An admirable treatise, PiMac - even if we're a hair out of alignment on some of the "unarguables".
I would like to examine one of your metaphors a bit. >The mnemonic is a Mac. The hardware has undergone
enough diagnostics to confirm it is in working order.< Our science of the biological "hardware" is in its infancy. We can recognize a copper wire, but the circuit diagram of a sea hare brain, let alone a human one, is not in our grasp. I suggest that in the case of the above madman - sufficiently careful examination will find an underlying and sufficient hardware problem. Something wrong in the way the neural material is either structured or function-enabled. Something ...fixable?
So your working-order, life logic, firmware (do I have this right?) is sound but running on a bad board. If only it could reboot on a 100% within-spec substrate the madman would shake himself, apologize for the drivel and ask for a shower and a newspaper. (bwdik :-D)
>For example, if a 4way turns out
bum, keep Doubling the dose!<
I'll confess - this is not part of my experience. I did not encounter any psychedelics when i was young, dumb&immortal. Your story sounds *horrifying*. The effects of psychedelics are not linear. Ten mg of Substance X might be a mild ride one way or the other. Twenty mg of the same will be waay more than twice as unreal, and there comes a dose when psychedelics will terrify even the happiest and hardest of heads.
In the early 70s a new psychedelic phenethylamine, DOM, was described. Active dose starts at 3 mg, and 10 mg is a healthy dose. Well, a tablet called STP hit the streets of San Francisco. It was analyzed to contain twenty (!!) mg of pure DOM. Now, DOM is long-acting and rather slow to take hold. So a naive buyer would down one, wait an hour, then express disgust at this weak rip-off tab and take another. (********) A lot of these kids came to 36 hours later in the emergency ward. Psychedelics, like belt-fed weapons, are not inherently evil, but they are not a good idea to put around folks who don't know how to keep them safe. Within the same metaphor - learning the ropes by trial and error is not recommended. Judging by your experience - if it were I, I'd be quite contented to never see a dose of anything trippy again.
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