Ask Terence McKenna

...hematician at Santa Cruz, began pushing this at me, mentioning this encoded manuscript that, uh, people were interested in trying to figure out ...

...0% of your language skills by age 30. By then you can model, animate, code, all this sort of thing. Human-machine interfacing as a prerequisite ...

... that there’s more to it than that. It’s, it's that uh, everything is code. Everything is code in the sense that hackers mean when they say they...

...he CIA became interested in it, because the CIA is in the business of code making and breaking. A huge amount of energy goes into this. If you k...

...lding, and a 10 story building, is one zero, that’s all, in a line of code. You specify a hundred over ten and you get a hundred story building ...

...is is $100 million and a research team of forty or fifty technicians, code writers, working for months. On the other hand, if you ask a person f...

...t simply something done in human language. The codons of the DNA that code the three nucleotide codons that code for a amino acids that build pr...

...beings from the spirit world be simply a case of cracking the morphic code? TM: That sounds right. It's something like that. If what you're tryi...

...uh, unresolvable dualisms because of what is called, or what I call a code--the quality of the code, meaning the language we use to discuss this...

...wn to the DNA. DNA working as it does, with nucleotide sequences that code -- that means arbitrarily assign association -- code for certain amin...

...ed and modulated perception is replaced by perception in the raw; not coded and sculpted and sifted for culturally validated meaning, but rather...

...ceive them as unresolvable dualisms because of the low quality of the code we customarily use. The language we use to discuss this problem has b...

...ormational level. There's no deeper truth, and so all this talk about code and, uh, virtual reality, and how the portions of reality might be co...

...that few people recognise is imitating genetic algorithms in computer code and creating environments of code where there are selective operating...

...ture, you would dispatch a kind of lichen that uses solar energy. The code is the light. It occupies that space and it starts to manufacture, to...

...d. If reality is made of language then what we’re saying is that it’s code, and if it’s code then it is far more deeply open to manipulation tha...

...ilent DNA. What does that mean? It means those parts of the DNA don't code for protein. Well, but maybe they code for something else. Maybe they...

...y its edges and vertices. It is then projected down, using color as a code for the fourth dimension, into a three-dimensional reality where we c...

... because the DNA essentially is a symbolic system. Those codons which code for protein are arbitrarily assigned – assigned, in other words, by c...

...t is to catch the alien mind. The alien mind is within us. It will be coded by human fingers, but it will be truly alien. Simply because it is d...

...e and the next thing you know, the kings of Babylon are issuing their codes of law and slaves under the lash are erecting cities and the stars a...

...ous possibilities as virtual reality, where light replaces matter and code replaces, uh, computer codes and this sort of thing replace the manip...

...in terms of mechanism and understanding, it’s pretty murky. DNA was decoded in 1950. The molecular geneticist promised a golden age shortly to f...

... yeah. Saying that Christ himself was in fact no person at all, but a code, a system of coded epigrams for a mushroom. His case is harder to jud...

...ions, because words that were used with sexual connotations were also code words for plants and fungi. The association in the Taoist mind betwee...

...erating systems, more automatic searches, more bots, more boids, more code, and nobody knows what’s steaming and fermenting out there. Ilya Prig...

... last name was Leonard called "Bots" and he talks about these bits of code on the Internet which are designed to operate semi-autonomously, look...

...nergy with 100% efficiency, we have the power to read our own genetic code, and alter it, we have the power to connect ourselves together, we ha...

...achines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code – they are all freaks. They work for capitalist dogs of course, becau...

...I take mushrooms, so it's almost as though, you know, this is the bar code stamped on the psilocybin paraphoniae, when you get it all pieced tog...

...analogy to the mechanism of DNA [ JM: Ahh]. There are 64 codons which code for amino acids in DNA, uh, there are 64 hexagrams, there are 8 prima...

... Julian Janes Bicameral Mind; it may be the ability to epigenetically code information through writing; To no longer depend simply on the geneti...