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#77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science
Lex Fridman Podcast
Psychedelic Drugs - Are They a Distortion of Reality?
Do you think there's intelligent life out there? And if so, how different is it from us humans? Well, one of the things I was trying to do in annihilation was to offer up a form of alien life that was actually alien. So in that movie annihilation, the shimmer, this alternate dreamlike state is created by, I believe, perhaps, an alien entity. Of course, everything is up to interpretation, right? But yeah, so if I'm saying we're starting from a premise, our starting point is, or we were already in the slightly psychedelic state,. What those drugs do is help you go further down an avenue or maybe a slightly different avenue, but that's
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