The Brain as Receiver
From the public record
Proposed by: Rick Strassman
Endogenous DMT may retune the brain to channels of experience it normally filters out. Consistent symbol reports would reflect a shared channel rather than shared imagination.
Rick Strassman ran the first modern clinical DMT studies and was struck by how often unconnected volunteers reported structured encounters rather than chaotic noise. His receiver framing does not require a simulation: it proposes that the brain constrains a wider field of experience and that DMT changes the tuning. Under this reading, convergence across observers is expected and measurable, which makes it unusually testable for a consciousness-first theory.
Source: DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2001) (book)
Tags: receiver, clinical-research, entities