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indians_pro | 10 years ago

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ThrustVectoring|10 years ago

"Seeing" is the process of constructing meaning from the raw activation of the light receptors in your eyes. That's why optical illusions work. After all, it's simply patterns of ink on a page - why should you see things that seem impossible? It's because the image is designed to get your brain to construct a particular meaning out of the image.

zardo|10 years ago

LSD's effect isn't limited to visual perception. One of the most common reported phenomenon is a sort of understanding of the connectedness of things.

That may be a result of the reality that all things really are connected when they are stored as concepts in a network of neurons.