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Consciousness: What It Means to be You & What Really Makes Every Dog Happy

Something You Should Know

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The History of Mind Altering Substances

There is finitude to life, that we exist in this world as a conscious creature for an astonishingly brief period of time. That's what gives our experiences in the moment the value that they have. I think there can be a grandeur and a wonder in exploring the widert space of conscious experiences that are possible. The most interesting history ad futureof mind alteration are with things like psychodalic substances. They open up dramatically new kinds of experiences. And by altering the brain's contribution to this process, and seeing how it shapes and changes and melds our experience, that can foster this recognition that what we see is not a direct picture of what's actually there.

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