The results from our psychedelic analyses raised a disturbing prospect. Would maximally random brain activity, as measured by algorithmic complexity, lead to a maximally psychedelic experience? Or to a different “level” of consciousness of some other kind? The extrapolation seems unlikely. A brain with all its neurons firing willy-nilly would seem more likely to give rise to no conscious experience at all, just as free-form jazz at some point stops being music.
