> These are open questions that science doesn't have very satisfying answers to yet. Agreed. — It’s nowhere near complete but one place to start is psychedel

> These are open questions that science doesn't have very satisfying answers to yet. Agreed. — It’s nowhere near complete but one place to start is psychedelic (a) increase communication across/between disparate brain regions, (b) synchronize the various waves of brain activity into a single vibration, and (c) reduces the threshold at which pattern matching / classifier networks will fire (thus the increased visual acuity at small doses and pareidolia and other visual effects at high doses) I remember a study that explained (b), can’t remember anything else about it though :/ — EDIT: https://ai.googleblog.com/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-neural.html?m=1 https://ai.googleblog.com/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-... is also great to think about. DeepDream produces very psychedelic images and the bit about reversing the network and having it recurse on pattern matching its on output to “massage” the raw input into alignment with a schema (akin to feeding output back into input) is very relevant