Commentary: The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience August 30, 2016 David Papo 19 citations
The “entropic brain hypothesis” holds that the quality of conscious states depends on the system’s \nentropy (Carhart-Harris et al., 2014). Brain activity is said to become “more random and so harder \nto predict in primary states – of which the psychedelic state is an exemplar.” Psychedelic-induced \nbrain activity would be associated with elevated entropy in some of its aspects with respect...