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Technology to Assist in Psychedelic Revelations?
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What meaning do the hallucinations one experiences on psychedelic drugs have? Some think that psychedelics hold the secrets of the universe. Many believe that these drugs can lead us to great personal insights. There are, of course, those who say that there is really nothing there but pretty colors and patterns. Because the drugs that produce these effects also often prevent solid memories of the events to be formed, it can be difficult to remember or descern exactly what one experianced. New advancements in neural prosthetics may help bring clarity to these out-of-this-world trips.

An artificial hippocampus , the part of the brain believed to be responsible for creating and storing memories, will soon be tested on rats and, hopefully, eventually on humans. While this research currently focuses on repairing brain fucntion in those who suffer damage from diesese or injury, there are many possible (im)practical uses for this technology.

With a prosthetic hippocampus, it may be possible to have selective ultra-photographic memory, a complete record of every sensory input. One could speculate that we may be able to copy and transfer these memories to others, to share our exact experiances. This could lead to such developments as learning systems like those in The Matrix- where once could learn complex subjects that would take years of traditional study in mere seconds - or absolute memory recording and playback systems similar to those featured in Strange Days.

This absolute memory capability would be a powerful tool for exploring the depths of the psychedelic experiance. For once, psychonauts would be able to bring back complete recordings of their voyages and share their trip in a much more concrete fashion than current Trip Reports allow. We would finally be able to map out these drug manifested worlds.

Despite fears of technology encroachin on our personal bodies, these advancements could help lead to what ever great revelations that psychedelics might contain.

What do you think?

jssmthrfkcnchrst


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Re: Technology to Assist in Psychedelic Revelations? [Re: JssMthrFcknChrst]
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We know little about the brain so I don't think an artifical part of the brain would even work.


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What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you think you know,
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection,
Is it all you want it to be?


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Re: Technology to Assist in Psychedelic Revelations? [Re: JssMthrFcknChrst]
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Interesting stuff :smile:

they're probably going to be putting microchips into people in the future soon - they might as well wire our hippocampus up to a network so they can steal all of our memories :wink:

man if they start really figuring this shit out I'm gunna be spooked...... imagine the possibilities with brain-enhancement-implants... >shudder<


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Re: Technology to Assist in Psychedelic Revelations? [Re: Strumpling]
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actually, the hippocampus is responsible for Encoding our memories for storage.

we know this machine works in rats, but we do not know where exactly the memory is stored..

it seems to be holographic in nature, being that a rat with 90% of it's brain removed still remembers how to navigate the maze.

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Re: Technology to Assist in Psychedelic Revelations? [Re: Middleman]
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but does it remember how to fuck, sleep, eat, scratch its ass, and do everything else it used to know?


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Re: Technology to Assist in Psychedelic Revelations? [Re: JssMthrFcknChrst]
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Wow. The ethical issues of cybernetics (and cloning) are scary for me in a way. Don't know quite what to think... I guess it's time for a pardigm shift...that should be interesting.


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Concepts which have been proved to be useful in ordering things easily acquire such an authority over us that we forget their human origins and accept them as invariable.- Albert Einstein

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Re: Technology to Assist in Psychedelic Revelations? [Re: buttonion]
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I'm gonna rub two sticks together in front of these cyber brain people and make fire, and then I'm going to tear off my loin cloth and run into the woods where I'll set fire to.. anything, and then I'll act even weirder and they'll be like "maybe we're missing out on something?" Of course, they wouldn't be, but I'd sow the seeds of doubt.

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Re: Technology to Assist in Psychedelic Revelations? [Re: Dogomush]
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i like not being able to explane if full detial what happened on my trips...i remember, and could go on and on about the detiles on what i saw and so on...but it would get boring...

i like having my speical things that only i see...

i wonder if they could turn that into some form of drug test??


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What fun is it in Nirvana while other beings are suffering?

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Re: Technology to Assist in Psychedelic Revelations? [Re: soylent_green]
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i like having my speical things that only i see...

So do paranoid scizophrenics, (well, some of them)...


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Re: Technology to Assist in Psychedelic Revelations? [Re: Middleman]
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soundmind: it seems to be holographic in nature, being that a rat with 90% of it's brain removed still remembers how to navigate the maze.

It's not holographic, it's more like a "parallel distributed processor."
Don't confuse the two.


(and the rat brain thing... it's called "ablation")


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