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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by audunw on Thursday June 22, 2023 @03:12AM (#36428940)
That's like saying that only studying the universe with the frequencies of visible light will be more effective.

It's probably the most effective, since we're biased towards being capable of analyzing data from those wavelengths, and the atmosphere is transparent to them.

But why would that imply that we can't use tools that let us view how the universe looks with different wavelengths of light to effectively discover new things we otherwise wouldn't?

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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by Thorrez on Friday June 23, 2023 @02:52AM (#36443669)
Does doing a drug make us transformationally better at programming or doing science?

If not, why would doing a drug make us transformationally better at finding the answer to why we're here?

AFAICS, the only new thing we can learn about the universe by doing drugs is how our brain reacts to drugs.

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