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The Eleatic Principle 'A thing really is if it has any capacity at all, either by nature to do something to something else or to have even the smallest thing done to it by even the most trivial thing, even if it only happens once.' – #Plato (Sophist, 247d)

Today we’ve published new freedom of speech guidance to help universities and colleges navigate their duties under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, which will come into effect on 1 August.

Psychedelic therapies show real promise for veterans and others battling trauma. We’re accelerating clinical trials at U.S. FDA with urgency—and working to ensure safe, science-based access within 12 months. Some therapies can’t wait.

‘If you want to know what you think about a topic, write about it. Writing has a way of ruthlessly exposing unclear thoughts and imprecision. This is part of what is lost by ChatGPT, the mistaken belief that the spat out string of words in a reasonable order is the only goal,

Some of these framed holographic prints available on my website still… 🌵

Two recent, dystopian lines on AI that I noted: – A Silicon Valley programmer told us that they had developed a system that insisted, for unknown reasons, that it was conscious, and she was vexed as to what consciousness means and whether they should forcefully prohibit the AI

The Superintelligence Conference (SiC 2025) at the University of Exeter invites researchers, academics, and industry professionals to submit original papers on all aspects of superintelligence.  sites.google.com/exeter.ac.uk/s…

‘I have sometimes asked myself what would have happened if modern science, instead of … converging on the study of matter, had begun by the consideration of mind—if Kepler, Galileo and Newton, for example, had been psychologists.’ – Bergson, 1913

AI as catalyst to idiocracy: newyorker.com/culture/infini…

There’s little excuse for an A4-sized book.

Very pleased to welcome and work with neuroscientist Anjali Bhat and psychiatrist, ayahuasca researcher Simon Ruffell as new University of Exeter lecturers, joining our Exeter Psychedelic Centre and Psychology department, teaching on our courses and advancing psychedelic

‘An excess of materialism is making a mock of the art of healing … [and] is destroying civilization itself.’ – Humphry Osmond & John Smythies, 1953

Thoroughly enjoyed reading 'Acid Dialectics' by Vincent Rado - a very engaging and thoughtful book. Our review is available here: psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/lsd-and-stat… Big thanks for sending us a copy vince rado ❤️📖

Bees, chess, consciousness, cosmos, etc. feedyourhead.blog/p/the-most-imp…

My worldview in four texts:

Farewell entheogenic researcher Jonathan Ott, 1949–2025 🍄 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_…

'[To] be refuted in every century after you have written is the acme of triumph.' – A. N. Whitehead

‘Expand the psyche or become slaves of the machine.’ – Humphry Osmond, 2-5-1955 Art: Skinless Frank

William Whewell introducing the word ‘scientist’ in 1834.