Katharina Buczek
For example, attribution of consciousness to fungi grew from twenty-one percent to fifty-six percent. And, attribution of consciousness to plants rose a whopping thirty-five percent.
And perhaps even more interestingly, participants also attributed more consciousness to human-made objects. This area grew from only three percent to fifteen percent.
Roland Griffiths, the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research, believes these findings only raise more questions in the field of psychedelic research.
“The results suggesting that a single psychedelic experience can produce a broad increase in the attribution of consciousness to other things raises intriguing questions about possible innate or experiential mechanisms underlying such belief changes,” Griffiths said.
“The topic of consciousness is a notoriously difficult scientific problem that has led many to conclude it is not solvable,” Griffiths continued.
Nonetheless, these survey participants experienced their belief-changing psychedelic experiences about eight years before participating in the study. So, it appears that these alterations are long-lasting.
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