Modes of Sentience: Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes on Psychedelic Experience, Panpsychism, and Alternate Modes of Sentience

Modes of Sentience is a 2021 essay collection by philosopher of mind Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes examining the relationship between psychedelic experience and philosophy. The book considers how psychedelic states may inform the analysis of mind, including panpsychism, and explores metaphysical questions involving multiple dimensions of space, time, and other models of reality. Framed in the context of the psychedelic renaissance in science and medicine, the collection proposes philosophical approaches for discerning altered and alternate modes of sentience. Sjöstedt-Hughes is identified as a research fellow and associate lecturer at the University of Exeter, and as the author of Noumenautics and a talk on psychedelics and consciousness. The supplied description does not identify a specific psychedelic substance as central.