#57 Extremely complex behavior from extremely simple systems
Mandelbrotian fractal geometry sets give me the creeps because they don’t resemble anything human.
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#56 The privacy of closets and coming out
If everyone knew who took psychedelics, how psychedelics helped rather than degenerated, we would have some serious pondering after the initial head-turns.
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#55 To grey a Black Swan
The question of ultimate significance is this: What is the Black Swan equivalent in psychedelic visionary experiences?
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#54 Cumulative advantage and mental mastication
Break out of the pattern recognition of previous A-B-C phenomena to make room for new and exciting “first-time phenomena.”
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#53 On bringing back souvenirs from the other side
Why must psychedelic experiences be like dreams in the sense that they are nonphysical experiences; why can’t I capture anything from these kinds of experiences?
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#52 Exponentiality of mild and wild randomness
With regard to prediction errors or margins of errors, what psychedelic variables are mildly predictable and what happens when things are wildly random and increase through time?
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#51 Under- and over-estimating one’s psychedelic luck
We would ultimately fare better therefore by also overestimating the chance happenings that “should not” occur but do.
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#50 Black Swans revealed to the intoxicated mind
How can psychedelic researchers/experiencers apply Nassim Taleb’s Black Swan theory to their own research and experiences?
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#49 “Should I take iboga”?
An acquaintance asked me last night: “Should I take iboga”? My automatic response to people asking this question is always immediately: No.
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#48 Suffering at the hands of conceptual freaks
I’m fascinated by this idea of the discoverer using an outdated language, conceptual framework, and worldview to explain some new discovery.
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