Exploring Consciousness with George Mashour

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🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

What is consciousness? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice learn about the study of consciousness and how psychedelics could uncover the inner mechanisms of the brain with anesthesiologist and founder of the Michigan Psychedelic Center, George Mashour.

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0:00.0	anybody who's seen a picture of themselves for real
0:02.8	understands that instruments that measure of reality
0:06.8	objectively can really mess you up.
0:10.3	I see a picture of me and I'm like I do not look I'm not this ugly I am not this ugly but that is because when I look in the mirror my
0:19.8	brain is creating a construct for what it says this is what I look like but the
0:25.0	camera is just like nah you ugly bro sorry.
0:27.8	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:32.6	Your place in the universe
0:34.2	where science and pop culture collide.
0:38.3	Star Talk begins right now.
0:42.4	This is Star Talk.
0:44.0	Neil Degrass Tyson here, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:47.0	Got Chuck with me.
0:48.0	Chuck nice, how you doing man?
0:49.0	Hey, doing well, Neil, thank you for asking.
0:52.0	We got a hot topic today.
0:53.8	Psychodelics and consciousness.
0:55.9	Ooh.
0:57.7	Well, guess what?
0:58.9	One of them I really, I'm interested in.
1:02.3	Okay. I'm interested in one of those things.
1:05.0	One of them, okay.
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