My experiences with higher doses of lysergamides (200µg+) have been very enlightening of the mind's semantic processing. As I see it, all things are defined by their relationship to all other things, meaning that until you know everything about everything, you won't know everything about anything. This also means that single pieces of information isolated in a closed system are meaningless.
In a trip, this first manifests as not being able to think or perceive something without it's opposite coming to mind, a sort of counterbalancing effect. The counterbalancing combined with the increased overlapping of memory that pupnik mentioned recently in the ALD-52 thread can create what I call a cognitive interference pattern, which is how thought loops are created. I call this type of loop a simple loop (↑o↓).
As this effect gets stronger and ideasthesia kicks in, not only will your thoughts and perceptions feed into themselves, they will also start feeding into each other, which can be very disconcerting to say the least. I call this type of loop a complex loop, which can vary in shape based on how many pieces of data are feeding into the loop. In this case there are two pieces (thought and perception), so the loop looks something like this: (↑∞↓).
At higher levels (~300µg+), pieces of data are not just compared to their opposites, but also things that are abstractly related to themselves and their opposites in your mind. At this point the loop begins to look like an endless knot of varying complexity. A loop in which the idea and it's opposite are each related to one other idea would look like this: (↑⌘↓).
I've never experienced total ego death, but I imagine it to be the result of memories overlapping completely and every idea in the conscious mind being incorporated into the loop. One cannot think normally in this state because they are thinking every possible thought they could have at once in superposition. This quantized mindstate changes over time not by conscious acts of will, but by new pieces of data floating up from the subconscious mind due to lowered latent inhibition (http://tinyurl.com/k86etp2). These pieces of data are then incorporated into the system, changing it's overall structure. The nature of this mindstate can vary greatly based on the substance being used. In the case of lysergamides and certain other psychedelics, it can develop into something like this: http://tinyurl.com/h9bcu9v.
I'm interested in whether or not all of this is consistent with everyone else's experiences, although it can be hard to tell when we're dealing with such abstract and subjective ideas. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
P.S.: This typeface system is infuriating. How do I change a block of text back into the default font and size? I can't seem to figure this out.
In a trip, this first manifests as not being able to think or perceive something without it's opposite coming to mind, a sort of counterbalancing effect. The counterbalancing combined with the increased overlapping of memory that pupnik mentioned recently in the ALD-52 thread can create what I call a cognitive interference pattern, which is how thought loops are created. I call this type of loop a simple loop (↑o↓).
As this effect gets stronger and ideasthesia kicks in, not only will your thoughts and perceptions feed into themselves, they will also start feeding into each other, which can be very disconcerting to say the least. I call this type of loop a complex loop, which can vary in shape based on how many pieces of data are feeding into the loop. In this case there are two pieces (thought and perception), so the loop looks something like this: (↑∞↓).
At higher levels (~300µg+), pieces of data are not just compared to their opposites, but also things that are abstractly related to themselves and their opposites in your mind. At this point the loop begins to look like an endless knot of varying complexity. A loop in which the idea and it's opposite are each related to one other idea would look like this: (↑⌘↓).
I've never experienced total ego death, but I imagine it to be the result of memories overlapping completely and every idea in the conscious mind being incorporated into the loop. One cannot think normally in this state because they are thinking every possible thought they could have at once in superposition. This quantized mindstate changes over time not by conscious acts of will, but by new pieces of data floating up from the subconscious mind due to lowered latent inhibition (http://tinyurl.com/k86etp2). These pieces of data are then incorporated into the system, changing it's overall structure. The nature of this mindstate can vary greatly based on the substance being used. In the case of lysergamides and certain other psychedelics, it can develop into something like this: http://tinyurl.com/h9bcu9v.
I'm interested in whether or not all of this is consistent with everyone else's experiences, although it can be hard to tell when we're dealing with such abstract and subjective ideas. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
P.S.: This typeface system is infuriating. How do I change a block of text back into the default font and size? I can't seem to figure this out.
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