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Anderson Todd is a cognitive scientist who studies consciousness from the inside. He teaches cognitive science at the University of Toronto, is Assistant Director of its Consciousness and Wisdom Studies Lab, works as a registered psychotherapist, and sits somewhere between Carl Jung and artificial intelligence. Salvia once destroyed his universe. An hour later, he went back in.
Expect to learn:
- The Salvia Trip: why the beings he met tore the universe apart to teach him respect
- Bad Trips Are Good Trips: how salvia's kappa opioid effect may reorganise the mind, and its surprising antidepressant effect
- The Dream Herb: the African plant that does nothing awake but supercharges your dreams
- The Spider God: the LSD trip at 17 that ended in a lifelong pact
- You Are Not One Person: why the entities people meet may be split-off parts of their own minds
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GS EPISODES MENTIONED
David Luke - Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://youtu.be/qLKD1gt1X5o
David Spiegel - World's Greatest Hypnosis Scientist Makes My Arm Levitate Live On Camera!: https://youtu.be/eCtRBZHIsgQ
Michael Levin - Michael Levin: Bioelectricity, Morphogenesis, Platonic Spaces & Xenobots: https://youtu.be/LTBZRVKUwyM
John Vervaeke - No.1 Biopsychist: Michael Levin's Platonic Minds & Cognition All The Way Down: https://youtu.be/jcMtjjeUV98
GUEST LINKS
University of Toronto Profile: https://www.uc.utoronto.ca/staff-faculty-profile/anderson-todd
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndersonTodd
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00:00 Trailer
0:02:05 Somewhere Between Carl Jung and AI
0:04:15 Why Cognitive Science Is the Heir to Alchemy
0:13:36 The Salvia Trip That Destroyed the Universe
0:19:50 "We Destroyed the Universe to Teach You a Lesson"
0:22:10 An Hour Later, He Went Back In
0:23:26 "You Have Attended Your Own Funeral"
0:28:37 Why Bad Trips Can Be Good Trips
0:32:26 Salvia's Surprising Antidepressant Effect
0:45:48 Turning Into a Japanese Rose Garden
0:48:23 Silene Capensis, the Lucid Dream Herb
0:53:58 Why Dreams Aren't Random Noise
0:59:59 90% of DMT Users Meet Entities
1:07:33 "I Have an Arrangement With a Spider"
1:13:31 Split Brains and Multiple Selves
1:18:55 Hypnotised Into Forgetting How to Read
1:19:39 Evan's Arm Rises Under Hypnosis
1:24:53 One Session, 30 Years of Smoking Gone
1:31:48 Are the Entities Out There, or Inside You?
1:38:57 Why Do So Many People Meet Mantises?
1:42:35 Why Scientists Hide Their Weirdest Experiences
1:49:55 The Third Man: Explorers' Invisible Companion
1:52:54 The Giraffe Liver Dream Drug
2:00:03 How Michael Levin Broke His Materialism
2:02:40 Taking On Dennett: "The Most Primary Data I Have"
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