Psychedelic Neuroscience, Civilization, and The Ego | Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris ~ ATTMind 93

Mar 15, 2019

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Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris heads the Psychedelic Research Group within the Centre for Psychiatry at Imperial College London. He joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to talk about the Entropic Brain (and mind) theory, complexity vs. order, the disproportionate representation of 'ego' consciousness in modern civilisation and its impact on the natural world, confirmation biases and misreporting in psychedelic science and, of course, how psychedelics work in the brain.

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An introductory primer on the entropic brain theory
free energy principle, thermal dynamics, complexity science, and brain activity
LZ/complexity and the varieties of consciousness states
the importance of indexing the ‘mind stuff’ in psychedelic research
Natural language analytics, mental illness, and how we narratives our psychedelic encounters
primary and secondary states of mind, and
Brain development and comparing psychedelic mind to the mind of a child
ego consciousness, psilocybin, and the collapse of civilization
REBUS and the resistance of uncertainty
A little talk about trauma and psychotherapy
A discussion around ‘Is there a confirmation bias in psychedelic neuroscience?’
Deconstructing the fallacy of physicalist neuroscience
The (very specific) neuroscience of psilocybin
- What psilocybin does when it gets into the body
- the neocortex and serotonin receptors
- psilocybin’s effects on neural cellular behaviour
Is psilocybin intelligent?
Mapping brain anarchy
What turns psilocybin into psilocin
Psilocybin effect on and in the gut (enteric brain)
Are there any genetic variations that could block psychedelics’ effects?
“There will never be an account of reality that will be absolute.”

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