Lex Fridman Podcast

#145 – Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics

Dec 14, 2020

03:39:37

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The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience

04:37

Is There a Consciousness?

02:34

The Heart Problem of Consciousness

05:01

Introduction

6min

Psychedelics - A Whirlwind Overview

3min

Psychedelics - Are They a Pitcher or a Catcher?

2min

What Are the Classic Psychedelics?

2min

Psychedelics - The Duality Between the Mind and the Body

4min

Classic Psychedelics vs MDMA - What's the Difference?

2min

Mdma

3min

What Do Psychedelics Do to the Human Mind?

3min

What's the Impact of the Language of Psychedelics?

4min

10.

Are Psychedelics a Way to Take a Journey of First Principles Thinking?

2min

11.

Is There Something You Draw Inspiration From?

3min

12.

Psychedelics Could Be One of the Tools That Encourage Paradigm Shifting Thinking

3min

13.

Is There a Relationship Between Psychedelics and Neuroplasticity?

2min

14.

Is There Therapeutic Potential With Psilocybin or LSD?

3min

15.

What Is DMT?

4min

16.

Is There a Greater Truth Out There?

3min

17.

DMT Ingestion

2min

18.

Joe Rogan's DMT Experiences

2min

19.

Psychedelics

4min

20.

What Is Addiction?

3min

21.

How Much Is This a Good Thing?

4min

22.

Addiction and Delay Discounting

2min

23.

Is There a Preference Reversal?

5min

24.

Is Addiction a Good Thing?

2min

25.

Is There a Data on the Setting of Prices in Illegal Drugs?

4min

26.

Is There a World Without Drugs?

3min

27.

Is There a Society With Legal Drugs?

2min

28.

Do You Know How to Regulate Hard Drugs?

6min

29.

Drugs - What's the Most Dependable Drug?

3min

30.

Tobacco Is Not an Illegal Drug

3min

31.

Is There a Potential Path Forward With Nicotine Tobacco?

2min

32.

Cocaine and Sexual Decision Making

2min

33.

Do You Know When You Most Want to Have Sex With an STI?

2min

34.

Sex With a Condom Is a Good Idea

2min

35.

Condom Use Is a Good Quant Quant Quantifiable Thing to Measure

2min

36.

Do You Have a Condom?

2min

37.

Is There a Consequence Management Process to Reduce Cocaine Use?

3min

38.

Uber for Condoms - Is There a Business Opportunity?

2min

39.

Is There a Difference Between Cocaine and Alcohol in Sexual Decision Making?

3min

40.

What's Your Favorite Study on Psychedelics?

2min

41.

Can We Really Shift Behavior?

2min

42.

Psychedelics - What's the Dosing Method?

3min

43.

Dosage of Edible Marijuana - Is There Limits?

3min

44.

Dosage Not Being a Question

4min

45.

Trust, Let Go, Be Open

2min

46.

Trusting the Relationships in the Study

3min

47.

Hidos Psychedelics

2min

48.

The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience

5min

49.

The Effects of Psilocybin on Smoking Addiction

4min

50.

Johns Hopkins Psychedelic - How Should People Communicate With You?

3min

51.

Psychedelics - I'm Looking for a Postdoc

3min

52.

Postdocs

4min

53.

Psychedelics

2min

54.

Is It a False Negative?

3min

55.

The Future of Drugs

3min

56.

What Are Your Thoughts About New Orleans?

3min

57.

Neural Networks Are All You Need

3min

58.

Is It Because of Elon's Timeline?

3min

59.

The Heart Problem of Consciousness

5min

60.

The DMN, the Default Mode Network Relating to the Self

4min

61.

The Difference Between Reality and Philosophy

4min

62.

Is There a Consciousness?

3min

63.

Is Consciousness a Fundamental Part of Physics of the Universe?

2min

64.

Panpsychism

3min

65.

Is Complexity a Threshold of Reality?

2min

66.

Is It Possible That With DMT Trips You Meet Extraterrestrial Life Forms?

2min

67.

Is It Possible That the Entities We Meet Are Actual Aliens?

2min

68.

Is There a Future for Us Human Beings?

4min

69.

I Think the Best Way to Practice Science Is to Practice Good Engineering

3min

70.

Are You Afraid of Death?

4min

71.

The Terror of Death

4min

72.

The Meaning of Life Is Is Defined Meaning

3min

73.

Psychedelic Experiences - The Greatest Learning Experiences

3min

74.

The Magic of the Abyss

2min

Matthew W. Johnson is a professor and psychedelics researcher at Johns Hopkins. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:31) – Introduction to psychedelics
(22:33) – Psychedelics expand the mind
(25:44) – The priors we bring to the psychedelic experience
(29:40) – Elon Musk and first principles thinking
(40:10) – DMT
(51:32) – Joe Rogan and DMT
(57:40) – The nature of drug addiction
(1:11:29) – The economics of drug pricing
(1:17:44) – Should we legalize all drugs?
(1:29:46) – What is the most dangerous drug?
(1:32:20) – Does drug prohibition work?
(1:36:14) – Cocaine and sex
(1:43:15) – Risky sexual decisions
(1:54:12) – Psilocybin helping people quit smoking
(2:00:30) – Young Jamie
(2:22:38) – Participating in a study
(2:29:57) – Psychedelics and the human mind
(2:37:20) – The future of psychedelics
(2:40:01) – Neuralink
(2:49:33) – Consciousness
(3:02:15) – Panpsychism
(3:12:20) – Aliens and DMT
(3:22:24) – Mortality
(3:32:12) – Meaning of life