Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics

Re:Messages that can only be understood under the influence ... by brutusborn on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @07:01AM (#36210873)

You are probably right that having a slower processing speed isn’t an advantage overall, but being able to perceive patterns like this may be advantageous in some situations.

Maybe the slower processing speed is the cost of better processing power? Kinda like the tradeoff between high torque and high speed for gearboxes.

Some tribes use psychedelics for hunting, and others that use psychedelics for introspection: maybe they are perceiving something that we ignore during normal processing modes.

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Re:Messages that can only be understood under the influence ... by carlmr on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @08:25AM (#36211576)

>Some tribes use psychedelics for hunting

OP saying slow doesn't mean that it's actually slower. If you process more information time _appears_ more slowly, but you're processing more, i.e. faster.

In hunting it might be good to have improved pattern matching abilities at the cost of a higher false-positive rate.

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Re:Messages that can only be understood under the influence ... by batty_alex on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @09:09AM (#36212105)

Yeah, it's very hard to describe. Almost like you perceive the present moment and the past couple seconds at the same time. Time seems to pass by you very quickly but, then you look at the clock, and it's only been 5 minutes

That being said, I can't imagine having to hunt while on a lot of psychedelics

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