• cube_flipper 3 days ago

    I propose an experiment which demonstrates computation on the (DMT-altered) human visual system. It is a simple visual stimulus/web application which when viewed while on DMT should solve a graph cut problem, using colour as input and hallucinated depth perception as output (see blog post for full explanation):

    https://smoothbrains.net/experiments/tilespace/index.html?ra...

    I hope. I haven't tested it yet. Prior art includes Scott Aaronson's experiment in using soap bubbles for computation[1], and Mark Chiangizi's efforts to build logic gates from Necker cubes[2]:

    [1] https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf

    [2] https://gwern.net/doc/cs/algorithm/2008-changizi.pdf

    • RomanPushkin 3 days ago

      Really cool, I shared your work in a private discord server to the people who have no problem experimenting.

      It would be nice to have some sort of [landing] page for non-tech-savvy folks, so they understand it easier!

      I love everything about this blog post and the software application.

      • cube_flipper 2 days ago

        Oh, that's amazing. Did anybody experience anything interesting? My account on discord is cube_flipper if it's easier to talk there

      • spacebacon 2 days ago

        Have you considered testing with molecular modeling and protein folding?

        If you can prove someone on a psychedelic is proficient at this task you may be able to pierce the subjective veil of this study.