After numerous postponements, Mind Chat is back tomorrow with a special episode on psychedelics. If we get 1,000 retweets, Keith Frankish and I will trip while broadcasting.
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Generous personal profile on me in The Harvard Crimson. 🙏 Gay, Catholic, Mormon choir-directing neuroscientist studying spirituality? Let's go! 🧠🙌🤯

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'How are pure mathematicians and professional philosophers affected [by mescaline]? It wd be interesting to try it out on a logical positivist. Would he ... say that all his philosophy was as straw and chaff, and refuse to go on with his intellectualizing?'
—Huxley
Lttr to Osmond

I wrote about how some people have a higher intolerance of uncertainty, and how being uncomfortable with the unknown is connected to anxiety

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Anon Psych Could it be that people whose therapist is a 'match' just feel good enough about the therapist and confident enough about the goals & means of therapy (i.e., good alliance) that they don't have to seek reassurance about those things from friends and in online forums? I hope so!

Given the dangers associated with ongoing efforts to portray psilocybin as a drug treatment that has nothing to do with psychotherapy, we must finally begin to study this treatment with psychometric tools that are connected to the psychotherapy research literature.

Quick twitter question/thread. I'm being interviewed about this on Friday and I want to know: how do you experience the deep mystery of life, and what are the circumstances and conditions you think you'd need to experience it more? Let's make a long thread, see blog for context.

Let’s dance more!

If you study psychedelics academically, please respond to our survey that probes to what extent researchers have their own psychedelic experiences: users.abo.fi/jjylkka/experi…

For those in #Amsterdam , the tenth Philosophy Salon is coming up next Wednesday, Feb 14. If you are into #ai , #spirituality , or #art and #creativity (are they all the same, anyway?), you should check it out!

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Brilliant blog article about Buddhism, entropy and the mysterious underpinnings of science by Aidan aidanlyon.com/blog/using-beg…

Do you conduct academic research on psychedelics? Please partake in our survey regarding psychedelic researchers' own psychedelic experiences. Retweets appreciated. users.abo.fi/jjylkka/experi… Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes Robin Carhart-Harris Zeus Tipado Ruben Laukkonen Aidan Max Wolff Aleksi Hupli, PhD

How do psychedelic experiences and philosophy interact?

Aidan presents a new approach to philosophy (or the revival of an ancient one) and explores how psychedelics might contribute to revealing the mind: oxford.ly/41RrjBc

Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. Did you invent the term NSDR because 'yoga nidra' sounds too hippyish and you thought it would be off-putting to some?

Had a wonderful time speaking on the narratives of love & psychedelics at #psykedeelit2023 . A huge thank you to the organizers of the event, & was a joy to meet & learn from Erika Dyck Max Wolff Aidan manvir singh Samuli Kangaslampi Aleksi Hupli, PhD among many many others! 🌱

Psychologist Samuli Kangaslampi asking an anthropologist manvir singh, psychotherapist Max Wolff, philosopher Aidan, bioethicist Susanne Uusitalo, neuroscientist Eero Castren and a medical doctor Hannu Alho what is (a) psychedelic? Nicely sums up #psykedeelit2023 conference! Kiitos!

Thank you for the 1st day of #psykedeelit2023 , especially Max Wolff for a great key note, Aidan and other speakers for mind revealing talks and glimpses into the setting of the 1st on-going clinical trial! Unfortunately due to illness wasn't able to join live, but in bytes✌️

Does anyone else ever tire of Bayesian brain jargon like “hidden causes of internal states”, “generative model”, “likelihood”, “precision weighting of prior distribution” etc etc .. 🤮 all so reified like these things are anything other than

'Ride with Larry' is an amazing documentary. Watch this scene as retired police captain Larry Smith, who has Parkinson’s, tries medical marijuana for the first time.

Looking forward to talking about the philosophy of psychedelic experiences at #Psykedeelit2023 next week!