Yep, was great, even got this cool t-shirt!

Miller's point that all anesthetics seem to cause a single phenomenon of global 1 Hz swamping brain waves (and front-back anti-phase) is spot on. It would allow for why it feels like you are timing out on interpreting patterns into…

An excellent summary of the Qualia Research Institute's presence at The Science of Consciousness 2024 and the conference more broadly.

At a wedding. Intuitively it feels that when two people marry and they mean it, some of the outer shells of their nested field structures get topologically integrated. Not a hard unity of the core, but perhaps a knot of the outer layers. Eager to visualize this.

Here are some very rough and, of course, extremely tentative impressions of cultures, just based on personal interactions. Don't take it too seriously, please. I get the feeling that Germans are culturally conscientious. They have high conscientiousness embedded in the vibratory…

New on the arXiv.org: “Network reconstruction via the minimum description length principle”

arxiv.org/abs/2405.01015

Short explainer thread: 1/N

Indeed this modeling approach is exciting: we are reconstructing large-scale *functional* complex systems from data!

Not just thresholding correlations like an ogre.

12/N

A recent retreat alum reviewed us on reddit!

'Tl:dr: Great vibes, both fun and profound experience that would be really worth it for me even without the jhanas, very passionate and dedicated people, most likely the best way to learn the jhanas presently existing?'

Actually I do think attended head turning is a qualia.

Rings/frames of the attention system are somewhat like 'rack teeth' on the 'rack rail' (between the running rails) of a cog railway, but pulling you through 3D perceptual space-time.

Many have described the operation of the…

I've just donated $2,005.41 to Qualia Research Institute on Manifold.

QRI's research has been massively impactful for my own mental health (neural annealing and related models). QRI is also at the frontier of building a formal theory of consciousness.

I'm proud to make this donation!

To see bee or not to see bee? That is the question :D

i think good feelings are either:
- fast euphoria: stimulants, competition, work, etc.
- slow euphoria: opiates, cuddles, sauna, relaxation, etc.
- spiritual euphoria: LSD, meditation, beauty, love, etc.

a good life is when your routine cycles between them regularly

japan has shown that the amount of appliances that can make cute noises while they work can approach infinity before hitting diminishing returns

had so much fun at this event!

I don't really ever feel like I've decompressed from an event until I've written a detailed report about it.

Azur Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson Don't know. I've only ever felt it dramatically on the receiving end with a few Zen teachers and Tibetan Lamas who are, I have no doubt, extremely seasoned.

It is also worth mentioning that these effects disappear when you reach equality and share in their state. Not because…

Can confirm after being on the receiving end for a continuous training period of ~13 months ending summer last year, this is a thing.
I won't pretend to begin to understand the mechanism(s), but it's real.
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DMT for Alzheimer's Disease?

Dramatic reduction in amyloid plaque formation & abatement of cognitive decline with DMT in a mouse model of the disease.

Likely mediated by protection of mitochondrial-ER crosstalk via the Sigma-1 receptor...

Full paper:
dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13195…

My report of the The Science of Consciousness 2024.

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In 2016 I attended this conference with David Pearce. In 2018 I did so with Michael Johnson, Adam Safron, and Hunter Meyer. This year we went as a QRI + collaborators contingent with Chris Percy, Asher Soryl, Cube…

Without looking it up -

Which of the following is the Schrödinger equation?

A) ∂²ψ/∂x² + 1/v² ∂²ψ/∂t² = 0

B) ∂ψ/∂t = iħ D ∂²ψ/∂x²

C) iħ ∂ψ/∂t = Hψ

D) ∇²ψ + k²ψ = 0

Louis Arge What about ribcage pain due to laughing too hard, which makes you laugh even harder due to the irony (been there)