There was this post from Scott Alexander which I can't find. The gist of it is that some drugs like caffeine and LSD made the brain overvalue patterns and conne

There was this post from Scott Alexander which I can't find. The gist of it is that some drugs like caffeine and LSD made the brain overvalue patterns and connections, so that epiphanies that honestly aren't. I can't find it, and I remember that it was just the author's educated guess. Nonetheless it stuck with me.