Leo D.M.J. Aurini - November 19, 2025


Parasites, Amygdalas, and Mycellium: The Missing Conspiracy


Episode Stats

Length

28 minutes

Words per Minute

98.99465

Word Count

2,849

Sentence Count

176

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

8


Summary

In this episode of Conspiracy Theories, we take a deep dive into conspiracy theories, and try to find a possible link between them and the events of September 11th, 2001, and the rise of the global monoculture.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 So there's this new type of trick image that's been making its way around the
00:00:09.320 internets there. It's a sort of thing where at first blush you think you're
00:00:16.080 just looking at an innocent picture of some puppies or maybe a hamburger or a
00:00:20.120 landscape. But then if you squint your eyes a little bit, blur out some of the
00:00:28.360 details, suddenly it's something completely different. Maybe it's a racial
00:00:33.400 slur or everybody's favorite Austrian painter. Hidden in plain sight. I have no
00:00:42.340 idea how they make these images, but I'll tell you that that experience is
00:00:47.860 exactly what it's like looking for the conspiracy. It is abundantly clear that
00:00:56.680 conspiracy runs this world. That gang stalking is a real thing. There is a
00:01:02.920 malicious agenda out there. There's no way that Building 7 fell down all on its own,
00:01:10.600 is there. And yet, yet, each time when you start digging in the details, almost every
00:01:24.340 single time, you find nothing. You're looking for that picture of the Austrian
00:01:31.960 painter, but it's nothing but a Arby's hamburger. Sometimes you're lucky you find a
00:01:43.540 conspiracy, but most times, most times you look for the conspiracy and, well, turns out
00:01:48.780 the government's just made a people. People just like you and me, even though it
00:01:53.020 clearly has evil designs against all of us. And, well, I found a partial answer to this
00:02:07.100 problem. Partial answer that I want to lay out for you in three very disjointed
00:02:13.900 sections in this video. The first two of which are going to be about some YouTube
00:02:20.380 videos, which I'll be mentioning. I got to enjoy them on my drive into the city and
00:02:24.640 back out. And the third one, well, we'll get to that. Part one, it's not your
00:02:36.720 subculture, it's just a parasite. So I listened to a recent video, Based Camp by
00:02:46.840 Simone and Malcolm, about parasites, about T. Gandhi, Toxoplasmosis. And even though I
00:02:58.180 knew all of this already, it turns out, as usual, it's so much worse than I
00:03:03.280 initially thought. I'm sure you've heard of this, the crazy cat lady parasite. It's a
00:03:11.380 parasite that normally reproduces in cats, but it gets into cats through mice, and it
00:03:18.980 alters the behavior of the mice. It makes them find the smell of cats attractive, as
00:03:26.800 opposed to terrifying, and also makes them hypersexual. Many, many cases out there of
00:03:37.380 parasites altering behavior of the host species. And now, evidently, they've found a variant of T.
00:03:50.420 Gandhi, the Toxoplasmosis parasite, that specifically targets humans. And much as in the mice, it makes the
00:04:03.440 humans hypersexual. It also makes them more attractive. And so in this video by
00:04:12.900 Based Camp, which I've linked down below, it's an hour long, but it's well worth
00:04:16.380 listening to. They draw this, draw a connection between this, this parasitical
00:04:22.880 infection, which in Europe, it's 45% of the population. It's about 30 or 35% here in
00:04:28.840 North America. They draw a comparison, a connection between that and the global
00:04:35.160 monoculture. That urban, go along to get along, don't judge, just hook up monoculture.
00:04:47.460 In fact, they even go further. One of the most interesting parts of their video comes towards
00:04:56.440 the end, where they point out that if you go back and you read the literature from, you
00:05:04.900 know, ancient Rome, ancient Greece, and don't even get me started on the Etruscans, all of the
00:05:14.460 stuff that they were interested in, that they were into, that we're into today, it's all
00:05:18.220 the same stuff. With one notable exception. The thinking man's fetish. There is no evidence
00:05:34.660 that existed before the age of exploration. And during the age of exploration, who was it
00:05:45.300 that initially got captivated by the thinking man's fetish? Oh, it was the traders. It was
00:05:55.280 the people working in ports. It's prevalent in armed forces members, which are very tight-knit,
00:06:02.660 tight-knit. And you'd think, you'd think armed forces really traditional, you know, alpha male,
00:06:09.600 masculine. And yet this stuff is rampant there. Almost as if, when we start engaging with polygamous
00:06:23.300 societies. Or polygamists, I should say. No, no. Whichever. The one where the sultan gets to
00:06:30.980 have 20 women. And the rest of you get to be suicide bombers. Almost as if there's some sort of parasite
00:06:40.980 that encourages swinging behavior. A parasite that we haven't discovered.
00:06:52.920 And all of this is connected to the amygdala. There is tons of evidence that the way that these
00:07:00.880 parasites, yes, they make you more attractive. Yes, they make you more horny. But they also break
00:07:09.220 you down. You're more likely to get into car accidents if you have one of these viruses.
00:07:14.720 You know, don't tell the insurance companies that. You're more likely to get multiple sclerosis
00:07:21.160 if you have one of them. You pay for it. You pay for the moment of sexiness in your youth
00:07:29.840 with misery in the old age.
