• TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I always found this fact fascinating. It’s completely possible that fungi came here from somewhere else in the universe. It’s especially weird, the way psilocybin seems to communicate with us in a way when ingested. Psilocybin converts to psilocin in our stomachs, and psilocin is extremely close in structure to DMT. Fungus is likely to have come from another place, yet it seems to interact with us in such a natural way.

      We have evidence of humans using psilocybin mushrooms dating back to before civilization existed. I wonder in what way they affected our progress and growth as a species.

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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          1 year ago

          honestly it’s kinda starting to seem like human history was 50% shaped by wanting to get zooted out our minds with the lads, and 50% wanting to turn the child-eating monsters in the woods into thin red paste and decorate our homes with their bones.

          there’s a hypothesis that agriculture was straight up invented because we wanted more grain to make beer.