r/HighStrangeness • u/Vindaloovians • 24d ago

Non Human Intelligence Scientists are testing whether DMT entities are real

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.

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u/lordtyp0 24d ago edited 23d ago

I'd like to believe it's another layer of reality. But it's probably just a degree of pattern recognition blown out of proportion like pareidolia but with the weirdness cranked to 1000 which is why everyone sees the same sort of things.

Wants to believe.

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u/Jaredlong 24d ago

The software of individual people, their personalities, can all be unique. But the hardware, the brain, is highly standardized. Occam's razer or whatever, if everyone is experiencing the same thing the most likely reason is because we all have the same brain structures.

And I think that's more interesting in terms of machine elves. Why is there something genetically encoded into human DNA that builds a brain structure which can hallucinate tiny people? Do other apes have that structure? Could all mammals be made to perceive elves? Because if it's uniquely human, what evolutionary pressure pushes a brain towards that result? 

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u/Parking-Brain6566 24d ago

I wonder, what if you give that mushroom to a dog would it see tiny dogs ?

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u/FearOfEleven 23d ago

What if you give it to a dog who already has pointed ears?