I’d be curious to hear your thoughts about how insight-frisson might be induced by psychedelics/marijuana in terms of your model. Anecdotally, these drugs seem to promote both a lot of false-positive insight-frisson experiences (the feeling of having an insight is vividly there, but the insight itself seems to dissolve upon inspection) and genuinely insightful insight-frisson experiences (a conceptual discrepancy you didn’t even realize you had suddenly comes to light, and a way of resolving it follows soon after, in a way that endures beyond the acute drug experience).
I don’t really know what psychedelics do in the brain, so I don’t have a good answer. I’d note that, if psychedelics increases your brain’s sensitivity wrt amplifying discrepancies, then this seems like a promising way to counterbalance biases in the negative direction (e.g. being too humble to think anything novel), even if it increases your false-positives.
I think psychedelics probably don’t work this way, but I’d like to try it anyway (if it were cheap) while thinking about specific topics I fear I might be tempted to fool myself about. I’d first spend some effort getting into the state where my brain wants to discover those discrepancies in the first place, and I’m extra-sceptical the drugs would work on their own without some mental preparation.
I’d be curious to hear your thoughts about how insight-frisson might be induced by psychedelics/marijuana in terms of your model. Anecdotally, these drugs seem to promote both a lot of false-positive insight-frisson experiences (the feeling of having an insight is vividly there, but the insight itself seems to dissolve upon inspection) and genuinely insightful insight-frisson experiences (a conceptual discrepancy you didn’t even realize you had suddenly comes to light, and a way of resolving it follows soon after, in a way that endures beyond the acute drug experience).
I don’t really know what psychedelics do in the brain, so I don’t have a good answer. I’d note that, if psychedelics increases your brain’s sensitivity wrt amplifying discrepancies, then this seems like a promising way to counterbalance biases in the negative direction (e.g. being too humble to think anything novel), even if it increases your false-positives.
I think psychedelics probably don’t work this way, but I’d like to try it anyway (if it were cheap) while thinking about specific topics I fear I might be tempted to fool myself about. I’d first spend some effort getting into the state where my brain wants to discover those discrepancies in the first place, and I’m extra-sceptical the drugs would work on their own without some mental preparation.