Psychedelics & Philosophy – Student Psychedelic Conference 2022
Video recorded at the Student Psychedelic Conference 2022.
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Chris Letheby
The concept of psychedelic epistemology explores the idea that knowledge can be gained through the use of psychedelics. While the validity of this knowledge is debated, there are potential epistemic benefits that can be categorized into three types: propositional knowledge, ability knowledge, and acquaintance knowledge. Propositional knowledge includes knowing explicit facts about one's own mind, which may be contentious due to the potential for false memories or placebo insights. Ability knowledge relates to learning how to overcome maladaptive patterns, while acquaintance knowledge refers to direct knowledge of concepts that were previously only indirectly understood. While the idea of metaphysical knowledge gained through psychedelics is debated, exploring the potential epistemic benefits of these experiences can lead to a better understanding of the role of psychedelics in therapeutic contexts.
Jussi Jylkkä
This video discusses the tension in the philosophy of psychedelics regarding whether psychedelic-assisted insights are true insights or negative side effects. The phenomenology of mystical states is also discussed, particularly Walter Terence Stace's seven key features of the mystical experience. The third key feature assumes that insights gained from mystical experiences about the world are true. However, naturalism, which is founded on the belief that all is physical and that ways of knowing reality should be compatible with science, may limit understanding of consciousness, a non-physical concept. The limitations of science in studying consciousness are discussed, and different perspectives on consciousness are presented, including Russellian Monism and naturalistic monism. Finally, the passage suggests that psychedelics amplify what consciousness is in itself and enable us to see beyond models, which may help us better understand the fundamental nature of reality.
Video recorded at the Student Psychedelic Conference 2022.
We will soon be releasing tickets to the Student Psychedelic Conference 2023, please keep checking our events page or sign up for our newsletter.
https://www.drugscience.org.uk/events/
Chris Letheby
The concept of psychedelic epistemology explores the idea that knowledge can be gained through the use of psychedelics. While the validity of this knowledge is debated, there are potential epistemic benefits that can be categorized into three types: propositional knowledge, ability knowledge, and acquaintance knowledge. Propositional knowledge includes knowing explicit facts about one’s own mind, which may be contentious due to the potential for false memories or placebo insights. Ability knowledge relates to learning how to overcome maladaptive patterns, while acquaintance knowledge refers to direct knowledge of concepts that were previously only indirectly understood. While the idea of metaphysical knowledge gained through psychedelics is debated, exploring the potential epistemic benefits of these experiences can lead to a better understanding of the role of psychedelics in therapeutic contexts.
Jussi Jylkkä
This video discusses the tension in the philosophy of psychedelics regarding whether psychedelic-assisted insights are true insights or negative side effects. The phenomenology of mystical states is also discussed, particularly Walter Terence Stace’s seven key features of the mystical experience. The third key feature assumes that insights gained from mystical experiences about the world are true. However, naturalism, which is founded on the belief that all is physical and that ways of knowing reality should be compatible with science, may limit understanding of consciousness, a non-physical concept. The limitations of science in studying consciousness are discussed, and different perspectives on consciousness are presented, including Russellian Monism and naturalistic monism. Finally, the passage suggests that psychedelics amplify what consciousness is in itself and enable us to see beyond models, which may help us better understand the fundamental nature of reality.
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Thanks, that was great! Kiitos keskustelusta, oli mielenkiintosta. Anil Seth's book 'Being You' is definitely worth checking out if you're into consciousness debates!
6:39 – My own experience, with a lot of entheogens / psychedelics, is that you're safest reading what you experience through something like a Jungian filter. You'll have all kinds of insights that make just as much sense when you sober up but they'll typically be related to mundane life. On the slightly less mundane side you may have deep salience reordering based on those insights but not too many of these since most of the really 'big' insights that you were missing will come in the first few times that you make departures from conditioned thinking. Past that, ie. if you start writing your own Tripartite Tractate or gnostic texts, you're in a place where you probably can't vet reality and the likelihood of what your seeing being literally true is quite low – albeit some of the motifs and patterns within those ideas may prove to be valuable, just not in their raw form and probably only with a lot of digestion.