# Comments from Enrico about psychedelics paper for the [[psychedelic aesthetics]] paper >While these foundational assumptions are deeply entrenched, the sub-personal process of probabilistic inference will never settle on a model of a spaceless, timeless, selfless, unitive world. It will never settle on a model of a world in which distinct objects stably occupy the same spatial position, or human faces are concave. 'Expaning the phenomenal possibility space' 1. key idea: we can rely on L's idea that relaxing prior is crucial, we say it is for crucial for aesthetic effects 2. How can we articulate this? 3. In a sense, Ps can be comapred be comapred to visual arts (they give us a show) - the most basic way of charqceristing [[the experience]] is as a series of perception like content. - this is an experience with sensory contents. - difference between this an ordinary experience is the type of content. - a more sophisticated appreciation is to do with [[design scene properties]]. - another [[interesting idea]]: the basic level is [[the appreciation]] of psychedleic artifacts. - lsd vs dmt vs meditation is comparable to the socres of different musical work - revealing [[the design]] of experience # Notes on Francesco's [[Cognitive Phenomenology]] Paper ## Question - what about phonetically written novels like trainspotting? - Would an attack on kivey be that our performances don't vary much between readings of the same text - can [[cognitive phenomenology]] be rich enough for appreciation of novels –think of its analogue intentionality - Knausgaard