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#598 Chris Letheby: Philosophy of Psychedelics

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Is There a Self in the Body?

In a paper with the phil gerens, we argued that the evidence from studying psychodelic can help to support an anti realist conclusion about the self. We experience ourselves as something like cartesian egoes writes Philip Gerens. And then this bit doesn't really have anything to do with psychedelics, but the metaphysical part is just to say, well, there are no cartesian egos. No one's ever found one; it's completely impossible to square the existence of one with what we know about how the brain and body operate. But yet, that's where the psychodalic evidence would come in. So it would play a sort of relatively minor

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