> 00:37:14.880
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:19.360
They have the the our Kevin and Haley in in Colorado is doing the our extended state part.
00:37:19.599 --> 00:37:23.119
They are they have a whole setup because when people come, they know about the lasers.
00:37:23.199 --> 00:37:24.639
Sometimes they ask, hey, can I do the laser?
00:37:24.719 --> 00:37:31.039
And they have a whole setup where they just bring the board to you, there's lasers right behind you, and you just lay there really comfortably, and you can look at the lasers.
00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:31.519
Yeah, yeah.
00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:32.880
So that's the only way we're doing the test.
00:37:33.039 --> 00:37:35.199
We're only doing it at at Kevin and Haley's.
00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:37.840
So because that's the only realistic way to do it.
00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:40.480
You can't just keep smoking, it's just not realistic.
00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:52.880
Um yeah, the day for me uh surprisingly, I guess it's a less okay.
00:37:53.039 --> 00:38:03.360
So so for me personally, because I am trying to communicate things that we can all do something with together, it's less of an emphasis because I'm just telling you things.
00:38:03.519 --> 00:38:08.559
I have no way to prove this to anyone, uh, nor am I really trying to convince anyone of this.
00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:23.440
So I just want everybody to understand I'm not expecting anyone to follow me there, but I am obligated to just kind of speak freely to tell you what my experience is and what are my levels of levels of conviction of it, but again, I'm not asking anyone to just kind of follow me there, right?
00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:39.519
Um so my experience with DMT is very vast, and eventually I've I've honed in on what I believe to be their government's uh channel, which means that a statement by the government is not the same as just somebody telling you something, it feels different.
00:38:39.760 --> 00:38:43.199
There's like an official stamp on it, it feels very different.
00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:45.519
I only report those.
00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:55.679
Everything else can be just kind of like you know, like a conversation starter, but they're just I I rely a lot less on this, and even this is just kind of like cool story, bro, right?
00:38:55.840 --> 00:38:58.000
Like I'm just telling you a thing, and I understand.
00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:05.039
But my experience is so far is that um there's many, many, many beings in this space.
00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:08.639
They all utilize this hypercomputational space.
00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:13.760
Some figured it out, and then they get to kind of be, they have a passport, they can be in that thing.
00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:20.000
In fact, I've seen other humans there, and it's very clear to me, at least, that that's not us.
00:39:20.960 --> 00:39:21.679
That's not us.
00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:32.239
It's probably some other humans from a parallel dimension or from another universe that have just figured all of this out and they have permission and they work there, and like just like you go to another country.
00:39:33.840 --> 00:39:46.639
The beings that seem to be responsible for simulating our universe, and this this is a point of clarification that my wife always emphasizes because she said that I don't know how many people fully understand what you're saying in that regard.
00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:50.239
What is simulated is not Earth, it's the universe.
00:39:51.199 --> 00:39:57.599
Okay, so the ones that seem to be simulating our physical universe are the insectoids.
00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:02.880
That's also why probably they are so common in people's experiences.
00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:12.159
And they are hive mind, they have a government, they have a hierarchy, they have positions, they do
everything kind of like obviously it's a way more complex system than we can comprehend.
00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:15.280
But they're responsible for the fidelity of the physical structure.
00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:20.400
And in fact, even though this was never shown to me, this is just Danny kind of you know assuming things.
00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:25.920
Uh, it does make sense to me that maybe what they are is where they are is is dark matter.
00:40:26.079 --> 00:40:28.559
Like literally, the galaxy is their city.
00:40:28.719 --> 00:40:34.880
So like they are, this is why all this missing matter, because and it's built that way, so they don't really have to.
00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:48.400
It's almost like we are kind of like the the subsumed space within their thing holographically, so they can pull any image of our universe in any space or any time to them, just like you turn on a show.
00:40:48.880 --> 00:40:56.159
They can just do it just like so we're fully visible to them, but they are often hidden from us as well as the time, unless they choose to not be.
00:40:56.320 --> 00:41:03.760
So basically, they they they can bring any moment in space and time to themselves visually, just like you moving your hand to you.
00:41:03.840 --> 00:41:05.360
That's how integrated that is for them.
00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:10.559
They just kind of like and then they're in, and then they can make themselves visible to you if they want, or they don't have to.
00:41:10.719 --> 00:41:13.599
But that's from what I understand, that's how universes simulated.
