Psychedelic Information Theory
Shamanism in the Age of Reason
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... and exhibit the formal qualities of a nonlinear feedback system, such as fractals or cellular automata. The interference pattern in the ripples of the pond described here is how PIT models a competing tryptamine agonist (a hallucinogen) in the fi...
Reviews for Psychedelic Information Theory
... of psychedelic agents as nonlinear feedback amplifiers, and descriptions of shamanic technique as periodic drivers to entrain a psychonaut's chaotic interference patterns towards multi-stable strange attractors. His book offers the fir...
... pitch-timed, rhythmic, or periodic sensory feedback stimulation. The tenets of the Control Interrupt Model of psychedelic action dictate that top-down feedback control of multisensory perception must be destabilized before consciousness can ...
Role of GABAB receptor-mediated inhibition in reciprocal interareal pathways of rat visual cortex
... inhibition in interareal forward and feedback connections between area 17 and the secondary, latero-medial visual area (LM). Our results demonstrate that in most layer 2/3 neurons forward inputs elicited excitatory postsynaptic potential...
5-HT2A Agonism and Multisensory Binding
... pathway as a primary modulator for homeostatic feedback regulation of multisensory awareness, behavior, and learning.7 5-HT2A receptor agonists (hallucinogens) promote disinhibition and excitability in 5-HT mediated pathways, indicating that psych...
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About Psychedelic Information Theory
... donations, proofreading, and providing valuable feedback on the text. PIT Alpha began as an attempt to reduce psychedelic phenomenology from a purely connective and pharmacological perspective. Sometime in late 2005, halfway through the text of PIT...
Crude cognitive schematic of waking consciousness
... lower-order processing passes via recurrent feedback, and multiple information passes means longer lag-time through the system (all thought and no action). Simple information and ambient noise tends to move faster through the system than comple...
... negative information is amplified with positive feedback it can grow to destroy the entire system. Negative information can be countered with negative feedback or positive information which seeks to minimize negative information and bring stability...
Group Mind and Fluid Tribal Dynamics
... in a circuit to retain stability through mutual feedback control. Individuals bound in a group activity use intuitive synchrony testing and error correction to maintain behavioral coordination and unitary cohesion. Group Trance and Entrainment Tec...
... empathetic responses in other humans. The feedback of pheromonal response between subjects over a period of a few circadian cycles will automatically drive the binding process even if subjects are naturally resistant. The introduction of stre...
Hypnotic Entrainment and Induced Trance States
... is reasonable to assume to that these icaros are feedback vocalizations tuned to the resonant frequency of the specific trance state occupied by the shaman. The shaman hears the resonant frequencies in his head as hallucinogenic artifacts of the pha...
Physical Shamanism and Shamanic Therapy
... be coaxed into becoming spontaneous nonlinear feedback generators, cellular signaling pathways may be coaxed into generating information via spontaneous energetic metabolic pathway testing, strengthening, and regeneration. Just as nonlinear hallu...
What is Nonlinear Hallucination?
... has destabilized and become nonlinear. A video feedback loop is an good example of a nonlinear perceptual system (Fig. 2); each frame captures itself and the previous frame, and then itself and the two previous frames, and then itself and the four...
Uncoiling the spiral: Maths and hallucinations
... now it's realised that there is a huge amount of feedback between higher and lower cortical areas. It's not a simple hierarchical process, but an incredibly complicated and active system it will take many years to understand." Practical applicati...
... with a neural spike train involving some feedback to the thalamus and basal structures to fix the frame’s snapshot in working memory. These feedback circuits normally neutralize in about 1/15th of a second, allowing for multisensory frame ...
An Overview of Physical Shamanism
... attractor, like an anxiety spiral or paranoid feedback loop. Control Interrupt and Spirit Spaces [fig]1;1[/fig]Mixing the Control Interrupt Model with traditional shamanic metaphors, it is accurate to say that the spirit space of each hallucin...
... disinhibition and extreme excitability between feedback-coupled autonomic neural assemblies in the cortex, midbrain, and brainstem. Excitation in the autonomic neural assemblies which process sensation and memory lead to spontaneous hallucination;...
... of phase in such a way as to produce negative feedback. As they assume a more stable phase relationship, the amounts of energy gradually reduce to zero. In the realm of physics, entrainment appears to be related to resonance. In the study of c...
This conscious operating property of feedback control comes from tenets of control theory: When one or more output variables of a system need to follow a certain reference over time, a controller manipulates the inputs to a system to obtain the desir...
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