Psychedelic Information Theory
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TMS, phosphenes and visual mental imagery: A mini-review and a theoretical framework
... model of explicit optical coding of visual information in early visual areas (V1) and the propagation of conscious visual content at other levels in the stream of visual processing and in other parts of the brain....
How Hallucinogens Play Their Mind-Bending Games
... thalamus is the major relay station for sensory information that is sent to the cortex, and there are serotonin 2A receptors localized in the thalamus and the reticular nucleus of the thalamus, which controls the flow of information through the tha...
... increase in psychedelic potency.7 Using this information it can be assumed that the unique structure of LSD is what makes it so potent; giving it a high affinity across a wider range of receptor types; making it more difficult to metabolize; and...
From drugs to deprivation: a Bayesian framework for understanding models of psychosis
... We suggest that current Bayesian formulations of information processing in the brain provide a framework that maps onto neural circuitry and gives us a context within which we can relate the symptoms of psychosis to their underlying causes. This hel...
Does time dilate during a threatening situation?
... with the processing of self-referential information. The researchers observed a strong time dilation effect in the looming, but not the receding, condition. They suggest that it is the occurance of a looming stimulus, and not an oddball ...
Notes on Psychedelic Imprinting
... can take many forms, and in some cases negative information can be imprinted into identity. Brainwashing is the act of imprinting another person against their will, which is viewed as negative. Self-brainwashing is the act of imprinting yourself wi...
The Value of Psychedelic Information
A text called ‘Psychedelic information Theory’ raises the question, “What is Psychedelic Information, and why should we care?” Generally speaking, psychedelic information is any information created in the mind of the subject during a psychede...
The continuous Wagon Wheel Illusion is object-based
... perception rely on discrete sampling of visual information. The spatial extent of this sampling is currently under debate. When two separate motion stimuli are viewed simultaneously, the illusion of reversed motion rarely occurs for both objects t...
... term. Consciousness is defined here as a stable information processing system with specific functions and emergent operating properties, all of which are necessary to maintain system stability.1 The minimum specific functions for any conscious syst...
Notes on Psychedelic Saturation
... tribal societies are saturated with psychedelic information, but modern society is not far behind. Western media is filled with psychedelic imagery and fascinated by altered states. In the United States ayahuasca and peyote are already recognized a...
... Ingestion is the first spark of psychedelic information genesis, and the precise order of events leading up to the moment a psychedelic trip begins are all parameters of the ingestion context. Since ingestion context frames the totality of ps...
Notes on Rise of Modern Psychedelic Culture
... Prohibition may slow the flow of psychedelic information, but it does not stop it....
Notes on Repression of Psychedelics
Psychedelic information flow within any culture is a function of religion and politics. Traditional shamanic cultures value psychedelic information as a ritual form of bonding, healing, and discovery, and encourage psychedelic information flow. Indus...
Psychedelic Information Theory
... psychedelics are catalysts for generating information in the human imagination. There are many theories about the origin of this information; the subconscious; repressed emotions; the collective unconscious; genetic memory; spirit entities; a...
The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness
... of consciousness. Chapter 4: In order for information to be stored in memory the serotonergically modulated forebrain must be online and queuing information into the medial temporal lobe for storage. If the brain is hallucinating that means m...
What is Psychedelic Information Theory?
Psychedelic information Theory (PIT) is the study of nonlinear information creation in the human imagination, particularly in states of dreaming, psychosis, and hallucination. PIT seeks to model the functional output of human perception in order to e...
Scientists explain inception of perception in the brain
... brain’s center. That’s where sensory information passes from the thalamus to the neocortex for processing. That critical transfer is a bit of a brain science mystery: Instead of reacting to information from the thalamus with a burst o...
How the Brain Filters out Distracting Thoughts to Focus on a Single Bit of Information
The human brain is bombarded with all kinds of information, from the memory of last night's delicious dinner to the instructions from your boss at your morning meeting. But how do you "tune in" to just one thought or idea and ignore all the rest of w...
Frequency of gamma oscillations routes flow of information in the hippocampus
... cell assemblies that are processing related information1, 2, a function that is probably important for network processes such as perception1, 2, 3, attentional selection4 and memory5, 6. This 'binding' mechanism requires that spatially distribu...
... evoking spontaneous organization of psychedelic information in a subject or group of subjects to promote plasticity, imprinting, and transformation. Psychedelic information implies holistic or meta level manipulation of memory and identity, and so ...
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