7 Recent Videos: Consciousness vs. Replicators, High Entropy Alloys of...
[See: Previous 7-video package] A Universal Plot – Consciousness vs. Pure Replicators: Gene Servants or Blissful Autopoietic Beings? (link) What is the point of it all? What does it all mean? In this...
View ArticleThe Supreme State of Unconsciousness: Classical Enlightenment from the Point...
The following is an exchange of text messages with Roger Thisdell, a 26 year old accomplished meditator. He claims that this year he finally broke through into abiding in what he describes as an...
View ArticleReview of Log Scales
This is my 2022 review of Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain: Rating, Ranking, and Comparing Peak Experiences Suggest the Existence of Long Tails for Bliss and Suffering (2019; QRI link; forum...
View ArticleGod and Open Individualism
by Roger Thisdell (context: I messaged Roger asking him about his thoughts on Open Individualism. A few days later he sent me this response. To get the most out of it, I recommend first reading our...
View ArticleJust Look At The Thing! – How The Science of Consciousness Informs Ethics
It is very easy to answer many of these fundamental biological questions; you just look at the thing! From Richard Feyman’s talk There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom (1959) Introduction The quote...
View ArticleSymmetry in Qualia – an Interview with Andres Gomez-Emilsson by Justin Riddle
I recently had the pleasure to talk to Justin Riddle*, who is one of the few people in academia who takes quantum theories of consciousness seriously while also doing formal neuroscience research (see...
View ArticleRemembering and Rediscovering Anders Amelin
In Memory of Anders Amelin (1959 – 2023) Dear Qualia Enthusiasts, Collaborators, Friends, Benefactors, and the Community at large, With heavy hearts, we announce the recent passing of our dear friend...
View ArticleCandy Flipping Optimized: Why LSD + MDMA Points to Blissful Nondual Awareness...
PLUS FOUR, n. (++++) A rare and precious transcendental state, which has been called a “peak experience,” a “religious experience,” “divine transformation,” a “state of Samadhi” and many other names...
View ArticleQualia Mastery II: Further Develop Your Toolkit for Navigating the...
Explore Part II of the Qualia Mastery Series Qualia Mastery, in a nutshell: 1) Explore the state-space of consciousness because you want to know it for yourself 2) Study it from many points of view...
View ArticleLSD Ego Death: Where Hyperbolic Pseudo-Time Arrows Meet Geometric Fixed Points
Alternative Title: LSD Ego Death – A Play in Three Voices [Epistemic Status: Academic, Casual, and Fictional Analysis of the phenomenology of LSD Ego Death] Academic: In this work we advance key novel...
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