Where am I? Psychedelics and the Search for Self-Consciousness

Psychedelics are fundamentally changing the way that neuroscientists view the brain, can they help lead the way in the quest to find the basis of self-consciousness?

Evan Lewis-Healey
9 min readOct 22, 2020

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In September of 1848, a group of construction workers were tamping down blasting…

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Evan Lewis-Healey

PhD student at Cambridge University. Studying the cognitive neuroscience of altered states of consciousness | Writer for Psychedelic Spotlight