Psychedelics relax priors. Or, as they say on psychedelics: they upregulate a general hyperparameter that increases the probability of unproven concepts, leading to cascading inference under conditions of diminished reliability...
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Replying to @Plinz
This is conceptually related to your recent statement regarding sleep enabling escape from local minima. Would you agree sleep and psychedelics are similar in this regard?
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Replying to @Rad_Horus_Con
Yes, I suspect that psychedelics work by interacting with the same receptors that are responsible for inducing dreaming. Trips are lucid dreams with a few additional (mostly serotonergic) shenanigans.
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