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Psychedelics are highly dependent on set/setting, there is no inherent quality in them to open you up for a specific worldview. From a systems/information theor
by dav_Oz 5y ago
Psychedelics are highly dependent on set/setting, there is no inherent quality in them to open you up for a specific worldview.
From a systems/information theory view they reliably induce significantly more possible "states" in your brain than most people are capable to enable on their own, to the measurable effect that the entropy rises in your brain. Once your OS gets back into its highly coherent frontal lobe dominant default state (technical term: Default Mode Network) you are able to reflect on it enabling you to penetrate your highly functional rigidity.
So, I am using the terms "functional", "rigidity" and "coherent" in a system-theoretical way ranging phenotypically from neurotic, OCD to depression on the "negative" spectrum and in composing "highly ordered" music, producing math proofs ... on a "positive" spectrum. Another more simplified dichotomy borrowed from our industrial age would be "productive" and "unproductive".
In the context of the CIA it highly induces paranoid/magical thinking and the feedback loop to the rigid thinking gets disrupted in a uncontrolled way and then "stuck", the new default is the famous "paranoid cold warrior" in which truth is an approximation to infinitely paranoid. One could argue that this indeed is a possible definition of truth, albeit very wicked.
- HKH2 5y agoI don't quite follow the last paragraph. How does the feedback loop to the rigid thinking get disrupted?
- dav_Oz 5y agoSorry, I should have mentioned some resources: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00020/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2014.0002... What I meant is a possibly unprocessed psychedelic experience which you are unable to integrate in your ordinary state of mind (DMN) and which leads to increased susceptibility to paranoid/magical thinking, kind of "leaking".