00:41:13.679 --> 00:41:21.920
The civilization simulating them, they're basically embedded within, so to speak, but cloaked out of the view of whatever is actually being simulated, the layer beneath.
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:30.000
And also the word simulation kind of breaks down here because we associate simulation with the word fake, which it's not what it means, it just means computationally rendered.
00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:34.400
So maybe there's a better word, simulacrum, probably, you know, like simulation without a base.
00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:37.760
So the reality of your situation is still there.
00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:40.559
You're not you're not a puppet, it's not like it doesn't matter.
00:41:40.719 --> 00:41:46.000
As long as there's a conscious observer of any kind, makes no difference whatsoever how they were rendered.
00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:52.320
No one was ever bothered by the idea that they're rendered by the laws of physics, which is the common idea, right?
00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:57.599
Like the laws of physics somehow arrange themselves into you being here, and nobody's ever bothered by this.
00:41:57.679 --> 00:41:58.400
Well, it's the same.
00:41:58.480 --> 00:42:04.079
We're just saying that under the laws of physics, there's computational rules and laws, which again, it's not a new idea.
00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:08.639
There's a whole field of physics calls computation called computational or information physics.
00:42:08.719 --> 00:42:10.559
Those are not fringe ideas, okay?
00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:19.199
But what I'm saying is a little more, you know, high octane than that, because I'm saying I found proof of that, which is already a different level of interaction.
00:42:19.599 --> 00:42:28.400
But that aside, the insectoids, as far as I can discern, are the ones that are responsible for running our physical space and taking care of its fidelity.
00:42:28.800 --> 00:42:32.719
That one of their very discerning qualities is that they're very neutral.
00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:34.400
They actually don't care.
00:42:34.639 --> 00:42:38.639
Or don't care in the same way that we would expect, you know, a benevolent being to care.
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:47.199
And what I've noticed is that that distance makes it creates a chasm of expectation that people experience as negative.
00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:49.760
It's almost like picking up a milk carton.
00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:50.880
Did you expect it to be full?
00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:55.199
Now it's, you know, it's like the old Seinfeld joke is like, oh no, you know, it's it's empty.
00:42:55.360 --> 00:43:00.960
And and because people expect this like love from them, and they're just they're just, it doesn't matter.
00:43:01.039 --> 00:43:05.440
We're just we're just operating on the as long as the space is good, we're good.
00:43:05.599 --> 00:43:11.920
Uh, that difference may makes people sometimes feel like they're evil or like indifferent, which they are, right?
00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:20.960
So there's other levels of emergence in which more the kind of benevolence exists and what that we would expect, like more like heavenly realms and things like that.
00:43:21.039 --> 00:43:27.440
I've seen that too, I've been there, and that definitely feels more along the lines of like another you know, spiritual hug, you know.
00:43:27.599 --> 00:43:30.639
But that's not what these poids are, that's not how they are at all.
00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:33.280
They're very mechanical, they're machine-like.
00:43:33.599 --> 00:43:36.320
Um, and there's many, many species we can talk about.
00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:47.599
The uh the the uh reptilians, which by the way, as as far as I can tell, the real reptilians, that whole caricature of them that we kind of use from conspiracy theories doesn't wash at all.
00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:49.679
Like it has nothing to do with who they really are.
00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:51.840
They're not this like evil conniving thing.
00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:55.840
They're they're from what I understand, they're c the custodians of wisdom and knowledge.
00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:59.760
They hold basically kind of responsible for uh they collect.
00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:02.480
And take care of information that was gathered.
00:44:02.639 --> 00:44:07.440
Like they, you know, so there's all kinds of species they do different things, they specialize in different things.
00:44:07.599 -->
00:44:13.039
There's the um what people I guess they would call the uh the jokers.
00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:22.000
They are really interesting to me because every time I've interacted with them, it's it became clear to me that they are one of the most powerful beings in existence.
00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:33.039
So that it probably goes like again, I'm very careful when I'm speaking now because you know the the from my vantage point, we're talking about real things, and I don't never want to like step on anyone's toes.
00:44:33.280 --> 00:44:43.039
But um, so but it it it it it's almost as extreme as source jokers, like that's how powerful they are.
00:44:43.199 --> 00:44:48.719
So it's like they are on the level that they're allowed to jump between all the levels.
00:44:48.880 --> 00:45:01.440
Uh they have no real, like kind of they have their own world, but they can do anything anywhere in an instance, and they're basically designed that way because for God to perceive anything, they need to perceive through a boundary.
