Micro-narratives of mourning

A moment of noise for the great scientist Albert Hoffman, who died last week at the age of 102 after discovering a new form of software for the human machine. It was William Gibson who described "cyberspace" as a "consensual hallucination"; when Hoffman first inadvertently plugged himself into the network called lysergic acid diethylamide, he helped to accelerate a process which would allow us to understand new uses for the human brain. Cyberspace, virtual reality, already exist in the brain, once one has installed the necessary information, which it is up to us to develop and discover. Hoffman said of his discovery, “I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.” There is a lesson to be learned from his long life; as Joe Hill said as he faced the firing squad, "Don't mourn; organize." The memory of Albert Hoffman should be the spirit of affirmation, dedicated to young scientists around the world today who refuse to put knowledge in the service of the state, and choose to produce and disseminate new and infinite possibilities of life.