00:07:41.120 They do it by breaking down your brain. They do it by reducing the size of your amygdala.
00:07:48.000 You know, there is an article by The Last Psychiatrist, which I'm going to link below.
00:07:52.480 It's absolutely fantastic. Because when the left like to talk about this,
00:07:59.060 they talk about how conservatives are more fearful.
00:08:04.100 Studies show that.
00:08:07.980 But the things that conservatives are more fearful about
00:08:11.700 are things that maybe you should be afraid of.
00:08:14.700 Like a tarantula walking across your face.
00:08:17.560 The amygdala
00:08:26.080 is the part of the brain that regulates fear.
00:08:30.160 Anonymous Conservative wrote an entire book about that.
00:08:33.900 About how a healthy amygdala,
00:08:36.720 yes, you're going to be afraid of snakes and spiders
00:08:39.240 and other venomous reptiles and monsters out there.
00:08:43.900 Yes, you're going to be suspicious of the stranger.
00:08:46.040 That is a mark of mental health.
00:08:53.400 And what we're seeing
00:08:54.560 from the
00:08:55.660 treacherous left,
00:08:58.000 the global monoculture,
00:09:00.240 is not mental health.
00:09:03.220 It's avoidance.
00:09:05.000 It's an amygdala that's so weak
00:09:06.820 that it can't handle
00:09:09.440 even considering threats.
00:09:11.520 And this
00:09:14.000 is what brings us to part two.
00:09:19.260 Hassan, Piker,
00:09:21.040 and internet drama.
00:09:24.420 The video I watched on the way back from the city
00:09:27.340 was Think Before You Sleep
00:09:31.720 covering some recent drama over Japan.
00:09:34.740 The drama itself doesn't matter.
00:09:38.320 It's how the drama manifested
00:09:40.260 that matters.
00:09:41.280 The person being attacked
00:09:46.160 made a video.
00:09:47.800 I guess she's a Japanese vlogger.
00:09:50.880 She's a white girl in Japan
00:09:52.000 that makes videos about Japan.
00:09:55.020 Pretty cool if you're into that.
00:09:56.520 She seems like a good girl.
00:09:58.160 And she was talking about
00:09:58.940 some of the growing problems
00:10:00.240 that have been happening
00:10:00.980 since COVID.
00:10:02.420 The disruptions of the lockdowns
00:10:05.440 have thrown a lot of people
00:10:06.680 into vulnerable situations.
00:10:08.280 She's talking about that.
00:10:09.300 And that's bad, right?
00:10:12.160 Nobody wants to hear the bad news.
00:10:14.200 That's negative.
00:10:15.260 The sponsors.
00:10:17.060 Sponsors don't like it
00:10:18.520 if you talk about negative things.
00:10:20.700 They want to hear inspiring stories
00:10:22.860 of hope and change.
00:10:28.940 And as for the Hassan Piker
00:10:31.100 connection to all of this,
00:10:33.420 this girl was attacked
00:10:34.360 by another white Japanese vlogger person.
00:10:38.460 who's associated with Hassan Piker.
00:10:43.460 I mean, he's using the exact same tactics,
00:10:45.180 which is why Think Before You Sleep
00:10:48.460 made this video.
00:10:51.080 In particular,
00:10:52.280 the one tactic that guys like Hassan
00:10:54.620 love using
00:10:55.520 is quoting out of context
00:10:58.180 or remixing footage
00:11:00.160 to make it sound like you said something
00:11:02.800 you didn't actually say.
00:11:04.780 And not only is this
00:11:08.740 dishonorable and vile,
00:11:11.500 it also begs the question,
00:11:15.100 if you're attacking a straw man
00:11:18.320 of my position,
00:11:20.540 well, why are you even attacking that?
00:11:22.560 Because you know
00:11:23.180 if you are deliberately
00:11:24.820 constructing a straw man
00:11:27.160 by selectively
00:11:29.620 quoting me out of context.
00:11:35.340 Again, we're not talking about
00:11:36.520 when we're in the middle of an argument
00:11:37.940 and people get defensive
00:11:39.200 and straw man.
00:11:39.920 That's all very understandable.
00:11:41.540 Right?
00:11:41.800 You shouldn't do it,
00:11:42.560 but it's understandable
00:11:43.400 when you do it.
00:11:44.080 You feel threatened
00:11:45.400 when somebody disagrees
00:11:46.420 with your politics.
00:11:47.620 So you use logical fallacies
00:11:49.400 to try and win.
00:11:51.860 My tribe is bigger
00:11:52.880 than your tribe.
00:11:53.820 Right?
00:11:58.360 But the disagreement
00:11:59.520 in this case
00:12:00.360 was not whether or not
00:12:01.560 these social problems exist.
00:12:06.140 The fundamental disagreement,
00:12:08.360 that was the nature
00:12:08.920 of the argument.
00:12:09.900 That's on the surface level
00:12:10.960 that was it.
00:12:12.360 Do these problems
00:12:13.440 actually exist
00:12:14.280 or is she just exaggerating them?
00:12:15.820 But the way
00:12:19.440 the argument
00:12:20.220 was made,
00:12:21.340 she wasn't trying
00:12:21.880 to argue with him,
00:12:22.660 she was just trying
00:12:23.140 to point out a problem
00:12:24.080 she's concerned about.