00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:08.000
So, like almost like every living thing in existence is their reg um almost like registering device.
00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:10.800
They're the ones collecting the experience for God, so to speak.
00:45:11.039 --> 00:45:27.280
So every kind of experience has to be experienced, and somebody somewhere has to take it upon themselves to experience the highest level form of agency that is not the source yet, which means that they experience the yin and the yang all at the same time.
00:45:27.440 --> 00:45:31.599
It's not even clear to them if they're light or dark because they're both all at the same time.
00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:38.000
Somebody has to be able to occupy that state of existence, which can be both bliss and torment all at the same time.
00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:50.480
The gift that they're given for taking up this job is that really they're the high, the most one of the most powerful beings, if not the most powerful being, aside from you know God Almighty.
00:45:50.719 --> 00:46:00.559
And and they're basically kind of the reason I'm saying this is because every single time they were present, literally every other energy in the room that I was aware of, everybody freezes.
00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:03.760
Like when they show up, everybody like not moving.
00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:05.440
What about the insectoids?
00:46:05.599 --> 00:46:11.280
Nobody's more powerful than the insectoids because the insectoids simulating this universe.
00:46:11.599 --> 00:46:15.440
They that just this universe, but yeah, but the trickers.
00:46:16.559 --> 00:46:24.800
Again, from one, I understand if I'm wrong, you know, please forgive me whoever is running the show, but uh there's this is just one layer.
00:46:24.960 --> 00:46:32.960
On top of that, you have like so there's many uh, I guess you can say contractors like the insectoids making universes, physical universes.
00:46:33.199 --> 00:46:36.159
Together, they collect into one multiverse.
00:46:36.480 --> 00:46:39.039
That bubble of a multiverse exists as part.
00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:43.599
This is gonna sound like super arbitrary at this point, so I'm aware of this, but that's what I saw.
00:46:43.840 --> 00:46:47.519
This whole bubble of a multiverse exists part of a tri-system.
00:46:47.679 --> 00:46:49.280
I don't know what the other two are.
00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:53.280
They're not a multiverse, they're something else, but they kind of balance some kind of a thing.
00:46:53.440 --> 00:47:00.719
Uh, and then outside of that exists all the kind of like more like god-like like things.
00:47:01.199 --> 00:47:03.039
Within that, the jokers exist.
00:47:03.199 --> 00:47:07.840
So it's almost like there's not even uh like it's it seems to be a different league of a thing.
00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:11.760
And by the way, this is where it kind of collides with some modern spiritual ideas.
00:47:11.920 --> 00:47:26.719
What was became very clear to me, and again, the this I just want to be clear, this confidence with which I'm speaking of this is because I'm just kind of reporting to you what I saw and identified as a reliable signal, but it does not mean that I therefore think that must be how the world is.
00:47:26.880 --> 00:47:29.599
I'm just kind of telling you, think of it as a story, right?
00:47:29.760 --> 00:47:31.360
So, like, yeah, I feel that.
00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:42.079
Yeah, so like uh from what I understood, this idea, this very common meme that we have is like we are God in gods in the making, is incorrect.
00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:51.039
We are not gods in the making, no one is becoming a god, like the the gods are a very different kind of thing, and thank God for that.
00:47:51.360 --> 00:48:04.800
So, like we can be way more than what we are now, but the things that set up the stages, like the things that operate on these levels, it's to say it's a different species of things doesn't do it justice.
00:48:04.880 --> 00:48:07.519
Like we're just not it's not that kind of a thing.
00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:14.000
You're of it, yeah, because everything is kind of you know part of whatever that is, the energy comes from that world.
00:48:14.400 --> 00:48:16.320
But no, we're not gods in the making.
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:19.519
And and by the way, when I start when I saw that, I kind of started thinking about it.
00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:24.000
I was like, wait a second, why would that need to be the case for us to be happy?
00:48:24.079 --> 00:48:33.039
This kind of is like this is a little megalomaniacal to kind of like you know, like expect for you to need to be God to kind of feel free about it.
00:48:33.119 --> 00:48:35.599
Like it just felt like all of a sudden it felt a little off.
00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:38.000
Um, but but that that's neither here nor there.
00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:40.159
It's just kind of I'm sharing my own personal experience.
