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Re:Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope by scotty79 on Friday October 20, 2023 @05:04PM (#37961499)
> We're both materialists. Mine is a materialist position.

I'm not quite sure about you because you are using words like transcendence. ;-) In my view the deep experience of the trip, what you call transcendence, is just another hallucination, just hallucination of meaning and understanding instead of simple images, sounds or sensations.

Re:Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope by omginternets on Saturday October 21, 2023 @12:25PM (#37968178)
Transcendence is a qualia of experience; it says nothing about whether an immaterial substance is required to experience it.