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What Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Teaching Us About Human Consciousness

By Iris Kulbatski — 2020

Psychedelic drugs like psilocybin are being tested to treat mental illness. They're also expanding our understanding about human consciousness.

Read on www.discovermagazine.com

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The Nature of Love

Learn about the evolution and future of human sex, love, marriage, gender differences in the brain and how your personality type shapes who you are and who you love.

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Helen Fisher
2012
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Big Think Interview with Helen Fisher

A conversation with the biological anthropologist and Rutgers University professor Helen Fisher

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Helen Fisher
2012
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Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray

First published in 1992, Helen Fisher’s “fascinating” (New York Times) Anatomy of Love quickly became a classic.

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Helen Fisher
2025
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Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love

In Why We Love, anthropologist Helen Fisher offers a new map of the phenomenon of love―from its origins in the brain to the thrilling havoc it creates in our bodies and behavior.

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Helen Fisher
2005
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Out-of-Body Experiences, Consciousness, and Cognitive Neuroprosthetics: Olaf Blanke at TEDxCHUV

"What is a conscious self ? What exactly makes an experience a subjective phenomenon ? Starting with the neurology of out-of-body experiences and the breakdown of bodily mechanisms of self-consciousness, this talk presents novel neuroscience data on self-consciousness and subjectivity in healthy...

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2012
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Out-of-Body Experience Is No Illusion

Neuroscientists in Lausanne study the weird phenomenon to prove it's not an illusion, or paranormal, but an organic process triggered by a malfunction in a very specific spot inside the brain.

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2010
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The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can’t Be Computed

In The Feeling of Life Itself, Christof Koch offers a straightforward definition of consciousness as any subjective experience, from the most mundane to the most exalted—the feeling of being alive. Psychologists study which cognitive operations underpin a given conscious perception.

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Christof Koch
2020
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The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes

Do we see the world as it truly is? In The Case Against Reality, pioneering cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman says no—we see what we need in order to survive. Our visual perceptions are not a window onto reality, Hoffman shows us, but instead are interfaces constructed by natural selection.

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Donald D. Hoffman
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Biospheric TV

Short piece of an interview with Jeremy Narby on the mystery of consciousness and biospheric television. NY April 12, 2008.

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Jeremy Narby
2008
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What If You Could Forget to Want Alcohol? - The Sinclair Method

Naltrexone isn't something that people should take as if it were another supplement to add to their cupboard.

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2018
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