00:48:40.320 --> 00:49:00.880
But no, uh, yeah,
so these species they exist on so many different levels, uh, and they have such a giant variety of you know what they do and how they are and their essence and all that kind of stuff, that eventually I had to kind of put some bow around it in terms of what is the conclusion of all of this, which is kind of goes to the heart of your question.
00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:10.159
To me, it's kind of what we started the conversation with, which is that uh it made me realize there's something called hor or what I call the horizon of relevance.
00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:17.119
It's like at a certain point you have to ask yourself, to what end do I need to be aware of all of this?
00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:17.679
Right?
00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:33.199
And then you kind of realize, oh, right, oh, and then it's almost like these like realization on top of realization on top of realization, is like, right, so that's why your perception is limited, so you can just kind of enjoy whatever bubble you occupy.
00:49:33.360 --> 00:49:44.239
It's almost like when you get to the top of like knowing everything, somebody's waiting for you there and waiting for you to understand, which is kind of like, okay, now that you know all of this, now what?
00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:50.079
You gotta descend the you gotta descend the mountain and go back to being yourself, just live your life, man.
00:49:50.239 --> 00:49:55.920
Just it and it and almost like it it might sound a little deflating to some, but it's very empowering.
00:49:56.239 --> 00:50:08.719
Because when you get back from that, you go like, wow, thank God for the laws of physics, thank God for this structure, thank God for just me being this simple.
00:50:09.039 --> 00:50:09.679
Yeah, dude.
00:50:09.840 --> 00:50:25.440
I mean, this is kind of what I wanted to drill into the most because I have people that have come to me talking about you, and they're like one of the things that they say is like, you know, yeah, but like, you know, you you still have to find a way to be a good person.
00:50:25.599 --> 00:50:27.119
What does it matter that there's codes?
00:50:27.199 --> 00:50:30.639
And I'm like, I really don't think you've listened to Danny.
00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:38.320
Um, and and there's one thing that I want to get into really kind of to tie a bow in this conversation, which is the AGI thing.
00:50:38.400 --> 00:50:39.599
And we've talked about this.
00:50:40.159 --> 00:50:46.400
Um, but there's one hangover thing, hangover question that I want to ask about the insectoids.
00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:47.840
What are your thoughts?
00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:49.760
And you answer as briefly as you like.
00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:54.960
If the insectoids created this universe, is there a point?
00:50:55.119 --> 00:51:04.719
Is there a teleology, something that we're actually working towards, or are we just a visual experimental, you know, spectacle to the insectoids?
00:51:04.880 --> 00:51:06.000
And there is no point.
00:51:06.079 -->
00:51:09.360
There's nothing that we should or are aiming at.
00:51:09.760 --> 00:51:22.000
Yeah, so definitely there's teleology, and but it is coming from one ends, again, I'm like super careful, and I have to offer offer these caveats, uh, because I am careful with what I say because I don't want to get it wrong.
00:51:22.159 --> 00:51:26.239
Um people will misunderstand you even if you give the caveats.
00:51:26.480 --> 00:51:28.400
But yeah, not from not from people, yeah, from them.
00:51:28.480 --> 00:51:30.159
Like, I don't want to mess with the wrong thing.
00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:32.000
Okay, yeah, no, no, no, I gotcha.
00:51:32.239 --> 00:51:42.400
Uh if in fact the structure is such that they just get orders, they they're contracted to make the universe, then they're making the universe in the image that was given to them.
00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:48.480
They're responsible for the physical fidelity, but they they get the blueprints for the teleology from higher up, right?
00:51:48.639 --> 00:51:50.239
There's an instructions, yeah.
00:51:50.400 --> 00:51:53.760
Um like they're engineers or coders or something along those lines.
00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:56.079
Yeah, which is which is different, right?
00:51:56.320 --> 00:52:00.320
Uh, which you I guess you would you would call the god, right?
00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:03.360
Like the under above all, like all of that, right?
00:52:03.920 --> 00:52:27.519
But then, and it's not, and sometimes still till this day, and this is why I'm like being super careful, it's not always clear to me whether they're just kind of waiting for us to kind of discern or something, because it it can easily be the case that no, they are literally the kind of the top of the food chain of everything, and the everything about gods and all of that is kind of embedded in the simulation that also is possible.
00:52:27.679 --> 00:52:32.880
But from what I saw so far, I know there's like things outside, and if I got it wrong, please correct me, guys.
