Commentary: The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience August 30, 2016 David Papo 19 citations
The entropic brain hypothesis proposes that conscious states are linked to the brain's entropy, with psychedelic states exemplifying primary states where brain activity becomes more random and harder to predict than in normal wakeful consciousness. This suggests psychedelic-induced brain activity exhibits criticality, while normal wakefulness is subcritical. However, the text questions whether entropy can uniquely indicate the quality of consciousness and raises doubts about whether psychedelic-induced activity is truly critical.