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Secrets of an Acid Head
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pH_
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Posted : Apr 18, 2006 06:24
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this is an old article... so don't throw rotten vegetables at me for posting! 
http://www.nerdshit.com/archive/2003/12/10/secrets_of_an_a/
excerpt: "IN A DORM ROOM dimly lit by a lava lamp, a freshman awaits the beginning of his first LSD trip. Slowly, the walls come alive and begin to dance with colour. And then he sees whirling spirals of stars that disappear into the distance. A network of cobwebs that grows across the room. An infinite subway tube, surrounded by fluorescent lights...
Across campus, his science teachers experience their own psychedelic visions?but without resorting to illegal mind-altering substances. Jack Cowan, a mathematician and neuroscientist at the University of Chicago, has built a neural network so powerful it can trip out. His computer's hallucinations match with almost spooky accuracy the visions of acid trippers, shamans and seers?visions that have always been interpreted as revelations from a transcendental consciousness."
in short this math guy built a neural network on a computer that could trip out.. it would produce visual patterns which are shown in the article.
i've always wondered why we see fractals and other perfect geometric patterns. fractals are math based, lots of math. i wonder how our brain can spit out such perfect math to create perfect geometric patterns and fractals? who knows...
nature is the ultimate mind fuck  cheers |
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furthur
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Posted : Apr 18, 2006 06:36
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visual patterns do not make a psychedelic trip, sorry
oh yeah, imo of course
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Forest dreams
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Posted : Apr 18, 2006 06:36
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yeah... Ive read this before, a long long time ago.
Noice article... except in that there was a guy shown sitting n in the corner of a room... I guess they re done with that guy now.
Nothing is said that has not been said before. |
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pH_
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Posted : Apr 18, 2006 06:41
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On 2006-04-18 06:36, furthur wrote:
visual patterns do not make a psychedelic trip, sorry
oh yeah, imo of course
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i agree, they are just a small piece of the whole pie, but a very interesting piece of pie they are! |
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Psycosmo
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Posted : Apr 18, 2006 06:45
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Here is the journal article where Cowan and colleagues published their theory:
Geometric visual hallucinations, Euclidean symmetry and the functional architecture of striate cortex.
Bressloff PC, Cowan JD, Golubitsky M, Thomas PJ, Wiener MC
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2001 Mar 29;356(1407):299-330
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/(jbteginzgv0xwf55hnnku2if)/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,3,7;journal,63,121;linkingpublicationresults,1:102022,1
If anyone understands the math in this article, please do explain!
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