Poincaré in his 1902 book Science and Hypothesis breaks down our sensory experience of reality into visual, tactile (which includes auditory) and motor (muscula

Poincaré in his 1902 book Science and Hypothesis breaks down our sensory experience of reality into visual, tactile (which includes auditory) and motor (muscular) representations of that reality. We use these sensations to construct a map of reality (or of the simulation, if you like). Here's what motor space means, according to Poincaré: > "The corresponding framework constitutes what may be called motor space. Each muscle gives rise to a special sensation which may be increased or diminished so that the aggregate of our muscular sensations will depend upon as many variables as we have muscles. From this point of view motor space would have as many dimen- sions as we have muscles." While Poincaré uses this as a launch point into non-Euclidean and higher-dimension geometry, this visual-tactile-motor representation of reality is what psychedelics mess with, and at a biomolecular level it seems to involve nerve cell receptors that manage sensory input within the brain, such that memory can leak over into the sensory channels. Thus looking at clouds in the sky under a large dose of psychedelics results in hallucinations of whatever is on your mind at the time, while a sober person may creatively struggle to see images in clouds. People with religious backgrounds who think about religion all the time will therefore tend to see religious iconography, which brings us to the so-called 'Captain Trips' character of Al Hubbard, who promoted this kind of thing in the late 1950s/early 1960s: > "Whereas many LSD practitioners were content to strap their patients onto a 3' x 6' cot and have them attempt to perform a battery of mathematical formulae with a head full of LSD, Hubbard believed in a comfortable couch and throw pillows. He also employed icons and symbols to send the experience into a variety of different directions: someone uptight may be asked to look at a photo of a glacier, which would soon melt into blissful relaxation; a person seeking the spiritual would be directed to a picture of Jesus, and enter into a one-on-one relationship with the Savior." https://www.trippingly.net/lsd-studies/2018/5/20/al-hubbard-the-original-captain-trips https://www.trippingly.net/lsd-studies/2018/5/20/al-hubbard-... The libertarian view is that 'if people want to ingest psychedelics, as responsible adults, they should be allowed to without suffering state persecution', and it really doesn't matter if their motivation is to improve their 3D visualization capabilities for the enjoyment of higher abstract mathematics, or if they're only interested in spiritual experiences and therapeutic potentials, or microdosing so they can write more code per day (YMMV). Unfortunately, people indoctrinated with the consumer mentality of 'more is better' often have disastrous outcomes when they ingest psychedelics, which is why the warning labels are necessary - and saying "less is more" is almost a heresy in a consumerist society.