Mathematical modeling tackles the human psychedelic experience

Psychedelic drug experiences are among the most fascinating but mysterious journeys of the human mind. Long the domain of indigenous shamans and modern "psychonauts" who seek self-discovery, the sensory-rich experiences often include kaleidoscopic geometries and intelligent entities that defy description—until now. A new research collaboration and preprint between two frontier research organizations, the Trace Institute and Noonautics, details a plan to study the mathematical architecture of human experience based on the psychedelic compound N,N-dimethyl tryptamine, or DMT. The preprint findings are published on PsyArXiv.