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299. Psychedelic Science | Dr. Dennis McKenna

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is the Brain a Personality Producing Machine?

The brain is obviously an organ that can produce personalities because it produces our personalities. It seems to me that the way that we organize information is in the form of personality. If you're inhabited by a rage state, what form does the anger take? You might act like enraged people that you've seen in movies. And so I was thinking too, that as the gods are aggregates of micro personalities,. They're micro personalities that are aggregated within societies across time and then can be apprehended collectively at some degree.

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