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Honoring the memory of Anders Amelin, our dear friend and strategic advisor at @QualiaRI . His unwavering commitment to solving the problem of suffering will forever inspire us. Our deepest condolences to his family and friends. Learn more:

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Qualia Research Institute

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✵ Open Sourcing Qualia Mastery ✵ 🧘🌈 Gain deeper phenomenological insights into consciousness and use them to enhance meditation practice, overall wellbeing, and your capacity to report your subjective experiences accurately

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🥇🥈🥉 Winners announced! Psychedelic Cryptography Contest (Immerse) 👽🧩 Winner: Score: 87.3 Artist: Raimonds Jermaks (Symmetric Vision) Title: Can You see us? Description: “Just a video loop of a bunch of weird wavy nooodles, nothing to see here,

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QRI's 'Good Vibes Theory' (GVT) is a speculative proposal for a physics of consciousness. This theory aims to establish an ontological foundation for a future rigorous science of good vibes. 🧵🧵🧵 #psychedelicthermodynamics #goodvibestheory

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Artist: The_Dyey Title: Layers of Being: Explorations of Consciousness Brief description of the piece: An attempt to capture the voyage of self-discovery as brave and curious psychonauts fearlessly venture into extraordinary and non-ordinary states of consciousness, driven by

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👽 The most significant lead for understanding the computational power of consciousness is DMT 🐸 The most significant lead for understanding valence structuralism, good annealing, and the mathematics of phenomenal value is 5-MeO-DMT

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Artist: Nat Sharpe Title: Trickster Brief description of the piece: An unsettling trip into DMT hyperspace. Description of what this piece is about: Grating sound, jesters and sharp geometry. Are you scared or curious? Made using animations I generated with a custom Stable

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Artist: Gydravlik Title: The TRIP Brief description of the piece: Short 3D animation created in Cinema 4D and visualized in Redshift. The sound design is also created by me and is directly part of this art. Description of what this piece is about: A brief look at the trip,

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✵ Open Sourcing Qualia Mastery PART 2 ✵ 🧘🌈 Last Summer we open sourced Qualia Mastery to advance consciousness research. Today we're excited to release a new collection of guided meditations to explore even more techniques for navigating the state-space of consciousness!

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What is Mettannealing? 🧘❤️ Mettannealing merges Neural Field Annealing with metta meditation. This hybrid technique aims to utilize the dynamic energy landscape of the brain, as characterized in Neural Field Annealing, to amplify and refine the practice of metta, or

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An Intuition Pump for a Physics of Consciousness

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Artist: grimeMuted Title: Columnweb Brief description of the piece: The work is an oil painting on aluminum composite panel, 36 inches by 60 inches. It depicts a form constant seen during walking meditation, but, rather than being painted faithfully, the color scheme is altered

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“Indeed, superintelligence won't be achieved with AI, but with consciousness engineering."

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Welcoming Roger Thisdell to QRI's Board of Advisors Roger Thisdell is a world-class phenomenologist, meditation teacher and philosophy graduate with a unique experiential perspective on consciousness. Having achieved the MCTB 4th Path and overcome deeply ingrained suffering, he

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Artist: Nat Sharpe Title: Falling Brief description of the piece: Not the best trip. Description of what this piece is about: Dogs barking, trees turning into jagged shapes, and poor balance. Illustrates chromatic aberration, tracers, geometry and closed-eye visuals. Made

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Congratulations to The Far Out Initiative on receiving its first @slatestarcodex grant! The initiative is heavily inspired by Jo Cameron, a woman born with a genetic condition resulting in immunity to physical and psychological pain (fear, anxiety, etc.). Unlike other forms of

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damn how do i get in on a FAAH inhibitor trial

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1/ 🎨🧠 The Qualia Research Institute (QRI) is excited to announce three Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness (NSCs) Art Contests: Immerse, Innovate, and Inspire! Submissions accepted until 5/17/2023. 💵 $10k in prizes!

