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University of Washington Press Darwins Pharmacy Sex Plants and the Evolution of the Noosphere by Richard M. Doyle
Are humans unwitting partners in evolution with psychedelic plants? Darwin's Pharmacy shows they are by weaving the evolutionary theory of sexual selection and the study of rhetoric together with the science and literature of psychedelic drugs. Long suppressed as components of the human tool kit, psychedelic plants can be usefully modeled as "eloquence adjuncts" that intensify a crucial component of sexual selection in humans: discourse._x000D__x000D_Psychedelic plants seduce us to interact with them, building an ongoing interdependence: rhetoric as evolutionary mechanism. In doing so, they engage our awareness of the noosphere, or thinking stratum of the earth. The realization that the human organism is part of an interconnected ecosystem is an apprehension of immanence that could ultimately benefit the planet and its inhabitants._x000D__x000D_To explore the rhetoric of the psychedelic experience and its significance to evolution, Doyle takes his readers on an epic journey through the writings of William Burroughs and Kary Mullis, the work of ethnobotanists and anthropologists, and anonymous trip reports. The results offer surprising insights into evolutionary theory, the war on drugs, the internet, and the nature of human consciousness itself._x000D__x000D_Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xof-t2cAob4_x000D_ Table of contents :- _x000D_
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Introduction | Glimpsing the Peacock Angel _x000D_
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1. The Flowers of Perception: Trip Reports, Stigmergy, and the Nth Person Plural _x000D_
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2. Rhetorical Mycelium: Psychedelics as Eloquence Adjuncts? _x000D_
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3. Rhetorical Adjuncts and the Evolution of Rhetoric: Darwin's Impassioned Speech _x000D_
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4. LSDNA : Creative Problem Solving, Consciousness Expansion, and the Emergence of Biotechnology _x000D_
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5. Hyperbolic: Divining Ayahuasca_x000D_
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6. The Transgenic Involution _x000D_
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7. From Zero to One: Metaprogramming Noise, with Special Reference to Plant Intelligence_x000D_
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Epilogue: In Darwin's Dreams _x000D_
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Index_x000D_