I’m trying to think of the right tag for this post- It seems that it’d be mildly relevant for there to be a tag for psychedelics and other mind-altering substances, but I’m not sure what the right name for the tag would be. “Drugs” feels too broad, “Psychedelics” is too narrow, since there are substances which are technically not psychedelics, that can serve similar functions of having short-term effects on the brain’s biology, but long-term (positive or net-neutral) effects on the brain’s nature and structure. “Mind-altering substances” seems right, but I’m not sure that there isn’t a better way to put it
I don’t think Nootropics is the right tag for the concept I want to index- if I were ever to go to the Nootropics tags, I’d expect to find conversation about substances I could generally expect to take on a regular basis to improve my cognition. While I think the case can be made for microdosing being nootropic, microdosing is only mentioned here in the context of having a pseudo-trip experience, which is different in intent from nootropic microdosing.
The concept I’m looking to index is substances that create short-term experiences which lead to long-term influences on one’s life, which is an overall different concept from nootropics
I’m trying to think of the right tag for this post- It seems that it’d be mildly relevant for there to be a tag for psychedelics and other mind-altering substances, but I’m not sure what the right name for the tag would be. “Drugs” feels too broad, “Psychedelics” is too narrow, since there are substances which are technically not psychedelics, that can serve similar functions of having short-term effects on the brain’s biology, but long-term (positive or net-neutral) effects on the brain’s nature and structure. “Mind-altering substances” seems right, but I’m not sure that there isn’t a better way to put it
I added ‘Nootropics’, based on https://www.gwern.net/LSD-microdosing
I don’t think Nootropics is the right tag for the concept I want to index- if I were ever to go to the Nootropics tags, I’d expect to find conversation about substances I could generally expect to take on a regular basis to improve my cognition. While I think the case can be made for microdosing being nootropic, microdosing is only mentioned here in the context of having a pseudo-trip experience, which is different in intent from nootropic microdosing.
The concept I’m looking to index is substances that create short-term experiences which lead to long-term influences on one’s life, which is an overall different concept from nootropics