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My guess is that the data gets sent to the brain but sometime during development the brain learned to ignore it (if it's not useful). I think that when people
by pazimzadeh 9y ago
My guess is that the data gets sent to the brain but sometime during development the brain learned to ignore it (if it's not useful).
I think that when people talk about the "doors of perception" being opened by psychedelic drugs, often leading to experiences of synesthesia (seeing sound, etc), that it's this kind of sensory data that's made available to the brain once again, or that the brain is made unable to ignore it.
- Waterluvian 9y agoSounds plausible. We do understand that the brain is incredibly good as filtering out massive amounts of regular data. Until it doesn't and you are suddenly aware of where your tongue is in your mouth and it keeps you awake for an hour.
- thinkingemote 9y agoI recently read a study based in experiments which said that contrary to the idea that psychedelics make the world unfiltered and open up the brain to more information, what they actually do is the reverse. Psychedelics reduce information, reduce sensory input, and as a consequence the brain fills in the gaps via hallucinations.