Larry D. Fort

🎊 Happy to announce our paper "Classification Schemes of Altered States of Consciousness" has now been published in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. Many thanks to @Titoschmi, @costines ,@marcwittmann, and Athena Demertzi. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our paper in Consciousness and Cognition on the afterglow effect following floatation in the @IGPP_Freiburg floating cabin: "Experience after Floatation-REST: Relaxation during floating mediates the afterglow effect" by Iraklis Pantazis and Marc Wittmann sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@RCarhartHarris I find Jaynes' idea of an "primal" consciousness similar to the notions of Primary and Secondary Consciousness laid out in the Entropic Brain Hypothesis.

This is a wild read. I love the approach of examining the history of consciousness from ancient fragmentary evidence and am v sympathetic to view that modern ego-consciousness is a relatively recent phenomenon- however,

🚨Publication alert 🚨. Our Registered Report is finally out at Scientific Reports nature.com/articles/s4159…. See the link to find out how mind blanking shifts across different arousal levels.

🚨Publication alert 🚨 Our review article “Relating mind-blanking to the content and dynamics of spontaneous thinking” is out on Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences (sciencedirect.com/science/articl…). A thread … 🧵

@AmyTrask @TomBrady @Raiders Hi Amy, do you recall if Al ever had any thoughts or opinions on Brady? If we consider the Tuck Rule fiasco a NFL/Officiating issue then there shouldn't have been any issue with Brady as you say. What did Al think? Wishing you well 🙏

I'm frequently asked my thoughts about @TomBrady and his involvement w/the @raiders, so I share again that I harbor no ill will whatsoever towards Tom - Tom did nothing wrong, Tom did what every fan of every team would want his/her QB to do - I wish him well.

@alieninsect Andrew, thank you for sharing this! I look forward to giving it a read. If you are broadly interested in altered states and the history of their classification, you may also find our recent preprint of interest: osf.io/pmuqt/

@LarryDFort Indeed. I discuss options for a more formal definition here:

I think the term “hallucinogen” is a perfectly apposite term for drugs that cause hallucinations. Most psychedelics, however, do not. Deliriant tropanes and certain other anticholinergics, on the other hand, most certainly do and are thus hallucinogens.

@alieninsect Yes indeed, but it is also comes with risk. First it is a term that lacks concrete operationalization. Second, it is circularly defined (e.g., what is a psychedelic drug? A drug that produces a psychedelic experience).

@LarryDFort The great thing about the term “psychedelic” is that it’s broad and vague enough to act as an umbrella term over all the different aspects of the effects of the drug class which can be described, defined, and named individually.

The second Floatation-REST study from my @IGPP_Freiburg lab as @PsyArXiv preprint, with Iraklis Pantazis. Participants report a stronger feeling of afterglow as measured with an afterglow inventory, more state mindfulness, and more interoceptive awareness osf.io/preprints/psya…

I am looking forward to discussing the paper! Thanks to @aliusresearch for the opportunity and @GeorgeFejer for hosting.

8/8 Thankful for the collaborative support of @Giga_CRCivi, @GIGA_ULiege, @UniversiteLiege, @IGPP_Freiburg, @FU_Berlin, and @frsFNRS.

7/8 Our clustering analysis suggests the start of a phenomenological state-space model to encapsulate experiences under ASCs which can assist in the identification of NCCs. Our work may assist in reducing redundancy in ASC investigation by synthesizing conceptual groundwork.

📣Preprint! “Classification Schemes of Altered States of Consciousness” osf.io/preprints/psya… | @costines, @marcwittmann, @ADemertzi, @Titoschmi #psychedelics #alteredstates #consciousness We review 22 ASC classification schemes, proposing eight clusters of experience. A🧵: