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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday June 22, 2023 @02:45AM (#36428749)
> the goal is to study how consciousness works

I’m not advocating for or against the use of mind-altering substances. But a scientist with two microscopes is going to have an edge over one who dogmatically subscribes to their one and only favourite. Even something as simple as observing the sky turns on knowledge of the failure of our neuro-optical pathways qua optical illusions.

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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by bell-cot on Thursday June 22, 2023 @05:46AM (#36429855)
The scientist whose second microscope has fun-house wonky lenses may only have an edge when it comes to discovering canals on Mars, researching N-rays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N_ray), and similar.
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Re:Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became ... by n3v3r3v3r on Thursday June 22, 2023 @01:19PM (#36435541)
Don't both of those things indirectly tell us a lot about our inherent biases? Seems to be _exactly_ the kind of insight that psychedelics offer
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