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Re:DMT drug study investigates the ‘entities’ people meet wh... by Florin_Andrei on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @12:48PM (#24494466)
> they can't solve math problems

> I never believed they were anything other than hallucinations

I mean, dogs can't do math either, yet they are real.

I'm not necessarily arguing for the independent reality of the entities, I'm just saying that's not a super-conclusive test.

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Re:DMT drug study investigates the ‘entities’ people meet wh... by Trasmatta on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:45PM (#24495153)
I think people generally perceive these entities as being advanced and hyper intelligent, hence the math question.

But yeah, still not conclusive either way (but the most likely answer is still that they're constructions of your own mind).

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Re:DMT drug study investigates the ‘entities’ people meet wh... by itronitron on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @02:47PM (#24495997)
maybe they are so hyper-intelligent that they let their subconscious handle the math problems
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Re:DMT drug study investigates the ‘entities’ people meet wh... by tsco77 on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @02:05PM (#24495409)
Just to be pedantic, dogs can count (probably, or something akin to it).

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12357291/

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Re:DMT drug study investigates the ‘entities’ people meet wh... by sideshowb on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @05:23PM (#24498124)
But they can't look up
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