Dr Andrew Gallimore - Using the Neuroscience of Information to Understand Reality - Effects of DMT

Neuroscience is utilized as a lens to investigate the nature of hallucinated or dream states compared to waking reality. By treating phenomenal world building as a structured information system, different psychedelic states are categorized by how effectively the human brain can project models of reality without stable sensory feedback loops. Comparing states like standard wakefulness to the DMT-induced experience reveals how the brain maintains internal predictive models. While baseline consciousness requires continuous sensory data to refine these models and maintain consistency, more intense psychedelic experiences seem to disrupt this cycle, potentially accessing entirely different phenomenal architectures rather than merely modulating existing ones.