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Psycholytic dosing or 'microdosing' of Amanita muscaria (red fly agaric) mushrooms—A retrospective case study

PsyArXiv November 7, 2023 Mika Turkia 2 citations preprint

Following advice received in a dream, a woman in her early thirties, suffering from depression, anxiety, and sleep disorders caused by complex trauma in her childhood, experimented with 'microdosing' or psycholytic dosing of Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) mushrooms. During a 3.5-month period with an intuition-based, gradually declining dosing scheme, her symptoms significantly decreased. No...

Content-State Dimensions Characterize Different Types of Neural Correlates of Consciousness

PsyArXiv November 3, 2023 preprint

Identifying the neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs) is key to support the different scientific theories of consciousness. NCCs can be defined to reflect either the brain signatures underlying specific conscious content or those supporting different states of consciousness, two aspects traditionally studied separately. In this paper, we introduce a framework to characterize NCCs according...

Content: A Possible Key to Consciousness

PsyArXiv August 9, 2023 Thomas W Clark preprint

A first order of business in explaining consciousness is to make sure it’s consciousness that’s being explained. I argue that there are two essential features of consciousness needing explanation: qualitativeness – the sensory feel of experience – and subjectivity: that experiences exist only for the conscious subject. These constitute what’s called phenomenal consciousness or phenomenality. I...

Updating Our Theories of Perceiving: From Predictive Processing to Radical Enactivism

PsyArXiv May 3, 2023 Inês Hipólito 1 citation preprint

Radically enactive accounts of perceiving directly and diametrically oppose their representationalist rivals. This is true even of the most radical predictive processing theories of perception which embrace some enactivist assumptions yet retain some commitment to representationalism. Which framework should we prefer? This chapter seeks to make headway on this question by focusing on the...