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The Heart Problem of Consciousness
Psychedelics have not really taught us anything about the nature of consciousness. I think there's far more potential for them to do so, but they haven't done that yet. One story emerged is that psychedelics acutely have an effects on the default mode network and a certain pattern of activation amongst brain areas associated with self referential processing. But when psilocybin is on board, you know, in the person system, that there's a there's less communication between these these areas.