[cmrdporcupine]

I remember being 15 or 16 and an older adult friend in my computer club describing LSD to me: "You know when you turn on your computer and the cartridge isn't in right or you have some fault on the PCB bridging some lines on the data or address bus to the video chip? Something like that... LSD is like opening the case of your Commodore 64 and dropping in some loose metal screws..."

I feel like the analogy holds, at least for simple computers like that where the machine still runs, but with weird alterations. You can look at the patterns that the chip is generating and ... see something [for me never particularly visual, more philosophical]. But it's really just throwing things... off. There's something to learn there, I guess, but I never thought it was terribly metaphysical.

More just evidence that our experience is always mediated, and a sensory change [internal senses as well], a change in texture of mood and thought, and not a very functional one.