Consciousness
The hard problem of what it means to be aware, and whether a machine that produces identical outputs to a human mind is doing the same thing.
Tara Swart says she is 100% sure she can communicate with her dead husband
The neuroscientist and former psychiatrist ties a 34-senses argument to after-death communication, but her best evidence is still personal grief, not proof.
Sadhguru says turning your palms over changes which part of your lungs expands
On The Shawn Ryan Show, Sadhguru turns a mystical woods story into a very physical claim about hands, breath, and the body’s hidden switches.
Carl Hayden Smith says 78% of IV DMT users see entities, and some meet the entities' children
The claim is wild, oddly domestic, and a useful reminder that psychedelic research keeps producing data that sounds like a Pixar sequel written in a hospital ward.
Carl Hayden Smith says DMT entities told him he was not scheduled to die in an fMRI scanner
The psychedelic researcher’s wildest claim is not that DMT produces entities, but that those entities appeared to treat his lab scan like a cosmic false alarm.
Graham Hancock on Death, Lost Civilizations, and the Enemies He Can't Forgive
The ancient-history provocateur comes in reflective and leaves a little raw.
John Lennox on Hell, AI, and Why the Output Is Not the Point
The Oxford mathematician and Christian apologist comes to Diary of a CEO to argue that consciousness, not computation, is what separates humans from machines, and that hell is something you choose.