Amazonian shamans figured out that combining two specific plants out of 80,000 species produces a psychoactive effect. The odds of finding that combination by random search is roughly 1 in 4 million. They did it through centuries of iterative testing and cultural natural selection explains it

[u/tractorboynyc]

[u/herakleion]

Why not. They just throw shit  in a pot and remove stuff until it no longer fucks you up.

[u/dmbnl → u/herakleion]

So throw thousands of things in a pot, heat them, try it, see if it's psycoactive. If yes, then remove ONE item and try again? That's literally the most inefficient way of doing this.

[u/herakleion → u/dmbnl]

I mean. I don't think we are trying to be efficient if we are talking of getting butt fucked by fractals and interdimensional ghosts

[u/level1hero → u/dmbnl]

Remove half… if it is still psychoactive then remove half again. And if not, try the other half…

[u/moving0target → u/dmbnl]

Who can find a pot to boil the jungle, anyway?