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Information theory can be viewed as simply a branch of applied probability theory. The foundations of information theory have been laid by claude shannon in his landmark pa per a mathematical theory of communication sha48. Lecture notes applied digital information theory i james l. In addition publishing psychedelic information theory as a kindle ebook, the author has agreed to make this book free for public download for academic and research purposes. The healing powers of lsd, mdma, psilocybin, and ayahuasca. Because the expression on the right occurs so often in information theory, we give it its own name the binary entropy function and its own symbol hp. Information theory defines definite, unbreachable limits on precisely how. Information theory studies the quantification, storage, and communication of information. Information theory techniques for multimedia data classification and. Chapters include information on the physiology of perception, types of visual hallucination, psychedelic pharmacology, psychedelic neuroplasticity, chaos theory, shamanic therapy, shamanic sorcery, and group mind phenomena related to psychedelic consciousness. Iit was developed in an attempt to understand the link between the physical world and our experience of consciousness. Tsallis entropybased information measure for shot boundary detection and. Shamanism in the age of reason is an analysis of the physical mechanisms of hallucination, shamanic ritual, and expanded states of consciousness. Pdf psychedelic information theory shamanism in the age.

Psychedelic information theory shamanism in the age of reason by james l. This theory can be applied to all known states of consciousness, including the 21. In particular, if xk has probability density function pdf p, then hxk elog 1 pxk. Integrated information theory iit is one of the foremost contemporary 19. Kent first edition, pit press supermassive, llc, 2010 for color images, updates, and links to references online. By deconstructing systems of perception and memory, psychedelic information theory quantifies the limits of expanded consciousness and describes the methods by which psychedelics. Information theory is one of the few scientific fields fortunate enough to have an identifiable beginning. In our last blog post are we living in a conscious universe. Psychedelic information theory pit is the study of information creation in the human imagination, particularly in states of dreaming, psychosis, and hallucination. Pdf the psychedelic explorer s guide download full pdf. Psychedelic information theory is a formal analysis of the physical mechanisms underlying hallucination, shamanic ritual, and expanded states of consciousness.

We shall often use the shorthand pdf for the probability density func tion pxx. Psychedelic information theory pit is the study of nonlinear information creation in the human imagination, particularly in states of dreaming, psychosis, and hallucination. Psychedelic information theory shamanism in the age of reason. Huffman procedure equivalence of prefixfree codes and strategies for guessing via binary questions, hw2. Pit seeks to model the functional output of human perception in order to extrapolate the limits and complexity of information arising in human altered states of consciousness. Moreover, classical information theory is formulated in the language of probability theory, so quantum. By deconstructing systems of perception and memory, psychedelic information theory quantifies the limits of expanded consciousness and describes the methods by which. The book can be downloaded in the following formats. Shannons information theory as a general tool for performance. Measure of uncertainty associated with probability p. Pdf restructuring consciousness the psychedelic state. A basic idea in information theory is that information can be treated very much. In trying to understand what physical systems give rise to our experience of. Kent, this text was researched for over 20 years and includes over 200 references and 31 images related to the latest science in the diverse fields of pharmacology, shamanism, and perception.