Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems--Simple Cells Can Do It | Scientific American It’s time for the mind/ body dualism reminiscences to be reconsidered pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37265513/ ⁦Michael Levin & team scientificamerican.com/article/brains…

This is really good news for #LSD . Congratulations!! MindMed

Fantastic piece by Marten Scheffer on the forgotten half of thinking: ".. taking walks, reading things unrelated to your research, and hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking .." pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

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Informed by new evidence of systematic data fraud at MAPS PBC, we wrote a petition calling for the FDA to schedule an open advisory committee meeting on Lykos’ application for MDMA-assisted therapy that prioritizes contributions from all stakeholders: /1 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

New review! Cognition is an emergent property doi.org/10.1016/j.cobe… Electrical fields in the brain can serve as a medium for propagating activity nearly instantaneously. They can organize computations through subspace coding. MIT Picower Institute MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences #neuroscience

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Hyped for this to be published w/Pablo Mallaroni, Natasha L Mason / nlmason.bsky.social, & Jan Ramaekers! This is the 3rd dataset to show psychedelics idiosyncratically boost familiarity w/two psychedelics, psilocybin & 2C-B, but this time the increases led to something weird... biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S2451-… 1/11

🍄Félicitations à Federico Seragnoli ainsi qu'à toute l'équipe du HUG de Genève pour cet article décrivant en français et en accès libre leur modèle de psychothérapie assistée par psychédélique ! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… ✨

Armchair philosophers questioning the concept of false beliefs🤦🏾You ain't Jesus & you can't fly. If you believe otherwise, that's false (& maladaptive). And 'til you show me your Nobel Prize, you also probably don't understand the universe/consciousness from your lil drug trip.

Interesting FIBUS ('false insights & beliefs under psychedelics') theory – a few immediate thoughts: 1. It's premised on predictive processing theory which itself is highly controversial to say the least, possibly false, certainly insufficient. 2. FIBUS is a proposed aetiology of

Controlling for genetic and environmental confounding, study revealed 21-41% of mental health conditions in Australia are attributable to child maltreatment. Over 1.8 million cases & 184,000 DALYs could be prevented if child maltreatment was eliminated. ja.ma/4dqwc9c

Awareness Lectures on Psychedelic Science Conference 2024 Join us in Aarau, Switzerland on October 11-12 , 2024 for our biggest event to date providing deep insights into the latest advancements in psychedelic research and therapy, featuring 16 speakers and 2 panel

Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body. The biohybrid robot created by Cornell and Florence University, uses electrical signals from an edible type of mushroom called a king trumpet in order to move around and sense its environment.

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So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity.

Great initial effort in creating robust healthcare benchmarks.

Our book on metacognition across cultures is now officially out! "This volume casts a large net by examining interdisciplinary approaches to cultural influences on the control of the mind." Michael Posner global.oup.com/academic/produ… Oxford Academic