Psychedelic Information Theory
Shamanism in the Age of Reason
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Information Genesis and Complexity
... by evolution and morphology, the early primate adaptation of the fine finger dexterity needed to use tools. The ability for an organism to incorporate an external tool (like a rock or a stick) and a specialized skill (like throwing or pounding) in...
Psychic bonding is a physical, neurological adaptation that occurs when two subjects spend time together sharing thoughts, feelings, and personal space. Psychic bonding is a survival trait that all animals and possibly all plants share. Psychic bonds...
Interpretation of visual space under drug-induced ergotropic and trophotropic arousal
... i.e. these drugs, interfere with counter-adaptation to optical distortion, or the expectation to see the world undistorted. The trophotropic arousal inducing chlorpromazine® on the other hand promotes such counter-adaptation, i.e. the optim...
The Value of Psychedelic Information
... of the senses. In contrast, the human adaptation to translate subjective experience into meaningful narrative is uniquely exploited by psychedelics. Psychedelics target perception, memory, and the complex emotions attached to symbols and ...
The continuous Wagon Wheel Illusion is object-based
The occurrence of perceived reversed motion while observers view a periodic, continuously moving stimulus (the “continuous Wagon Wheel Illusion”) has been taken as evidence that some aspects of motion perception rely on discrete sampling ...
... Context The therapeutic model is a Western adaptation of the shamanic model and one that is focused on a very narrow range of uses. Due to prohibition this model has not had much opportunity to evolve, though some early protocols have been est...
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