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#320 - Constructing Self and World

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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Psychedelics and the Rebus Model

One of the major theories, how psychedelics work is, is uses the predictive processing framework. And it's called the Rebus model, relaxed beliefs under psychedelics. The theory proposes that really what's going on in psychedelics is that they are essentially quietening the influence of the top level priors. So you're seeing the world afresh, but somehow something's changed because these top level models aren't infusing their influence right down the stack.

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