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| | qualiacomputing.com
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| | TL;DR Based on: the characteristic distribution of neural activity, personal accounts of intense pleasure and pain, the way various pain scaleshave been described by their creators, and the results of a pilot study we conducted which ranks, rates, and compares the hedonic quality of extreme experiences, we suggest that the best way to interpret pleasure...
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| | pharmrev.aspetjournals.org
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| | This paper formulates the action of psychedelics by integrating the free-energy principle and entropic brain hypothesis. We call this formulation relaxed beliefs under psychedelics (REBUS) and the anarchic brain, founded on the principle that-via their entropic effect on spontaneous cortical activity-psychedelics work to relax the precision of high-level priors or beliefs, thereby liberating bottom-up information flow, particularly via intrinsic sources such as the limbic system. We assemble evidence for...
| | crimethinc.com
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| An interview exploring the nationwide strike wave, the COVID-19 pandemic, austerity measures, international sanctions, repression, and resistance.