marginalium noun
the notes one makes in the margins.
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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.
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