Today, there aren't many scientific ways to describe conscious experience. Qualia Research Institute is working to solve this problem. Goals are ambitious yet achievable: - Develop a precise mathematical language for describing subjective experience - Understand the nature of emotional valence (happiness and suffering) - Map out the full space of possible conscious experiences - Build technologies to radically improve people's lives Qualia Computing is an inter-disciplinary project that seeks to identify the computational properties of subjective experience. As a series of subgoals, all of the following research programs will further this overarching goal: 1) Characterize the dimensions of the state-space of qualia reachable from a human mind. (e.g. [State-Space of Drug Effects: Results | Qualia Computing](http://qualiacomputing.com/2015/06/09/state-space-of-drug-effects-results/)) 2) Identify the computational trade-offs of different states of consciousness (e.g. superior performance on LSD). (e.g. [How to secretly communicate with people on LSD | Qualia Computing](http://qualiacomputing.com/2015/05/22/how-to-secretly-communicate-with-people-on-lsd/)) 3) Infer a crisp functional, chemical, quantum or computational signature of hedonic tone. (e.g. [Google Hedonics | Qualia Computing](http://qualiacomputing.com/2015/11/27/google-hedonics/) ) 4) Create quality psychophysical tools to investigate altered states of consciousness. (e.g. [Psychophysics for Psychedelic Research: Textures | Qualia Computing](http://qualiacomputing.com/2015/04/20/psychophysics-for-psychedelic-research-textures/)) 5) Explain the computational properties of phenomenal binding, and investigate ways of tweaking the way it operates (e.g. modify local phenomenal binding patterns using ultrasound brain stimulation). 6) Further philosophy of mind by identifying the causally efficacious ways in which consciousness provides computational benefits to a biological organism. There are no formal expectations here. It is a do-ocracy. If you want to plan a project in this area, feel free to find collaborators in this group and make it happen. https://twitter.com/johnsonmxe/status/1658170065953464325?t=UNHWjGdBX7WMEVm0P6WcdA&s=19 https://twitter.com/bdanubius/status/1657842724307861507 #107: The connectome of an insect brain A thoughtful, unique network analysis of the massive larval drosophila connectome resource. https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ [Beyond Identity: Toward a Logic of Similarity](https://autonoetic.blogspot.com/2023/05/beyond-identity-toward-logic-of.html) Beyond Identity: Toward a Logic of Similarity [LET IT GO! Surrender to Happiness with Michael Singer | Tony Robbins Podcast - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7TxEzMF3s8) LET IT GO! Surrender to Happiness with Michael Singer https://twitter.com/kliu128/status/1657830926821502976?t=c_zSNwO-rfyYUPQGLoDVVg&s=19 New blog post! On using LLMs to revolutionize decisionmaking, forecasting, and simulation in a world of scary generalist agents. [Large Language Models can Simulate Everything | Kevin Liu](https://t.co/Tlln5D0ROO) Simulation as the only way to forecast AI misbehaving Post-Singularity Predictions - How will our lives, corporations, and nations adapt to AI revolution? David Shapiro ~ AI [Post-Singularity Predictions - How will our lives, corporations, and nations adapt to AI revolution? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrW3K_K_kuo) [TIMELAPSE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBikbn5XJhg) melodysheep TIMELAPSE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE [TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA) melodysheep TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K) https://twitter.com/algekalipso/status/1658279444837179393 The hippies are also right about things like "DMT is a high frequency state of consciousness, even relative to LSD." See: [Modeling Psychedelic Tracers with QRI’s Psychophysics Toolkit: The Tracer Replication Tool | Qualia Computing](https://qualiacomputing.com/2020/10/09/modeling-psychedelic-tracers-with-qris-psychophysics-toolkit-the-tracer-replication-tool/) According to our tool, LSD produces flicker frequencies between 15-20hz. DMT produces 30hz effects instead. Always listen for clues when hippies talk about qualia. They're more likely to be in touch with the high energy palette of qualia dynamics than your average scientist. [The Energy Body and the Whole-body breath (Instructions and Guided Meditation) - (Practising the... - YouTube](https://youtu.be/1iNaS0tNcJM) burbea energy body [Young Researchers of Quantum Gravity - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@YRQGphysics) Young Researchers of Quantum Gravity 9 - Superhappiness Camps and Co-Living to Cultivate Paradise, with Raymond de Oliveira [9 - Superhappiness Camps and Co-Living to Cultivate Paradise, with Raymond de Oliveira - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umIJlU414xI) [Quantum annealing - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_annealing) EM field pocket based artificial consciousness https://twitter.com/cube_flipper/status/1658685515380707329/photo/1 https://twitter.com/AziziShekoofeh/status/1658659343087304705 Excited to share our new pre-print on "Med-PaLM 2", highlighting our progress towards achieving expert-level medical question answering performance! https://twitter.com/itstimconnors/status/1658547632124354595 Introducing ✨ GPTeam ✨ A completely customizable group of AI agents, with independent personalities, memories, and directives. We were inspired by the Stanford "Generative Agents" paper and decided to make an implementation that anyone could run. [Heart Sun of Boundless Kindness - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/live/wXc4-B7LV4U?feature=share) What if there's nothing to fix? “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C Clark https://neurosciencenews.com/comedy-humor-cognition-brain-23277/ good survey of GNNs, showing how concepts like convolution, attention, message passing get unified. https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08210 [EU takes global first step towards formal AI regulation](https://diginomica.com/eu-takes-global-first-step-towards-formal-ai-regulation) Divided USA https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1659094966671425536?t=Q0PQ-Go47nnNp8-6lCKdUw&s=19 Defeating aging [Yuri Deigin - Defeating Aging - YouTube](https://youtu.be/zoRSZBIxZ7Y) rob miles ai safety [ROBERT MILES - "There is a good chance this kills everyone" - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMLKbhY0ji0) [The Science of Perception: Christopher Fields, Susana Martinez-Conde and Donald Hoffman - YouTube](https://youtu.be/ORgx-55Xpc4) The Science of Perception: Chris Fields, Donald Hoffman [Human Extinction: What Are the Risks? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQVgt5eFMh4) Human Extinction: What Are the Risks? Paralization fixed https://fxtwitter.com/SkyNews/status/1661389555742699520?t=MNc6zpxU2ZB0DGk51hnjnw&s=19 [Philosophy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy) [The Last Question by Isaac Asimov](http://www.thelastquestion.net/) [Dyson's eternal intelligence - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson%27s_eternal_intelligence) https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Qz6w4GYZpgeDp6ATB/beyond-astronomical-waste patterns across scales https://philipball.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/docs/pdf/ADMC_Ball_final2.pdf https://quantumenigma.com/ [Infra-Bayesian physicalism: a formal theory of naturalized induction — AI Alignment Forum](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/gHgs2e2J5azvGFatb/infra-bayesian-physicalism-a-formal-theory-of-naturalized) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227389400_Theory_of_Decision_under_Uncertainty [Fifty years of research on self-replication: an overview - PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9864438/) selfreplication survey 1998 https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18153