00:12:26.440 For some reason
00:12:27.380 he felt attacked
00:12:28.340 by this
00:12:29.040 and deliberately
00:12:30.700 started
00:12:31.340 misconstruing
00:12:32.480 her words
00:12:33.260 to win the argument.
00:12:37.840 And I'll tell you
00:12:38.780 what the actual
00:12:39.900 attack was.
00:12:42.080 The attack
00:12:43.040 was ever
00:12:44.740 pointing out
00:12:45.520 anything
00:12:46.280 negative
00:12:47.080 ever.
00:12:49.720 This is where
00:12:50.440 we get back
00:12:50.860 to the amygdala.
00:12:55.360 People
00:12:55.880 with healthy
00:12:57.260 amygdalas.
00:12:59.320 People that
00:13:00.240 weren't
00:13:02.040 overwhelmed
00:13:02.820 with negativity
00:13:04.140 as kids.
00:13:06.420 Right?
00:13:06.640 Like if you
00:13:06.880 really,
00:13:07.980 an abused child
00:13:09.340 gets so
00:13:10.400 oversensitive
00:13:11.240 to any threat
00:13:12.220 that
00:13:14.840 they're going
00:13:15.640 to be a lot
00:13:16.040 like this.
00:13:20.460 But also
00:13:21.160 people
00:13:21.560 with parasite
00:13:22.640 infections
00:13:23.540 have damage
00:13:24.980 to amygdalas.
00:13:26.140 And so
00:13:26.400 it's not
00:13:27.080 it's not
00:13:30.860 whether or not
00:13:31.520 the danger
00:13:32.120 is true.
00:13:33.280 It's
00:13:33.760 how dare you
00:13:35.160 even talk
00:13:36.660 about the danger?
00:13:37.560 Don't you know
00:13:38.200 that's giving me
00:13:39.040 a panic attack?
00:13:40.980 Don't you know
00:13:41.640 I refuse to
00:13:42.660 acknowledge the
00:13:43.320 danger?
00:13:45.300 The person
00:13:46.040 with a damaged
00:13:46.520 amygdala
00:13:46.960 is angry
00:13:49.460 at you
00:13:49.980 for pointing
00:13:50.920 out the
00:13:52.060 tarantula
00:13:52.620 in the room.
00:13:54.480 It's not the
00:13:55.240 tarantula
00:13:55.700 that upsets
00:13:56.220 them.
00:13:56.680 It's you
00:13:57.480 for pointing
00:13:58.220 it out.
00:14:01.180 This is why
00:14:02.000 they want to
00:14:02.740 ban guns,
00:14:04.300 for example.
00:14:06.700 The argument
00:14:07.660 over gun
00:14:08.140 control
00:14:08.500 with these
00:14:08.780 people
00:14:09.080 is not
00:14:09.800 a matter
00:14:10.780 of safety.
00:14:13.460 There are
00:14:14.280 perhaps
00:14:15.380 certain
00:14:15.780 protocols
00:14:16.660 that we
00:14:17.180 could have
00:14:17.640 limiting
00:14:17.940 guns
00:14:18.420 to
00:14:18.820 the
00:14:19.280 mentally
00:14:19.540 ill
00:14:19.880 for example.
00:14:20.560 That makes
00:14:20.840 a lot of
00:14:21.160 we could do
00:14:21.960 stuff like
00:14:22.360 that.
00:14:22.580 That would
00:14:22.780 make sense.
00:14:23.240 But that's
00:14:23.540 not the
00:14:24.500 conversation
00:14:25.100 you're ever
00:14:25.600 having with
00:14:26.100 these people.
00:14:27.900 The real
00:14:28.780 reason these
00:14:29.340 people want
00:14:29.840 to ban
00:14:30.160 guns
00:14:30.560 is because
00:14:31.400 seeing a
00:14:32.420 gun
00:14:32.720 makes them
00:14:33.660 afraid.
00:14:40.500 See no
00:14:41.420 evil,
00:14:42.080 hear no
00:14:42.640 evil,
00:14:43.440 speak no
00:14:44.120 evil.
00:14:45.660 That is
00:14:46.520 the motto
00:14:47.000 of the
00:14:48.140 damaged
00:14:48.580 amygdala.
00:14:50.640 That is
00:14:51.560 why people
00:14:52.240 like Hassan
00:14:52.900 Piker
00:14:53.280 will erect
00:14:55.000 a strawman
00:14:56.080 of you
00:14:56.480 and argue
00:14:57.760 against that
00:14:58.360 strawman,
00:14:59.840 which is
00:15:00.560 ridiculous.
00:15:02.620 It's a
00:15:02.900 ridiculous
00:15:03.280 thing to
00:15:03.680 do if
00:15:04.040 you're
00:15:04.200 arguing
00:15:04.520 in good
00:15:04.840 faith.
00:15:05.340 If you're
00:15:05.640 actually
00:15:05.900 trying to
00:15:06.360 get
00:15:06.680 common
00:15:07.940 sense
00:15:08.400 gun
00:15:08.660 control,
00:15:09.180 for example.
