Как наш мозг конструирует реальность: от Дона Хуана до нейронауки.

Scientific concepts, discoveries, nature phenomena

“Assemblage point” (Don Juan / Castaneda framework)

• The assemblage point “collects” or organizes the world we perceive, without revealing reality as it is directly.
• It has many possible positions.
• An ordinary person keeps it fixed in one position, yielding a stable perceived world composed of:
  • Objects
  • Time
  • Causality
  • The self
• Shifting the assemblage point does not mean physical travel; it means re-assembling another perceived world from the same raw material of reality.
• The degree of shift corresponds to:
  • Minimal shift → figment of imagination
  • Significant shift → hallucination

ReMAP / “Rebus” predictive coding style model (neuroscience)

• The brain is described as a prediction machine, not a passive receiver.
• It continuously generates a pre-model of the world and compares it to incoming sensory signals.
• These pre-models are prior beliefs (“priors”).
• Hierarchy of priors:
  • Higher-level priors are more stable, associated with durable beliefs about:
    • Self
    • Causality
    • Nature
    • Reality
• Normal perception is attributed to the influence of these high-level priors.

Psychedelics and changes in perception

• Psychedelics temporarily weaken the accuracy/weight of high-level priors.
• A key high-level prior is the “narrative self” / ego (belief in a specific personality, traits, and viewpoints).
• With reduced ego/self-prior weighting:
  • Raw sensory information that is usually suppressed can flow upward
  • Limbic system data flow increases
  • Brain activity becomes more entropic (increased entropy)
  • The brain is less constrained by rigid habitual thinking
  • This allows another interpretation/assembly of reality from the same sensory inputs
• This is framed as corresponding to Don Juan’s “shift of the assemblage point.”

List / methodology (outline)

Predictive-model perception mechanism (Rebus / predictive coding-style)

• Generate a model of the world in advance.
• Receive incoming sensory signals.
• Compare signals against the model.
• Use priors (especially high-level, stable ones) to shape perception.
• Under psychedelics:
  • Weaken high-level priors
  • Allow more bottom-up sensory (including limbic) information
  • Increase entropy
  • Break habitual rigid patterns
  • Permit an alternate “assembly” of experience from the same sensory data

Researchers / sources featured

• Don Juan (as presented through Carlos Castaneda’s reported conversations)
• Robin Carhart-Harris (neuroscientist; subtitles spell variants like “Robin Carhartharis”)
• Karl Friston (Imperial College London)
• Imperial College London (institution mentioned via Friston / Carhart-Harris)