Hyper-Sensitive States and Indirect Semantic Priming: Inferring The Mechanics of Psilocybin

[turboswami]

The Doors of Perception: A Cognitive Model

The latent inhibition (LI) paradigm was originally developed over 40 years ago (Lubow & Moore, 1959) to describe the capacity to filter out extraneous stimuli from conscious awareness. More simply, LI describes that common tendency to pay less attention to something the more we are exposed and become

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[my3tots]

Interesting post (I'm a psych major) and thanks for the references. I'll have to look them up for further reading.

[turboswami]

Thanks. It was a presentation I gave at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) conference in San Jose last month.

There were animations and graphs to go along, but you'll just have to use yer imagination. ;)

[confliction]

Top tip: Don't talk or conspire about him behind his back or in reference to him, even in good will, while he is in the building, especially if you think he can't hear you.

Checking to see if he can hear you will not elicit any form of positive or negative confirmation.

[turboswami]

That's if he was lucky enough to contract merely paranoid schizophrenia.

Yes, they are a perceptive bunch. They do hear subtle things we don't, that much is certain with lowered LI - and it is certainly convenient to say that, because WE don't hear it, it doesn't exist.

[confliction]

I guess the hard part is knowing if you're hearing subtle things... or just 'hearing things'(!)

It's overwhelming the first time... but i live in hope that the coping strategies i had to develop will prepare me for the next. That is, if i'm lucky ;)

[confliction]

Now that is a really hard question to answer without knowing what Mr. X is aware of.

The radio might be 'bad' for him, but he might also be able to blame anything he hears on the radio. You know... "Oh, it must have been the radio!"

Both coping mechanisms are disassociative, though.

And it's rather rude to leave your radio blaring all night! See if you can come to a compromise on this... perhaps he can wear headphones in bed? ^_^

[turboswami]

Yea, the study of high IQ and hypersensitivity was the most interesting of them all, I think. Somehow the intelligence allows the individual to more clearly discern and express the incredible thought associations their sensitivity affords them -- making them some of the most intensely-inspired creative people in our society!

Yet, Carson's research does little good for those lesser fortunate, like your schizophrenic friend, who may not have the intellectual resources to apply or control his perceptual sensitivity in a worthwhile way.