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Aidan Lyon is a philosophical researcher at Leiden University's Cognitive Psychology unit and head of Research and Development for the Amsterdam Psychedelic Research Association. He bridges science and wisdom traditions through his work on meditation, psychedelics, and decision-making.
His research focuses on uncertainty calibration, entropy in cognition, and non-pharmacological psychedelic methods like meditation and prānāyāma. He leads the Templeton Foundation-funded Mystical Entropy project (2023-2026) to systematize mystical experiences through information theory.
Key publications include Psychedelic Experience: Revealing the Mind (OUP 2023) and articles in the same year about entropy-aesthetic connections. His work connects Bayesian epistemology with śūnyatā (Buddhist emptiness) and Platonic aporia.
- Scientific awards:
- Templeton Foundation grant for Mystical Entropy project (2023-2026)
- Academic affiliations:
- Leiden University (Cognitive Psychology unit)
- Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
- Amsterdam Psychedelic Research Association (head of R&D)
