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“Pure awareness”: Inside the psychedelic that erases space, time, and self

5-MeO-DMT may offer a practical way to access and study consciousness in its most basic form.

Christopher Timmermann

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Think like a crow, choose like a crab: The animals inside our minds

A conversation about intelligence and consciousness with philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith.

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