Experience, Culture and Reality: The Significance of Fisher Information for Understanding the Relationship between Alternative States of Consciousness and the Structures of Reality
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The majority of the world’s cultures encourage or require members to enter alternative states of\nconsciousness (ASC) while involved in religious rituals. The question is, why? This paper suggests\nan explanation for the culturally prescribed ASC from the view of Fisher information. It argues\nfrom the position, first put forward by Emile Durkheim in his magnum opus, The Elementary\nForms of the Religious Life, that all religions are grounded in reality. It suggests that many of the\nstructural elements of cultural cosmologies are similar and that the ritual induction of ASC may\nhelp to bring individual experience into greater accord with a pan-human eidetic cosmology, and\nthus with certain invariant attributes of reality. The necessity of this process is demonstrated by\nrecourse to Fisher information. The paper shows how experiences generated during alternative\nstates of consciousness may help to maintain a minimal level of realism in the interests of adaptation\nto what is in other respects a transcendental reality.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it