What Karl Friston thinks about psychedelics
Neuroscientist at University College London; developer of the free-energy principle and active inference, and of statistical parametric mapping for brain imaging.
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3 dated positions, 2019, in their own words. Our reading of what Karl Friston has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsWe end by discussing further implications of the model, such as that psychedelics can bring about the revision of other heavily weighted high-level priors, not directly related to mental health, such as those underlying partisan and/or overly-confident political, religious, and/or philosophical perspectives.
↗REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelicspmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov All 10 from this paper
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Their wordsThe resulting synthesis states that psychedelics work to relax high-level priors, sensitising them to liberated bottom-up information flow, which, with the right intention, care provision and context, can help guide and cultivate the revision of entrenched pathological priors.
↗REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelicspmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov All 10 from this paper
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Our readingPsychedelics may be therapeutic precisely because they act on the brain's highest-level beliefs.
Their wordsIn this paper, we propose that psychedelics can be therapeutically effective, precisely because they target the high levels of the brain’s functional hierarchy, primarily affecting the precision weighting of high-level priors or beliefs.
↗REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelicspmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov All 10 from this paper