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Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution frontiersin.org 9 facts
referenceIdo Hartogsohn published 'The meaning-enhancing properties of psychedelics and their mediator role in psychedelic therapy, spirituality, and creativity' in Frontiers in Neuroscience in 2018.
referenceGirn et al. (2020) proposed a dynamic framework of thought that explores the relationship between creativity and the use of psychedelics.
claimThe model proposed in 'Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution' suggests that psilocybin ingestion would have amplified capacities for complex social interaction and cognitive abilities, including creativity, non-verbal and linguistic expression, and suggestibility.
claimThe authors of 'Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution' argue that if early enhancements in social cooperation, creativity, linguistic expression, and suggestibility were produced by psychedelics, these substances would have transformed the social environment and selection pressures for ancient hominins.
claimIf psychedelics engendered mental states with adaptive effects on health, social bonding, and decision-making, this would have led to subsequent genetic and cultural selection for the ability and motivation to alter consciousness through non-drug means that promote salutogenesis, sociality, and creativity.
claimThrough the Baldwin effect, selection for genetic variants that make the acquisition of creativity and sociality faster and less dependent on environmental signals, such as ritual psychedelic consumption, would have eventually occurred in ancient human populations.
referenceM. J. Baggott reviewed the quantitative literature regarding the relationship between psychedelics and creativity in 2015.
claimRitual chanting, music, and dance were developed to induce euphoria and ecstasy, known as altered states of consciousness (ASC), which enhance health, well-being, social bonding, and creativity even without the ingestion of psychedelics.
claimPsychedelics significantly modulate aspects of creativity and sociality, which could have enhanced adaptability and fitness in knowledge-using, socially interdependent lifeways, according to Girn et al. (2020) and Preller and Vollenweider (2019).
The evolution of human-type consciousness – a by-product of ... frontiersin.org 3 facts
referenceRabinovich, Zaks, and Varona (2020) published 'Sequential dynamics of complex networks in mind: consciousness and creativity' in Physics Reports, discussing the dynamics of neural networks in relation to consciousness.
referenceDietrich (2004) discusses the cognitive neuroscience of creativity.
referenceBeaty et al. (2014) published 'Creativity and the default network: a functional connectivity analysis of the creative brain at rest' in Neuropsychologia, volume 64, pages 92–98.
Published Studies — Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and ... hopkinspsychedelic.org 2 facts
referenceA 2024 systematic review and meta-analysis published in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews examined the magnitude of long-term effects of serotonergic psychedelics on cognition, creativity, emotional processing, and personality.
referenceA 2023 scoping review by Bonnieux, VanderZwaag, Garcia-Romeu, and Garcia-Barrera published in the 'Journal of Psychopharmacology' investigated the effects of psilocybin on cognition and creativity.
Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
claimSchizophrenia and bipolar disorder may be side effects of adaptations for high levels of creativity, potentially dependent on alternate developmental trajectories.
claimSome individuals with bipolar disorder are especially creative during their manic phase, and the close relatives of people with schizophrenia have been found to be more likely to have creative professions.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 1 fact
claimRoger Penrose's conceptual starting point, developed in his books published in 1989 and 1994, is that elementary conscious acts cannot be described algorithmically and therefore cannot be computed. This view is influenced by his background in the nature of creativity, mathematical insight, Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, and the idea of a Platonic reality beyond mind and matter.
Bridging the Gap Between LLMs and Evolving Medical Knowledge arxiv.org Jun 29, 2025 1 fact
referenceSanmartin (2024) published 'Kg-rag: Bridging the gap between knowledge and creativity' as an arXiv preprint (arXiv:2405.12035).
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 18, 2017 1 fact
claimAlfred North Whitehead's panpsychism is based on the idea that the elementary events that make up the world, which he called "occasions," partake of mentality in an attenuated sense, expressed through notions of creativity, spontaneity, and perception.
Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness and the Intermediate ... frontiersin.org Apr 17, 2018 1 fact
referenceAndrea Lavazza and Riccardo Manzotti published 'An externalist approach to creativity: discovery versus recombination' in Mind & Society in 2013.
LLM Hallucination Detection and Mitigation: State of the Art in 2026 zylos.ai Jan 27, 2026 1 fact
claimComplete elimination of hallucinations in LLMs is currently limited because hallucinations are tied to the model's creativity, and total elimination would compromise useful generation capabilities.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
claimAlfred North Whitehead's panpsychism posits that the elementary events constituting the world, which he termed 'occasions,' possess mentality in an attenuated sense, expressed through the mentalistic notions of creativity, spontaneity, and perception.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 1 fact
claimRoger Penrose's hypothesis regarding non-algorithmic conscious acts is influenced by his views on creativity, mathematical insight, Gödel's incompleteness theorem, and the existence of a Platonic reality beyond mind and matter.
Menstrual Cycle Phases: Decoding the Stages - Perelel perelelhealth.com Oct 22, 2024 1 fact
quote“During ovulation oftentimes libido is higher, energy is higher, creativity is higher, mood is at its best, all because nature’s trying to trick you into going out and making a baby,” notes Dr. O’Connor.