Comment · Sat, August 17, 2013
Every Entrepreneur Should Try Magic Mushrooms
What they were answering
cybrbeast · 2 points
Totally agree with your train of comments here and science has your back!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12122409
"Our aim was to identify the precise areas inside the brain where the drug is active. We thought when we started that psilocybin would activate different parts of the brain. But we haven't found any activation anywhere. All we have found are reductions in blood flow"
A fall in blood flow suggests that brain activity has reduced. The areas affected were those parts of the brain that tell us who we are, where we are and what we are. When these areas were dampened down, I was no longer locked into my everyday constraints.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
Ohh definitely. I have read all about these mechanisms. It actually reduces activity in the part of the brain that is responsible for dampening abstract thought. They think that part of the brain is an evolutionary trait to protect us. Humans with less abstract thought, and fear of new perspectives, are less likely to get into situations that can harm them. Curiosity killed the cat, after all.
I didn't want to shit on people's mystical or existential beliefs, though. Just because we know a mechanism, does not mean we fully understand it.