Any decent scientific account of psychedelic states has to provide information about the ways in which this particular state of consciousness confers genuine advantages.Īnd a great scientific account will explain why these particular trade-offs exist, and how we can best use them to (1) understand the mind, (2) achieve our human potential, and (3) address mental illness in a meaningful way. It is obvious to anyone who has researched the matter that psychedelics have some peculiar mind-enhancing properties. It is undeniable that not all tasks are suitable for psychedelic experiences: Filing taxes, giving lectures to large audiences, and passing the polygraph test may all be rather poor choices for psychedelic activities.īut impairment is not the whole story. Do psychedelics enhance performance?ĭrug “education” emphasizes the functional, perceptual, cognitive and affective impairments caused by the acute and chronic use of psychedelic substances. Psychedelics impair reaction time, linear thought, verbal expression, and a large range of everyday activities. Hopefully this article will spark interest and motivate both the psychedelic replication and the psychophysicscommunity to come up with more innovative communication methods.
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Here I will mention just a couple low-hanging fruits, give a few ideas for how to extend psychophysical research to build animations in a principled way, and discuss an awesome speculative application of this research. The approach shown above is only one of a plethora of ways of communicating with people on psychedelics. Can you think of how to use this as a communication tool? Hence, while a sober person may infer what the hidden letter is, only a person on a psychedelic will see right away that there are gaps between the columns. That piece of information is not obvious when you are sober. On a closer inspection, you can also notice another amazing fact: It turns out that there are gaps between the vertical columns! This feature pops-up with clarity and is self-evident on the right GIF, and yet one needs to carefully observe the left GIF to notice that this is happening. The first thing to note is that it is easier to see what letter is hidden here (C). The GIFs above do just that: The left one is the “original” and it shows how you perceive it while sober. The GIF on the right shows what it’s like to see the GIF on the left after taking 100 micrograms of LSD. About 18 months ago I had a really cool idea: What if we could communicate with people who are high on LSD in such a way that sober people can’t understand?* I call this idea psychedelic cryptography (Ps圜rypto for short).