Spotlight: Is there consciousness beyond the brain? (Goff, 2025)

Big Think’s latest special issue journeys to the edges of science and philosophy to probe the puzzles of conscious experience.

Psychedelic medicines have been studied in the Western medical literature consistently for over 100 years, over 60 of which in the ongoing study and practice of racemic ketamine. Psychedelic experiences are described similarly and often felt as profoundly meaningful.