Tim Leary

aka Timothy Leary Tune in, turn on, and drop out. http://www.leary.com/

A Hope Fiend.

http://web.archive.org/web/20020804005145/http://www.omnimag.com/archives/features/leary/2.html

Author of the SMIILE concept.

I saw him in the mid80s doing a talk on Virtual Reality. I think at that same session he did a demo of the MindMirror software he designed.

• update: more likely it was this Sense8 talk (including Robert Anton Wilson) in 1990.

http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/Leary-cpunk.html

Here's an amusing online book about the advertures at Millbrook: http://okneoac.com/

His 24 stages of Evolution (mapping to his Eight Circuit Model Of Consciousness)

• see related MetaCognition
• I think his MindMirror software from 1985 used just the 1st two circuits.

pals with John Lilly

Intervention Roulette

his Future History book series

• Intelligence Agents
• vol 5: The Game of Life