# [[Scratch Pad]] ## Comments on Max's paper 4 Feb 2025 at 11:13 - [[The structure]] is quite unwieldy. - There is a bit diversion into the preston stuff in which intention is mentioned at all - the conclusion is huge! - no structure of the paper laid out in the introduction - The word 'determine' in [[the question]], could have been focussed on a little more. talking about what is 'important' makes things a bit too easy. - Your argument against pure intentionalism - 22ish for the paper 25 for the discussion about the paper ## [[Meeting with Enrico]] about Psychedelics - he liked the predictiomn processing section 1 part. - Huxley as an example - He has [[the idea]] of a score. - read [[andy clark]] - Stress that we are not talking about aesthetics. - Could we say that different psychedelic artifacts have different effects..... - "but also frames them as something that can be admired, explored, or reflected upon aesthetically." –enrico agrees, but could we also aesthetically appreciate - Games, appreciating - Interesting comparison with lucid dreams. ## Email to Agatha Dear Agatha, Enrico and I would like to upgrade PEA's chatgpt account from the 20 dollars a month version to the 200 dollars a month version. It is easy for us to go into our account settings and change the plan, but do we need to make this official regarding the project funds being spent differently? I hope this is clear, let me know if you need to know everything else? Regards, Nick ## Reading for Enrico about the psychedelics paper Hi, I am just about to put all of these things in the repository. ### Psychedelics and [[the Predictive Mind]] - [[The Philosophy]] of Psychedelics (especially chapters 6 – 8, chapter 6 introduces how he is using [[predictive processing]] - Chapter 12 of [[The Predictive Mind]] by Hohwy (the part on Introspection) I'll look into both of the clark books and see if he has something on this topic too. ### Cognitivism (Just in case you are interested in why I thought the intellectual pursuits thing might work) - [[Aesthetic Experience and Intellectual Pursuits]] by Schellekens - Understand by [[Ted Chiang]] a short sci-fi story that I found very inspiring –if we think of Psychedelics as 'mind revealing' the protagonist can be thought of as having a very strong [[psychedelic experience]]. (https://web.archive.org/web/20140527121332/http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/under.htm) > "I understand the mechanism of my own thinking. I know precisely how I know, and my understanding is recursive. I understand the infinite regress of this self-knowing, not by proceeding step by step endlessly, but by apprehending the _limit_. [[The nature]] of recursive cognition is clear to me. A new meaning of the term "self-aware."" and speaking about his mental processes in aesthetic terms: > The natural sciences have the clearest patterns. Physics admits of a lovely unification, [[not just]] at the level of fundamental forces, but when considering its extent and implications. Classifications like "optics" or "thermodynamics" are just straitjackets, preventing physicists from seeing countless intersections. Even putting aside aesthetics, the practical applications that have been overlooked are legion; years ago engineers could have been artifically generating spherically symmetric gravity fields. ### For your perfume paper - The Non-visual senses by Nudds -