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At Big Think: Getting Stoned Shaped the Modern Mind

Cognitive neuroscientist Bobby Azarian sees human civilization forming something like “the brain of Gaia” in a cosmos that is becoming increasingly conscious
We learn nothing specific here about how our remote ancestors thought but we have learned something useful: Big Think sees this as cutting edge science. Read More ›