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codeflo ◴[] No.36210706[source]
All the people in this thread who decoded it used long exposure or faster playback. Using the latter, for me, it starts to become readable at 2.5x and is essentially a clear static image at 4x. (I had to download the video and play it back using VLC.)

Which for me, makes this claim a bit absurd:

> At a theoretical level, this confirmation is significant because it is the first clear demonstration of a real perceptual computational advantage of psychedelic states of consciousness.

LSD fans might hate this conclusion, but there's no "computational advantage" to having a 2.5x to 4x slower processing speed, which his the only thing actually being shown here.

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1. jovial_cavalier ◴[] No.36211287[source]
Do you think people have CPUs in their brains? There isn't a clock rate knob that LSD goes and turns all the way down. As another commenter said, this is about being able to correlate events across time, and distinguish patterns in a way that you would not normally be able to.

Also, I think if you'd ever used LSD, you would never think it was "slowing your thoughts down".