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EP 178 Anil Seth on A New Science of Consciousness

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Psychedelics

When we applied these measures of conscious level to psychedelics, the results were surprisingly clear that they went in the opposite direction to what happens during sleep in anesthesia. So the brain got more random. There is something about the psychedelic experience where the structure of the experience is less ordered. And so perhaps it's no surprise that measures of signal diversity or complexity go up in the psychedelic state.

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