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| | [AI summary] The article discusses the modeling of psychedelic tracers using QRI's Psychophysics Toolkit, focusing on the Tracer Replication Tool. It explores how these tracers relate to brain rhythms, self-organized activity, and the concept of connectome harmonics. The text references various studies and theories, including the work of Selen Atasoy, Andrés Gómez-Emilsson, and others, to explain how brain activity patterns can be decomposed and analyzed. The article also mentions the importance of understanding brain states, both under the influence of psychoactive substances and in meditative practices, and how these states might reflect different forms of consciousness. Additionally, it outlines the purpose and usage of the Tracer Replication Tool for col...
| | smoothbrains.net
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| | [AI summary] This post explores Steven Lehar's field theory of visual perception, proposing that the brain uses nonlinear wave phenomena like grassfire algorithms and shock scaffolds to solve the inverse optics problem by constructing stable, symmetrical 3D world models from 2D retinal images.
| | qualiacomputing.com
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| | Excerpt from The Grand Illusion: A Psychonautical Odyssey Into the Depths of Human Experience by the cognitive scientistSteven Lehar(2010; pages 23-40). Trip to Europe I had two or three such experiences on my new batch of LSD, taking perhaps 2 or 3 "hits" (tabs) each time (presumed to be about [100] micrograms, or "mikes" per...
| | maxhodak.com
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| [AI summary] The author argues that artificial superintelligence is imminent due to the dangers of optimization under natural selection and proposes neural engineering or brain-machine interfaces as the only viable defense for humanity.