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

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Entropic Brain Principle

The Entropic Brain Principle is something I introduced close to 10 years ago now. It says that the entropy or the unpredictability of spontaneous brain activity increases during the psychedelic experience. And the magnitude of that increase in brain entropy correlates with the increase in the richness of conscious experience, the rich ness of phenomenal consciousness.

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