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Psychedelic Information Theory: A Systematic Exploration of Information During Altered Consciousness
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI
07 Feb 2025
Abstract
Inspired by the conference theme, Leaps and Stumbles, our panel takes a quantum leap beyond conventional notions of information. We provide a systematic consideration of information phenomena during altered states of consciousness generated by ingestion of “magic mushrooms.” Our exploration is anchored in the book, Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason (Kent, 2010) and is situated within the information behaviour literature. The session will be systematic for its explicit and balanced treatment of “psychedelic information” on four levels, namely: personal, microsocial, macrosocial, and the “meta” perspective of Information Science (Bates, 1999).
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- Title
- Psychedelic Information Theory
- Creators
- Jenna HartelJames L. Kent CydelicTim GorichanazKeith Munro
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Other Identifier
- 991022027423004721