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

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Reducing Valve Analogy to Huxley

The thalamus is one of other hierarchically sub-ordered structures and systems where the information can flow up to high level cortex more freely under a psychedelic. The reducing valve analogy was brought to prominence by Conrad Waddington, evolutionary biologist who used it to explain phenotypes that get stamped into the genome. But he took it from Norman Whitehead who took it from Henri Bergson.

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