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I asked 499 people who were sure they *hadn't* experienced ego death, and 436 ppl who were sure they *had*, to rate 97 images on which ones they thought best represented ego death. Here's the top images disproportionately rated as egodeathy by ppl who *hadn't* had ego death 1/

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this is such a creative and good experiment to run

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also it’s funny because I totally would have agreed with the first set before experiencing it, but agree with the second set way more now I think this is a valid candidate for an academic paper, imo would be a top 25 psychedelics paper in my eyes, shows a very clear effect

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i didnt even consider this an academic thing, i didnt make the survey super detailed or careful

11:26 PM · Dec 28, 2022

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Some fo the best science in the world was always done ex cathedra. Eg Curie.

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I think you’d probably want to redo the study and use more images or something, just generally be more strict about things, maybe collect 1-7 how much does this image reflect what you think ego death is like But I think there’s potential, the effect is obvious

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Dec 28, 2022

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“People likely radically misunderstand what ego death is like before experiencing it, tested via generative art” > “shrooms sometimes work on mental disease X where it should obviously sometimes work bc psychedelics do annealing” 99% of papers are the latter