I don't get this bit of the quote, what do you think it means? "Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system."
When you say "one has the freedom to notice their immediate environment"
"I saw a fucking single tiny ladybug "
"affects the visual perception area"
Are you a naïve realist when it comes to perception? (I'm not)
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Are you disagreeing with Sam Harris with this?
"I would actually wager that something in psilocybin or psilocin itself affects the visual perception area of the brain"
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Originally Posted by SH
Many people wonder about the difference between meditation (and other contemplative practices) and psychedelics. Are these drugs a form of cheating, or are they the only means of authentic awakening? They are neither. All psychoactive drugs modulate the existing neurochemistry of the brain—either by mimicking specific neurotransmitters or by causing the neurotransmitters themselves to be more or less active. Everything that one can experience on a drug is, at some level, an expression of the brain’s potential. Hence, whatever one has seen or felt after ingesting LSD is likely to have been seen or felt by someone, somewhere, without it.
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If you do agree with him what receptors in the brain do the mushrooms target and how did that lead to changes in the neo cortex/a better world simulation? I can't find much on this bit and it's far more important than speculating about humans chasing down cow shit 100,000 years ago.
I'm not convinced that this "increased visual acuity" is fitness enhancing.
To make biological survival possible, our world simulation has to be filtered.