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According to the Control Interrupt Model of psychedelic action, anydrug which produces a multisensory interrupt within the frequencyband of waking consciousness will also necessarily produce flickerphosphenes and be considered hallucinogenic. If the multisensoryinterrupt is too slow or too fast the drug may still be consideredpsychedelic, empathogenic, entactogenic, or dissociative, but will beless likely produce significantly realized geometric flickerhallucinations. This same principle can be applied to audio and tactilesensory binding; any periodic sensory interrupt within the frequencyband of human consciousness will necessarily induce field-likehallucinations with stable form constants and properties relateddirectly to the interrupt frequency.Figure 18. Examples of programmatic cellular automata. Repetition of simpleforms can create complex patterns of archetypal beauty. Levitated.net, 2010.The evolution of flicker phosphenes can be described formally bythe iterative properties of fractals or cellular automata, which over timeturn simple repeating algorithms into complex patterns (Fig. 18).Under the influence of psychedelics flicker phosphenes grow inintensity, become more elaborate, and become more structurallyresolved over time. 3It can be assumed that this is because themodulatory interrupt of a hallucinogen is being applied directly to thesensory binding pathways via pharmacological interaction as opposedto being applied to the retinal or cortical networks via external electricalpulse stimulation. Because the modulatory interrupt of psychedelics ispharmacological, it is more difficult for the subject to fend off or ignorethe interrupt to retain multisensory stability; the very pathways thatmaintain stability are the pathways which are being interrupted. In avery physical way, the modulatory interrupt of the hallucinogen is