The impassable chasm that appears to exist between our subjective and the objective world
Cartesian Dualism raises the question of what exactly observes our obsevations
Zombies & Zimbos
Which face appears closer to you – the top left or bottom right?
The visual system divides into these two streams. Dorsal is fast, ventral is slow and used for more complex visual tasks
Some people who are perceptually blind in a certain area of their visual field can demonstrate some response to visual stimuli
have a subject close their eyes and quickly tap their wrist five times, their elbow three times and the shoulder twice. This often feels like a sequence of taps that progress incrementally up the arm.
The Spotlight of Attention
Tunnel Visual Illusion
A dissappearing Cheshire Cat – Cover your right eye, look at the dot with your left and move your headtowards and away from the screen. The Cat will dissappear when your blind spot covers it. The brain appears to fill in the blind spot with surrounding stimuli
Split Brain Experiment with Chicken
Teleporter
This experiment demonstrates that your brain decides to initiate motor functions before you consciously decide to make any movements
People often see/feel scary things during sleep paralysis
Mapping States of Consciousness
Animals in their Umwelts
The Mirror-self recognition experiment. A chimp is aneasthatised and a dot is placed on the forehead. When the chimp wakes up it sees the dot in its reflection and attempts to remove it. This implies that chimps may have a concept of self, rather than thinking the reflection is just another chimp or an illusion
Your illustration entitled ‘Mapping States of Consciousness’ is being discussed on reddit on the r/psychonaut subreddit. There is much speculation about what the axes represent. You might find the conversation interesting.
As I remember it was drawn more as a thought experiment than anything else, though I’m sure Sue has some idea of what the axes mean (I translated the illustration from a sketch she did).
“This conversation is great fun, and after meandering around wild speculations ends up with the truth. The axes are purely imaginary. I had no specific dimensions in mind when I asked Jolyon to draw it and to put arrows for the imagined axes. The drawing is just meant to illustrate the idea that there might be a vast multi-dimensional space of states of consciousness – with some being close to each other and others far apart. One day someone will create a real map. For now we have to guess. If you want to know more there are more of Jolyon’s drawings and a review of real attempts to map states of consciousness in my textbook Consciousness: An Introduction.”
Your illustration entitled ‘Mapping States of Consciousness’ is being discussed on reddit on the r/psychonaut subreddit. There is much speculation about what the axes represent. You might find the conversation interesting.
Looks like a great discussion (here).
As I remember it was drawn more as a thought experiment than anything else, though I’m sure Sue has some idea of what the axes mean (I translated the illustration from a sketch she did).
Sue sent me this reply to the reddit discussion:
“This conversation is great fun, and after meandering around wild speculations ends up with the truth. The axes are purely imaginary. I had no specific dimensions in mind when I asked Jolyon to draw it and to put arrows for the imagined axes. The drawing is just meant to illustrate the idea that there might be a vast multi-dimensional space of states of consciousness – with some being close to each other and others far apart. One day someone will create a real map. For now we have to guess. If you want to know more there are more of Jolyon’s drawings and a review of real attempts to map states of consciousness in my textbook Consciousness: An Introduction.”
Sue also wrote an article on the subject here.