00:15:13.560 But if
00:15:14.200 what you're
00:15:14.440 actually trying
00:15:14.880 to do
00:15:15.120 is hide
00:15:15.900 the
00:15:16.240 evidence
00:15:17.040 of
00:15:19.040 violence,
00:15:20.100 of
00:15:20.400 danger,
00:15:21.440 of
00:15:21.780 venomous
00:15:22.260 monsters,
00:15:22.700 if what
00:15:23.820 you're
00:15:23.960 actually
00:15:24.140 trying to
00:15:24.420 do
00:15:24.520 is
00:15:24.660 hide
00:15:25.300 take that
00:15:25.640 from sight,
00:15:26.580 I don't
00:15:27.300 want to
00:15:27.660 see the
00:15:28.000 ugly
00:15:28.240 things.
00:15:33.760 Make sure
00:15:34.940 that my
00:15:36.380 son
00:15:36.920 learns
00:15:37.820 nothing
00:15:38.540 of poverty,
00:15:40.140 illness,
00:15:40.620 or old
00:15:41.080 age,
00:15:41.900 else he
00:15:42.520 might
00:15:42.980 become a
00:15:43.580 Buddha.
00:15:43.760 that's
00:15:50.500 what's
00:15:50.660 underlying.
00:15:52.420 All of
00:15:53.300 the drama
00:15:53.800 coming out
00:15:55.320 from these
00:15:56.400 bread
00:15:57.080 tubers,
00:15:58.160 these
00:15:58.540 radical
00:15:59.160 leftists,
00:16:00.120 it's
00:16:05.720 not
00:16:05.900 actually
00:16:06.200 about
00:16:06.480 preventing
00:16:07.160 harm.
00:16:08.480 It's
00:16:09.080 about
00:16:09.420 I
00:16:10.740 don't
00:16:11.080 want to
00:16:11.500 have to
00:16:11.860 know
00:16:12.020 the
00:16:12.220 truth,
00:16:12.600 I
00:16:12.780 can't
00:16:13.140 handle
00:16:13.560 the
00:16:14.560 truth.
00:16:19.040 So
00:16:19.760 this
00:16:20.140 insane
00:16:21.640 behavior,
00:16:23.600 the
00:16:23.760 insanity
00:16:24.800 of
00:16:26.500 wanting
00:16:28.320 violent
00:16:29.540 people
00:16:29.900 to
00:16:30.120 flood
00:16:30.420 your
00:16:30.620 countries
00:16:31.140 while
00:16:31.780 also
00:16:32.160 preventing
00:16:33.060 the
00:16:33.300 citizens
00:16:33.620 from
00:16:33.940 defending
00:16:34.320 themselves.
00:16:37.480 Kind of
00:16:38.320 makes
00:16:38.580 sense
00:16:39.180 if we've
00:16:41.660 got people
00:16:42.160 that are
00:16:42.600 brain
00:16:42.920 damaged.
00:16:46.660 Part
00:16:47.420 three,
00:16:49.980 the
00:16:50.180 mycelium
00:16:50.880 internet.
00:16:56.520 What I'm
00:16:57.360 about to
00:16:57.700 say
00:16:58.040 sounds
00:16:58.980 like some
00:16:59.440 sort
00:16:59.860 of
00:17:00.380 crazy
00:17:01.660 new
00:17:02.740 age
00:17:03.420 schizoid
00:17:04.260 get back
00:17:04.920 on your
00:17:05.320 meds
00:17:05.740 theory,
00:17:06.440 but it's
00:17:07.660 actually
00:17:08.120 thoroughly
00:17:09.000 documented.
00:17:09.980 At least
00:17:11.800 the first
00:17:12.160 part is.
00:17:15.460 And it
00:17:16.220 is that
00:17:16.820 trees
00:17:19.960 communicate
00:17:21.380 through mycelium
00:17:22.940 networks.
00:17:23.480 there are
00:17:28.180 vast
00:17:28.960 underground
00:17:30.240 internets
00:17:31.040 of
00:17:32.080 fungi
00:17:32.540 used by
00:17:33.900 forests
00:17:34.620 to
00:17:35.760 communicate
00:17:36.460 about
00:17:37.940 threats,
00:17:39.280 about
00:17:39.480 changing
00:17:40.000 weather
00:17:40.340 patterns.
00:17:43.020 Oh
00:17:43.240 yes,
00:17:43.780 trees are
00:17:44.500 in fact
00:17:45.000 conscious,
00:17:46.220 and they
00:17:47.300 communicate
00:17:47.940 through
00:17:49.120 mushroom
00:17:49.500 network.
00:17:49.980 here's
00:17:54.440 the crazy
00:17:54.760 part.
00:17:55.980 Here's
00:17:56.300 the get
00:17:56.600 back on
00:17:57.060 your
00:17:57.260 meds,
00:17:57.840 you
00:17:57.980 based
00:17:58.420 schizoid.
00:18:01.320 If
00:18:01.980 you've
00:18:02.180 ever done
00:18:02.720 psilocybin
00:18:03.360 mushrooms,
00:18:04.360 it is
00:18:05.780 my
00:18:06.180 conviction
00:18:07.260 that that
00:18:09.620 is how
00:18:10.140 mushrooms
00:18:10.940 communicate
00:18:12.020 with us.
00:18:13.800 That what
00:18:14.600 you're
00:18:14.780 experiencing
00:18:15.440 is
00:18:16.380 not
00:18:17.620 merely
00:18:18.180 an
00:18:18.460 altered
00:18:18.720 state
00:18:19.000 of
00:18:19.140 consciousness.
