Valuing the Acute Subjective Experience

IF 0.8 4区医学 Q2 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Perspectives in Biology and Medicine Pub Date : 2024-02-20 DOI:10.1353/pbm.2024.a919717

Katherine Cheung, Brian D. Earp, David B. Yaden

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Psychedelics, including psilocybin, and other consciousness-altering compounds such as 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), currently are being scientifically investigated for their potential therapeutic uses, with a primary focus on measurable outcomes: for example, alleviation of symptoms or increases in self-reported well-being. Accordingly, much recent discussion about the possible value of these substances has turned on estimates of the magnitude and duration of persisting positive effects in comparison to harms. However, many have described the value of a psychedelic experience with little or no reference to such therapeutic benefits, instead seeming to find the experience valuable in its own right. How can we make sense of such testimony? Could a psychedelic experience be valuable even if there were no persisting beneficial effects? If so, how? Using the concept of psychological richness, combined with insights from the philosophy of aesthetics and the enhancement literature, this essay explores potential sources of value in the acute subjective experience, apart from the value derived from persisting beneficial effects.

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重视急性主观体验

摘要：迷幻剂（包括迷幻药）和其他改变意识的化合物（如 3,4-亚甲二氧基甲基苯丙胺（MDMA））的潜在治疗用途目前正在接受科学调查，调查的主要重点是可测量的结果：例如，症状的缓解或自我报告的幸福感的增加。因此，最近关于这些物质可能具有的价值的讨论主要集中在与危害相比的持续积极影响的程度和持续时间的估计上。然而，许多人在描述迷幻体验的价值时，很少或根本没有提到这种治疗效果，相反，他们似乎认为这种体验本身就很有价值。我们该如何理解这些证词呢？即使没有持续的有益影响，迷幻体验会有价值吗？如果有，又是怎样的呢？这篇文章利用心理丰富性的概念，结合美学哲学和增强文学的见解，探讨了急性主观体验中除持续有益效应所产生的价值之外的潜在价值来源。

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Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 医学-科学史与科学哲学

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期刊介绍： Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, an interdisciplinary scholarly journal whose readers include biologists, physicians, students, and scholars, publishes essays that place important biological or medical subjects in broader scientific, social, or humanistic contexts. These essays span a wide range of subjects, from biomedical topics such as neurobiology, genetics, and evolution, to topics in ethics, history, philosophy, and medical education and practice. The editors encourage an informal style that has literary merit and that preserves the warmth, excitement, and color of the biological and medical sciences.

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