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Psychedelics work by strengthening the brain's top-down priors
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What Scott Alexander actually said
- Scott Alexander · held 1 day Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten
No longer holdsA more recent paper by Carhart-Harris and Friston provides compelling evidence that psychedelics probably work by _weakening_ the brain's top-down priors, meaning I got this one maximally wrong.
Their words nowA more recent paper by Carhart-Harris and Friston provides compelling evidence that psychedelics probably work by weakening the brain's top-down priors, meaning I got this one maximally wrong.
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