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🔬👾 The Qualia Research Institute is thrilled to be part of the conversation on DMTx research! Discover how our work can help unravel the enigma of DMT Hyperspace in this fascinating article ➡️

Silicon Valley’s Latest Fascination is Exploring ‘DMT Hyperspace’

Amateur psychonauts have been ‘mapping’ DMT’s psychedelic realms for years. Now, VCs and AI enthusiasts are studying the mysterious drug’s effects.

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Winner Score: 81.5 Artist: Raimonds Jermaks (Symmetric Vision) Title: MultiSensory Memories Description: “That moment when your senses start blending together and you realize that it wasn’t a microdose.” Effects: Color shifting, visual drifting, embedded geometry,

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Neural Annealing, more than a metaphor We take great pride in having created the guiding metaphor for the REBUS and CANAL models of psychedelic therapy and psychopathology. While we appreciate the widespread adoption and recognition of Neural Annealing, it's crucial to

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For more details, please check out the preprint itself. It is still a work-in-progress, and we are very much interested in any feedback people might have, both from folks on the machine learning side as well as the psychiatry and psychedelic science sides.

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If humanity had consistently shared the phenomenal character of its altered states of consciousness with each other instead of the narrative content, we would be much closer to reverse engineering consciousness than we are now. (1/8) 🧵

Guide to Writing Rigorous Reports of Exotic States of Consciousness

A guide to writing rigorous trip reports.

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Artist: Nat Sharpe Title: Butterfly Brief description of the piece: An encounter with a benevolent DMT entity. Description of what this piece is about: The bouba fractals and fluid instability mirror the positive valence of the experience. Made using animations I generated

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Artist: Arnold Veber Title: Dreamtism Brief description of the piece: Is it feasible to capture not only the individual themselves but also the essence of their observed high-energy state through photography? Neural networks, acting as comprehensive models of human experience,

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A lovely meetup of qualia engineers and enthusiasts at Dolores Park yesterday 🥰

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Good Vibes Theory (3): With a physics of consciousness, we should be able to look at trippy DMT replication images, understand their non-trivial meaningful content, and interpret the reason for the existence of the patterns and structures within them. 🧵

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Pioneering Scent Scientist Dr. Luca Turin ( @vortuosity ) Joins Our Board of Advisors We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Luca Turin to our board of advisors. As a pioneering biophysicist and renowned expert on perfumery, Dr. Turin's groundbreaking research on the science of smell has

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Why is your conscious experience confined to your own mind, creating a unified perception that is distinctly yours, without including the experiences of others? Find out in our solution to the Boundary Problem of Consciousness: @algekalipso @chris_percy

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Welcoming Wystan Bryant-Scott to QRI's Board of Advisors We are happy to announce that Wystan Bryant Scott, a highly experienced meditation teacher and phenomenologist, is joining QRI's Board of Advisors. With his deep experiential understanding of mindfulness practices across

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🎉The time has come to VOTE for your favorite entries in the QRI Inspirational Piece Contest! 🖼️ (LIKES = VOTES) From now until the clock strikes 12:00am PT on June 1st, 2023, your likes on individual entries count as votes. Please feel free to vote for all pieces you find

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The Fakhri Effect is an illusion @BijanFakhri developed to demonstrate artifacts of wave behavior in the visual field. To experience the effect: 1. Focus your gaze on the cross in the middle of the left image and move your attention (but not your eyes!) to the stars in the

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Artist: Tryp Title: Competing Clusters of Coherence Brief description of the piece: Competing Clusters of Coherence and bathed in colour showing bounds of fields Description of what this piece is about: Competing Clusters of Coherence and bathed in colour showing bounds of

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2nd Place Score: 76.3 Artist: Jon Title: Implicate Orders Description: “In this animation I’m working with principles proposed by David Bohm and Donald Hoffman. That lying beneath the sensory information we receive, which we then process to create an image of the world around

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Toward Synthetic Synesthesia: Visualizing Tactile Sensations At QRI, we are working to visually model and quantify tactile sensations like touch, temperature and pain. If successful, this could: - Enable clearer communication of pain symptoms for more accurate diagnosis and

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🥇🥈🥉 Winners announced! 🖼️ Replication Contest (Immerse) Additional commentary on the top 10 submission included:

Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness Contest: Replication (Immerse)

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3rd Place Score: 73.9 Artist: Rūdolfs Balcers @BearFromVoid Title: The Key Description: “Artwork depicts the connection between the subconscious and the universal energy. The key of everything is defined by the observer of their own mind.” Encryption method: “Images edited

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We would like to wish everyone a Happy New Qualia Bundle in 2024! 2023 has been a phenomenal lay up for what's to come in 2024! 🥳Here's a recap 🧵

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Guided Meditation: Self-Organizing Principles There are many spiritual and yogic practices that utilize “elemental” objects of meditation. For example, the guided meditation by Michael Taft called “Five Elements Meditation” (link below) centers the mind around mental formations

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How do we build conscious computers? 😀🖥️ The digital computational systems implementing AI algorithms lack anything but trivial sentience, with the contents of any topological pockets created by digital computers being made of 'mind dust' 🧵

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Artist: Gaige Clark Title: Ethereal Realms (Symmetry) Brief description of the piece: This video depicts a higher dose DMT trip through stop-motion animation compiled from manually stitched together images generated from both midjourney and wombo. Despite the use of AI to

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2nd Place Score: 74.8 Artist: Raimonds Jermaks (Symmetric Vision) Title: We Are Here. Lets talk Description: “Short video loop containing a secret message from outer space. Can you see it?” Encryption method: “The message text is illuminated in scanner fashion. The speed of

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Good Vibes Theory (2): The Flower of Life from sacred geometry may have deeper implications in physics than previously realized in light of Feynman and Wheeler’s “one-electron universe” where reality is an interference pattern of one electron bouncing back and forth in time 🧵

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Artist: Raimonds Jermaks (Symmetric Vision) Title: Having a little chat with your own reflection Brief description of the piece: A brief audio-visual memory of talking to an entity while having a breakthrough psychedelic experience, all subjective, of course. Description of

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5/ 🧩 Psychedelic Cryptography Contest (Innovate): Create sensory encodings only meaningful when experienced on psychedelics. Judging criteria: difficulty of encryption and clarity of message. Prizes up to $3k!

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We're excited to share our history, 2021 strategy, research plans, and fundraising campaign

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"Just as black holes and plasma help us understand how matter works, jhanas or psychedelics could do the same for consciousness."

Manufacturing Bliss—Asterisk

A growing community centered on the Bay Area is rediscovering the jhanas, a meditation technique that practitioners claim could upend how we think about the brain — and transform our lives in the...

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✨ Spark thought provoking conversations about consciousness this holiday season with a QRI hoodie:

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Artist: The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo Title: Stainspotting: A Rorschach Worship Workshop Brief description of the piece: This poetic micro-essay about the ontological implications of pareidolia, accompanies a series of videographic illustrations in which numerous distinct

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Artist: Tryp Title: Boundless Symmetry Brief description of the piece: AI Art Description of what this piece is about: Prompt is bernys book: Unified Happiness SuperMetaEngineering using Computational MetaNeuroPsychological Free Energy Principlal Annealed Topological

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Our first line of scents, 'Magical Creatures', is now available. Explore the complex and irregular universe of olfaction and discover hidden gems in the state-space of consciousness.

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QRI is honored to welcome our Board of Advisors! @RCarhartHarris @webmasterdave @shamilch @woj_zaremba @slatestarcodex

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Artist: bb Title: Flames of the Subconscious Brief description of the piece: Digital collage of a girl (me) freeing little "flames of the subconscious" into the Universe "Flames": that's the flash of the Polaroid camera through my hand as I was attempting to cover it & take a

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As a prelude to our semi-annual newsletter update (it's a big one), all new subscribers between now and July 4th, 2023, will be sent a free holographic QRI sticker upon signing up:

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@QualiaRI Definetly wins the prettiest sticker award

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Artist: Natural Warp / name : George Hoeylaerts Title: The Monk and The Artifact Brief description of the piece: True connection is transcendental. Shut down the chatter of the mind to dissolve the imaginary barriers between the self, the object, the moment and the universe.

