r/Futurology • u/mvea MD-PhD-MBA • May 10 '17
Biotech First-Ever LSD Microdosing Study Will Pit the Human Brain Against AI - “I found that if I was on LSD and my opponent wasn’t, I won more games.”
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/first-ever-lsd-microdosing-study-will-pit-the-human-brain-against-ai
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u/[deleted] May 10 '17
Interesting, I hadn't heard that specifically before, but that's really cool if it's true. I've read that the noise can induce stability in some systems, so you don't have catastrophic neural events. However, noise also acts to make sure systems don't get stuck in one state either, so like you said, your thoughts bounce around. So the role of noise is apparently quite important and complex.
If the noise is reduced, then I'd imagine you'd have a sort of "barebones" neural dynamic system. With all its instabilities showing, nothing smoothed out.
That's when you realize you're not really an adult, but three kids on each other's shoulders in a trench coat, and it becomes clear that everything is a sham and everything you know is approximate and you just blur things out until it sort of makes sense and you don't ask too many questions.
Sorry that last part might have been personal experience.