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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...
| | distill.pub
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| | When a neural network layer is divided into multiple branches, neurons self-organize into coherent groupings.
| | qualiacomputing.com
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| | Excerpts fromUnifying Theories of Psychedelic Drug Effects(2018) by Link Swanson(these are just key quotes; the full paper is worth reading) Abstract How do psychedelic drugs produce their characteristic range of acute effects in perception, emotion, cognition, and sense of self? How do these effects relate to the clinical efficacy of psychedelic-assisted therapies? Efforts to understand...
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| Debates about consciousness often come down to two people talking past each other, without realizing their interlocutor is coming from a fundamentall...