Andrew Huberman· PhD
One way I think about the psychedelics is they increase our willingness to... They increase the willingness of our brain to accept unlikely ways of constructing the world, unlikely hypothesis, as it were, as to what's going on.
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
One way I think about the psychedelics is they increase our willingness to... They increase the willingness of our brain to accept unlikely ways of constructing the world, unlikely hypothesis, as it were, as to what's going on.
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what the psychedelics seem to do is they change the threshold for us to become aware of these incomplete hypotheses or wrong hypotheses or concepts that might be noise but are just wrong.
One way I think about the psychedelics is they increase our willingness to-- or they increase the willingness of our brain to accept unlikely ways of constructing the world, unlikely hypotheses, as it were, as to what's going on.