I don't romanticize or stigmatize research with psychedelic drugs. For me, it's really about understanding the brain and not using this as a tool to understand reality. Anesthetics help us modulate the level of consciousness; Psychodelics help us modulates the content of consciousness. By the way, I don't know if you knew this, but alcohol also influences your state of consciousness,. So I put that in your in your list.
Can we bring people back from the dead? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice discuss restoring dead cells, the nature of consciousness, Frankenstein's monster, zombies, and more with neuroscientist, David Andrijevic and consciousness expert, George Mashour.
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