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psychedelics demolish assumptions

April 18, 2025

source: psyche.co

by Dorian Minors

I did brain science at Cambridge. Now I'm a behaviour science professor. Read my shit.

Psychedelics demolish assumptions:

With their uncanny ability to disrupt our ordinary modes of perception and thinking, psychedelics have long been associated with feelings of insight … One of the most powerful cumulative effects of these disruptions is what I call ‘epistemic loosening’. Epistemic loosening is, in its essence, a quasi-Socratic, temporary destabilisation of deeply held beliefs and assumptions

I talk about the ’language problem’ all the time. So here is a new way of talking about this kind of intuitive insight, and as a bonus, how psychedelics interact with it. And here are some old articles of mine that talk about the same thing from other angles.

If you don’t do the thinking, the thinking will be done for you.

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