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Awe and Psychedelics with Michael Pollan
A Slight Change of Plans
The Default Mode Network: Exploring the Self and Consciousness in Psychedelic Science
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- The default mode network in the brain, which is most active when not engaged in any specific task, is involved in self-reflection, worry, rumination, thinking about the future, thinking about the past, and creating a sense of self.
- The default mode network plays a role in time travel, theory of mind (the ability to understand the thoughts of others), and the narrative self (the story we tell ourselves about who we are).
- Under the influence of psychedelics or in experienced meditators, the default mode network becomes quiet, leading to reports of ego dissolution and significant drops in activity.
- The findings of psychedelic science regarding the default mode network have implications for the study of consciousness and the self, although there are alternative theories that require further exploration.
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