Qualia Computing Media Appearances
Podcasts 16 – Andrés Gómez Emilsson on Solving Consciousness and Being Happy All the Time (The Most Interesting People I Know…, October 2019) On Consciousness, Qualia, and Meaning with Mike Johnson and...
View ArticleWhat is Love? Neural Annealing in the Presence of an Intentional Object
Excerpt from: The Neuroscience of Meditation: Four Models by Michael E. Johnson Neural annealing: Annealing involves heating a metal above its recrystallization temperature, keeping it there for long...
View ArticleCooling It Down To Partying It Up
A relatively recent hypothesis for the neurotoxicity associated with MDMA is that it causes the brain to over-heat (see: 1, 2, 3). This would make the sorts of environments in which people take it...
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Utilitronium Shockwaves vs. Gradients of Bliss
Excerpt from On utilitronium shockwaves versus gradients of bliss by David Pearce Utilitronium Shockwave: Turn your local Galaxy Super-Cluster into a Full-Spectrum Orgasm in 9 easy civilizational...
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Burning Man Theme-Camps of the Year 2029: From Replicator to Rainbow God (2/2)
[Epistemic Status: Fiction; see related non-fiction Burning Man articles – 1, 2, 3; See part 1/2 here.] Preface What follows is (the second part of) the result of an exercise in considering the...
View ArticleAn Infinite Variety of Waste
Excerpt from The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (2000) by Geoffrey Miller (pg. 128-129) Zahavi’s handicap principle and the idea of condition-dependence* are...
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Ephemerisle: Health Homeostasis, Worldview Annealing, and the Long-Tails of...
Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out. – Ludwig Wittgenstein (from Notebooks, 1914-1916) I just came back from spending a week on the water at Mandeville Point (~18 kilometers from...
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Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain: Rating, Ranking, and Comparing Peak...
TL;DR Based on: the characteristic distribution of neural activity, personal accounts of intense pleasure and pain, the way various pain scales have been described by their creators, and the results of...
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Harmonic Society (1/4): Art as Family Resemblance + Cool Kid Theory
Note – The full essay’s title is: Harmonic Society: 8 Models of Art for a Scientific Paradigm of Aesthetic Qualia The following essay was recently published in the Berlin-based art magazine Art Against...
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5-MeO-DMT Awakenings: From Naïve Realism to Symmetrical Enlightenment
In the following video Leo Gura from actualized.org talks about his 30-day 5-MeO-DMT streak experiment. In this post I’ll highlight some of the notable things he said and comment along the way using a...
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