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

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Neuroticism

There seems to be increased communication between cortical columns in the brain. I've been conceptualizing neuroticism as the proclivity of a conceptual system to collapse in response to error. So if the psychedelics are increasing excitability, I wonder if they're doing something analogous to the co-activation of more disparate columns as well. It doesn't exactly look like it's semantic excitation that's occurring but there does seem to be this red broadening of creativity.

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