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Psychedelics and consciousness: Could drugs help quantify our waking state?



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In a recent study, volunteers were given psychedelic drugs and had their brains scanned in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine. The scientists conducting the research wanted to gain a better understanding of consciousness and find out what the brain is actually doing when it experiences consciousness.

By disrupting the way the brain perceives and models the world while we’re awake with psychedelic drugs such as DMT, researchers can try to understand how the conscious brain works.

Studying the effects of psychedelics might be key not only to understand how consciousness works, but also to treat some of the problems that can affect our waking lives, with psychedelics being proposed as treatments for depression, anxiety and addiction.

Read more about psychedelic medicine at https://www.nature.com/collections/edcbibiadj

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31 thoughts on “Psychedelics and consciousness: Could drugs help quantify our waking state?
  1. Looking for control in your life and creating an ironic situation where you have no understanding where you are isn’t what you want. I believe that you can achieve this deeper understanding of life and gain control by looking for the omens in life and trying to understand the worlds true language, universal love. I’m ignorant and insignificant, but I want to provide what I know at this point in my life because it may be interesting to see what another human thinks. That’s how I’d see it. I wish the best for anyone looking into spiritual curiosity and strive to look deep within before reaching above; It’s a much healthier and beautiful experience/journey.

  2. Psilocybin containing mushroom saved my life. They drastically reduced my benzodiazepine withdrawal allowing me to quite illicit pill addiction after three years of heavy daily use before it would had become medically dangerous to quit. It has also helped me survive depression.Psilocybin containing mushroom saved my life. They drastically reduced my benzodiazepine withdrawal allowing me to quite illicit pill addiction after three years of heavy daily use before it would had become medically dangerous to quit. It has also helped me survive depression.

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  4. Maybe it's hubris, but learning about the most advanced AI models made me think "this is exactly how the brain must work".
    Just these vector spaces created by neural nets that encode complex concepts like the meaning of words or sentences, pointing into other vector spaces that encode complex concepts like the motions needed to pour a cup of coffee.
    Of course, you can probably generalize this further, but I think that's a nice way of conceptualizing it. I can easily see how you could build something that works like a human brain like this.

  5. I can't find a source anywhere for any good psychedelics in my area, I suffer some pretty bad depression and i got a chance to try K and man it was a miracle substance, I felt free,the only high or euphoria was from the relief of my vices being released, that's exactly what it did

  6. Where is this place?
    Who am I?
    Why am I here?
    Each time I silently posed one of these questions, the answer came instantly in an explosion of light, color, love, and beauty that blew through me like a crashing wave. The ongoing WOW is happening, right now! We are all co-authors of this dancing exuberance, where even our inabilities are having a roast. We are the authors of ourselves, co-authoring a gigantic Dostoevsky novel starring clowns! This entire thing we're involved with, called the world, is an opportunity to exhibit how exciting alienation can be.

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