What is it like to be a bat on LSD?
Jul. 3rd, 2018 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timeletsIn the econtalk conversation about LSD, author Michael Pollan mentioned that LSD is not addictive. He said that a rat/mice hooked up to the drug stops pressing the dispensing lever after just one dose. By contrast, rats on cocaine, sugar, acid, etc. keep pressing until they starve to death.
While I was listening, I remembered a famous paper by Thomas Nagel "What is it like to be a bat?" Accessing consciousness of a flying animal that feels its way through space using ultrasound reflections is hard enough. Imagining what it feels on an LSD trip would would be outright impossible.
While I was listening, I remembered a famous paper by Thomas Nagel "What is it like to be a bat?" Accessing consciousness of a flying animal that feels its way through space using ultrasound reflections is hard enough. Imagining what it feels on an LSD trip would would be outright impossible.