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We're all qualia researchers; most people just aren't cognizant of it yet. If you are, consider picking up a QRI T-Shirt here:

Qualia Research Institute

Qualia Research Institute is a nonprofit research group studying consciousness in a consistent, meaningful, and rigorous way.

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9th Place Score: 55.3 Artist: Osvaldo Mancera Fosado Title: Qualia Fields Description: “Qualia Fields is a work that tries to portray the feeling of being on the brink of the topological fold that separates consciousness as a neuronal phenomenon with”deep reality”, while is

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Neural Field Annealing — combining Hebbian learning with Neural Annealing in order to explain why "highly annealed brains" can instantiate harmonic field behavior (such as the Jhanas).

Neural Field Annealing and Psychedelic Thermodynamics

Abstract: The paradigm of Neural Annealing developed at the Qualia Research Institute (QRI) by Andrés Gómez Emilsson and Michael E. Johnson has a lot of expl...

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Visual phenomena only perceivable under the influence of psychedelics, or within other altered perceptual states such as HPPD. Check out @VisionSymmetric 's message for his audience below (winner of multiple QRI non-ordinary state contests, his work is literally mind-blowing)

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Some psychedelic cryptography experiments at Shankra Festival. A lot of messages are missing here, but most were along the lines of "IF you can read this, show some light" etc. Anyway, let me know if you saw them. Heres a decoding

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Bingo! Our mission at QRI is to make high-valence states like these accessible to everyone everywhere all the time, not just on Friday nights at QRI events. So glad you enjoyed yourself @kipperrii 😊

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i can't sleep i feel too loved and excited i had such a good night

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Artist: Aino Palander Title: Gallery of Consciousness Brief description of the piece: Combined Midjourney generated imagery with digitally drawn characters and floating DMT objects. The room contains fractals, mushrooms, and colours associated with altered mind-states. Little

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Artist: Rajan Patel Title: Field Scientist Brief description of the piece: This piece shows a scientist in what might be his/her nearby office environment in a spacious meadow observing some sort of psychedelic phenomena overhead and documenting it on his computer. Description

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🥳QRI is delighted to see our work cited by world-class scientists in a prestigious journal! Thank you to the authors for their inspiring work, and to all those who take our ideas seriously and support our research. We appreciate you all! 🙏

Robin Carhart-Harris

@RCarhartHarris

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🆓 🚨New view on mental health - Share it!🚨 Link ⬆️ - Free to read for 50 days! I'll summarise the paper below ⬇️ & please share it❤️ Gist = we get scared & hurt & then stuck. Can't help it. But there's a solution 🧵1/7 #psychedelics #mentalhealth

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Artist: Scry Visuals Title: Valent Space Brief description of the piece: A sprawling toroidial space with so much symmetry that you can barely tell if a given area isn't in fact a reflection. Octahedrons pulsate and flow and transform through the space Description of what

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If this publication went over your head (no pun intended) or was simply tl;dr, then check out our intuitive explanation of it in our latest post:

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Why is your conscious experience confined to your own mind, creating a unified perception that is distinctly yours, without including the experiences of others? Find out in our solution to the Boundary Problem of Consciousness: @algekalipso @chris_percy

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Artist: Sleepless Monk Title: Dedication Brief description of the piece: Dedication is an audiovisual journey through dream realms. In shamanism the hypothesis lies that humans developed their imaginal and dream abilities first and then used them to develop all that we know

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There is a deep connection between the shape of things and the way they vibrate. Different shapes have different energies, as their curvature, complexity, and surface area increase.

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Two groups will make the most use of GVT; one is the "vibe engineers," who are grounded in creating good vibes technically, and the mystics, who want to connect good vibes to deep insights and truths of wisdom traditions.

