What Karl Friston thinks about religion

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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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1. 20 Jun 2019

   Our readingPsychedelics can loosen heavily held political, religious and philosophical convictions, not only pathological ones.

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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