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| | The neuroscience of meditation and a framework for improving subjective experience.
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| | [AI summary] The article explores the differences between 5-MeO-DMT and N,N-DMT through nine distinct lenses, focusing on their therapeutic potential, neurobiological effects, and experiential qualities. It highlights how 5-MeO-DMT promotes integration and healing, while N,N-DMT offers a more expansive, intense experience. The text also references various scientific and artistic concepts, such as symmetry, crystallization, and information theory, to illustrate these distinctions. The discussion emphasizes the importance of understanding these differences for developing novel therapeutic approaches.
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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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| [AI summary] An in-depth exploration of Steven Lehar's theories on visual reification, flame fronts, and shock scaffolds, proposing that the brain acts as a field-based computer solving the inverse optics problem through nonlinear wave phenomena.