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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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blankhorizons.com
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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... | |
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www.newyorker.com
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| | | Kyle Chayka writes about the evolution of Google Search, which has become the runaway favorite Internet search engine despite many users misgivings about how the company monetizes the data it collects and how its algorithms determine the search results that a user is shown. | ||