According to Hayles, most human cognition happens outside of consciousness/unconsciousness; cognition extends through the entire biological spectrum, including animals and plants; technical devices cognize, and in doing so profoundly influence human complex systems.[17][18] Hayles makes a distinction between thinking and cognition. In Unthought: ( Read more... )

Only recently discovered their excellent youtube channel. Went through the whole list, watched interesting sounding ones, and here are my top 5:

#1 Can Plants Think?
#2 Could We Record Our Dreams?
#3 The Scientific Power of Music
#4 Why Do People Obsess Over Sports?
#5 Can We Genetically Improve Intelligence?

The top 2 in particular blew my mind.

Fundamentally, symmetry = beauty. Why then do i find asymmetric tattoos so appealing? E.g. i saw a woman today with no tattoos except one full sleeve tattoo, and i was mesmerized. Perhaps human body symmetry is beauty, but asymmetry is appealing in art? I dunno, something does not compute here. That woman should have been subconsciously ( Read more... )

"After my first experience with what later became known as LSD... After that experience i tried to find some sort of explanation. Each individual who experiences LSD enters another reality. He enters another world seemingly even more real than actual reality. Until that day, i'd always thought there was only one reality. Suddenly, i was ( Read more... )

The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

Healthy multiplicity:

Some people who self-identify as having multiple personalities contend that it is not a disorder, but a natural variation of human consciousness. They believe that so long as communication and (especially) cooperation between selves are present, multiples can lead happy and productive lives, and that it is not necessary for ( Read more... )

1/2 dose Salvia Divinorum (medium-strong, 1/32g of 20x). Though i don't think i smoked it all, saw the embers burning a lot while i was holding the puff, and by the time i exhaled the pipe was cashed. Morning, though in near pitch blackness. Listening loudly on earphones to Behemoth (blackened death metal) in the hopes of distraction/different ( Read more... )

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Anesthesia awareness, or "unintended intra-operative awareness" occurs during general anesthesia, when a patient has not had enough general anesthetic or analgesic to prevent consciousness and the recall of events. This experience may be extremely traumatic for the patient ( Read more... )

So while tripping I was clear-headed enough to read through some old quotes I have saved up. Here's a good one:

Thus, it is not enough to say that the world is a hologram. The world must be a network of holograms, each of which contains coded within it information about the relationships between the others. In short, the holographic principle is ( Read more... )