Will science crack the mystery of consciousness? | Bernardo Kastrup, Patricia Churchland, Carlo Rovelli
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The Epicycles of the Psychedelic Experience
The most robust finding of psychedelic science today is that all psychedelics study LSD, dimatothermene, psilocybin or silicine don't increase brain activity. This has been confirmed not only by Imperial College London, but by New York as well in Switzerland. And the alternative to accounting for that experience other than in terms of brain activity,. the alternative that's gaining traction today is the so called entropic brain hypothesis. The way they try to account for the phenomenology of the psychedelics runs is to say that brain noise levels, noisy activity activity that doesn't fall onto any recognizable pattern increases by 0.001 in a scale of 0 to 100. That is prep
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