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I like to view THC as performing a natural transformation to the attention mechanism in the brain so attention per unit time is more distributed among all modul
by archibaldJ 5y ago
I like to view THC as performing a natural transformation to the attention mechanism in the brain so attention per unit time is more distributed among all modules, and thus more combinatorial interesting things can arise. (I’m still in the midst of foramlizing a mathematical model from a PLT perspective.)
But one noticable downside to it is that the more distributed the attentions are, the more likely you are to get stuck in a local maximum as the less cohesive your modules become in terms of utilization (eg for abstracted goals) and the data-granularity gets too fine-grained to be useful from a cybernetic perspective.
The effect differs from person to person. (Eg Short-timespan-wise people lie on the sofa or keep laughing, etc, the stereotypical notion being “stoned”, and long-term-wise if things are repeated in the same settings over, reliance is formed (as a coping mechanism for stress perhaps) and person becomes a typical unproductive “stoner”))
Therefore the most important thing here are 1. the settings 2. Don’t take it lightly. Though thc is not as powerful a disruption to the default mode network as lsd/dmt, one should never take it mindlessly and too regularly. Learn to grow out of it, not in.
- dr_dshiv 5y agoTotally agree. I'd add that THC intoxication produces a state-dependent memory that that can be cultivated. I have put an enormous effort into cultivating my average high with positive and creative stimuli— amazing concerts, art museums, art creation, writing, tops of mountains, philosophical discussions, etc. If you mostly smoke cannabis for the purpose of zoning out on the couch, trying to subsequently use cannabis for creative purposes is likely to be less effective.
- atatatat 5y agoDifferent strains do different things to different people. Saw no mention of this in the former two walls.
- BizarroLand 5y agoFor people who are interested in creativity/"high-deas" and would prefer to not get the munchies so much, look into finding a high THCV variant such as Durban Poison. https://www.crescolabs.com/cannabinoids/thcv/ https://www.crescolabs.com/cannabinoids/thcv/
- dr_dshiv 5y agoHigh-ideas and eating pretty much don't mix, for me. I try to drink plenty of water or coffee (for a daytime smoke) I'll be checking these variants out!
- dr_kiszonka 5y agoAre there any good resources about mathematical models of attention that you'd personally recommend?
- archibaldJ 5y agohttps://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762 https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762