Posted by Hugh on February 14, 2022, at 11:51:52
How did the human brain triple in size in just two million years?
According to the "Stoned Ape Theory" developed by Terrence McKenna and his brother Dennis McKenna, a community of proto-humans might have consumed the magic mushrooms they found in the wild. That act could have profoundly changed their brains.
"It was like a software to program this neurologically modern hardware," explained Dennis McKenna in this clip from Fantastic Fungi.
"It's not so simple to say that they ate psilocybin mushrooms and suddenly the brain mutated, I think it's more complex than that, but I think it was a factor. It was like a software to program this neurologically modern hardware to think, to have cognition, to have language--because language is essentially synesthesia. Language is the association with apparently meaningless sound except that it's associated with the complex of meaning. --Dennis McKenna
This video clip is from Fantastic Fungi, a fantastic documentary about mushrooms, psychedelic and otherwise, on Netflix and Google Play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3mVaEcfwLs
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