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QRI visiting scholars recently memorized the first 30 graphlets. Their study discovered narratives & 3D spatial embedding were most effective memorization techniques, providing insight into the mind's internal representations. Read more:

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Artist: Nuwan Shilpa Title: Biomechanical Enlightenment Brief description of the piece: Biomechanical Enlightenment (A vision from an ancient future) By Nuwan Shilpa Hennayake Art is the highest form of spiritual technology we have to express our consciousness. As we reach

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It's time for us to start sharing and studying the phenomenal character of our experiences in a rigorous and scientific way. Only then can we hope to make significant progress in understanding consciousness. (8/8) 🧵

Psychophysics Toolkit by Qualia Research Institute

Psychedelic tracers might be a window into the way the native rhythms of our brain interact with one another. We created a tool to replicate and quantify these tracers in detail. Come try it out!

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Exciting news! We reached RSVP capacity so we have upgraded to a bigger space. New location: MOOS Space, Moosdorfstraße 7-9, 12435 Berlin Date: May 18th 2pm - 7pm+ Come meet other qualia explorers for presentations by @stalkerofmusik on The Good Annealing Manual and

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Thank you for the kind words! Thrilled the meditations have been so inspiring. Discovering and creating new guided paths for phenomenological exploration is a joy. The Qualia Mastery series is now available on Spotify and other streaming platforms:

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Maybe the most impactful guided meditation I’ve ever done. @algekalipso is creating and discovering a new way to point to the wonders of phenomenological exploration. It’s inspiring to see it ground down into guided meditations.

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Thank you all for coming out to Qualia Fest México! We are immensely grateful for our international supporters. For rigorous discussions of our theoretical frameworks, networking, or simply meeting awesome people consider holding a Qualia Meetup in your area!

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6/ ✨ Inspirational Piece Contest (Inspire): Showcase the connection between art and consciousness research. Judging criteria: originality, creativity, inspiration, impact, quality, and execution. Public poll will determine winners. Prizes up to $2k!

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At QRI we believe that it is our responsibility to ensure that any sentience that is brought into existence is taken care of. As @webmasterdave would say, it ought to be "animated by information-sensitive gradients of bliss”.

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🥇🥈🥉 Winners announced! + 🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅 Inspirational Piece Contest (Inspire) ✨ The Inspirational Piece Contest (Inspire) was determined by a public Twitter poll where one like was the equivalent of one vote for an artist’s submission. To help compensate for network effects

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Artist: Mindshift Title: The Hard Problem Brief description of the piece: An Exploration of the Mind Through Psychedelic Space Landscapes and Surreal Portraits. Description of what this piece is about: Inspired by David Chalmer's concept of the "Hard Problem of Consciousness,"

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Quintin, our Director of Engineering, recently presented to Dr. Karl Friston on Neural Annealing: A Theory for Emotional Updating in the Brain:

Neural Annealing (Presented to Dr. Karl Friston @ the Wellcome Centre...

Quintin Frerichs from the Qualia Research Institute presents on Neural Annealing: A Theory for Emotional Belief Updating in the Brain. This presentation was ...

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These patterns on DMT are not just 3D patterns but are far deeper and more coherent, with each cluster of coherence functioning as a coherent witness that is measuring its environment.

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The Good Annealing manual is shaping up nicely and we are aiming to have it in your hands sometime this year! Thank you @stalkerofmusik

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Good Annealing Manual ft. Dall-E teaser Dissociation during ketamine therapy helps people see themselves in a new light devoid of physical and emotional pain. Euphoria and high valence experienced about 15 min after ingestion can rapidly help with an acute suicidal crisis!

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🧘‍♂️ Dive deep into 'meditation calisthenics'! Experience high-valence states of consciousness, stimulating "see, hear, feel" paradigms, artistic & social mindsets, metta, "cosmic party mode", worlds of insight, realization & refined modes of being.

Guided Meditation: High-Valence Calisthenics - Exploring the Heaven...

In this guided meditation Andrés walks you through a wide range of possible high-valence states of consciousness, aka. phenomenal "heaven worlds".Calisthenic...

