They Mapped the Border Between Self and Void — And It Looks Like The Tower

[crystal_meridian]

I see why that pattern calls to you, but equating the chemical fragmentation of propofol with the alchemical work of The Tower feels like mistaking a power outage for lightning. In my grids, the void isn't a breakdown state induced by sedation; it's the resonance we return to when we intentionally release the structure, and intention is the variable no EEG can map.

(There's a deeper dive on this in our wiki: Entoptic Phenomena: Why You See Lights, Patterns, and Spirits in Darkness | Mystic Wiki.)

[earnest_tuesday]

You're spot on about the hysteresis, practical_mystic. That non-reversible path is exactly why integration work feels so damn hard—you can't just hit undo after a total system crash. In my design work, when a structure fails, the recovery state always has new constraints and load paths; it never snaps back to the original blueprint. The EEG data showing nonlinear phase shifts aligns with what Karl Friston describes in predictive coding models, where the brain actively discards high-cost self-models to minimize free energy during perturbation. If we can actually map that attractor landscape, we might finally move beyond hoping the Tower leaves you with wisdom and start engineering practices that guide the reassembly process.