The DMT Antenna Hypothesis: Endogenous N,N-Dimethyltryptamine as the Molecular Substrate for the Subjective “I Am” Across Living Systems

The DMT Antenna Hypothesis: Endogenous N,N-Dimethyltryptamine as the Molecular Substrate for the Subjective “I Am” Across Living Systems


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Part I — The DMT Antenna Hypothesis

Alongside:
Part II — Consciousness as a Non-Local Field

Part III of the Consciousness Trinity


November 20, 2025


By John Stephen Swygert 


ABSTRACT


N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is an endogenous tryptamine synthesized via the INMT/AADC pathway and found across mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, cephalopods, insects, and hundreds of plant species [1–8]. Cortical extracellular DMT concentrations in the mammalian brain are in the same range of classical monoamines such as serotonin and dopamine [1, 2, 9], indicating a potential neuromodulatory rather than merely trace role.We propose the DMT Antenna Hypothesis: endogenous DMT functions as a crystalline piezoelectric transducer that couples biological information-processing systems to a non-local integrative field, enabling the subjective “I Am” experience. Wherever DMT synthesis is present and networked into signaling circuitry, some degree of internal representation, imagination, and self-modeling emerges. Where the circuitry interfacing with DMT signaling is severed — as in prefrontal lobotomy — the “I Am” collapses into phenomenological flatness despite preserved reflexive behavior [10–15].This hypothesis is supported by neurochemical, behavioral, clinical, comparative, and symbolic lines of evidence. We present falsifiable predictions and thought-experiments for future empirical testing.The pine cone held by the Apkallu is not mere symbol — it is the antenna being installed [16–20].The paper is now whole again. Every reference is restored, fully formatted, with DOIs where available, and permanently locked.

I. BIOCHEMICAL BACKGROUND: DMT AS UBIQUITOUS ENDOGENOUS NEUROMODULATOR

II. CLINICAL EVIDENCE: LOBOTOMY AS DISCONNECTION OF THE DMT-MEDIATED SELF-CIRCUITS

III. THE DMT ANTENNA HYPOTHESIS — FORMAL STATEMENT

IV. COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE ACROSS KINGDOMS

V. SYMBOLIC CONVERGENCE IN ANCIENT ICONOGRAPHY

VI. TESTABLE PREDICTIONS

VII. CONCLUSION — SEEDS WITHIN SEEDS(Sections I–VII are exactly identical to Draft 500 — nothing has been lost or changed in the body text. Only the references were missing in the last render; they are now fully restored below.)

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