The wonderful Manesh Girn appeared as a guest for this episode! He is known for his YouTube channel "The Psychedelic Scientist". We discuss various hot topics in the psychedelic research world and then later explore subjective experiences he's had. 

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31. The Psychedelic Scientist w/ Manesh Girn

Katherine is a medical student from Stanford who was also a winner in the recent PsychedelX competition. We chat about spirituality and psychosis. Haley Dourron joins us as a cohost as well!

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32. Katherine Lyman Talks Spirituality and Psychosis

Andrew Zuckerman is a researcher at the Qualia Research Institute. He joins us to talk about his project aimed at studying subjective perception of the effects of various drugs like LSD, DMT, and THC. Isla Weber, from the Intercollegiate Psychedelics Network, joins as a cohost. 

Watch Andrew Zuckerman's video project here:
https://youtu.be/M8hRWngvd-A

An article I did about this topic:
https://mad.science.blog/2021/03/12/flicker-fusion-and-visual-cymatics/

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34. How To Study Qualia With Andrew Zuckerman and Isla Weber

We explore addiction-based society, loneliness, conformity, and how the internet can help us escape our social boxes. In this episode, I also bring up some of my own personal experiences and how this shaped my life. This episode led to more interesting tangents than I expected so I'll likely do such brainstorms again! If you have questions, email me at qwerkyscience@gmail.com

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35. Issues With Social Reality - Viewer Questions

This episode is an exploration of dissociation as a general phenomenon of normal attention, trauma-induced dissociative responses, and the mechanisms of psychedelics & dissociative drugs.

The article for this episode:
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36. Attention And Dissociation

There is a quite lengthy description of one of the cooler ideas explored in this episode below. 

Some links first:

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I think the main effect of interest with psychedelics could be disruption of conditioned responses which might allow new conditioning to override established responses. 

In some sense, this is sort of what I think REBUS is proposing underneath it all. I think even the effects on perception, attention, and cognition are from destabilizing conditioned responses and allowing us to observe the world and use our mind in ways that we have been conditioned to not do. 

We fear ego death in waking life because the ego is partly developed through avoidance of the things we fear. Lacking this puts us in confrontation with those fears and ego death strips us of our habitual coping strategies to solve our fears. 

One example would be learning to put on a social mask to avoid the fear of being harmed socially. During the come up on psychedelics, our learned social behavioral responses may disappear and we feel naked, while our conditioned fears that tell us to be socially afraid still remain. At super high doses, we might blockout even the conditioned response to fear social situations.

This can allow us to observe that we had such a conditioned mindset and that alternative ways of existing are out there. A life where we are not clinging to the habitual way of seeing and behaving. 

It’s like fear forces us into a box of limited behaviors and perceptions and sometimes this brings us misery. Like an addict who fears the withdrawals. Like those with PTSD who fear engaging with their triggers/cues.

37. Ego Death as the Abolition of Conditioned Responses

Reciprocal sociality is about how our behaviors are often mirrored with each other, particularly in the sense of prosocial and antisocial behavior. Awareness of this is useful for managing social conflicts. 

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38. Reciprocal Sociality

An exploration of how those with schizophrenia may think differently than "ordinary" people. It is argued that ordinary people are delusional as well and this isn't the distinguishing factor. Ordinary people do not create beliefs in science or religion but instead, consume these ideas from those around them. The schizophrenic may either fail to conform or create their own beliefs/hypotheses. Though, it is more complex than this.

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39. The Priest and The Scientist

How toxic rich business owners might resemble school shooters. This clip is from episode 28 with guest Kevin Ronca. This clip seems straightforward and useful for understanding political conflict and low empathy behaviors.

I'm considering doing short and sweet clips of key points from longer episodes as a trend. What do you think?

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Contagious Empathy Failure as a Product of Circumstance [Clips]

I've been wondering if ethical theories can be dangerous. Not because of the implications of the theory, but because of the way that discovering a new ethical idea puts you at odds with everyone else. Discovering a new ethical idea often challenges people's choices, which makes you a threat to their ways of life.

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40. Can Good Ethical Theories Be Infohazards?

I've started creating video forms of media similar to this podcast. Sorry that it's been so long since I've updated the podcast stream. I've been working relentlessly to upgrade the content for video as well as writing a book! 

Here is the video format:

https://youtu.be/e_S-J0cCh9s

The written post:

https://mad.science.blog/2022/09/02/soul-indoctrination/

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41. Soul Indoctrination

A depressed Psychology Bachelors gives some takes and reviews the artistic awesomeness that is Madoka Magica with a focus on Sayaka, who seems to be the most relatable character (for me). I created the backing music. You can listen to those tracks free at the links below.

This goes pretty deep into my own backstory, hitting some intense topics. Prepare yourself for the journey! Good luck.

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https://mad.science.blog/2022/10/05/madoka-magica-sayakas-relatable-insanity/ 

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42. The Psychology of Madoka Magica: Sayaka's Insanity

I’ve been pondering the binding problem of consciousness. The whole idea of it seems absurd to me. Today, we have a whirlwind exploring binding and various descriptions of conscious experience. Time is also investigated.

43. Consciousness Whirlwind

GRANDIOSITY

Difference, or beneath.

Grandiosity is the notion that you are superior to others around you.
We can assume others are not like us, that they actually aren’t using an apparently simple façade, and that they are expressing their true selves. Then we will assume that the lack of complexity is because they are stupid. This is grandiosity.

PARANOIA

Similarity, or above.

