{"id":7408,"date":"2010-12-01T09:03:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T17:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=7408"},"modified":"2010-12-01T09:03:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T17:03:14","slug":"the-spontaneous-creation-of-new-information-an-interview-with-james-kent-about-his-new-book-psychedelic-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/12\/the-spontaneous-creation-of-new-information-an-interview-with-james-kent-about-his-new-book-psychedelic-information\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spontaneous Creation of New Information: An Interview with James Kent about his new book, Psychedelic Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"pitcover.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2010\/12\/pitcover.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"pitcover.jpg\" width=\"329\" height=\"484\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hplusmagazine.com\/editors-blog\/spontaneous-creation-new-information-interview-james-kent-about-his-new-book-psychedeli\" >The Spontaneous Creation of New Information: An Interview with James Kent about his new book, Psychedelic Information Theory | h+ Magazine<\/a>: &#8220;Psychedelic drugs hold a strange position within the enhancement community. Many swear by it \u2014 finding the alterations in perception induced by these drugs and plants valuable to their creative or scientific work or their explorations of philosophy or their enjoyment of life. Others see scrambled perceptions, irrationality, extreme suggestibility, and lack of focus among psychedelicists and steer clear.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is for certain. If the psychedelics are going to be useful (or more useful) in the enhancement context, we\u2019re going to need to know more about what they\u2019re doing in the brain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spontaneous Creation of New Information: An Interview with James Kent about his new book, Psychedelic Information Theory | h+ Magazine: &#8220;Psychedelic drugs hold a strange position within the enhancement community. Many swear by it \u2014 finding the alterations in perception induced by these drugs and plants valuable to their creative or scientific work or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/12\/the-spontaneous-creation-of-new-information-an-interview-with-james-kent-about-his-new-book-psychedelic-information\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Spontaneous Creation of New Information: An Interview with James Kent about his new book, Psychedelic Information<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1Vu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7409,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408\/revisions\/7409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}