The Unity of Aron Gurwitsch's Philosophy

or, better, a collection of perceptions—a tightly woven bundle of neurally encoded predictions geared toward keeping your body alive.

For Carhart-Harris, the pinnacle of human development is the achievement of this differentiated self, or ego, and its imposition of order on the anarchy of a primitive mind buffeted by fears and wishes and given to various forms of magical thinking. While he holds with Aldous Huxley that psychedelics throw open the doors of perception, he does not