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Simon's avatar

I finally caught up on Vinge's True Names the other day, and in Marvin's afterword he discussed how the conscious process of the brain is itself ignorant of how it works; the brain thinks but does not know how it thinks. I was wondering if perhaps with enough twists and turns mediated by drugs, the brain might in fact get that rare opportunity to inspect itself, maybe some of the really out there experiences are the brain getting a glimpse into its own hidden layer and like a mirror reflecting itself, encountering infinity. Maybe rather than perceiving true reality, we might perceive our true selves. Maybe it was not God touching Dick or Dick touching God, but infact Dick touching Dick, albeit just the tip.

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filipe's avatar

I wish I had a mystical experience as well. But, while I cannot deny the reality of the experience itself, I cannot assert the content of this experience is real.

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