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

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Alpha Rhythm in the Human Brain

There's a bit of curious neuroimaging data that suggests that certain properties of brain activity are suggestive of subcriticality or too much order, like the alpha rhythm. And for me, that was suggested to people who have become divorced from the criticality of nature. Yeah, they're more catalyzed. They're too ordered. The urban environment actually lends itself to that because a lot of the things that we build are structured so that we only have to glance at them to know what they are. Think about the shiny outside surface of a car. A lot of it is so you can just categorize it at a glance. All the complexity is hidden. This is especially true in modern

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