Re:Psychedelics Are Challenging the Scientific Gold Standard
by spacetimeuser5 on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @10:46AM
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>>People totally blind from birth taking hallucinogens don't see entities
So these people do not trip at all on hallucinogens? Sounds like rather improbable.
~70% of what you call "visual experience" is driven by non-visual cortices,
like anterior cingulate, for example. And even before the visual cortex, even
on the thalamus level, the thalamus receives up to ~60% of top-down connections from non-visual cortices. You do not need to literally see anything in order to get the information about it. Get your potato, monkey.
So these people do not trip at all on hallucinogens? Sounds like rather improbable. ~70% of what you call "visual experience" is driven by non-visual cortices, like anterior cingulate, for example. And even before the visual cortex, even on the thalamus level, the thalamus receives up to ~60% of top-down connections from non-visual cortices. You do not need to literally see anything in order to get the information about it. Get your potato, monkey.