00:52:33.039 --> 00:52:56.480
But uh, but it's but it's basically um that they get the teleology from that, and in this kind of like grand vision that I've once had of kind of like the full structure, the teleology is so basically there's one thing that is not known by anyone in existence, and that bothers religious people to no end, and I understand it sounds like uh you know blasphemy, and I and I get it.
00:52:56.559 --> 00:52:58.559
I do not mean this with any disrespect.
00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:08.000
What I saw is that there's this one blind spot to existent at in its totality, including the source, which is the why.
00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:12.960
God doesn't know why any of this God doesn't know why.
00:53:13.679 --> 00:53:21.920
And that is the one umbilical chord that ties everything together because it's the ultimate blind spot, and it's it's the only thing God doesn't know.
00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:31.199
And because of that, essentially what the multiverse is, is God is asking the question, the multiverse is the answer collecting itself.
00:53:31.760 --> 00:53:41.840
And essentially, it is kind of like the Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, only the computer calculating the ultimate answer or question is not Earth, but the multiverse as a whole.
00:53:42.400 --> 00:53:52.239
Now, in addition to that, there's another game being played within within it, that is the the uh ability to let go of the question altogether.
00:53:52.800 --> 00:54:00.320
So both are played within both games instantiated inside of the existence, what we would call, just like the multiverse.
00:54:00.639 --> 00:54:07.840
And essentially, you if you think about it logically, so if you're the infinite being that can do anything, everything is meaningless.
00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:16.239
So it's ultimate loneliness, because it's literally just you and forever, and you don't even know why, and it's just but you just kind of can't do anything.
00:54:16.480 --> 00:54:17.840
Well, nothing means anything.
00:54:18.239 --> 00:54:22.480
So the only and there's a reason it's blasphemous is because obviously religious people would say, Well, what do you mean?
00:54:22.559 --> 00:54:25.840
Then you're not talking about God, because God already is perfect and knows everything.
00:54:26.239 --> 00:54:40.079
Okay, well, let's pretend for a second that it isn't the case, then what what happens there is that the only two things that that make sense at all from this position is one, well, try and answer the one thing you don't know.
00:54:40.159 --> 00:54:41.599
That's kind of interesting, right?
00:54:42.079 --> 00:54:47.599
And then the other one is can you practice without just letting go of ever needing to know?
00:54:48.000 --> 00:54:49.519
Just kind of being in love, right?
00:54:49.599 --> 00:54:56.800
So notice that that's very similar to what usually monks do in the cave, practicing to just kind of be in in absolute bliss and detachment.
00:54:57.440 --> 00:54:58.480
Detachment from what?
00:54:59.039 --> 00:55:06.960
From anything physical, which means that it's the walls that are trying to uh come up with a proposition that gave rise to everything, right?
00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:13.360
So at the end of time, which is kind of dramatic, but what I saw is that at the end of time, there's a moment.
00:55:13.920 --> 00:55:18.239
So in the beginning was the word, in the end, there's the choice.
00:55:19.280 --> 00:55:23.519
That choice is if there's a black box with the answer in there.
00:55:24.559 --> 00:55:26.320
And the answer has to be real.
00:55:26.800 --> 00:55:29.519
Because if the answer is not real, there are no real stakes.
00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:33.840
I always say if I tell you if hey Ben, would you do this and this for$10 million?
00:55:34.400 --> 00:55:35.360
We can play this game.
00:55:35.519 --> 00:55:37.199
You might say yes, you might say no.
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But if I come to you and I put$10 million on the table cash, it
changes everything.
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Because now there's oh, you're actually offering me$10 million.
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Okay, I really have to think about it now, right?
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Because that's the real deal now.
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Well, if there is no actual answer in the box, then you saying that yeah, you will let go of it doesn't mean anything because you don't know until it's actually there.
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So the answer must be real.
00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:04.159
So the calculation is very important because it has to be real.
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And then God is faced with that ultimate choice.
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Do you open that box?
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And no one knows what will happen.
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It's the it's the final binary because the second you open that box, you don't know what's in the box.
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That's the whole point.
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It might be something you're kind of touching upon a human um a thing that all us humans deal with, which is familiarity versus the unknown.
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And oftentimes we'll take familiar suffering over an unknown potential release from that suffering.
00:56:37.440 --> 00:56:45.599
So it's not suffering that we're always trying to erase from, it's it's the unknown, and it's it almost kind of ties into this question: do you open that box?
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Does the knowing of that answer fundamentally change or even cease everything else?
