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The Effects of Drugs on the Brain
So when we hallucinate, is that just our brain's prediction modeling gone a little haywire and maybe ignoring what's in our sensory input? Exactly. And the weird part, the very weird part to me is how many drugs there are that can cause things like hallucinations. That indicates something about the exact movement of the electrical signals through these vast neural networks is an extremely delicate thing. All you need to do is knock it 5% off. And suddenly you're seeing silver leprechauns and having a totally different kind of experience. It's actually, yeah, it's kind of terrifying. Yeah.