Beyond DMTx: Conscience & Hyperhumanism | Carl Hayden Smith in dialogue with Tim Adalin

Exploring the frontiers of consciousness research and the human experience of meaning, truth and technology. Welcoming Carl Hayden Smith, Associate Professor of Media at the University of East London, DMTx participant at Imperial College London and prime theorist of Hyperhumanism.

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0:00 Introduction
0:56 What is DMTx (Extended State DMT as Transhumanist Technology)?
6:30 Questioning the Cultural Philosophy of DMTx as Sacrament / Ritual / Medicine
10:10 The Creative Potentials of DMTx & Comparison to Neuralink
18:51 Conscience and Ethics in the navigation, facilitation, usage and integration of Psychedelics / DMTx
29:00 How much are we magnetised by the spell of our own projections?
35:32 Questions of epistemic elitism
38:58 The phenomenology of Death
46:40 Individuation, integration and non-duality in the context of psychonautics, explored in relation to Carl’s exceptional history of exploration
1:00:50 Hyperhumanism, transhumanism, meaning and suffering
1:09:00 Holotechnica, dreaming, the mundane and the sacred
1:17:00 Conclusion
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Carl Hayden Smith is Associate Professor of Media in the School of Arts & Creative Industries at UEL and is the former Head of Research and Director of the Learning Technology Research Centre (LTRC) at the Institute for Creativity & Technology, Ravensbourne University London.

Raising over £10 million in research funding, he has led numerous teams on large-scale international projects including Erasmus+, FP7, Horizon 2020, Innovate UK and the XPRIZE. His research focuses broadly on the relationship between technology and the human condition. Carl is developing ‘Hyperhumanism’ which reframes technology as a catalyst for developing our own innate human abilities. His other research interests include Embodied Cognition, Spatial Literacy, Context Engineering, Umwelt Hacking, Natural Media, Sensory Augmentation, Extended Senses and Embodiment. His additional projects include AR4EU (Code Reality), Hobs Academy, and Holotechnica. He is also co-founder of the Cyberdelic Society and founder of the Museum of Consciousness. He has given over 300 public lectures, conference presentations and keynotes across 60 countries and published more than 50 academic papers.

The Museum of Consciousness:

https://www.themoc.org

The Cyberdelic Society:

https://www.cyberdelicsociety.com