That information analysis falls within the purview of Information Theory, and the physical complexity of the types of molecules which give shrooms their psychological effects is limited, and therefore the maximum message size they can carry is limited. That's the physical analysis.
But that's all just off the top of my head. Hope it helps.
From a physical standpoint, it's just not possible that our minds could communicate with an alien consciousness when you consider the effects of speed of light on communication latency, and the speed of the nervous system. We have a hard enough time preventing VR headsets from making the user nauseous from latency, to say nothing of communicating with some sort of non-local alien entity.
If you're willing to throw all that out.. well then we're in pure fantasy land.
The difficulty on our side is not only trying to understand possible messages from intelligences a million years ahead of us - but to even recognize that there are messages at all. We're more likely to disregard the experience as dreams, hallucinations, psychosis - since the information these visions contain is so beyond the context of our everyday lives.
> aliens don’t bring meat suits whilst doing interstellar travelling
I lean toward what the sibling commenter dismissed as "secret aliens living in a parallel reality" but literally, beings inhabiting other dimensions, their minds travelling through space and time. Their "Hello, how are you?" is like an angel looking through your soul and entire existence as a hyperspatial object..
It didn't bring me a nanometer closer to believe in religions, in contrary - when you know some tweaks to brain chemistry and receptors can produce this, religions are very close, just another tiny step, and eventually somebody charismatic will pick it up and succeed.
It did bring me much more respect for my brain and deeper insights into my personality than I could ever gain even doing ie very intense dangerous sports (which definitely do make you know yourself much more, and even redefine personality a bit).
There is a big difference between actually doing something and hallucinating that you are doing something.
‘machine elves’ who speak in an elvish tongue and are trying to communicate some meme or message.1) https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/21/universal-love-said-th...