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Sep 2023
The dominant drive is the handle on the reducing valve of consciousness.
Consciousness is not merely received, it flows through us,
And one's body is its conduit.

Being has an active role in its synthesis.
It is from this vantage that pharmacophenomenology dares to ask:
Is there something the components of neurotransmission feel like?
For example, what commonalities are felt
under the influence of serotonergic drugs?

What sensate invariants are to be found
in the actions of other neurotransmitters, endorphins and hormones?
Can we identify these felt sensation with those naturalistic concepts?
Could we map the structures and limits of experience from the inside out,
Using neuropsychopharmacology as a cartogram
and the phenomenological tradition as a pathfinder.
Would that be so noumenautic?
Husserl's yearning for a science of consciousness,
Shulgin's pursuit of alchemy to scout the interior universe,
Varela's methodology to reciprocally constrain conceptual domains,
SjΓΆstedt-Hughes' psychonautic assertions which constitute a Kantian heresy.

Could this close the explanatory gap, and make in-roads
into what Chalmers calls the hard problem of consciousness?
Mydriasis Aletheia
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Mydriasis Aletheia  29/Other/Empyrean
(29/Other/Empyrean)   
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   Nick Moore
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