Psychedelics relax priors. Or, as they say on psychedelics: they upregulate a general hyperparameter that increases the probability of unproven concepts, leading to cascading inference under conditions of diminished reliability...
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Replying to @Plinz
Do you think this relaxation of priors is the same as or related to the increase in openness to experience found to follow psychedelic experiences?
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Replying to @delysis
“Openness” is a pretty vague personality parameter that is measured with questionnaires and does not have a single clear neurobiological mechanism behind it, so it is hard to tell.
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