#189 - Psychonauts Are Now Mapping Hyper-Dimensional Worlds | Andrew Gallimore
Danny Jones Podcast
How Psychedelics Work
When you take psychedelics, something fundamentally changes and you start getting all these errors. Your brain doesn't know if this model is true, if it's correct. It has no way of knowing the truth of the model. All it knows is, does this model work? Does this model allow me to predict the flow of sensory information?" And your brain then generates this error because there's a disconnect between the prediction and actual knowledge. Takes a turn, right? That's startling! So if that turns out to be wrong, so what? The ball suddenly takes a left turn instead of a right turn?! You're frowning a little bit, but... No, no, I'm just
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