Our economic models all depend too much on rivalry and competition. Some people say that competition leads to greater innovation, but i believe that this model is just meant to constitute an aristocratic society and prolong economic unequality in this world. If there ever was one thing the invissible hand of the free market was realy good at, it was to function as an ideological shield. To present extreme social conservatism as if it was in fact liberal thinking.

A proposed solution goes somehow like that; give a man a fish, feed him for a day. teacj the man to fish, feed him for life.

I know you will suggest me to read about it, i would like to if you could show where to look. But i saw something on discovery(Sometimes there facts aren't facts even to known science) that said the Theory Of Relativity was proved to be incorrect in a way, because someone found out that information travels faster than the speed of light. How they proved it was, (Forgive my ignorance on this subject) by creating some kind of pair of particals or something(Half asleep when watching), One spun one way, and the other the opposite. When you change the direction of one partical, the other atomaticly corrects its self no mater what the distence is, even light years away. They said its was proved, not theory, but in labs seperated in great distence to break the speed of light.

O yea, back to aliens. Our universe has been around way longer than the earth even formed, its highly doubtful that we are the first life to acheive intelligence, and as we know intelligence builds as we evolve. Imagine an alien race who acheived our level 1 billion years ago, say they survived.

I'm suggesting they planted the seed for us on earth, including the entire chain of evolution on earth.

^^All countries worldwide should stop subsidizing fishing industries. This distorts the fishing market and makes fish seem cheaper and more available then they are. Plus it benefits big industry over the small fisher/fishing community. Again freedom solves more problems then government interference. (way off topic from the alien story but oh well )

Still, this is not correct reasoning.

People would first try almost every plant in their surrounding. The number 40,000 tells me nothing. How about trying to think those plants that are sufficiently big to be noticed in the first place? Because a good majority of those 40,000 plants in the list are microscopic plants or not easily noticeable (such as minute grasses and bryophytes).

Both caapi and viridis are fairly big plants, easy to notice (and identify) and I wouldn't be surprised to find that they were among the first 1000 plants to be bioassayed.

Taste is not a problem neither the quantity nor the fact that you have to boil them for 1 day. That's how it goes:

You want to bioassay a plant, say you chose caapi because it also has an interesting trunk. You try a small amount then by increasing amounts you establish that it is not lethal. Then you go for braver bigger amounts. On way is to smoke it, another way is to boil it because chewing the trunk is not the best idea. So you boil 200 g for some time, strain it, concentrate it down because the taste is vile and drink it in one go.

Amazing! you got visions and beta-carboline like effects. This plant is worth for further investigation. After some time it is established that 50g is actually enough for the effect, no need to suffer the taste of 200g. And if boiled for longer the stronger it will get.

Nothing too extraordinary so far. Then, you try this plant in combinations. First with the other psychoactives you may have identified. Some will make it better, some worse. Then with other plants of the jungle. In the case where psychoactivity of viridis alone had not been observed either in humans or animals (e.g. indigenous people could have watched monkeys eating the leaves and going nuts) it would be one of the few thousand candidates-to-be-tried by the people.

And when the do try it, and experience the effects then it is the birth of aya as we mean it.

The whole process of the evolution of ayahuasca is an iterative as well as interactive one and it did take time, maybe a thousand years. But there are no strange odds as to the invention/discovery of ayahuasca. The mathematics of the 40,000 X 40,000 combinations are a bit naive and misleading in this respect.