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314. Consciousness, Chaos and Order | Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Psychedelics Increases Signatures of Criticality

There is this other curious angle here. If psychedelics can increase properties of criticality, signatures of criticality like fractal organization,. There's things like critical slowing, which means that the system doesn't recover very quickly. It recovers slowly from a perturbation. That perturbation sort of reverberates through the system more easily. It's a more sensitive system when the systems are criticality. Anyway, all of those properties, if psychedelics increase the strength of those signatures ofcriticality, then that implies that normal waking consciousness is poised at what I understand. Would be a subcritical regime towards order towards that frozen system. And you can dial it up further and see stronger signatures

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