Jul 17, 2025 10:30 PM
CLOSER TO TRUTH
https://youtu.be/xOfJzVm73xY
VIDEO EXCERPTS: There's a huge interest in these altered states like psychedelics, hypnosis, meditation, and so on. I think they're extremely valuable for consciousness research, but we have to be a little bit careful about where we identify that value.
[...] If you want to understand how a system works, you can tweak it in different ways and to see what it's capable of. ... There's something quite remarkable about psychedelics, that somebody ingests a small amount of a particular substance, and we know where it binds to in the brain. So this happens, and then conscious experience changes completely...
[...] I think the worry is when we take the nature of the experience itself as an insight into how things really are. Right? If we have a psychedelic experience, and say: "Aha, the nature of my experience is that I'm one with the universe. and therefore pansychism is true." Or something like that...
Can altered states affect consciousness theories? ... https://youtu.be/xOfJzVm73xY
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https://youtu.be/xOfJzVm73xY
VIDEO EXCERPTS: There's a huge interest in these altered states like psychedelics, hypnosis, meditation, and so on. I think they're extremely valuable for consciousness research, but we have to be a little bit careful about where we identify that value.
[...] If you want to understand how a system works, you can tweak it in different ways and to see what it's capable of. ... There's something quite remarkable about psychedelics, that somebody ingests a small amount of a particular substance, and we know where it binds to in the brain. So this happens, and then conscious experience changes completely...
[...] I think the worry is when we take the nature of the experience itself as an insight into how things really are. Right? If we have a psychedelic experience, and say: "Aha, the nature of my experience is that I'm one with the universe. and therefore pansychism is true." Or something like that...
Can altered states affect consciousness theories? ... https://youtu.be/xOfJzVm73xY
Nevertheless, the undrugged minds of humans undergo quite of range of extraordinary experiences just on their own at times, from deific epiphanies and demonic possessions and NDEs to OOBEs and alien abductions and synchronicities and precog dreams. To the extent that we are still talking about pure unadulterated consciousness here then we are also still talking about phenomenally real and HUMAN experiences of the transphysical. The unconscious psyche surrounds our little conscious islands like a vast sea of numinous forms and manifestations and othernesses.