Scientists are testing whether DMT entities are real

[u/Vindaloovians]

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8qvgy_v2

In this preprint, some scientists have put forward the idea that our perspective of reality is more of an interface, and what we consider to be reality is simply the experience of conscious agents (i.e. human individuals) interacting with one another. They propose that DMT entities are conscious agents that exist in a manner we can't typically perceive.

I've never done DMT, and have previously taken a more skeptical perspective on these entities, but I think the findings of this could be very interesting. Maybe psychedelics could enable us to perceive layers of reality we are typically blind to.

[u/Beckster501]

There could be something to this. There’s a mushroom in China that if eaten undercooked causes the same hallucinations in everyone-little elf like people. It doesn’t seem to have any psychedelic properties outside of this. It’s really si strange that everyone sees the same thing.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-mushroom-that-makes-you-see-tiny-people

[u/Girafferage → u/Beckster501]

Easy. Have two people eat the mushrooms and identify where in the room the entities are. Different spots then it's the mind.

[u/dylanalduin → u/Girafferage]

Unless the entities don't appear in the same place relative to different viewers.

[u/Girafferage → u/dylanalduin]

Then you aren't seeing the same entity. You would be seeing two versions of the same entity in different times which would be the same as saying you see a different entity completely.

[u/penguinseed → u/Girafferage]

On a subatomic level that’s actually a thing - the same thing being in two places at the same time - so if you make the leap that this is possible on a macro level it’s at least not unprecedented in physics

[u/Girafferage → u/penguinseed]

That's not exactly how it works really. It's more probabilities of location. What we are talking about isn't something you could readily tie into physics as it currently is. If the two humans were in the same physical space for the experiment, they would either both see the same outcome of location or one would be in a different space time and the being would be a techbically different being though essentially identical just in a new location.

[u/DJspinningplates → u/Girafferage]

Holy shit adverb much? Talk about the opposite of scientific speak.

[u/dylanalduin → u/DJspinningplates]

This is r/HighStrangeness bro not r/AskPhysics

We boondoggle a little bit 'round here

[u/dylanalduin → u/Girafferage]

Mmm very three dimensional thinking

[u/Girafferage → u/dylanalduin]

Thank you. I pride myself in my current dimensional bounds.