from Hacker News

Magic Mushrooms May Have Shaped Our Consciousness

by rayrrr on 7/24/24, 6:59 PM with 4 comments

  • by ilovecurl on 7/24/24, 9:03 PM

    Reminiscent of Terrence McKenna's Stoned Ape Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned_ape_theory

  • by constant_flux on 7/24/24, 8:08 PM

  • by yieldcrv on 7/24/24, 11:46 PM

    this article contorts itself to try and conform reproductive success with highly iterative natural selection towards a persistent expanded conscious that the mushrooms can't directly help with, citing burgeoning non-peer reviewed research,

    when they could just as easily cite burgeoning non-peer reviewed research on epigenics, which allows for same generation evolution from the diet and other things, operating in parallel to evolution by natural selection