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I couldn't describe how fascinating I'm finding your experience! I don't want to burden you with questions, so I'll have parsimony: can you ellaborate on what did your experience with LSD change in your disposition with mathematics? Did it remove an emotional barrier, did it make you somehow solve things quicker, and in what sense did it do so? (were you just quicker, or the same speed but more intuitive?) were you i…
Primarily it instilled that love of math, where previously there had been anxiety and ennui. This was sufficient to get me actually complete the work -- and do some extra work for fun -- which was more than enough to get through the math in my university coursework. I didn't get into more advanced maths in university, and for the fields that I've ended up in (and here I need to omit some otherwise too-revealing biogr…
Re: Psychedelics in problem-solving experiment
#51Thank you so much! You seem to be really sucessful with problems not unlike mine, so evidence that I can just wrestle with problems for long until they yield always boosts my hope. (Probably asking too much, but if you feel like it please send me some of your work on my email)