Andrew Huberman· PhD
So anyway, both meditation and psychedelics seem to suppress activity in these regions, which we know are associated with both self-talk, mind-wandering, and explicit acts of self representation.
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So anyway, both meditation and psychedelics seem to suppress activity in these regions, which we know are associated with both self-talk, mind-wandering, and explicit acts of self representation.
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in fact the the states achieved through psychedelics and in very experienced meditators although I'm convinced that you can achieve this state pretty quickly through meditation it doesn't have to take 20 years is remarkably similar as best we know or there are some similarities I should say neurophysiological II in the sense that both seem to not necessarily deactivate but decrease activity in something referred to as the default mode Network
So the curious thing now is that psilocybin looks very much like meditation in that regard. So that decreases in the default mode network, and that kind of fits with this story we can tell in terms of the phenomenology that one thing that people are encouraged to do when they have this experience is surrender a sense of egoic holding.
So it appears to be a fairly robust conclusion, but it's...and it has face validity. And so it's really attractive, but