#107 Robin Carhart-Harris: Your Consciousness Exists Between Order and Chaos | Entropic Brain

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Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris discusses his research on psychedelics and the Entropic Brain Hypothesis, exploring the relationship between consciousness, order, and chaos.

Get One Month Free of Consensus (The Best Ai Science Tool): https://get.consensus.app/we00d2cmjpqe Dr Robin Carhart-Harris is the world's leading psychedelic researcher, founder of the first Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London, and the scientist who put the first person on LSD inside a brain scanner in over 40 years. His Entropic Brain Hypothesis proposes that consciousness exists on a spectrum from order to chaos — and that psychedelics work by dissolving the brain's confidence in its own model of reality. His landmark trial in the New England Journal of Medicine showed two doses of psilocybin matched six weeks of antidepressants for depression. Expect to learn why psychedelics don't activate the brain but scramble it, what the entropic brain hypothesis actually means and why entropy may be the best biomarker for consciousness, how the default mode network holds your ego together and what happens when psychedelics melt it, the difference between DMT entity encounters and 5-MeO-DMT ego obliteration, why Robin thinks we could still get psychedelic medicine catastrophically wrong, and much more … Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction to Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris…

People in this episode

Host: Evan McGloughlin

Guest: Dr Robin Carhart-Harris

Topics covered

• psychedelics
• consciousness
• brain research
• mental health
• entropy
• neuroscience

Keywords

• psychedelics
• consciousness
• Entropic Brain Hypothesis
• psilocybin
• brain scans
• mental health
• DMT
• ego

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Organizations: Imperial College London

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