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Shamil Chandaria on awakening & the Bayesian brain | Living Mirrors #106

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke

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The Effects of Psychedelics on Belief Update

Ketamine seems to regulate expectations, those priors, those models. And that's allowing you to actually update your beliefs in line with the evidence. So it really fits with this idea of belief updating being really crucial. I think health is not just about changing one's priors, it's about holding them lightly and having them able to adapt flexibly to new circumstances.

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