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The Free Energy Principle, Consciousness & Psychedelics with Dr. Adam Safron

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How to Model Sensory Engagement and Produce an Experienced World

There's a structure called posterior cingulate, which couples closely with this other structure called the pecunius in the back of the brain. And so it turns out that when you actually disrupt them, they will cause altered states of consciousness and potentially even loss of consciousness. Now I think you have what you need to construct a model of your sensory engagement and produce an experienced world from a point of view. That's like the nutshell of, I think you need that. Or you don't need that, but you need like, I think that's how we do it.

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