Michael Pollan

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"Dacher Keltner, who's a colleague of mine at Berkeley, studies awe. He wrote a wonderful book on awe. He did this cool experiment where he asked people to draw a picture of themselves just a stick figure on a piece of graph paper and then he gave them an experience of awe."

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"We talk about the Mediterranean diet, right? It's one of the diets we have good reason to believe is healthier than others and is attractive to a lot of people."

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"There were other important books that came out around the same period. Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation and Marian Nestle wrote a book called Food Politics that was very influential. The difference — I would say they're great and I have great admiration for them, but those were about what not to do."

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"Marian Nestle wrote a book called Food Politics that was very influential."

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"ChatGPT 5 is essentially programmed by ChatGPT. They've kind of given up on the idea of programming these things, letting them program themselves"

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"They haven't read Frankenstein. In Frankenstein Dr. Frankenstein made a monster that was intelligent but he also gave it consciousness and the consciousness is what turned the monster into a homicidal maniac"

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"He said, 'Um, well, I thought so until I had this experience on 5-MeO-DMT.' And he says, and I realized there's a spark of the divine in us that no computer is ever going to have"

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"I know a lot of writers under the influence of Adderall. Yeah. Well, and for me it's caffeine."

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"I know a bunch of them and so many of them have benefited particularly from Ibogaine."

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"I know a bunch of them and so many of them have benefited particularly from Ibogaine. The work that Rick Doblin and MAPS done. MDMA and psilocybin."

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"MDMA and psilocybin. Those three are the big ones that I think well you know I heard a lot of positive noise out of the administration at the beginning."