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Psychedelic-information-theory-Shamanism-in-the-age-of-Reason

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mystical because <strong>the</strong>y are isomorphic <strong>of</strong> nonl<strong>in</strong>ear systems <strong>in</strong> biology,nature, and <strong>the</strong> cosmos.Figure 14. ‘Electric Sheep’ fractals selected for an aes<strong>the</strong>tic vot<strong>in</strong>g experiment.Im<strong>age</strong>s were ranked for <strong>in</strong>tr<strong>in</strong>sic beauty. From Taylor, 2008. 1Nonl<strong>in</strong>ear ConsciousnessThe physical world is a complex nonl<strong>in</strong>ear system, but humanconsciousness perceives reality as a s<strong>in</strong>gle l<strong>in</strong>ear sequential narrativethat moves predictably forward <strong>in</strong> time. The l<strong>in</strong>earity <strong>of</strong> perception isan <strong>in</strong>dication that consciousness is produc<strong>in</strong>g stable, predictableoutput. If perception suddenly diverges <strong>in</strong>to multiple unpredictableoutputs for <strong>the</strong> same l<strong>in</strong>ear <strong>in</strong>put, this is an <strong>in</strong>dication thatconsciousness has destabilized and become nonl<strong>in</strong>ear. A video feedbackloop is an good example <strong>of</strong> a nonl<strong>in</strong>ear perceptual system; each frame

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