From one piece REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Psychedelic therapy should integrate the material it releases into a person's existing mental models.Their words
It is an ideal of psychedelic therapy that this newly available content be appropriately integrated and assimilated into existing mental models so that more of the inner and outer world can be processed.
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Reliable and robust models of natural phenomena, of the sort that science endeavors to discover and finesse, serve us best, as they are less likely to betray us, leaving us open to logical fallacies, dogmatism, absolutism, and an emotional and existential instability.
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With the right intention, care and context, psychedelics can help revise entrenched pathological beliefs.Their words
The resulting synthesis states that psychedelics work to relax high-level priors, sensitising them to liberated bottom-up information flow, which, with the right intention, care provision and context, can help guide and cultivate the revision of entrenched pathological priors.
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Psychedelics can loosen heavily held political, religious and philosophical convictions, not only pathological ones.Their words
We end by discussing further implications of the model, such as that psychedelics can bring about the revision of other heavily weighted high-level priors, not directly related to mental health, such as those underlying partisan and/or overly-confident political, religious, and/or philosophical perspectives.
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Psychedelics may be therapeutic precisely because they act on the brain's highest-level beliefs.Their words
In this paper, we propose that psychedelics can be therapeutically effective, precisely because they target the high levels of the brain’s functional hierarchy, primarily affecting the precision weighting of high-level priors or beliefs.