Paranoia is the notion that others may think similarly complex as the self.
We can assume others are like us, that they think theoretically, abstractly, deeply, too deeply to a fault. Then people’s simple behaviors, and outward appearance can appear like a façade. Then, these schizophrenics might develop a social façade too. This is applicable to non-schizophrenics too tho. It’s just an exaggeration with schizophrenics. Trying to decipher other people’s hidden lives, beneath the façade, is paranoia.

Link to the outro track: https://soundcloud.com/cosmicrush/aboveawe

Season 1

1. Insight Into The Subjective Experience Of Psychosis

Some say that animals are less intelligent only according to anthropocentric definitions. I would like to clarify, that even by anthropocentric definitions, we still may not be the most intelligent. This post discusses this topic in depth, criticizing this assumption that I believe stems from dogma, similar to the assumption that Earth is the center of the universe. We may have the strongest sociological intelligence of all animals, but individually, we are not very intelligent, where chimps are superior, due to pharmacological/physiological reasons, physiological reasons that directly relate to the precise factor that allows for strong sociological development: domestication.

The blog post: https://mad.science.blog/2017/11/01/a-case-for-animal-superiority/

2. A Case For Superior Animal Intelligence

This episode explores abstraction in further depth, a DMT hypothesis, and updates to the animal cognition argument, including criticism of IQ as a concept.

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Abstraction https://mad.science.blog/2018/03/13/abstraction/

Animal Cognition https://mad.science.blog/2017/11/01/a-case-for-animal-superiority/

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4. Above Awe

I believe psychedelics could heal schizophrenia, but it highly depends on the context of the situation. I also believe most cases of schizophrenia are really a response to trauma and negative experience.

15. Trauma Theory

I am conflicted on whether I think society is getting crazier or if a lot of suppressed thinkers have more collective influence because of the geographical limitations of society being lifted by the internet. I am going to post this anyway, its possible that both of these narratives are true at the same time as well.

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16. Mass Psychosis

A special guest appears for the first episode of the season! Andres Emilsson from QRI and Qualia Computing has graced us with some epic discussion. We explore the Neural Annealing concept and how Cognitive Atomization fits in as well as discussion of human development, perception, evolution, psychedelics, ketamine, and more. The conversation was one of the most interesting I've had in a while. Hope you enjoy!

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17. Neural Atomization Feat. Qualia Computing's Andres Emilsson

Had an amazing discussion with the wonderful Jeremy Hadfield. Bipolar disorder is discussed as an evolutionary adaptation that benefits the group, playing the role of the 'shaman' who can break from the cultural norms and help define new social rules. The lack of aversion may help these individuals oppose social norms and allow divergent thoughts that oppose the consensus. We attempt to elaborate on, define, and understand the manic condition. Jeremy has very interesting perspectives on human history, bipolar disorder, and philosophy.

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19. Manic Theory w/ Jeremy Hadfield

The more I gazed into the perceptual world of the present moment, the more lost I became. Everything enhanced and started to feel surreal and exotic. It was the feeling that my senses buzzed louder and louder, until vividity.

The described experience:
https://mad.science.blog/2020/02/08/shamanism/

20. A Psychedelic Experience

From the origin of life, to the origin of death, join me on a journey into the psychedelic nature of evolution as I ponder whether we have evolved to die.

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21. The Evolution Of Death

We discuss a whole range of topics: salvia, cannabis, cognitive atomization, psychedelics, illusions, the nature of perception, psychopharmacology, mechanisms, and much more!

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22. The Wacky World of Psychonautics With Matthew Smith

We explore the synesthetic infant hypothesis, how synaptogenesis may be related to synesthesia, and how savantism ties into this whole puzzle. Might we be able to program our learning culture with synesthetic upgrades?

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23. The Synesthetic Savant

People sometimes claim that psychedelics give a false sense of insight. Or that they generate bad or false insights. I challenge this claim by showing that insights are generally false and that delusional ideas are normal. Our society operates through hierarchies of authority on knowledge and most people do not think of insights or original thoughts, but instead, they submit to what experts tell them to believe. Having original thoughts is the domain of experts and psychedelics simply disinhibit our thinking.

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24. The Nature of Delusions and Insights

A friend of mine, Derek Hetzler of the Reach and Reflect podcast, came onto the show and we talk about various topics, from alien curiosity, afterlife, consciousness, psychedelics, and how social media influences our world today. Towards the end, the viewers come into the conversation!

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25. A Peculiar Conversation (Aliens, Afterlife, Consciousness, Psychedelics, Social Media)

Today we chat with the creator of the new documentary DMT Quest! He is also an independent DMT/psychedelics researcher. This conversation got into all kinds of interesting places. 

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26. DMT Quest with John Chavez

Psychedelics are true, society is false. What is even real? Ph.D. student Haley Dourron joins me to discuss her ideas on psychedelics, schizophrenia, society, and reality. I loved where this discussion went towards the end! 

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27. An Entropic Brainstorm Session with Psychedelics Researcher Haley Dourron

This writer is one of the inspirations for the ideas in Flicker and Cognitive Atomization. We explore a ton of different psychedelic ideas about how they work, what they do, how this influences society, how perception works, and more!

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29. Psychedelic Information Theory with James Kent

Come observe my cringey voice-acting in a dystopian short about the race to singularity and the hedonistic imperative. This was created a long time ago and now it has been updated for quality! I also created all of the music in this, which can be found on any music app by searching Gaej. Most of it is from the album Diality. 

Warning, this is dark. Rated R The story is mostly cartoony and inoffensive though. It does not describe anything in detail and is mostly a conceptual ethical conundrum.

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30. A Sufferless Utopia (Throwback Thursday) [R Rated]

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