The Brain’s “Inner GPS” Creates Conceptual Spaces in the Mind
The honeycomb lattice mentioned in the article resonated with me.I’ll go out on a limb and share a personal anecdote: In high school I took magic mushrooms with my friends, and at one point in the experience the world disappeared and I saw an undulating fabric in a honeycomb pattern. In the center of each “hole” in the fabric was a link to a memory, a time and a place.It was one of those images that was hard to forget - I can still recall it many, many years later.In “Dragons of Eden” Carl Sagan muses that drugs might work in an analogous way to how night time brings out the stars. The stars are always there, but daylight masks them.In a similar way I’ve often wondered if there was something to that geometry I saw.Or perhaps it’s just my brain trying too hard to be poetic :P