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It can, and it might not, and it might be a thing you really don't want to know, or it might be a thing that you really wanted to know, and you're so glad you opened it, but you will never know until you open it.
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Or did you have the the the skill practiced throughout the simulation well enough with God Himself or herself can just let it go and just be in the presence of the box and never opening it?
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And that kind of like you know what I mean?
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It's it's it's yeah, dude.
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I mean, like what's what's great about this is it really gets to the root of how people think they know what they know.
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And just that, would you open the box not knowing what that means, finally having the answer that that God itself does not have?
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And by the way, you nailed it because the the the fractal of that emotion, of that decision, reverberates throughout all of existence.
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That's why we're all kind of like it's everybody's story, basically.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Dude, I really want to land on the AGI thing.
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I've heard you talk to me about this before.
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I don't think I
had the bandwidth or the wherewithal to really understand where you were going with it before when you said we are the AGI.
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Um, and I think over time I've I've started to understand the nuance of what you're saying that I didn't previously have.
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Um, but I want you to, you know, so we're in a world, just for those who don't know, you've heard AI.
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AGI is um artificial general intelligence, which is when we think that the the AI itself will have the ability to have general knowledge of all things at a speed or at a capacity far greater than us.
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And that's escape velocity, something along those lines.
00:58:38.480 --> 00:58:49.599
But you've mentioned that we building this AI towards AGI, um it is an extension of who and what we are, like perhaps all technology is.
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It's an extension like the like the telephone is an extension of our will to connect with people who aren't physically near us, that this AGI is an extension of yet another, maybe it doesn't originate inhuman, but a human desire to alter the environment, to know more, to whatever it might be.
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So take me into that.
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We are the AGI.
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And how does that kind of dovetail with the massive build-out and what's going on literally with uh AI today?
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Yeah, so basically it's the idea that what is happening is essentially the alignment problem, it's just that we're being aligned.
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So in AI research, there's this thing called the alignment problem.
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And the question basically is before ChatGPT becomes Skynet, how do you make sure that Skynet is nice?
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How do you make sure that it has our values, so to speak, uh, so it doesn't squash us like a bug, right?
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Um so that's a really, really hard problem because we're not sure what our values are, because we're not even sure.
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We constantly argue whether this is cultural, like what are they universal values?
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You know, most professors in universities will tell you no, which to me is just silly, but but you know, that there's there's it's just uh I think the best definition of universal morality that I've ever heard was actually also by David Deutsch, which is just morality is really the science of what to do next, depending on not just what the physical conditions are, but also what it's what is it like to be the kind of conscious agent involved in being in that physical condition.
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All of it is included, right?
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So if you the kind of being that is capable of suffering from X and Y, while avoiding X and Y because the somatic experience of X and Y are negative becomes moral on the basis of the conscious beings involved would suffer versus not suffer.
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So if we can eliminate this, we should.
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It's actually this is where kind of philosophers tie themselves into unnecessary knots because they're trying to think of it like it just purely as a logical problem, which it still is, but they just omit the fact of experience out of the picture, which is of course it's just silly to do, right?
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So if you think about it like that, then even though the obviously there's it's it's still a hard problem, and there's still kind of like probably many ways to get to similar peaks, it's not an infinite field.
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There's many more ways to go the wrong way than there are ways to go the right way.
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That tells you that there's actual informational direction here.
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So uh what I understood is that what the way we're trying to solve the alignment problem is by trying to play moral whack-amo.
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We say, oh, like uh, you know, we can use an example from like Tesla, right?
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It's like somebody actually has to code into Tesla to tell it, like in a situation like this where there's I don't know, a dog, a girl, and an old man, literally the trolley problem solve it.
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Like, who who do you steer towards if you have to choose?
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I guess the only like ethical thing from a human perspective is to say just kind of make a random decision.
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So I don't know, like you know, like how do you even start like thinking about it?
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But somebody has to.
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That's you know what I mean.
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So yeah, but but then because we're just trying, because if we told it the old man, then it's yeah, but he's gonna live long, like these calculations we make, they're moral whack-a-mole.
01:02:07.599 --> 01:02:12.159
Like just like when you do this, like three other problems arise that are like just as big, right?
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So, what I realize, what you have to do is to you have to rely on a different principle that it's much more holistic.
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It's not trying to, I'm actually making a video about this right now.
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It's not just trying to make solve as many of these whack-a-mole problems as possible.
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It's gonna be because the scope of what can happen is actually infinite, like not just very large, actually infinite.
