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So, you take a tiny amount of psilocybin and the world becomes a bit sparkly. You take more and it gets intricate. More and it becomes really complex and elaborate. More and the complexity overwhelmed you. More and it starts to become smooth somehow. More and it all simplifies and you often collapse into pure space, or God, or oneness, or a white light. What's up? Here's a super simple model. If your experience is described as a network, where nodes are sensations and edges are their connections, I'd argue that we start out with a relatively sparse network. In this model, as you increase the dose, you are in a way randomly adding edges to the network. At first this leads to an increased combinatorial space. But this peaks at some point! Which is when there are as many edges as non-edges. Above that point, increasing connectivity will actually start to *shrink* the combinatorial space! And as you approach a fully connected graph, the number of states possible begin to approach those of the sparse graph we started with, except that you're now moving around non-edges rather than edges (it's like a hyperconnected mirror image!). And finally, when you complete the graph there is just one state. Perhaps that's the state of cessation, which is surrounded by nearly complete graphs, each perhaps corresponding to states like oneness, white light, pure space, etc. So there you have it. Sometimes a simple model can go a long way.
