Talking Microdosing, Placebo and Agency | Vince Polito
Rune Soup
Gordon White
4.7 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Cognitive science researcher, Vince Polito, joins us this week to speak about microdosing, psychedelics in a clinical setting, and the direction and implications of this sort of work for our understanding of the human mind.
School is in! Except this time I am paying attention.
Show Notes
- Vince's website.
- Vince on Twitter.
- Vince's microdosing study.
- Classic psychedelics: An integrative review of epidemiology, therapeutics, mystical experience, and brain network function.
And finally, Gordon's upcoming London events:
- Avenging Angels, with Peter and Alkistis from Scarlet Imprint. March 15th.
- Tamesis Retrograde: An all-day animism, journeying and decolonisation workshop. March 16th.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do you have a favorite? |
| 0:02.0 | Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored. |
| 0:11.0 | All the broken and shunned creatures. |
| 0:17.0 | Someone's got to care for them. |
| 0:19.0 | Who shall it be if not us? |
| 0:45.3 | Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from 43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania. |
| 0:49.2 | My name is Gordon and I shall be your host. |
| 0:51.6 | This week we welcome to the show Cognitive Science researcher and psychologist |
| 0:55.3 | Dr Vince Polito. |
| 0:56.9 | Vince joins us today to talk about cognitive science obviously, |
| 1:00.4 | but more specifically micro dosing the placebo effect and our sense of agency. |
| 1:06.0 | We talk regularly on the show about psychedelics from I guess a more spiritual context and it seemed high time pun intended to look at the sort of things |
| 1:17.5 | we're learning within a research and traditional scientific context and then look at those data again from I guess our more typical |
| 1:26.4 | metaphysical position. As Terence said, if it's real, it can take the |
| 1:31.0 | pressure. Onward. |
| 1:33.0 | Vince, welcome aboard. |
| 1:35.0 | Thanks Gordon, I'm really excited to talk to you today. |
| 1:38.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's been a couple of years. |
| 1:41.0 | It goes quick, but you and I actually met at an event you |
| 1:46.2 | arranged that I spoke at a couple of years ago in Sydney. Yeah that was it was a |
| 1:51.0 | couple of years ago now but yeah that was that was a fun evening you took |
| 1:54.1 | us through a wild ride of unexpected ideas I think that night. I try. Is an |
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