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Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics

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637 points robinhouston | 1 comments | 05 Jun 23 07:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dist-epoch ◴[06 Jun 23 10:25 UTC] No.36210610[source]▶
> 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.

This is a pretty strong claim, considering that while psychedelic states of consciousness do allow you to see these messages, they also have a lot of other side effects.

I'm pretty sure you can do the reverse too, create a message which can only be seen in a normal state of consciousness - for example you use the same tracer phenomenon to obscure instead of to reveal the message.

So a psychedelic state is not strictly superior to normal state, it's just different.

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lukas099 ◴[06 Jun 23 13:19 UTC] No.36212235[source]▶
It's not claiming that there's a net advantage.
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1. sayanwita ◴[06 Jun 23 14:04 UTC] No.36212959[source]▶
It should because there is a net advantage coming from this difference. If some problem seems unsolvable in your normal state, try thinking that out in high state. So, at the end, creative tasks become easier as we can easily get two different perspectives for the same problem. Sometimes, it will help, sometimes not much. But the net is always positive because you visit both the states to solve the problem thinking out different possible angles.