[P] Exploring Typefaces with Generative Adversarial Networks
It seems plausible to me that the neural networks in our brain are similar to classification networks, which map inputs into a reduced space learned representation. If so, it may be that psychedelics cause those networks to map to slightly adjacent areas of the learned representation, producing hallucinations that are perceptually adjacent to the inputs. One thing I've seen gaining more traction in recent years, with some small (but quickly growing) evidence behind it and the support of some well known people in the field (David E. Nichols and Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, is that psychedelics change the larger scale network of networks like the default mode network. The idea being that psychedelics can increase or decrease signals through these networks, and that e.g. Going through all paths that aren't normally used for that purpose would explain a lot of the basic effects, and could also explain why you see things in greater detail on psychedelics (I can't find it now but David E. Nichols went through this in a presentation before, I believe he showed that e.g. a lot of visual data is thrown out at the end of the network path, and that psychedelics stop it being discarded and it instead reaches the conscious parts).
Oct-26-2020, 14:01:19 GMT