00:18:20.340 It's
00:18:20.960 an
00:18:21.100 altered
00:18:21.360 state
00:18:21.640 of
00:18:21.800 consciousness
00:18:22.300 where
00:18:22.680 you
00:18:22.880 communicate
00:18:23.420 with
00:18:23.880 the
00:18:24.140 spirit
00:18:24.580 of
00:18:24.980 the
00:18:25.140 mycelium.
00:18:27.720 They
00:18:28.400 explain
00:18:29.620 their
00:18:29.860 perspective.
00:18:30.980 Because
00:18:31.180 mushrooms,
00:18:32.640 fungi in
00:18:33.100 general,
00:18:33.380 they don't
00:18:33.700 really live
00:18:34.360 or die.
00:18:35.880 Plants,
00:18:37.180 animals,
00:18:37.940 we're
00:18:38.080 very
00:18:38.400 individuated.
00:18:40.080 We
00:18:40.320 have a
00:18:41.140 very
00:18:41.460 particular
00:18:43.000 experience,
00:18:44.760 a
00:18:45.280 perception,
00:18:47.120 an
00:18:47.640 individuated
00:18:48.620 perception.
00:18:52.720 The
00:18:53.560 mycelium
00:18:54.340 is
00:18:55.520 all
00:18:55.860 conscious
00:18:56.500 and
00:18:57.700 it
00:18:57.840 doesn't
00:18:58.220 live
00:18:58.880 or die.
00:19:00.680 The
00:19:00.920 mushroom
00:19:01.260 just
00:19:01.640 vibes
00:19:02.280 and
00:19:03.440 understands
00:19:04.060 all
00:19:04.420 things
00:19:04.980 and
00:19:05.660 is
00:19:05.780 more
00:19:05.960 than
00:19:06.100 happy
00:19:06.440 to
00:19:06.760 lend
00:19:07.060 its
00:19:07.360 wisdom
00:19:07.680 to
00:19:07.920 you.
00:19:08.960 It
00:19:09.140 doesn't
00:19:09.360 mind
00:19:09.620 that
00:19:09.760 you're
00:19:09.900 eating
00:19:10.140 it
00:19:10.420 because
00:19:11.120 it
00:19:11.280 will
00:19:11.400 just
00:19:11.600 make
00:19:11.800 more
00:19:12.020 mushroom.
00:19:14.760 mushrooms
00:19:18.280 exist
00:19:19.340 as
00:19:19.600 some
00:19:19.840 sort
00:19:20.160 of
00:19:20.280 strange
00:19:20.780 gestalt
00:19:21.300 consciousness
00:19:22.000 with
00:19:23.020 no
00:19:23.240 individuation
00:19:24.180 and
00:19:25.180 engaging
00:19:25.800 with
00:19:26.080 that
00:19:26.480 can
00:19:29.180 either
00:19:29.740 enlighten
00:19:31.440 you
00:19:31.720 or
00:19:32.340 destroy
00:19:32.740 you.
00:19:34.340 I've
00:19:35.020 known
00:19:35.420 men
00:19:35.840 that
00:19:36.040 have
00:19:36.280 destroyed
00:19:36.760 themselves
00:19:37.440 by
00:19:39.400 believing
00:19:39.900 everything
00:19:40.600 the
00:19:40.900 mycelium
00:19:41.480 taught
00:19:41.800 them.
00:19:45.040 But
00:19:45.800 we
00:19:46.140 are
00:19:47.060 not
00:19:47.280 mushrooms.
00:19:50.480 We
00:19:51.240 are
00:19:51.720 individuated
00:19:52.720 in the
00:19:53.400 world
00:19:53.600 of
00:19:53.760 animals.
00:19:55.320 Part
00:19:55.700 of the
00:19:55.920 way
00:19:56.060 that
00:19:56.260 we
00:19:56.420 got
00:19:56.740 to
00:19:56.940 the
00:19:57.080 top
00:19:57.360 of
00:19:57.480 this
00:19:57.620 food
00:19:57.880 chain
00:19:58.240 being
00:19:59.360 nothing
00:19:59.640 more
00:19:59.900 than
00:20:00.040 hairless
00:20:00.380 apes
00:20:00.820 was
00:20:02.300 by
00:20:02.780 gaining
00:20:03.600 the
00:20:04.060 ability
00:20:04.620 to
00:20:05.000 understand
00:20:05.780 the
00:20:06.360 other
00:20:06.620 to
00:20:07.600 empathize
00:20:09.000 to
00:20:09.540 simulate
00:20:11.100 the
00:20:11.560 mind
00:20:11.980 of an
00:20:12.320 animal
00:20:12.720 within
00:20:13.080 our
00:20:13.320 own
00:20:13.580 mind
00:20:14.040 and
00:20:14.560 thus
00:20:14.860 become
00:20:15.660 the
00:20:15.980 animal
00:20:16.280 whisperer
00:20:16.980 thus
00:20:17.760 become
00:20:18.320 Adam
00:20:19.320 who
00:20:20.000 names
00:20:20.400 all
00:20:20.760 the
00:20:20.960 animals.
00:20:24.320 This
00:20:25.160 was the
00:20:25.440 gift
00:20:25.820 that we
00:20:27.360 got
00:20:27.700 from
00:20:27.940 the
00:20:28.060 mushrooms.