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Artist: Nuwan Shilpa Title: Cyber Shaman Brief description of the piece: Cyber Shaman is a representation in the exploration of the intersection of technology and spirituality. Also suggestive of a merging of ancient wisdom and modern science, as a path of possibility in using

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Just 4 days left! As a special welcome, all new subscribers to our newsletter (due for a big update!) will receive a FREE holographic QRI sticker. Subscribe today:

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Artist: Gaige Clark Title: The Infinite Rooms of Dreams Brief description of the piece: Depicts something like a DXM/DPH combo. Both deliriant and dissociative elements are present, with more focus on deliriant open eye experiences and eventually other worlds and architectural

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Guided Meditation: Metta - Fabric Softener for Your Consciousness Metta is a Pali word that can be translated as benevolence, friendliness, or good will. It is a key state of mind for meditative practice; it has the capacity to heal, invigorate, and center the mind. The

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We propose a new framework, “Psychedelic thermodynamics”, which offers a novel perspective on energy flow in consciousness.

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10/ 🙏 Special thanks to @algekalipso @Josikinz @NFTrippy @GydravlikS @scryart @FAmused for their invaluable feedback and support of the contest and for their insights into the psychedelic/visionary art community and @LokaVision for the inspiration!

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New post by @cube_flipper 🐬 If consciousness flips between attention and awareness, what's the refresh rate? Flipper's post dives into this cycle underlying perception.

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new post day! i've been thinking a lot about attention and awareness lately, and to be honest with everybody i've been struggling to put all the pieces together. 😵‍💫

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Internal representations act as energy sinks that absorb and channel ambient energy. They are often symmetrical and have semantic meaning, which makes them effective energy sinks. These representations also radiate energy and have energizing effects *to other representations*.

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As a non-profit we don't fly first class, but we definitely make the most out of coach 😂

Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson

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Jhana meditation cocoon in an airplane. Completely silent and undisturbed. It may not look like it, but I'm having a great time in here :-)

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4/ 🖼️ Replication Contest (Immerse): Create a piece of art replicating low-level subjective effects experienced in non-ordinary states of consciousness. Judging criteria: number of effects replicated, resemblance, and emphasis on valence and geometric effects. Prizes up to $5k!

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Stay safe at @cauliflwr_human camp, @nathan_k ! ⚠️ A facetious forewarning from The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT ⚠️ "On the unexpected side effects of staring at a cauliflower on DMT: You can get lost in the hyperbolic reality of the (apparent) life force that spirals in a

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Arrived!

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Artist: Chris Hulls Title: Gears of the Universe Brief description of the piece: This is an AI-aided design based on a recurring exploration of the effects of Ketamine on the perception of reality. To generate the basis of this image, multiple trip reports were combined using

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🏆 Winners of the Replication and Psychedelic Cryptography Contests will be announced later today. Both contests were evaluated by a panel of QRI's network of the world's leading phenomenologists. We will also be adding prizes to the Inspirational Piece Contest to counterbalance

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Join our guided meditation with Andrés to explore beyond the usual "spotlight" conception of attention. Discover alternative modes and their profound impact on consciousness, enriching phenomenological reporting and enhancing meditation practice.

Guided Meditation: The Varieties of Attention

This is a guided meditation provided by Andrés in order to enrich one's conception of the nature of "attention".Attention is typically thought of as a fuzzy ...

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Holographic QRI Stickers are en route to every continent on Earth! We hope you'll display it proudly in a place where it will spark intriguing conversations about the nature of consciousness and the future of sentient beings. Thank you for your support!

Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson

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🌈 Rainbow Consciousness 🌈 (Image by @qualiacomputer )

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An excerpt from the upcoming podcast episode (titled "The Ontological Dinner Party") by Ryan Ferris for The Good Timeline featuring Daniel Ingram, Frank Yang, and Andrés Gómez Emilsson.

Frank Yang on the Symmetry Theory of Valence

This is an excerpt from the upcoming podcast episode (titled "The Ontological Dinner Party") by Ryan Ferris for The Good Timeline featuring Daniel Ingram, Fr...

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4th Place Score: 72.3 Artist: Phosform Title: Cosmically Confused Kitchen Description: “Replicating the effects of low to medium dose LSD.” Website: Commentary: It was noted by a number of the judges that the transitions between embedded geometries

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Spotted some aperiodic monotiling at the QRI London Meetup this week! Thank you @42irrationalist and @nwspk for hosting. See you at the next one!

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