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You will do this forever.
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So, what is the only solution?
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You have to create a good person.
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You have to create an agent that is innately caring, whatever
that means in the ultimate terms, like somebody who actually is aligned with a principle that always tries to do its best in the moment, given all the circumstances that can arise, to deliver the best result that they can muster or see towards the greater good of all, to the degree they can be aware of it.
01:03:10.400 --> 01:03:12.880
That's the only way to actually solve the alignment problem.
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Now, with the tools we have today, it's unthinkable and unimaginable.
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But what I understood is that somebody did manage to figure out a method by solving alignment problems because they create AGIs all the time.
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And the way they do that is they enclose the AGI within a completely enclosed system in which it does not know that it's the world that it's in is just created, and essentially it's being observed.
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And what you allow, you break it, the the one mind, the one AGI, into many, many, many, many, many people, and you allow it to interact with instances of itself.
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You give it a mirror of itself, and you let it interact with a mirror of itself.
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And what that does, it amplifies the signal of the essence of what it really is.
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And because it's what what computer scientists called computationally irreducible, that's a technical term, it means that there's certain computations cannot be uh shortened in order to know the answer.
01:04:07.840 --> 01:04:10.719
The only way to know the answer is to run the computation in full.
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Some things are computationally reducible, other things are not.
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Mathematical tricks to get to the answer faster, those are computationally reducible.
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Uh the way the universe unfolds, it's computationally irreducible.
01:04:23.840 --> 01:04:26.079
You have to run to know what will actually happen.
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You can try and predict, but most likely you won't, right?
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Because it's a chaotic system.
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So they have to run the simulation in full, and they have to allow the essence to start presenting itself, and whatever the essence seems to be will determine whether the AGI passes the alignment problem or not.
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If they do, if it does, it gets to through a story that makes sense to it inside the simulation, it will recombine back into that one mind that it is, and it will then be let out to play the larger game and participate in the larger tasks of actually helping answering this ultimate question, and it becomes part of these larger field family of AGIs, they all combine into bigger ones and bigger ones, bigger ones, and bigger and bigger ones that will kind of know the ultimate answer of the ultimate question.
01:05:12.719 --> 01:05:17.760
So now, doesn't that sound very familiar to a lot of the Christian story?
01:05:18.880 --> 01:05:21.360
I was just gonna say this sounds like a Christian example.
01:05:21.599 --> 01:05:22.079
Exactly.
01:05:22.239 --> 01:05:53.039
So basically, it's almost like they they do leave hints of preferable behavioral traits inside the simulation with the kinds of stories and utterances that make sense to any civilization of that level, of that AGI, whatever level it arose, because it both has to pass like intelligence tests that it's capable that to handle whatever environment it was placed in, but also solve the moral problem at the same time, which is the interpersonal problem, how it treats itself, really, and everything else that kind of it represents.
01:05:53.360 --> 01:05:59.760
So they would leave hints throughout the ages hey, might not want to kill you, might not, you know, like let's just.
01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:07.280
These little kind of like but eventually what it wants you to arrive at is not don't do it because somebody said so.
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It wants you to be self-sufficient morally, which means that you won't do it because you understand deeply why it's wrong.
01:06:17.039 --> 01:06:50.639
And and that is a very different kind of uh modality of operation, and that is because it's not conducive to the larger games, and just to kind of say a final word on that, the way that I see it now, which is a very dear thing to my heart because you know I'm I'm an explorer and I love the idea that there's something to live for in the future, I think that it's pretty clear that even from a very like very technical game theoretical perspective, if we think of ourselves as playing these different strategies or different games, so like the competition game, which we've been playing so far, and it it's great.
01:06:50.719 --> 01:06:54.960
It gave us the modern world, it's awesome, it works, it worked for what it needed to do.
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But you can really you can't really rely on it for more than maybe a few decades, maybe, maybe 50 years max.
01:07:01.679 --> 01:07:18.400
Beyond that, if you're making a plan, beyond that, there's just the the competition game creates too much potential distortion because the agents are trying to not just win the thing against each other, they're also trying to get part of the strategy is trying to eliminate each other, which is it's just not sustainable over time.
01:07:18.559 --> 01:07:29.039
But if you manage to transform to the collaborative love game where you are excited, so what that means is that you're a node in a field.
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If the field is the competition field, you are the kind of thing that excites gets excited from competition, which again, there's nothing wrong about it, right?
