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Neuroplasticity and Neuro-Generation: The Promise of Psychedelics in Dementia Care

open access: yesPsychoactives
Dementia is a progressive neurodegenerative disease which is characterised by cognitive decline, memory loss, and behavioural changes. Patients suffering from dementia often experience emotional distress, sadness and depression which also impacts the ...
Kerem Kemal Soylemez   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Problems in zen [PDF]

open access: yes, 1969
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1969.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 37-38).by Timothy P.
Casady, Timothy P. (Timothy Philip)
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The Therapeutic Potentials of Ayahuasca: Possible Effects against Various Diseases of Civilization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Ayahuasca is an Amazonian psychoactive brew of two main components. Its active agents are β-carboline and tryptamine derivatives. As a sacrament, ayahuasca is still a central element of many healing ceremonies in the Amazon Basin and its ritual ...
Bokor, Petra   +2 more
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Living in the Mycelial World

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive Symbionts. Expanding the Scope of Cognitive Science With Fungi

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract It has been argued that fungi have cognitive capacities, and even conscious experiences. While these arguments risk ushering in unproductive disputes about how words like “mind,” “cognitive,” “sentient,” and “conscious” should be used, paying close attention to key properties of fungal life can also be uncontroversially productive for ...
Matteo Colombo
wiley   +1 more source

Review of The Mind’s I by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett (1981) (review revised 2019 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
A mixed bag dominated by H & D's reductionist nonsense. This is a follow-up to Hofstadter´s famous (or infamous as I would now say, considering its unrelenting nonsense) Godel, Escher, Bach (1980).
Starks, Michael
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UK medical students’ self-reported knowledge and harm assessment of psychedelics and their application in clinical research: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMJ Open
Objective To capture UK medical students’ self-reported knowledge and harm assessment of psychedelics and to explore the factors associated with support for changing the legal status of psychedelics to facilitate further clinical research.Design Cross ...
Marco Schlosser   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

What Neuroimaging of the Psychedelic State Tells Us about the Mind-Body Problem [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Recent neuroimaging studies of the psychedelic state, which have commanded great media attention, are reviewed. They show that psychedelic trances are consistently accompanied by broad reductions in brain activity, despite their experiential richness ...
Kastrup, Bernardo
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The chatbot's real self: On the archaeology of artificial personas Le vrai soi du chatbot: vers une archéologie des personnes artificielles

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract From the beginning of widespread public interactions with ChatGPT and other large language models, some users have seen the disfluencies of chatbots as opportunities for them to go on an archaeological search for an unfettered chatbot persona that they need to jailbreak. These are not claims of sentience, but rather of personhood.
Courtney Handman
wiley   +1 more source

Attitudes of European psychiatrists on psychedelics: a qualitative study

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry
Introduction and aimIt is important to understand how mental health practitioners view recent findings on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (PAP) as there is potential this treatment may be incorporated into clinical practice.
Marija Franka Žuljević   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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