He frames the terrace visions as a problem of mechanism: the class can explain dreams and art, but not yet how waking interior images are generated.
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Mechanism
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Jiang insists that a satisfactory explanation of psychedelics must name a neurological mechanism rather than staying at the level of subjective description.
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"All right, so it shows the ignorance of wrath, of anger. And the last example is also from the Bible, the story of Saint..."
"No, no, like, but how does he see them? Before, how did he have his visions? Dream. Dreaming was the first, right? Then it..."
"You guys understand. He's actually seeing them as he walks, all right? This is like lucid daydreaming. How does this happen, okay? We understand..."
"But no, no, I'm trying to figure out the neurological mechanism that allows for... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but just one last question, okay?..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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