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#598 Chris Letheby: Philosophy of Psychedelics

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Are There Any Epistemic Benefits From Psychotelics?

i think there are clear at episthemic benefits from using psychotelics. One possibility has to do with sort of psychological insight. And so very often people report having kind of profound insights under the influence about their own minds, their own thoughts and feelings. At least some of the time they're almost certainly false. So it's not as though every time someone has an apparent psychological insight induced by psychedelics, they've gained knowledge. But i think in a lot of cases, you have actually gained some genuine new knowledge about yourself, about your mind, about your life."

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