From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Dec 20 1999 - 05:50:55 MST
"phil osborn" <philosborn@hotmail.com> writes:
> I slipped into a completely
> altered state in which I completely lost touch with perceptual reality -
> like Snow Crash, literally - my entire perceptual field fell apart into
> smaller and smaller segments and finally into undifferentiated snow.
Interesting. Sounds like the lateral binding of attention vanished.
Overall, drug reactions are often highly individual. There are some
basic "building blocks" due to where the drugs bing to receptors (the
heart rate and temperature swings suggest that the hypothalamus was
dysregulated, for example, and the LSD trail effect where moving
objects leave trails seem to be due to disinhibition in the primary
visual cortex), but how they are combined likely depends on individual
biochemistry and neural connectivity, personality, set and setting.
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