Abordagem decolonial da mente no estudo dos psicodélicos

Robson Savoldi; Antonio Roazzi; Hector David Quinones Vargas

Authors

Robson Savoldi Universidade Federal de Pernambuco https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4031-4288
Antonio Roazzi Universidade Federal de Pernambuco https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6411-2763
Hector David Quinones Vargas Universidade Federal de Pernambuco https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4864-7474

Abstract

Studies of the mind have remained inert in a representational cognitivism that conceives the cognitive system as a computer. Moreover, when it is commonly presented in literature that psychedelic revolutions began in the counterculture in the 1960s, the science and resistance of the original peoples are forgotten, the “zero” revolution is forgotten. The aim of this article is to describe the relationships between psychedelics, knowledge, consciousness, and cognition from a decolonial perspective. We revisit the Presentational Theory of Mind (PTM), based on ecopsychology, and we argue that an epistemological perspective that considers indigenous philosophies in the current scientific construction of psychedelic knowledge is necessary.

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Author Biographies

Robson Savoldi, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Professor no Departamento de Psicologia da UFPE. Doutor em Psicologia Cognitiva pela UFPE. E-mail: rjspes@yahoo.com.br

Antonio Roazzi, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Professor titular do Departamento de Psicologia da UFPE . Doutor (D. Phil.) em Psicologia do Desenvolvimento Cognitivo pela University of Oxford. Dottore? em Psicologia Aplicada pela Universitá degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza". Fez pós-doutorado na University of London, University of Oxford, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, ISTC (Roma, Itália), e Universitá degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza". Pesquisador Nível 1A do CNPq. E-mail: roazzi@gmail.com

Hector David Quinones Vargas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Doutorando em Psicologia Cognitiva na Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). Possui graduação em Psicologia - Universidad de Puerto Rico (2015) e mestrado em Psicobiologia pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (2023). E-mail: hector.g.138@gmail.com

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