Shekhar Natarajan

Maybe I'm projecting my romanticism, but I just think that there will be this kind of like new renaissance of like bohemianism and disinhibition and sexuality and consciousness exploration and wild technologies.

If you ever read, um,

The Hedonistic Imperative by David Pierce.

He writes about like using biotechnology to transform subjectivity and create gradients of pleasure we can barely imagine.

He's a brilliant writer.

I used to read him in college.

And so they call him the genomic bodhisattva.

And yeah, super cool.

It's like kind of like psychedelic transhumanism.

So I've always wanted to like

bring those things together.

You know, it's like, how do you have a psychedelic transhumanism?

Genomic bodhisattva.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because it's really, it's kind of the MRD for the future.

It's a bit of the blueprint, and in fact, if you look at like Star Trek, and we were talking about that earlier,

Star Trek actually drove a lot of inventions, like the tricorder is your iPhone, right?

We're sure.

And so there's a lot of times where media is the distorted mirror and it reflects back and we get worse and worse.