John Lilly
3 articles
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IF float tank sensory deprivation
John C. Lilly and the Isolation Tank: The Most Radical Consciousness Researcher of the 20th Century
In 1954, at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland, a neuroscientist named John Cunningham Lilly designed and built the first isolation tank. The prevailing scientific question of the era was whether consciousness required external sensory stimulation to maintain...
13 min · 1 researchers · 11 concepts
IF float tank sensory deprivation
Sensory Gating and the Default Mode Network: The Faraday Cage for the Mind
Your brain, at this moment, is processing approximately 11 million bits of sensory information per second. The light hitting your retina.
11 min · 1 researchers · 13 concepts
HW sleep consciousness
Dreams and Memory Consolidation: The Brain's Nightly Data Integration Process
For most of the 20th century, the dominant scientific view of dreams was that they were meaningless — random neural firing during REM sleep that the cortex attempted to weave into a narrative, producing the bizarre, illogical stories we call dreams. This "activation-synthesis" hypothesis,...
10 min · 2 researchers · 8 concepts