00:20:34.660 But
00:20:35.500 to
00:20:35.660 quote
00:20:36.420 the
00:20:37.620 Dalai
00:20:37.920 Lama
00:20:38.280 who's
00:20:41.440 a bit
00:20:41.620 of a
00:20:41.880 sex
00:20:42.140 pest
00:20:42.480 in
00:20:42.680 general
00:20:43.000 but
00:20:43.220 he's
00:20:43.360 right
00:20:43.540 about
00:20:43.780 this
00:20:44.220 empathy
00:20:48.600 is
00:20:48.880 useless
00:20:49.280 when
00:20:50.200 you're
00:20:50.360 confronting
00:20:50.740 a
00:20:50.920 mad
00:20:51.120 dog.
00:20:57.180 There
00:20:57.740 is
00:20:58.000 a
00:20:58.200 time
00:20:58.400 to
00:20:58.600 fight.
00:20:59.760 Mushrooms
00:21:00.160 do not
00:21:00.580 understand
00:21:00.960 this.
00:21:01.820 You
00:21:01.900 can
00:21:02.060 easily
00:21:02.480 lose
00:21:02.900 your
00:21:03.080 mind
00:21:03.440 in
00:21:03.680 it.
00:21:05.500 So
00:21:07.780 what's
00:21:07.920 my
00:21:08.080 point
00:21:08.380 about
00:21:08.620 talking
00:21:09.000 about
00:21:09.300 the
00:21:09.700 general
00:21:15.140 mycelium
00:21:16.020 consciousness?
00:21:21.660 One
00:21:22.460 that
00:21:22.660 provides
00:21:23.260 an
00:21:23.960 organic
00:21:24.360 internet
00:21:24.860 for
00:21:25.160 forests
00:21:25.720 so
00:21:26.760 that
00:21:26.940 plants
00:21:27.480 can
00:21:27.860 talk
00:21:28.160 with
00:21:28.360 each
00:21:28.540 other.
00:21:28.780 my
00:21:32.420 point
00:21:32.700 is to
00:21:32.960 get
00:21:33.120 you
00:21:33.260 thinking
00:21:33.700 about
00:21:34.180 consciousness
00:21:34.760 as
00:21:36.180 not
00:21:36.440 just
00:21:36.680 this
00:21:36.900 individuated
00:21:37.640 thing
00:21:38.000 which
00:21:38.960 we
00:21:39.180 experience.
00:21:40.600 In fact
00:21:40.960 most
00:21:41.280 of what
00:21:41.580 people
00:21:41.860 think
00:21:42.260 is
00:21:42.440 consciousness
00:21:42.920 is
00:21:43.420 actually
00:21:43.920 just
00:21:44.520 biological
00:21:45.840 processes
00:21:46.600 and
00:21:47.320 memetics
00:21:47.920 vibrating
00:21:49.140 through
00:21:50.100 their
00:21:50.280 neurons.
00:21:50.720 you
00:21:53.200 are
00:21:53.360 not
00:21:53.740 your
00:21:54.120 body
00:21:54.480 you
00:21:55.000 are
00:21:55.200 not
00:21:55.580 your
00:21:56.160 emotions
00:21:56.580 you
00:21:57.580 are
00:21:57.700 not
00:21:57.860 your
00:21:58.040 thoughts
00:21:58.420 you
00:21:58.620 are
00:21:58.740 not
00:21:58.940 your
00:21:59.120 ideology
00:21:59.640 you
00:22:00.140 are
00:22:00.540 the
00:22:00.900 perceiver
00:22:01.660 of
00:22:02.000 all
00:22:02.220 those
00:22:02.520 things
00:22:03.000 and
00:22:05.880 things
00:22:06.280 like
00:22:06.620 the
00:22:06.760 mycelium
00:22:07.320 perceive
00:22:07.940 things
00:22:08.560 equally
00:22:09.600 but
00:22:10.500 very
00:22:11.060 very
00:22:11.620 differently.
00:22:12.040 If that's
00:22:15.540 the case
00:22:15.940 if we
00:22:16.320 can
00:22:16.540 acknowledge
00:22:17.040 that
00:22:17.920 this
00:22:18.140 biological
00:22:18.700 internet
00:22:19.200 exists
00:22:19.900 and
00:22:20.340 somehow
00:22:20.800 plants
00:22:21.300 are
00:22:21.460 self-aware
00:22:21.980 if
00:22:23.400 we
00:22:23.620 can
00:22:23.820 acknowledge
00:22:24.320 that
00:22:24.920 what
00:22:29.000 makes
00:22:29.260 you
00:22:29.400 think
00:22:29.600 the
00:22:29.780 parasites
00:22:30.260 aren't?
