Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Higher Consciousness on Bicycle Day

Evidence for a so-called "higher" (or different) state of consciousness was published today, on the 74th anniversary of the first human LSD experience.

The entropy or diversity of EEG signals has successfully been used as a measure of consciousness, with lower levels indicating sleep or anesthesia and higher levels indicating wakefulness.  Experimenters found that this measure of entropy was higher under the influence of several psychedelics.

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