Most Replayed Moment: Anxiety Is Just A Prediction! Rewrite Old Stories and Build Emotional Safety
The host and guest discuss the concept of the predictive brain, explaining that the brain is not primarily a reactive organ but a prediction engine that prepares actions and experiences based on past learning. Using concrete examples such as language processing, thirst, coffee habits, exercise, trauma, and phobias, they show how prediction shapes perception, emotion, and bodily regulation. They also explore cultural inheritance, meaning-making, identity, and practical ways to change entrenched patterns by creating new experiences and dosing oneself with prediction error.
#2403 - Andrew Gallimore
Joe Rogan talks with Andrew, a scientist and author of "Death by Astonishment," about the phenomenology and neuroscience of DMT and why he believes the DMT state is one of the deepest mysteries in science. They explore how the brain constructs reality, how DMT experiences differ from dreams and ordinary hallucinations, and the possibility that DMT may allow contact with non-human intelligences or post-biological civilizations. The conversation also covers near-death experiences, artificial superintelligence, simulation-like views of reality, Japanese urban culture, and a new continuous-infusion DMT research approach known as DMTX.