Episode 51: Robin Carhart-Harris: The promise of psychedelics

10/16/23 • 123 min

Joe and Rolf talk to psychedelic researcher Robin Carhart-Harris. Robin is at the cutting edge of research on the therapeutic benefits of psychedelics such as psilocybin (magic mushrooms), LSD, and DMT. He discusses psychotherapy and the unconscious mind, models of what psychedelics are doing in the brain, and many other topics. A really fascinating and in-depth conversation.

You can find links to his published research as well as a series of videos on harm reduction at the following link:

https://www.carhartharrislab.com/

Special Guest: Robin Carhart-Harris.

You can find links to his published research as well as a series of videos on harm reduction at the following link:

https://www.carhartharrislab.com/

Special Guest: Robin Carhart-Harris.

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Episode 50: Neural Interfaces

Joe and Rolf discuss new work in neural interfaces that is helping paralyzed individuals communicate.

Based on the recent Nature article:

Metzger, S. L., Littlejohn, K. T., Silva, A. B., Moses, D. A., Seaton, M. P., Wang, R., ... & Chang, E. F. (2023). A high-performance neuroprosthesis for speech decoding and avatar control. Nature, 1-10.

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Episode 52: The IIT controversy with Felipe De Brigard

We discuss the recent controversy about Integrated Information Theory (IIT), a theory about the neural correlates of consciousness, with Felipe De Brigard, a philosophy and psychology professor at Duke University who signed a letter describing the theory as pseudoscience.

The letter: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/zsr78/
The adversarial collaboration: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0268577
Description of IIT: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011465