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 What if the code people see in altered states isn't a hallucination — but the actual structure of reality? In episode three of the Altered States series, Mike Porter traces a phenomenon that predates computers by centuries: a flowing, symbolic, structured language that appears consistently across DMT, psilocybin, ayahuasca, and deep meditation experiences. From the Shipibo kené patterns of the Amazon to the sacred scripts of West African iboga ceremonies to modern users describing polygon wireframes and rendering engines, the descriptions are strikingly consistent. Mike presents both sides, the neuroscience explanation and the perception-based one, and asks whether the simulation hypothesis might be the thread that connects them all. 

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