Gallimore, Andrew R Alien Information Theory (1527234762)

At the ground of our reality there is a code running. It is a code from which this universe and countless others emerge and unfold with infinite variety of form.

This code constructs our universe as a computational device for culturing conscious intelligences. We are one of those intelligences emergent within this lower-dimensional digital reality. As intelligences evolve, a small number reach a certain level of cognitive and technological sophistication and become candidates for a cosmic game, the final stages of which we now find ourselves playing.

The key to this game is a technology embedded in our reality, which takes the form of a powerful psychedelic drug -- a message -- scattered throughout the natural world: N, N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT). When DMT enters the brain, it grants entry to a miraculously complex hyperdimensional realm -- hyperspace -- lying orthogonal to ours and to an audience with the multitudinous alien intelligences that reside therein.

Ultimately, by mastering this technology, humans will complete the game and exit this universe permanently to become interdimensional citizens of hyperspace.

Alien Information Theory is a unique account of this hidden structure of reality and our place within it, drawing on a diverse range of disciplines -- including neuroscience, computer science, physics, and pharmacology -- to carefully explain these complex ideas, which are illustrated with full-colour diagrams throughout.