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

To account for various types of hallucination related tomultisensory frame destabilization the following theory ofhallucinogenic Frame Stacking has been proposed. 6 To create theperception of fluid movement from frame to frame, any frame weperceive must be a composite of at least two frames, one arising andone fading. Each frame is associated with a neural spike train involvingsome feedback to the thalamus and basal forebrain to fix the frame’ssnapshot in working memory. These feedback circuits normallyneutralize in about 1/15th of a second, allowing for multisensory frameupdate of @15 Hz. If hallucinogens interrupt the process of frameneutralization for some small period of time, each frame then begins tofade more slowly until frame data stacks up and feeds back on incomingperception (Fig. 24). As recurrent information from multiple recedingframes replicates and stacks into incoming frames, each perceptualframe splits or bifurcates in exponential complexity. This iteratingpattern of recursive complexity is the formal description of a nonlinearsystem.Frame stacking is considered to be progressive with hallucinogenicdose and grows from mild to extreme. At low doses you might have fourframes stacked in perception instead of two; three fading and onearising. With three fading frames you may begin to see softening ofedges or intensification of colors as the saturation of each frame stacksover the next. As frame stacking and spreading becomes more intense,the rise and fall of each frame iteration can be felt as throbbingpulsation of energy throughout the entire body. With eight framesstacked you might see visual artifacts like jitters or trails in the wake ofany movement, similar to visual flange or video feedback. Whileholding the eyes still an increase in frame overlay makes solid objectscrystallize into something very fascinating and precious like a facetedjewel, creating a quality of temporal depth and luminance to surfacesand textures. An increase in frame overlay also creates enhanced edgesmoothing between solid objects, which gives reality a sensation ofliquidity or stretchiness like surreal art, graffiti, or a cartoon. As framesregress the perspective of perceptual space may begin to elongate like afish-eye lens. If a fading frame produces an emotionally salient pattern,the salient layer can then feed back into the arising frame as a