This post is an attempt to write up what I consider a useful lesson about intellectual discourse. The lesson, in short, is that it is often helpful to control for a thinker’s big idea. That is, a p…| Magnus Vinding
Announcement: Do you have experience using psychedelics to treat cluster headaches? Want to support science and advocacy in this area? Submit your personal and/or professional testimonial to our upcoming “ClusterFree” Open Letter initiative. Sitting Down with Cluster Busters at Psychedelic Science 2025 One of the highlight moments for me at Psychedelic Science 2025 in Denver this […]| Qualia Computing
[Epistemic Status: fiction (in most timelines, that is); in my lane, having fun] Place: The Equatorial Republic (pop. ~190M) Time: 2032 My fellow citizens of this great Equatorial Republic, Today, as I stand before you having accepted the solemn responsibility of the presidency, I am humbled by your trust and energized by the possibilities that […]| Qualia Computing
For qualia to arise, you need to both individuate from “Universal Consciousness” and also make partitions within you. This causes a kind of double universal Yin-Yang of oneness and sepa…| Qualia Computing
[X-Posted @ The EA Forum] By Andrés Gómez Emilsson Digital Sentience Creating “digital sentience” is a lot harder than it looks. Standard Qualia Research Institute arguments for why it is…| Qualia Computing
[Epistemic Status: Recreational Metaphysics / Fiction] They say “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.” And that should have been good enough, because the alternative is to ̶…| Qualia Computing