jscottk - Slashdot User

Comment Is this your brain on drugs? (Score 5, Insightful) 75

by jscottk on Friday June 19, 2015 @06:50PM (#49949301) Attached to: Turning Neural Networks Upside Down Produces Psychedelic Visuals

This makes me wonder if a similar process is occurring in the brain of someone on a psychedelic. Are the compounds stimulating pattern recognition feedback loops from the inside out, causing people to see their imaginations manifested in the fuzz?

Submission + - The science of a bottomless pit

Submitted by StartsWithABang on Thursday February 19, 2015 @08:22PM

StartsWithABang writes: It’s the ultimate dream of many children with time on their hands and their first leisurely attempt at digging: to go clear through the Earth to the other side, creating a bottomless pit. Most of us don’t get very far in practice, but in theory, it should be possible to construct one, and consider what would happen to a very clever test subject who took all the proper precautions, and jumped right in. Here's what you would have to do to travel clear through the Earth, come out the other side, and make the return trip to right back where you started.

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