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by Eli_P 2471 days ago
Listen to Terence McKenna's recordings where he describes tripping experience, or somebody doing DMT, or Michael Stevens doing ayahuasca. Maybe all these observations are anecdotal and not scientific, but it feels like ideas and thoughts live their own lives inside neocortex.

Our brain's potential is harnessed with reptile and mammal tasks which are more asynchronous than parallel. Even if we could overclock ourselves into massive parallel thinking it would have ended up with oxygen or glucose deficit. And mind overheating, whether cpu is made from silicon or grey matter, there's a limit for FLOPS per joule.