Your brain evolved to see deep meaning in the sky. And UFOs.
What Are Psychedelic Entities?
The beings people often meet while using psychedelics resist tidy explanations.
Predictive processing frameworks for perception can explain recent drone sightings in the United States
We draw on the predictive processing theory of perception to explain why healthy, intelligent, honest, and psychologically normal people might easily misperceive lights in the sky as threatening or extraordinary objects, especially in the context of WEIRD (western, educated, industrial, rich, and democratic) societies. We argue that the uniquely sparse properties of skyborne and celestial stimuli make it difficult for an observer to update prior beliefs, which can be easily fit to observed lights. Moreover, we hypothesize that humans have likely evolved to perceive the sky and its perceived contents as deeply meaningful. Finally, we briefly discuss the possible role of generalized distrust in scientific institutions and ultimately argue for the importance of astronomy education for producing a society with prior beliefs that support veridical perception.
You didn’t see a UFO. It was probably one of these things.
The classic culprit for UFO sightings is a group of clouds moving in front of Venus. Now there are rocket trails and Starlink trains, too.
As UFOs go mainstream, the jury is out on what the existence of alien life might mean for religion
Steven Spielberg's new film “Disclosure Day” explores extraterrestrial life and its impact on religion. UFOs, now also called UAPs, are gaining mainstream attention.
Our Minds Are Weirder than You Think
The Alien Space of Science: Sampling Coherent but Cognitively...
Scientific discovery is constrained not only by what is true, but by what is cognitively available to the researchers currently exploring a field. Many directions are coherent in light of the...
The brain's 7D sandcastles could be the key to consciousness | New Scientist
We’ve glimpsed mind-bending geometric structures that fleetingly encode our thoughts, memories and feelings – and could solve the greatest mystery of all
Jonathan Pageau's Psychedelic Warning
JD Vance says aliens are ‘demons’ and details obsession with UFOs
Vice-president promises ‘to get to the bottom of’ reports of US government files about unidentified flying objects
Can Psychedelics Make Us More Moral?
With a renaissance going on in psychedelic research, is making us better people included?
What Is Bluesky?—A Landscape Revealed by the Diffusion Experiment - Nightflight
Brain scans reveal how LSD affects consciousness
Drug researcher David Nutt discusses brain-imaging studies with hallucinogens.
subconsciousnetwork/noosphere
Noosphere is a protocol for thought; let's discover it together!
We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night Skies
Bad decisions have turned efficient technology into a driver of light pollution. There is a better way
