🚨Jason Padgett: the accidental savant who says he can see the geometric code behind reality.
After a brutal attack in 2002, Padgett developed acquired savant syndrome and began seeing the world in intricate geometric and fractal patterns.
Movement became sequences of geometric “snapshots.” Water, light, and ordinary objects seemed to reveal mathematical structures hiding beneath everyday perception.
Today, he makes hundreds of videos explaining his ideas about the nature of reality, including his theory of Quantum Information Holography (QIH)—the idea that the universe may be fundamentally connected to information, light, geometry, and holographic projection.
What happens when your perception of reality changes so radically that you start trying to reverse-engineer the universe from what you see?
why 5-MeO-DMT works
(@bryan_johnson, this take is why I recommended you have @algekalipso on during your experience):
"An aspect of 5-MeO-DMT phenomenology that gives the "I became God" impression is the loss of embodied personality metadata in the rendering of one's experience. My impression is that we hold a sense of who we are in the shape of muscle tension, especially our face, which provides the main affective and identity channel for social communication, and that 5-MeO-DMT radically reorganizes those patterns. In particular, it creates large patches of expansion/contraction rather than the very surgical and microexpression-aware identity construction we usually carry around implicitly in the background. We can code our experiences as "ours" in part because the presence of this social identity plays the role of the witness of the experience for holographic encoding. When the social mask is dissolved through large blunt patches of expansion and contraction, who is the one who experiences this? Of course, your face was never the witness, but that has been an integral part of the social software we always live with, so its sudden breakdown causes a powerful impression of conscious anonymity."