Robin Carhart-Harris
Neuroscientist and psychedelics researcher; founded the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London, then moved to the University of California, San Francisco; proposed the entropic brain hypothesis.
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Psychedelics may be therapeutic precisely because they act on the brain's highest-level beliefs.
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.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govSaid 20 Jun 2019This on korrents
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Normal waking consciousness gets its constrained quality, including self-awareness, from suppressed brain entropy.
It is argued that this entropy suppression furnishes normal waking consciousness with a constrained quality and associated metacognitive functions, including reality-testing and self-awareness.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govSaid 3 Feb 2014This on korrents
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Psychedelics may be therapeutic precisely because they act on the brain's highest-level beliefs.
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.
REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics Said 20 Jun 2019
Psychedelics can loosen heavily held political, religious and philosophical convictions, not only pathological ones.
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.
REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics Said 20 Jun 2019
With the right intention, care and context, psychedelics can help revise entrenched pathological beliefs.
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.
REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics Said 20 Jun 2019
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Robust scientific models of nature serve us best, because they are less likely to leave us open to dogmatism and instability.
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.
REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics Said 20 Jun 2019
Psychedelic therapy should integrate the material it releases into a person's existing mental models.
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.
REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics Said 20 Jun 2019
Normal waking consciousness gets its constrained quality, including self-awareness, from suppressed brain entropy.
It is argued that this entropy suppression furnishes normal waking consciousness with a constrained quality and associated metacognitive functions, including reality-testing and self-awareness.
The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs (with 7 co-authors) Said 3 Feb 2014
The psychedelic state is an example of a primitive state of consciousness that preceded normal adult waking consciousness.
The psychedelic state is considered an exemplar of a primitive or primary state of consciousness that preceded the development of modern, adult, human, normal waking consciousness.
The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs (with 7 co-authors) Said 3 Feb 2014
In normal waking consciousness the brain may operate just below criticality.
Moreover, if primary states are critical, then this suggests that entropy is suppressed in normal waking consciousness, meaning that the brain operates just below criticality.
The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs (with 7 co-authors) Said 3 Feb 2014
Entering primary states of consciousness depends on a collapse of organised activity in the default-mode network.
It is also proposed that entry into primary states depends on a collapse of the normally highly organized activity within the default-mode network (DMN) and a decoupling between the DMN and the medial temporal lobes (which are normally significantly coupled).
The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs (with 7 co-authors) Said 3 Feb 2014
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Psychedelics may be therapeutic precisely because they act on the brain's highest-level beliefs. 2 hold this
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.
REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics Said 20 Jun 2019
Psychedelics can loosen heavily held political, religious and philosophical convictions, not only pathological ones. 2 hold this
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.
REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics Said 20 Jun 2019
With the right intention, care and context, psychedelics can help revise entrenched pathological beliefs. 2 hold this
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.
REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics Said 20 Jun 2019
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