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#145 – Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics

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The DMN, the Default Mode Network Relating to the Self

The idea that this type of brain network activity was related to a sense of self. But it is absolutely striking that psychedelics that people report with pretty high reliability, these unity experiences where people subjectively, like they were port losing or get like the boundaries of that,. however you want to say it. And I think we can do a lot with that in terms of figuring out the nature of thesense of self. Now, I don't think that's the same as the hard problem or, or the existence of phenomenal consciousness.

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