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Software development for the DMT headspace

40 points by cube_flipper

by cube_flipper

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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

by RomanPushkin

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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.

by spacebacon

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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.