Qualia Research Institute
@QualiaRI
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QRI is a non-profit institute pioneering mathematical models of consciousness through rigorous research and innovative exploration of subjective experience.
San Francisco, CA
Joined December 2019
RT @TOEwithCurt: Exciting news. Andres Gomez Emilsson will be joining Theories of Everything for an upcoming episode. Share your most in-de…
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RT @algekalipso: See how the coupling kernel "tunes into" resonant modes of the entire system! (top-right visualizes the discrete cosine t…
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RT @algekalipso: Hey everyone! We are revamping the QRI Discord server and to give it an initial push I'm hosting a Q&A on February the 22n…
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RT @diamondminercat: @reconfigurthing There should be a group where people can post things they never realized because they involve subject…
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RT @chris_percy: Colleagues at @QualiaRI and I have been on the conference circuit recently debating these questions, e.g. @theASSC, @ispsm…
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RT @chris_percy: ** New open access paper ** -- How to choose one theory of consciousness out of the 100+ available? -- Which theories p…
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The Qualia of the Day:
(years of effort and dozens of beautiful collaborations coming to fruition, coalescing into something really special that I think will genuinely advance our collective understanding of consciousness - I'm bowled over)
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RT @algekalipso: Quick snapshots of the QRI meetup in Amsterdam. Marco Aqil is presenting about divisive normalization.
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🥳 Come experience our coupling kernels framework firsthand! (no drugs required) 🥳 Much like how sound waves resonate through an instrument, creating harmonious vibrations that affect its entire structure, psychedelics might work through a single fundamental mechanism that ripples through all neural systems. This framework helps explain why compounds like DMT and 5-MeO-DMT create distinct but internally consistent effects across our entire range of experience. The key insight: psychedelics may modify the "rules of interaction" (coupling kernels) between neural systems throughout the body in a predictable and substance-specific way, creating cascading effects that produce the rich variety of psychedelic phenomena we observe. We'll explore how these coupling kernels might bridge subjective experience and neural mechanisms, including recent developments about how local neural responses are regulated by surrounding activity (cf. Divisive Normalization). Schedule 1:00 PM: Guest Arrival & Networking 2:00 PM: Mathematical Frameworks for Consciousness and Psychedelic States Presentation by Andrés Gómez Emilsson 3:00 PM: Q&A Session 3:30 PM: Latest Research on Divisive Normalization and Graph Neural Fields Presentation by Marco Aqil 4:30 PM: Q&A Session 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Open Mic Introductions with Zeus Tipado (PsyDAO) ~5min each - Prof. Carl Hayden Smith (Cyberdelic Nexus, Noonautics) - George Fejer (ALIUS) - Joel Dietz (MIT, MetaLambda) - Noah Clark (iAm) - Dr. Timo Torsten Schmidt (CIRCE) - Anyone attending in person 5:30 PM: Food Service (Vegetarian and Vegan) 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM: QRI Technology Demonstrations 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Social Hour / Networking The presentations will be recorded and live streamed on the Cyberdelic Nexus Discord Server (no RSVP required for the stream). A huge thank you to PsyDAO and Cyberdelic Nexus for sponsoring and helping to organize this event!!!
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RT @RogerThisdell: Visualisations of the Jhanas The Jhanas are a series of (8) highly concentrated altered states, most notably induced th…
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RT @algekalipso: If AI is impressive (and we've scarcely begun the age of AI) wait until we reach the age of consciousness technologies. D…
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RT @algekalipso: My candid take on the DMT laser claims: For context, Danny Goler discovered that if you look at a flat laser projected on…
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