That which you do not understand is infinity...

[Angrboda]

Cosmic bullshit. People on DMT experience the unfolding of time, its infinity, and similar types of effects. Many want to attribute theses experiences to "getting in touch with" a reality they normally can't see, that DMT simply let's them see what is already there. The alternative is, among others, that DMT allows the mind to function in this time altered perception when it normally does not do so, without there being an actual fact of this "altered time" that is being experienced by the brain. Our brains create a "model" of the world and reality around us during normal wakefulness. This mental model may in some ways "look like" the reality it is meant to represent, but the model is not itself a brute fact caused by the reality — the brain constructs that model of "the real" out of various components, some sensory, some built into the hardware, some purely driven by arbitrary functions of cognition and biology. It is entirely possible that, in DMT experiences, it is not a pre-existing fact of the reality of time which is being "unearthed" by the drug, but rather that the mind is, as always, constructing its model of the real, but due to the drug, certain parameters of that model are constructed in a totally abnormal and unexpected way, resulting in "strange time" being a part of that brain's model of reality at that time. In this alternate interpretation, the mental model itself is displaying time as having these wondrous unusual properties normally not seen, but its the model and the model alone which is experiencing that unusual form — the actual, underlying reality hasn't changed, and because the 'model' is so far out of whack, in those strange, new properties, it doesn't correspond to what is still real, still ordinary, and still plain if a bit dull. Do not fall under the illusion that the mind is "a mirror of reality"; it is not. It is more like a house built out of legos in a room far away, constructed on the basis of a handful of photographs, verbal descriptions about the house, a blueprint, and some general knowledge about the design and construction of houses. The resulting lego house may resemble the real one in a lot of ways, many of them useful (it might still be usefull as a form of shelter, for example). However there are also ways it won't resemble the actual house. The windows, being just blank openings in the wall, will not function the same as the real windows with glass in the actual house do (they don't keep out wind and insects, for example). If for some reason, somebody included the instruction manual for the "lego batman helicopter" and some photographs of it with the house photos and blueprints, your lego house is going to end up being built with features that aren't even remotely similar to those in the real house (such as the roof mounted helicopter blade, which you dutifully added to the lego house because that feature was included in your "input" about the real house).


Anyway, food for thought. I suggest you look up the philosophical concept/theory known as 'nominalism', as well as perhaps "theory of mind" theory such as the work done by Jesse Bering (e.g. the book, The Belief Instinct)


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