00:22:36.160 The
00:22:36.720 mycelium
00:22:37.180 is a
00:22:37.420 little
00:22:37.500 bit
00:22:37.640 easier
00:22:37.880 to
00:22:38.040 understand
00:22:38.500 after
00:22:38.880 all
00:22:39.220 it
00:22:39.360 is
00:22:39.600 a
00:22:39.880 giant
00:22:40.560 fungal
00:22:41.300 network
00:22:41.860 and yet
00:22:47.820 the
00:22:47.940 mycelium
00:22:48.440 is never
00:22:48.800 hostile
00:22:49.200 even
00:22:49.600 when you
00:22:49.920 eat
00:22:50.120 it
00:22:50.340 when
00:22:51.680 you
00:22:52.000 eat
00:22:52.420 it
00:22:52.520 you
00:22:52.700 consume
00:22:53.340 it
00:22:53.560 you
00:22:53.740 ingest
00:22:54.260 it
00:22:54.480 and
00:22:54.620 incorporate
00:22:55.140 it
00:22:55.620 that's
00:22:57.320 how it
00:22:57.540 talks
00:22:57.820 to you
00:22:58.200 it's
00:22:58.560 happy
00:22:58.900 to
00:22:59.100 talk
00:22:59.320 to
00:22:59.480 you
00:22:59.700 you
00:23:02.140 know
00:23:02.260 that
00:23:02.460 movie
00:23:02.720 The
00:23:02.940 Thing
00:23:03.300 The
00:23:04.280 Thing
00:23:04.640 from
00:23:04.900 Another
00:23:05.120 World
00:23:05.500 that
00:23:08.220 was a
00:23:08.580 gestalt
00:23:08.920 consciousness
00:23:09.440 as well
00:23:10.560 a gestalt
00:23:11.400 consciousness
00:23:11.940 that
00:23:12.480 took over
00:23:13.580 human
00:23:13.880 bodies
00:23:14.300 and
00:23:14.700 turned
00:23:15.140 them
00:23:15.320 to
00:23:15.480 its
00:23:15.640 own
00:23:15.820 ends
00:23:16.240 something
00:23:17.100 that was
00:23:17.440 highly
00:23:17.840 intelligent
00:23:18.480 and yet
00:23:19.560 not
00:23:19.940 particularly
00:23:20.680 individuated
00:23:22.060 but
00:23:26.420 the
00:23:26.560 reason
00:23:26.940 they
00:23:27.500 were
00:23:27.680 able
00:23:28.180 to
00:23:28.900 confront
00:23:29.380 this
00:23:29.700 beast
00:23:30.160 and
00:23:30.600 ultimately
00:23:31.220 win
00:23:33.100 maybe
00:23:34.200 the
00:23:35.460 ending
00:23:35.700 is
00:23:35.840 ambiguous
00:23:36.280 the
00:23:38.720 reason
00:23:38.960 is
00:23:39.200 because
00:23:39.520 each
00:23:40.020 part
00:23:41.000 of
00:23:41.480 the
00:23:41.600 thing
00:23:41.820 each
00:23:42.160 thing
00:23:42.820 collective
00:23:43.560 had
00:23:46.940 a desire
00:23:47.720 to live
00:23:48.300 it
00:23:48.460 had
00:23:48.880 a survival
00:23:49.740 instinct
00:23:50.200 so
00:23:51.440 if
00:23:51.740 you
00:23:52.000 extracted
00:23:52.740 the
00:23:53.020 blood
00:23:53.420 of
00:23:54.100 an
00:23:54.220 infected
00:23:54.860 person
00:23:55.460 and
00:23:56.900 then
00:23:57.080 you
00:23:57.260 put
00:23:57.480 a
00:23:57.600 hot
00:23:57.820 wire
00:23:58.060 in
00:23:58.220 the
00:23:58.340 blood
00:23:58.660 the
00:23:59.900 blood
00:24:00.260 would
00:24:00.680 react
00:24:01.160 allowing
00:24:01.660 you
00:24:01.880 to
00:24:02.100 realize
00:24:02.660 that
00:24:02.920 the
00:24:03.100 person
00:24:03.420 you
00:24:03.600 took
00:24:03.820 it
00:24:03.940 from
00:24:04.180 was
00:24:04.520 the
00:24:04.860 thing
00:24:05.260 mushrooms
00:24:09.420 aren't
00:24:10.000 like
00:24:10.320 that
00:24:10.700 you
00:24:11.220 pull
00:24:11.680 a
00:24:11.840 piece
00:24:12.000 of
00:24:12.140 mushroom
00:24:12.480 off
00:24:12.920 it's
00:24:14.400 still
00:24:14.960 vibing
00:24:16.180 and
00:24:16.480 happy
00:24:17.040 the
00:24:18.520 mushroom
00:24:18.880 reproduction
00:24:19.420 and
00:24:19.620 communication
00:24:20.120 are the
00:24:20.400 same
00:24:20.600 thing
00:24:20.960 even
00:24:21.740 when
00:24:22.060 it's
00:24:22.220 destructive
00:24:22.660 many
00:24:25.920 different
00:24:26.440 ways
00:24:27.060 of
00:24:28.140 exhibiting
00:24:28.800 consciousness
00:24:29.360 in this
00:24:29.800 reality
00:24:30.300 almost as
00:24:33.300 if that
00:24:33.600 piece of
00:24:33.920 mushroom
00:24:34.180 you're
00:24:34.400 eating
00:24:34.640 is
00:24:36.040 still
00:24:36.380 somehow
00:24:36.820 connected
00:24:37.240 to the
00:24:37.540 rest
00:24:37.780 of the
00:24:38.060 mushrooms
00:24:38.500 far
