Consciousness
Consciousness Expert Explains The 6 Levels Of The DMT Experience
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Andrés Gómez Emilsson
Director of Research & President, Qualia Research Institute (QRI). Consciousness mathematician, psychedelic theorist, valence realist, suffering abolitionist.
Andrés Gómez Emilsson runs research at the Qualia Research Institute and thinks pleasure has a literal mathematical shape. We walk through the six geometric levels of DMT, why phenomenal space goes hyperbolic at high doses, why bad trips are competing symmetries fighting for territory in your visual field, and why he thinks AI on silicon will never be conscious. One of the strangest and most rigorous conversations the show has had. ---
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Sentiment expression conditioned by affective transitions and social forces
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining · 2014
Learning to Reason Pragmatically with Cognitive Limitations
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2014
The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences: Symmetries, Sheets, and Saddled Scenes
2020
Integrated Information Theory and the Phenomenal Binding Problem: Challenges and Solutions in a Dynamic Framework
Entropy · 2025
Quantifying Bliss: Talk Summary
2020
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