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The first time I took LSD came aft er a long period of study. I was an undergraduate philosophy student, reading eight to ten hours a day, for years, mostly in various places in the university’s spacious library. Questions about mind, consciousness, and cosmos arose naturally. I would make an early conversion to Kantianism, embracing the appealing notion that humans were hard-wired to make sense of reality in certain ways and not others.
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Zachary, G. (2016). The Quest for Enhanced Consciousness in Everyday Life. In: Hurlbut, J., Tirosh-Samuelson, H. (eds) Perfecting Human Futures. Technikzukünfte, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft / Futures of Technology, Science and Society. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-11044-4_15
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