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Psychedelic Information Theory

Shamanism in the Age of Reason

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A mathematical theory of visual hallucination patterns

Ermentrout, Cowen; Biological Cybernetics 34-3 (1979) 137-150.

Neuronal activity in a two-dimensional net is analyzed in the neighborhood of an instability. Bifurcation theory and group theory are used to demonstrate the existence of a variety of doublyperiodic patterns, hexagons, rolls, etc., as solutions to the field equations for the net activity. It is suggested that these simple geometric patterns are the cortical concomitants of the 'form constants' seen during visual hallucinosis.

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Keywords: geometric visuals, hallucinations, bifurcation, destabilization, stability, patterns, synaptic networks, neural networks

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