Videos of presentations from the 2011 Open Science Summit can be viewed at Fora TV.
Wonderfully juicy topics include open source drug discovery, big data bioinformatics, ‘clinical trials 2.0′, open science education, open access science journalism, personal genomics, radical longevity, transparency in science, incentive and intellectual property: FORA.TV
Video of Sasha Shulgin giving a talk about psychedelics in 1987 recorded by Sound Photosynthesis. 1 hour talk and 1 hour of questions: the talk is fun, especially taking into account the year it was given, but questions were rather mediocre in my opinion.
parts 2 – 7 can be found here.
This is a TEDx presentation given by my favorite scholar of the rhetoric of biochemistry and post-vital living, Richard Doyle, about the importance of developing our conceptions of the noösphere.
Currently I’m reading his newest scholarly book concerning his ecodelic hypotheses about archaic and contemporary psychedelic media technologies, Darwin’s Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere.
Clare S. Wilkins, an ibogaine therapist and researcher, gives a phenomenal presentation about the dynamics, causes and treatments of addiction, at the 2010 NYC conference, Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics. A must-see for anyone interested in addiction or ibogaine.
“Four-Hundred Ibogaine Sessions: Data on Detoxification, Recidivism, and Quality of Life.”
Here is an excellent, lively presentation given by MIT Physics lecturer and advanced physics researcher and Doctor of both Physics & History of Science from Harvard, David Kaiser:
How the Hippies Saved Physics, based on a forthcoming book of the same title.
Discussing how people like Nick Herbert, Fritjof Capra, Jack Sarfatti, Saul Paul Sirag, Fred Alan Wolf, Gary Zukav, Richard Feynman, Russel Targ, the Esalen crowd and many more had truly gotten the ball rolling on the modern physics resurgence.
http://forum-network.org/lecture/how-hippies-saved-physics
“In recent years, the field of quantum information science has catapulted to the cutting edge of physics. Long before the big budgets and dedicated teams, however, the field smoldered on the scientific sidelines within the hazy, bong-filled excesses of the 1970s New Age movement. Many of the ideas that now occupy the core of quantum information science once found their home amid an anything-goes counterculture frenzy, a mishmash of spoon-bending psychics, Eastern mysticism, LSD trips, CIA spooks chasing mind-reading dreams, and comparable “Age of Aquarius” enthusiasts.”
Related posts:
Garett Lisi: A beautiful unified theory.
The videos for 9th Annual International Bioethics Forum are online. This year’s topic was on neurocognitive psychedelic science and included presentations from
Dennis McKenna Ph.D.
David E. Nichols Ph.D.
Roland Griffiths Ph.D.
Franz Vollenweider M.D.
Charles S. Grob M.D.
and more:
I found this talk given by Erik Davis at the 2010 Horizons Conference in NYC a very enjoyable and accurate delineation of the psychedelic renaissance landscape:
In the video, Erik describes James Kent’s Psychedelic Information Theory, which you can learn more about from watching his excellent presentation at the 2010 Psychedelic Science Conference in San Jose:
Videos from the 2010 “Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics” conference are now online. The conference took place on Sept. 24-26 at Judson Memorial Church in New York City. The available videos are:
MAPS has just uploaded 85 of the presentations from the medical conference: Psychedelic Science In The 21st Century.
There should still be more to come too, but in this batch are many phenomenal talks. Lots immensely fascinating scientific and medical topics as well as many videos on ayahuasca topics.
Some non-technical presentations I recommend are:
~Carolyn “Mountain Girl” Garcia – On The Bus
~Shulgin Tribute Banquet
~Robert Jesse – Closing Talk (on the betterment of well people)
~Andrew Weil M.D. – The Future of Psychedelic Research
…to name but a few for there are countless wonderful presentations to peruse: MAPS.org
David Pearce is an independent researcher and vegan animal activist based in Brighton UK.
In 1995, he wrote an online manifesto, The Hedonistic Imperative, advocating the use of biotechnology to abolish suffering throughout the living world. David predicts that our descendants will be animated by gradients of cerebral bliss orders of magnitude richer than anything accessible today.
[In his BLTC (Better Living Through Chemistry) Research websites, most recently The Abolitionist Project] David has also written on the philosophy of mind and perception; utilitarian ethics; psychopharmacology; life extension; cognitive enhancement technologies; mood enrichment; genetic recalibration of the hedonic treadmill; ecosystem redesign; reprogramming predators; and more speculatively on a posthuman future based on paradise engineering.
In 1998, David and Nick Bostrom set up the World Transhumanist Association (now rebranded as Humanity +. Transhumanists promote the responsible use of advanced technology to overcome our biological limitations.
This lecture was recorded on 24th April 2010 at the UKH+ meeting. For information on further meetings please see:
http://extrobritannia.blogspot.com/
What does it mean to be human and alive?
The thousands of different cultures and languages on Earth have compellingly different answers to that question. “We are a wildly imaginative and creative species,” declares Wade Davis, and then proves it with his accounts and photographs of humanity plumbing the soul of culture, of psyche, and of landscape.
A 2 hour presentation by the eminent ethnobotonist, explorer and cultural anthropologist, Wade Davis, with exquisite photography of the dynamic human spirit from diverse cultures of the world.
Watch the program here. ( There is 4 1/2 minute slideshow before the lecture which you can skip.)
Here is an excellent 20 minute talk from a TED spin-off by Dr. Roland Griffiths on his ground-breaking and brilliantly crafted research into psilocybin:
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