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Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Talking people down in LSD studies
really needs to come off the drug. However, users can usually be talked out of whatever anxiety they are feeling in these studies.
Make AI's hidden assumptions explicit
To reiterate, there are a few fundamental and implicit assumptions in current AI research that have to be made explicit. This is the only way that these assumptions can be acknowledged and improved upon before we can hope to create the world that Kurzweil and others imagine. I…
Blind subjects hallucinate on LSD
It is evident that a normal retina is not needed for the occurrence of LSD-induced visual experiences. These visual experiences do not seem to differ from the hallucinations reported by normal subjects after LSD. Such phenomena occurred only in blind subjects who reported prior…
Brain imaging's undefined computations
Within the more empirical fields of brain imaging and experimental cognitive neuroscience, the computational assumption is interwoven into most hypotheses about the brain. In fact, in almost every brain imaging study the concepts of information and computation are deployed…
LSD deserves indigenous reverence
treatment or spiritual tool, which made serious research on the drug impossible. He called the recreational use of LSD “careless and irresponsible” and felt it to be a tragic misunderstanding of the nature and meaning of these kinds of substances. He believed that we should…
Sandoz stops sponsoring LSD research
The controversial status of the drug led Sandoz to stop sponsoring clinical trials in 1966. Researchers found it more and more difficult to obtain grants to study LSD. Supplies of the drug for research also became scarce and prohibitively expensive.
Psychedelics as tools to study consciousness
Despite revolutionary advancements in brain imaging over the last twenty years, there exist few studies on LSD and hallucinogens using modern neuroscience techniques. Researchers are now able to measure various aspects of the neural mechanisms of LSD action using objective…
Citation Indexes In Sociological And Historical Research
Costructing historical maps of science
My specific interest in citation data for historical research has focused on the role of the computer in constructing historical “maps.” The development of many sophisticated computer programs employing the critical path methodology for the Project Evaluation Review Technique…
Kmi News - Simon Is Leaving!
A farewell to Simon's inclusive research
Simon's research has always had a strong underlying social and inclusive agenda. The OU's publicly declared mission is to be open to people, places, methods and ideas: promoting educational opportunity and social justice. This could have been written with Simon in mind. He will…
Notes [zotero Documentation]
Grabbing Text From Webpage
Grabbing Text From Webpages Because new research often incorporates pre-existing work, Zotero makes it easy for you to migrate quotable material from a web-based source into your notes. Highlight the relevant text, right-click (ctrl-click on the Mac) to open a pop-up menu, and…
Research Fronts 2014 : 100 Top Ranked Specialties In The Sciences And Social
Price and the scientific research front
In 1965, Price published “Networks of scientific papers,” which used citation data to describe the nature of what he termed “the scientific research front.” Previously, he had used the term “research front” in a generic way, meaning the leading edge of research and including…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Janiger studies LSD in healthy people
Oscar Janiger, a Los Angeles psychotherapist, was the first person to study the effects of LSD on a wide range of people not suffering from any particular psychological problem.
Looking for a second opinion on self-experiment
I’ve got to get a handle on this, I thought. I’ve got to find some other, firsthand accounts of ongoing self-experiment with LSD. I can’t be the only person who has done this. There must be others; surely someone has left a written record? Dr. Grof, I thought, I want a second…
The Diggicore Project: Aggregating And Mining The World Of Open Access Articles
Citations are insufficient evidence of impact
The assumption of our research is that citations themselves are an insufficient evidence of impact.
The Digital Humanities Situation | The Transducer
Digital humanities has a genealogy, not a definition
Let’s be honest—there is no definition of digital humanities, if by definition we mean a consistent set of theoretical concerns and research methods that might be aligned with a given discipline, whether one of the established fields or an emerging…