Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Sohrawardi appears as a figure who bridged IBM-era computing research with psychedelic experimentation and esoteric spirituality during the 1970s, visiting Timothy Leary's Millbrook compound while producing speculative work on quantum mechanics and Eastern philosophy. The readings use him to question the entanglement of corporate technology development, consciousness research, and countercultural practice—his early papers raise unresolved questions about how computational thinking and altered states might have mutually informed technological breakthroughs. He functions in the course material as a historical precedent for understanding how AI and consciousness studies have always been entangled with marginalized or occult knowledge practices, rather than emerging as purely rational scientific endeavors.

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Joseph Matheny

Incunabula Papers

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The "shamanic" course may have been a blind for research in psychotropic drugs, including such exotica as ahuasca (yagé, harmaline), ibogaine, yohimbine, Telepathine and Vitamin K, as well as the more standard psychedelicatessen of the late…An early paper by Sohrawardi, flooded with wild speculations about quantum and oriental spirituality, probably dating from the period when he was still working for IBM, but making visits to Millbrook, nearby in Dutchess Co., and participati…Wild and woolly as it is, this text nevertheless poses a fascinating scientific question in the light of the author's later accomplishments — a question still unanswered. All the "First Breakthroughs" we know of with any degree of certainty…

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