[wildbill]

A outlandish theory to chew on is just what the Corona Dr. ordered for our stay at home hours. You don't have to read the whole thing but instead listen to a couple of intelligent and skeptical people discuss it on You Tube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqLcdUo_RIQ

[Paladin2]

Tim Leary’s kid?

[SamAdams76]

McKenna posited that psilocybin caused the primitive brain’s information-processing capabilities to rapidly reorganize, which in turn kick-started the rapid evolution of cognition that led to the early art, language, and technology written in Homo sapiens’ archeological record.

And then, suddenly, Pink Floyd lyrics started making sense.

[ifinnegan]

Crackpot stuff.

[Moonman62]

If a stoner put it in his book in 1992 it must be true.

Repeating it on the Internet makes it truer.

[Bratch]

[odawg]

This reminds me of the line that no one really knows who originally said it: The tragedy of atheists is not that they don’t believe in God, but that they will believe in anything.

[Gay State Conservative]

What pig swill! Chimps’ brains,when corrected for body size,are about the largest found in any creature.And opposable thumbs helped as well.

[marktwain]

Some people will always come up with rationalizations why they should do drugs...

[a fool in paradise]

stoned age PING

[zencycler]

So I guess in a way that proves that Genesis was right.

We really did gain our knowledge of good and evil by consuming a forbidden fruit growing from the tree of life. Euphemisms for sure, but something that still describes gaining consciousness by eating psychedelic mushrooms growing out of compost.

[BobL]

“As early humans, he said we “ate our way to higher consciousness” by consuming these mushrooms”

Close, but it was the consumption of MEAT that allowed human brains to develop.

And for those who know any vegetarians or vegans, you can CLEARLY see that the process is reversible.

[Salvavida]

Or Genesis 1-2 is true. Seeing as we can't go back into time, all you have to do is disprove the RESURRECTION as an actual historical event.

If you can't, acceptance of the creation account become easy accept. And marvelously so.

Good luck with that.

[SunkenCiv]

I wonder why the rest of the animals eating "magic mushrooms" didn't develop consciousness, since they had so much more time to do it?

[dfwgator]

Out here we is stoned, immaculate!

[null and void]

Lamarckism. Changing the way adults think doesn’t change their DNA, and isn’t passed down to their children.

[Alas Babylon!]

The average brain size of Homo erectus is estimated to have been roughly 900 cubic centimeters.

The average cranial capacity of Homo sapiens is roughly 1300 cubic centimeters.

How the hell did psychedelics make the brain “grow” 400 CCs?

The brain got bigger because somebody got a high protein food source. I’m thinking close to a shore with abundant shell fish, sea birds and sea mammals.

The increase in brain size had serious implications to human life.

Babies had to be born with larger brains and more pain—and possibly death—for mothers.

Childhood would have to last longer with bigger, growing brains and unfused skull bones.

Longer childhood means more time devoted to watching over and raising children, as they were probably very vulnerable to predation for many years.

There has to be a payoff for all these physical changes.

The big brains led to a more successful life of food and leisure (such as drugs and alcohol), not the other way around.

[Thud]

Nah, it was fermented berries that done it.

[trebb]

What a trip!

[Jim Noble]

Far out, Catherwood.