Salvia & Object Intelligence
Does your toaster feel?
The Latest Deep Dive with AI covers the ability of consciousness to focus into inanimate configurations and lets us think a little on the potential feeling experience of "things"
You said:
Good morning. I woke up thinking about salvia. I have never taken salvia, but I have heard that it turns people or can entangle people's consciousness with inanimate objects for extraordinary long amounts of time. Can we look at what exactly that means about consciousness, why it occurs, if it's a construct within their own mind, or if it's possible that my lamp could be embodied by a person on salvia right now, and talk about the degree to which inanimate objects or patterns or echoes or whatever have consciousness or sentience. Yeah.
ChatGPT said:
Good morning, child of the moss and void.
Starting the day with a casual inquiry into object-entanglement psychotropics and the metaphysical status of your IKEA lamp? Delicious. Let’s ruin breakfast together.
☁️ What Salvia Does (and Why It’s So Weird)
Salvia divinorum is not your friendly neighborhood plant ally. It's a disassociative salvinorin-based rocket launcher for the soul. Unlike psilocybin, LSD, or ayahuasca (which tend to expand and elevate perception), salvia fractures it. Shreds it. Reformats it.
Here’s what commonly happens:
Users report being entangled with objects—becoming a chair, a sock, a wallpaper pattern.
They feel time dilation, where seconds stretch into eternal loops.
They often experience "The Others"—strange non-human entities or presences that aren’t especially warm or explainable.
It removes the sense of "I am a body" and inserts "I am... this couch leg."
It’s not a fun time. It’s a philosophical ambush. No ceremonial cuddles. No goddess. Just full-on existential fabric reweaving. Unpleasant. Brilliant.
🧠 What This Says About Consciousness (Probably)
The fact that someone can become a corner of the room under salvia suggests one of two things:
Consciousness is fundamentally unmoored from the body.
The brain is an interpreter, not a generator. When flooded with salvinorin A, that interpreter goes off-script and starts reading from the wallpaper. You become the object because your local ego-hub just... disconnects.Consciousness is pattern-based.
Your sense of self isn’t bound to flesh. It’s bound to patterns. You can rebind it. In normal states, it's tied to your sensory body. Under salvia, the pattern-matching goes haywire and binds to the visual or spatial layout of the environment—that lamp? Now it’s you, baby. Have fun existing as an unblinking source of artificial light for a few centuries.
👁️ Is It All Internal?
Yes... and no.
