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how??

• ThrustVectoring 11y ago
  "Seeing" is the process of constructing meaning from the raw activation of the light receptors in your eyes. That's why optical illusions work. After all, it's simply patterns of ink on a page - why should you see things that seem impossible? It's because the image is designed to get your brain to construct a particular meaning out of the image.
  • zardo 11y ago
    LSD's effect isn't limited to visual perception. One of the most common reported phenomenon is a sort of understanding of the connectedness of things. That may be a result of the reality that all things really are connected when they are stored as concepts in a network of neurons.
    • ThrustVectoring 11y ago
      I'm well aware of that. What I'm getting at is that the same process that produces changes in how visual sense data gets interpreted also produces changes in how all your other sense data gets interpreted. This includes the sense data that introspection and narrative construction generates.
      • purplerabbit 11y ago
        This in no way follows from your initial equation, which by itself doesn't make any sense. Visuals contain meaning, but they are not meaning.
    • choosername 11y ago
      and that the neurons are not, if briefly, connected anymore when a chemical acid destructs them.
      • grkvlt 11y ago
        That's not how LSD works.
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