Carl Hayden Smith

Thinking the Float Tank – Saturday, August 26, 2023 (Day 3)

DMTx as a Form of Transhuman Technology

Speaker Bio:

Carl Hayden Smith is Associate Professor of Media at the University of East London. He is also Founder of the Museum of Consciousness at Oxford University and co-founder of the Cyberdelics Society. His research concentrates on the relationship between technology and the human condition.  Raising over £10 million in research funding, Carl has worked on numerous large-scale Leonardo LifeLong Learning, Erasmus+, FP7, Horizon 2020 projects and the XPRIZE. He has given over 300 invited public lectures, conference presentations and keynotes in 40 countries and published more than 50 academic papers. His research interests also include Contextology (Context Engineering), Embodied Cognition, Spatial Literacy, Umwelt Hacking and Sensory Augmentation.

Abstract:

This talk will include a participant report from the nnDMTX (Extended State) study at Imperial College London. The continuous infusion of the entheogen arguably turns this medicine into a new form of technology. What was the phenomenology of the experience? Does the DMT ‘state space’ stabilise during the experiment? Was it possible to explore the hypothesis from Andrew Gallimore that nnDMT opens up an entirely novel, orthogonal reality and will extending the duration of drug experiences become a trend and lead to new forms of training potential? Carl has  been very fortunate to be a participant of the nnDMT research at Imperial College London for the last six years and has been through all three phases, including: i) EEG ii) EEG+FMRI and iii) nnDMTx. Carl was also the first person in the world to sustain the full 5 doses of DMTx during the pilot phase of the study.