gwern comments on The Sacred Mundane - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 13 August 2012 09:36:05PM 6 points [-]

But what can you gain rationally from a real and COMPLETE mystical, “sacred” experience, with or without psychedelics? In essense, there is no change in the tools of analysis, but synthetical ability and the license to creativity are greatly improved.

If you were experimenting with LSD doses or micro-doses, how would you operationalize and measure something as vague sounding as 'synthetical ability'?