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Re:Software development for the DMT headspace by cube_flipper on Thursday September 26, 2024 @07:11PM (#41664551)
I propose an experiment which demonstrates computation on the (DMT-altered) human visual system. It is a simple visual stimulus/web application which when viewed while on DMT should solve a graph cut problem, using colour as input and hallucinated depth perception as output (see blog post for full explanation):

https://smoothbrains.net/experiments/tilespace/index.html?ra...

I hope. I haven't tested it yet. Prior art includes Scott Aaronson's experiment in using soap bubbles for computation[1], and Mark Chiangizi's efforts to build logic gates from Necker cubes[2]:

[1] https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf

[2] https://gwern.net/doc/cs/algorithm/2008-changizi.pdf

Re:Software development for the DMT headspace by RomanPushkin on Friday September 27, 2024 @01:36AM (#41666598)
Really cool, I shared your work in a private discord server to the people who have no problem experimenting.

It would be nice to have some sort of [landing] page for non-tech-savvy folks, so they understand it easier!

I love everything about this blog post and the software application.

Re:Software development for the DMT headspace by cube_flipper on Saturday September 28, 2024 @01:40AM (#41678156)
Oh, that's amazing. Did anybody experience anything interesting? My account on discord is cube_flipper if it's easier to talk there
Re:Software development for the DMT headspace by spacebacon on Saturday September 28, 2024 @06:35AM (#41679325)
Have you considered testing with molecular modeling and protein folding?

If you can prove someone on a psychedelic is proficient at this task you may be able to pierce the subjective veil of this study.