Carl Hayden Smith on Hyperhumanism

Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO01BVw1Ls8

Description

Rudy De Waele:

"Carl introduces hyperhumanism as a counterpoint to transhumanism. Instead of outsourcing our intelligence to machines, hyperhumanism asks us to reclaim the innate capacities of the human body, imagination, and relational field. He reminds us: we may not yet be fully human. The task is not optimisation, but slowing down, listening deeply, and inhabiting our natural limits with grace.

In this week’s episode of Voices of Emergence, we sit down with Carl Hayden Smith, Associate Professor of Media at the University of the Arts London, director at Noonautics, founder of the Museum of Consciousness, and co-founder of the Cyberdelics Nexus. A pioneer at the edge of technology and consciousness, Carl has developed frameworks such as Hyperhumanism, Holotechnica, and Context Engineering. His work reframes technology not as an external crutch, but as a catalyst for amplifying human potential and transforming the contexts in which we live, learn, and imagine.

He has raised over £10 million in research funding, given 300+ lectures in 40 countries, and published 50+ papers on consciousness, embodiment, distributed cognition, umwelt hacking, and sensory augmentation."

Themes We Explore:

Hyperhumanism as resistance to transhumanism

Endo-technologies and the shift from altered states to altered traits

Holotechnica: stacking practices for lasting transformation

DMT extended state research & the “DMT Island” project

Context engineering for AI and psychedelic protocols

Sound, ritual, and the Museum of Consciousness

Journaling as consciousness architecture

Death literacy, post-traumatic growth & cathedral time."

(https://voicesofemergence.substack.com/p/hyperhumanism-endo-technologies-and)