Here’s what you’ll learn in this story:A biotech startup is developing next-generation psychedelics designed to evoke specific, curated states of mind. Psychedelics provide a way to safely and precisely create different combinations of neurotransmitter activity and understand the resulting changes to consciousness. A float in the sky, a childhood memory, a plunge into serenity, all AI-crafted to manifest exactly the state you seek. “Because I know nothing more certain than that my own consciousness does exist,” Conrad says. But consciousness does exist.”That’s where the mystery deepens.