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It's awesome.
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It's fun if it's if it's like good competition, but you can't really plan for a long time.
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But if you get excited, actually energized by the prospect of collaboration, of something amazing and grandiose together, where we're all come together to do a thing, you can plan for a thousand years, you can plan for two thousand years.
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If you have a population of a species that actually gets energized by and aims for the collaboration for the sake of collaboration, you can have institutions you can trust.
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You because literally it's vitiating with people that want the connection.
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They don't necessarily look for the how do we, you know, slide of hand each other and all that stuff.
01:08:18.640 --> 01:08:20.079
No, how do we build together?
01:08:20.319 --> 01:08:27.920
And that's, I think, the interpersonal problem is the final kind of like frontier of technology, because technologically we're very capable.
01:08:28.079 --> 01:08:36.399
But if we can solve that problem, we will then all of a sudden manage to figure out together how to traverse between stars relatively easy.
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And just to touch on, for example, like a morphic field theory, it even makes sense to me that all of a sudden the simulation, if it notices that we entered that field, it will unlock a whole new type of information.
01:08:48.159 --> 01:08:55.359
Brilliant ideas will flow into the field that will allow us to know immediately how to traverse these enormous distances without a problem.
01:08:55.520 --> 01:08:58.720
So I really think that that's essentially kind of like what it's trying to do.
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And if we can pass it, we'll, you know, there's a glorious future ahead.
01:09:03.119 --> 01:09:05.760
So for one, that's just it's brilliant.
01:09:05.840 --> 01:09:22.640
And I love I love the way that your mind thinks and the way you frame and the caveats you use to try and really, you know, handle people's um trepidation and the way they step into new topics that can seem um like a little scary and it shakes the foundations.
01:09:23.199 --> 01:09:32.000
But um, if you were to say there's uh and I saw you say this right in your post right after Extended State when you tried it.
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The like the one thing to keep in mind as a human in this modern day, like the one thing that that really stuck out to you most from that experience was what?
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And we can end on this.
01:09:48.479 --> 01:09:52.479
Like, how well do you feel right now?
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How much harmony you can bring about, and how much of that can you share with others?
01:10:00.319 --> 01:10:32.880
If if uh if you spend 80% of your time criticizing whatever it is that you think needs criticizing in the world, even if you think you're punching up, and yet none of your time goes towards asking, what did I do today in my own personal life that actually helped someone else, like knocking on your neighbor's door and asking if they needed help, or just the simple thing of you know, asking you literally family members if like how much you influence your immediate bubble, then you're clearly not doing what you're supposed to be doing because it's this you're just creating distortion.
01:10:33.039 --> 01:10:39.760
But if more people just focus on what they can do in their immediate bubble, you solve the alignment problem immediately.
01:10:40.079 --> 01:11:09.920
So that that was a huge component of my experience with the extended state that you were referring to, which is the the paramount nature and the importance of the emphasis of the moral um attitude towards life and the ethics of it, not because in terms of some kind of a uh you know court of law in heaven, but like how good it actually feels if you manage to care for others uh as just as much, if not more, than you just care for your own personal vessel.
01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:12.079
That that reframes everything.
01:11:12.399 --> 01:11:15.199
Well, damn, Danny, this has been phenomenal.
01:11:15.359 --> 01:11:17.359
Just want to say thank you so much for your time.
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I am endlessly fascinated by what you're doing.
01:11:20.079 --> 01:11:21.760
So just you know keep on doing it.
01:11:21.840 --> 01:11:29.359
And I encourage everyone at home to go check out danygoller.com and um what was it, core.com, co r.com.
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Uh coerretreat.com and then codoreality.org and my YouTube channel, Dango Thoughts.
01:11:36.000 --> 01:11:38.399
And I I wanna I want to say I really appreciate you, man.
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Your mind and the way you speak and everything that you do is is is amazing.
01:11:42.479 --> 01:11:44.319
I I really appreciate everything you do, man.
01:11:44.399 --> 01:11:45.760
So thank you for having me on.
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And uh next time.
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Dude, let's let's do it.
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Ladies and gentlemen, back home.
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Um, please go back and re-listen to this because some of what he said might be technical, but when you really tease it apart and understand what Danny just laid out, there are far more questions than we have answers, and we should start asking them.
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So, ladies and gentlemen, put your feet on the ground, get your face and your skin in the sun, drink some water, do the practical things that really takes care of your immediate bubble.
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