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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "I think it's, like, some molecule, like, psychocybin. Or, like, something like that."
A student proposes that psychedelic molecules remove or weaken a brain-level constraint that normally organizes overwhelming fractal sense-data into ordinary reality, allowing people to perceive the underlying pattern directly.
"I think it's, like, some molecule, like, psychocybin. Or, like, something like that."
"Okay, yes? I think you're referring to psilocin, which is the thing that breaks down from the mushrooms, but I think it all comes..."
"...thing it hits. And yeah, there are lots of different like psilocybin, like LSD and all that. But the effects are more similar than..."
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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