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Largest Ever Psychedelics Study Maps Changes of Conscious Awareness to Neurotransmitter Systems

By Neuroscience News — 2022

In the world’s largest study on psychedelics and the brain, a team of researchers from The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) and Department of Biomedical Engineering of McGill University, the Broad Institute at Harvard/MIT, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, and Mila—Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute have shown how drug-induced changes in subjective awareness are anatomically rooted in specific neurotransmitter receptor systems.

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Revealing the Mind: The Promise of Psychedelics

Nearly every culture throughout history has used chemicals that alter consciousness for spiritual exploration. In the 20th century these drugs caught the attention of scientists. Psychedelics, as they were named, proved effective at treating intractable illnesses like depression and addiction.

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Alison Gopnik - What Is Theory of Mind?

'Theory of mind' is the realization that other people have minds similar to our own, with all the intentions, machinations, ways of thinking that we have. 'Theory of mind' is studied as it develops in children.

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Alison Gopnik and Christof Koch - The Emergence of Consciousness

BrainMind Summit - Consciousness Day hosted at Stanford.

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The Singularity

Within the coming decades we will be able to create computers with greater than human intelligence, bio-engineer our species, and redesign matter through nanotechnology. How will these technologies change what it means to be human?

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