00:24:41.140 out
00:24:41.380 man
00:24:41.760 so
00:24:46.000 why
00:24:46.300 shouldn't
00:24:46.740 we
00:24:46.980 think
00:24:47.500 that
00:24:49.360 these
00:24:49.580 parasites
00:24:50.260 that
00:24:51.040 these
00:24:51.300 little
00:24:52.180 viruses
00:24:53.540 these
00:24:54.660 these
00:24:55.620 spore
00:24:56.760 cells
00:24:57.440 why
00:25:01.680 wouldn't
00:25:01.920 they all
00:25:02.220 be in
00:25:02.480 communication
00:25:02.980 as well
00:25:03.540 why
00:25:06.100 wouldn't
00:25:06.460 they
00:25:07.360 have
00:25:09.480 an
00:25:09.700 agenda
00:25:10.080 and so
00:25:14.100 as I
00:25:14.320 said at
00:25:14.560 the
00:25:14.680 beginning
00:25:15.020 of all
00:25:15.920 of this
00:25:16.360 where
00:25:17.280 is the
00:25:18.260 conspiracy
00:25:18.840 it's an
00:25:25.260 astral
00:25:25.760 plane
00:25:26.120 level
00:25:26.460 conspiracy
00:25:27.220 where
00:25:28.700 the
00:25:28.920 mind
00:25:29.360 of the
00:25:29.660 parasite
00:25:30.040 lives
00:25:30.580 everywhere
00:25:33.260 we look
00:25:33.840 is this
00:25:35.600 anti-life
00:25:37.220 agenda
00:25:38.260 and we
00:25:40.920 keep
00:25:41.100 positing
00:25:41.620 is it
00:25:42.000 the
00:25:42.240 illuminati
00:25:43.040 is it
00:25:43.500 a cult
00:25:44.000 of
00:25:44.200 saturn
00:25:44.600 worshippers
00:25:45.200 is it
00:25:45.960 civil
00:25:46.500 because you
00:25:52.460 find all
00:25:53.040 these people
00:25:53.600 acting
00:25:54.100 like they
00:25:54.720 worship
00:25:55.100 civil
00:25:55.460 but trying
00:26:00.380 to find
00:26:00.820 an actual
00:26:01.460 church
00:26:01.840 of
00:26:02.000 civil
00:26:02.200 is pretty
00:26:02.600 difficult
00:26:02.940 so I
00:26:08.100 have a
00:26:08.260 proposal
00:26:08.720 that there
00:26:11.520 is this
00:26:12.260 universal
00:26:13.060 anti-life
00:26:14.560 conspiracy
00:26:15.200 of the
00:26:16.440 parasites
00:26:16.940 that
00:26:18.780 toxoplasmosis
00:26:20.180 actually enjoys
00:26:23.400 destroying
00:26:23.880 humans
00:26:24.440 it just
00:26:26.240 eats
00:26:26.720 us
00:26:27.440 kills
00:26:29.240 us
00:26:29.780 it
00:26:32.080 turns
00:26:32.680 members
00:26:33.580 of our
00:26:34.980 species
00:26:35.520 into
00:26:36.500 hypersexual
00:26:37.260 zombies
00:26:37.960 NPC
00:26:39.220 characters
00:26:40.020 and even
00:26:43.600 though there's
00:26:43.940 no formal
00:26:44.600 human
00:26:45.260 coordination
00:26:46.220 between these
00:26:47.000 individuals
00:26:47.580 there is
00:26:50.320 the
00:26:50.720 coordination
00:26:53.640 of the
00:26:55.380 parasite
00:26:55.680 itself
00:26:56.260 I'm
00:27:07.880 presenting
00:27:08.240 this as
00:27:08.700 one of
00:27:08.960 these
00:27:09.220 far out
00:27:10.100 theories
00:27:10.920 man
00:27:11.660 that you
00:27:13.880 can
00:27:14.140 choose to
00:27:15.240 believe in
00:27:15.800 but the
00:27:21.900 science is
00:27:22.400 in on
00:27:22.980 those
00:27:23.360 parts of
00:27:23.900 reality
00:27:24.360 which are
00:27:26.500 subject to
00:27:27.780 scientific
00:27:28.360 inquiry
00:27:28.920 that part's
00:27:36.140 proven
00:27:38.340 the only part
00:27:44.220 left to
00:27:45.020 question is
00:27:45.640 whether you
00:27:46.100 believe in
00:27:47.140 the astral
00:27:47.700 plane
00:27:48.120 do you
00:27:48.800 believe in
00:27:50.000 the realm
00:27:50.480 where numbers
00:27:51.440 exist
00:27:51.980 do you
00:27:52.460 believe in
00:27:53.860 the golden
00:27:54.320 ratio
00:27:54.960 or is it
00:27:57.620 just chemicals
00:27:58.120 in your brain
00:27:58.620 telling you
00:27:59.100 that they're
00:27:59.360 chemicals
00:27:59.820 will you
00:28:04.360 get up
00:28:04.700 and fight
00:28:05.180 or will
00:28:06.200 you die
00:28:06.960 like
00:28:07.820 a dog
00:28:08.900 carpe
00:28:15.280 futurum
00:28:16.440 tenitratitum
00:28:18.300 this is
00:28:19.840 Rini
00:28:20.320 out
00:28:21.740 oh
00:28:38.200 well
00:28:39.300 you
00:28:40.300 you
00:28:40.400 you
00:28:41.220 you
00:28:46.600 you