Commenters question methodology and alternative explanations emerge
2 Oct 30 11:01 AM · 9d ago · 1 post · 8 comments · 2 sources · development 2 of 2
Hacker News discussion raised multiple concerns: that the test was self-administered while under the drug's influence, introducing bias; that the effect could simply reflect attention/tunnel vision rather than perceptual clarity; and that anecdotal self-experimentation does not constitute rigorous science.
“i don't believe this is good science. the test is self made by the subject while under the affect of the drug. the subject has a bias as well. this is a trip report.”
tim-star, Hacker News commenter · hn ↗Sasha Putilin Researcher, Qualia Research InstituteQualia Research Institute Nonprofit consciousness research organization
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This sentence, from the article, is one of the most conceptually broken sentences I have ever encountered: "Consciousness has useful computational properties — otherwise evolution would not have come to rely on it." If you grant evolution teleology, a serious chickenegg emerges, and the recursion shatters the "logic". And the other reading... how…
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Some family recently visited from out of state and we went to Venice Beach, where there is now tons of stores selling “magic mushrooms” along the boardwalk.To my knowledge shrooms haven’t been legalized in California so I was curious what they sold (but not enough to try it). Turns out California state regulators have been surreptitiously testing…
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The "I measured my own susceptibility using an app I vibe-coded with GPT-5.6 Sol: I dragged a slider until the two circles appeared equal in size." is available on IA:
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i find this whole blog very dubious, with apologies to the author.a bunch of people did psychedelics and then found that reality seemed more inclined to listen to their volition and respond to their intention or attention.this was an n of some small number, and the original person who reported it could not reproduce it.i don't believe this is good…
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> QRI is a non-profit building a new science of consciousness. Its central bet is that: Consciousness is a relatively simple property of our universe — simple enough for evolution to discover it. Consciousness has useful computational properties — otherwise evolution would not have come to rely on it.My brother, that is philosophical position, not…
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I can also eliminate the illusion by covering up the blue circles and only looking at the orange circles.Maybe that's what the DMT is doing? ... perhaps it gives you tunnel vision (or tunnels your attention) such that you only "see" (or are paying attention to) the orange and blocking out the blue from your mind.
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> But then I notice that when I move my attention to the centre of the picture — to the space between the two groups of circles — their apparent sizes begin to rebalance[...]This works for me without DMT.
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my assumption is that psychedelics affect how different parts of the brain communicate.On that hypothesis, it doesnt really surprise me that illusions based on context clues are interpreted differently.
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Well I guess I have to do the most powerful hallucinogen now. How else am I gonna save myself from the devious Ebbinghaus illusion?
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