Karl Friston
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Neuroscientist at University College London; developer of the free-energy principle and active inference, and of statistical parametric mapping for brain…
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9 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Psychedelics may be therapeutic precisely because they act on the brain's highest-level beliefs. (opens korrents.com)
“In this paper, we propose that psychedelics can be therapeutically effective, precisely because they target the high levels of the brain’s functional hierarchy, primarily affecting the precision weighting of high-level…”
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Psychedelics can loosen heavily held political, religious and philosophical convictions, not only pathological ones. (opens korrents.com)
“We end by discussing further implications of the model, such as that psychedelics can bring about the revision of other heavily weighted high-level priors, not directly related to mental health, such as those…”
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With the right intention, care and context, psychedelics can help revise entrenched pathological beliefs. (opens korrents.com)
“The resulting synthesis states that psychedelics work to relax high-level priors, sensitising them to liberated bottom-up information flow, which, with the right intention, care provision and context, can help guide…”
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Psychedelics may be therapeutic precisely because they act on the brain's highest-level beliefs. (opens korrents.com)