Psychedelic Information Theory
Shamanism in the Age of Reason
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Physical Shamanism and Shamanic Therapy
... they apply directly to Psychedelic Information theory (PIT). According to PIT, hallucination is the spontaneous production of nonlinear information via destabilization of multisensory perception.1 Similarly, shamanic therapy is the production of s...
What is Nonlinear Hallucination?
Psychedelic Information theory invokes nonlinearity to describe the perceptual effects of hallucination, but the term nonlinear has a variety of definitions which are sometimes confusing or unclear. To clarify the nonlinearity of psychedelic hallucin...
The Case Against the Spirit Model of Psychedelic Action
... as we want. This may sound correct in theory, but it is hardly a guarantee in the real world. People who approach psychedelics with a spiritual attitude may be less likely to abuse them than people who take them recreationally, but others...
... been formalized and refined by the wavelet theory. In parallel, psychophysics, and physiological experiments [ 1 11 have shown that multiscale transforms seem to appear in the visual cortex of mammals. This was an important motivation to f...
... In 1838, Charles Darwin's formulation of the theory of natural selection was seen as providing a counter-argument to the Watchmaker analogy. In the United States, starting in the 1980s, the concepts of evolution and natural selection became the ...
... Time-based resource sharing model The theory most successful so far in explaining experimental data on the interaction of maintenance and processing in working memory is the "time-based resource sharing model".[39] This theory assumes tha...
Why are Psychedelics Spiritual?
There is an ideological split about the nature of psychedelic spirituality. The scientific or reductive view posits that psychedelics are at best hallucinogens and at worst toxins, and that any spiritual benefits derived from psychedelics are psychos...
Uncoiling the spiral: Maths and hallucinations
... used Klüver's classification to build a theory describing what is going on in our brain when it tricks us into believing that we are seeing geometric patterns. Their theory has since been elaborated by other scientists, including Paul Bress...
... multisensory frame destabilization the following theory of hallucinogenic Frame Stacking has been proposed.6 To create the perception of fluid movement from frame to frame, any frame we perceive must be a composite of at least two frames, one arisin...
An Overview of Physical Shamanism
... takes action. In the nomenclature of chaos theory, when a chaotic system evolves towards a particular state over time, that state is called an attractor, or a strange attractor in fractal systems. According to PIT, nonlinear consciousness is m...
Does time dilate during a threatening situation?
... one of the most profound implications of his theory of General Relativity - that the perception of time is subjective. This is something we all know from experience: time flies when we are enjoying ourselves, but seems to drag on when we are doi...
The Value of Psychedelic Information
A text called ‘Psychedelic Information theory’ raises the question, “What is Psychedelic Information, and why should we care?” Generally speaking, psychedelic information is any information created in the mind of the subject during a psychede...
... of feedback control comes from tenets of control theory: When one or more output variables of a system need to follow a certain reference over time, a controller manipulates the inputs to a system to obtain the desired effect on the output of the sy...
... and hallucination. Psychedelic Information theory posits that the uncoupled sub-functions of modular consciousness, acting either alone or in novel peer groupings, are responsible for the subjective altered states classified as hallucinogenic,...
EEG gamma coherence and other correlates of subjective reports during ayahuasca experiences
... might contribute to the discussion of binding theory. Also, in light of recent research with gamma coherence during advanced meditative conditions, our findings might further the comparison of shamanic psychedelic practices with meditation....
... the purest example of Psychedelic Information theory expressing itself through time: The psychedelic interacts with a human brain, and through psychedelic interaction with the neural network a piece of artwork spontaneously organizes in the mind ...
Psychedelic Information Theory
... information process into divergent streams of theory and mythology, creating the tapestry of psychedelic propaganda, confusion, and disinformation we have today. The divergence of psychedelic information and existence of competing schools of psy...
What is Psychedelic Information Theory?
Psychedelic Information theory (PIT) is the study of nonlinear information creation in the human imagination, particularly in states of dreaming, psychosis, and hallucination. PIT seeks to model the functional output of human perception in order to e...
What Geometric Visual Hallucinations Tell Us about the Visual Cortex
... are generated in the brain. Here, we summarize a theory of their origin in visual cortex (area V1), based on the assumption that the form of the retino–cortical map and the architecture of V1 determine their geometry. (A much longer and more detai...
A mathematical theory of visual hallucination patterns
... 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 ...
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