February | 2025 | Qualia Computing
2 posts published by algekalipso during February 2025| Qualia Computing
2 posts published by algekalipso during February 2025| Qualia Computing
1 post published by algekalipso during August 2025| Qualia Computing
[Epistemic Status: playful, informal travel log] How I spent the 11 hour flight from London to San Francisco just now (apparently flying over Iceland and Greenland, if the map on the little screen …| Qualia Computing
These are the answers to the most Frequently Asked Questions about the Qualia Research Institute. (See also: the glossary). (Organizational) Questions About the Qualia Research Institute What type …| Qualia Computing
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
Hi everyone! This week I’m in Denver for Psychedelic Science 2025 :-) (the Psychedelic Science hero this year floating the relevance of non-linear optics as piece of the puzzle for psychedeli…| Qualia Computing
An aspect of 5-MeO-DMT phenomenology that gives the “I became God” impression is the loss of embodied personality metadata in the rendering of one’s experience. My impression is that we hold a sense of who we are in the shape of muscle tension (especially our face, which provides the main affective and identity channel for […]| Qualia Computing
People complain about the “voice in their heads.” Often, advanced meditators say they’ve lost it, and their life is better for it. But more recent research shows a large percentag…| 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
[Epistemic Status: Speculating on personality disorders from the point of view of their valence landscapes – it makes intuitive sense when you think about it, but the theory lacks empirical v…| Qualia Computing
I’m excited to announce QUALIUS, an upcoming post-ASSC retreat on the topic of non-ordinary states of consciousness, taking place July 10–14, 2025, in Ligres, Crete. Organized by the ALIUS and QRI,…| Qualia Computing
Pieces of Khet, a popular laser chess-like game. [Epistemic Status: Taking Phenomenology Seriously – Allowing Myself to Speculate Profusely] Introduction: Laser Chess as a Metaphor for the Br…| 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
This post aims to communicate a simple yet powerful idea: if you have a system of coupled oscillators controlled by a coupling kernel, you can use it to not only “tune into resonant modesR…| Qualia Computing
We created a tool to replicate psychedelic tracers – try it yourself!| Qualia Computing
Transcribed excerpt from Daniel Ingram’s Fire Kasina retreat diary (part 1) [24:20-39:50] [Daniel spent two weeks practicing 10 to 14 hours a day a fire-focused meditation called Fire Kasina.…| Qualia Computing
[Epistemic Status: Fiction; see related non-fiction Burning Man articles – 1, 2, 3. See part 2/2 here.] Preface What follows is the result of an exercise in considering the questions: “…| Qualia Computing
About 18 months ago I had a really cool idea: What if we could communicate with people who are high on LSD in such a way that sober people can’t understand?* I call this idea psychedel…| Qualia Computing
Dear wonderful community, Just as a fire uniformly raises the temperature throughout a building, causing diverse but interconnected effects (metal beams expanding, wood supports burning, windows cr…| Qualia Computing
Try to focus your attention on the exact center of your visual field right now. Notice how the seemingly straightforward task reveals systematic instabilities: wavering, drifting, and transforming …| 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
