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2026 2

  1. QRI Copenhagen Meetup on October 23rd; and Reflections on Models of Consciousness^7
  2. QRI Meetup in Mexico City: January 10th – 11AM-4PM – @ UNIVERSUM

2025 22

  1. Research Every Drug You Take: Yes, Even Your Blood Pressure Medication
  2. QRI Research Revealed: From Theory to Consciousness Engineering (2026 Fundraiser)
  3. 12+ Reasons to Donate to ClusterFree
  4. Extreme Psychedelia: Rough Visual Replication for Psychedelic + Disso High Dose Combo (Seizure ⚠️)
  5. Announcing ClusterFree: A cluster headache advocacy and research initiative (and how you can help)
  6. QRI Presents: Reverse Engineering DMT Phenomenology with Non-Linear Optics
  7. The Case for DMT for Cluster Headaches: Practical Tips & Why It Deserves Urgent Scientific Attention
  8. Indra’s Net via Nonlinear Optics: DMT Phenomenology as Evidence for Beamsplitter Holography and Recursive Harmonic Compression
  9. In-Flight Entertainment: Metta, SU(3), Flat Earth
  10. DMT for Cluster Headaches: Aborting and Preventing Extreme Pain with Tryptamines and Other Methods
  11. Summer Travel Plans for 2025: Psychedelic Science, ASSC, Borderland
  12. 5-MeO-DMT and Personality Metadata
  13. The Voice in Your Head: Don’t Mind the Inner Monologue
  14. Presidential Inaugural Address of Andrés Gómez Emilsson
  15. Social Anhedonia Considered Selfish
  16. Announcing: QUALIUS Retreat in Crete (July 10-14, 2025)
  17. Cel Animation as a Key Metaphor to Model DMT Hallucinations
  18. On the Necessity of Inner and Outer Division for the Arising of Experience
  19. From Neural Activity to Field Topology: How Coupling Kernels Shape Consciousness
  20. QRI Meetup in Amsterdam on January 25th 2025: The Coupling Kernels Revolution
  21. UFOs as Cosmic Parasites: An Evolutionary Game Theory Analysis of Relativistic Craft
  22. Open Letter to the TPOT Community on the Topic of Animal Suffering: Enlightenment, Tanha, and Kiki Qualia

2024 13

  1. Team Consciousness: A Philosophy of Truth-Seeking Ethics
  2. Are There Stable High-Dimensional Ecosystems of Mind?
  3. On Attention as the Management of Electromagnetic Field Lines
  4. Costs of Embodiment
  5. QRI Meetup in Sweden
  6. The Complex Plot of the Nested Gods: Cross-Level Fusion, Saturnian Singularities, and the Blessing of Hyperbolic Co-Existence
  7. Qualia Research Institute: The Musical Album of 2024 (v1)
  8. QRI in Germany
  9. Reflections on The Science of Consciousness Conference 2024
  10. LSD Ego Death: Where Hyperbolic Pseudo-Time Arrows Meet Geometric Fixed Points
  11. Mushrooms and AI Generated Art: Wave Lensing, Geometric Priors, and Scale-Separation
  12. Jobu Tupaki
  13. Jailbreaking Out of the Replicator Matrix: Qualia Computing in the Age of Recreational Metaphysics

2023 18

  1. QRI Meetup in Mexico City
  2. The Phenomenology of MDMA: Self-Honesty, Authenticity, & the Unraveling of Gnarly Knots in the Field
  3. Consciousness Isn’t Substrate-Neutral: From Dancing Qualia & Epiphenomena to Topology & Accelerators
  4. The View From My Topological Pocket: An Introduction to Field Topology for Solving the Boundary Problem
  5. Qualia Mastery II: Further Develop Your Toolkit for Navigating the State-Space of Consciousness
  6. Candy Flipping Optimized: Why LSD + MDMA Points to Blissful Nondual Awareness and How to Maximize It
  7. The Manhattan Project of Consciousness: The Making of the Love Bomb
  8. Are DMT Entities and UFOs Connected? Robin Hanson, Alien Politics, and Subagentic Structures
  9. QRI Meetup in Denver, June 23rd 2023
  10. Open Sourcing Qualia Mastery: QRI’s First Guided Meditation Series
  11. QRI/Qualia Computing at: Vibe Camp 2023, Psychedelic Science 2023, PhilaDelic 2023, Front Page of Vice and HackerNews, Solution to the Boundary Problem, and Qualia Mastery Series
  12. Bliss-Iconize Your Own List of Traumatic Life Events
  13. Remembering and Rediscovering Anders Amelin
  14. VALENCIAGA: QRI Bay Area Meetup on Saturday April 8th, 2023
  15. Unveiling QRI’s Consciousness Art Contests: Immerse, Innovate, and Inspire
  16. Aligning DMT Entities: Shards, Shoggoths, and Waluigis
  17. Good Vibe Theory
  18. Symmetry in Qualia – an Interview with Andres Gomez-Emilsson by Justin Riddle

2022 21

  1. Cartoon Epistemology by Steven Lehar (2003)
  2. QRI: A Year in Review – 2022
  3. Magical Creatures: Explore the State-Space of Consciousness with QRI’s First Line of Scents
  4. And it Starts With a Bang: A Treatise on Narrative Thermodynamics
  5. On Rhythms of the Brain: Jhanas, Local Field Potentials, and Electromagnetic Theories of Consciousness
  6. David Pearce on the Long-Term Future of Consciousness: The Meta-Copernican Revolution
  7. QRI Meetup in London on October 8th 2022
  8. Just Look At The Thing! – How The Science of Consciousness Informs Ethics
  9. The Maxwellians
  10. Bobby Fischer (1972 World Chess Champion) On Why Chess is a Lousy Game and How to Save It
  11. Ecstasy and Honesty
  12. Euphoric DMT Trip Report by Anonymous Reader: Psychedelic Annealing, Smooth Geometry, and Gender Transitioning Qualia
  13. Meditation Retreat Report by an Anonymous Reader: Universal Harmony and Oscillatory Complementarity
  14. Digital Computers Will Remain Unconscious Until They Recruit Physical Fields for Holistic Computing Using Well-Defined Topological Boundaries
  15. DMT and Hyperbolic Geometry: 1 Million Views Special
  16. High Valence 5-MeO-DMT + Nitrous Oxide Trip Report from an Anonymous Reader
  17. Fearless
  18. Qualia Productions Presents “Thinking Like a Musical Instrument” (and other communications from our Swedish QRI advisors)
  19. 7 Recent Videos: Cognitive Sovereignty, Phenomenology of Scent, Solution to the Problem of Other Minds, Novel Qualia Research Methods, Higher Dimensions, Solution to the Binding Problem, and Qualia Computing
  20. God and Open Individualism
  21. Review of Log Scales

2021 19

  1. Perfume Notes Are Impressionistic
  2. High-Valence Meditation
  3. The Supreme State of Unconsciousness: Classical Enlightenment from the Point of View of Valence Structuralism
  4. David Pearce on Longtermism
  5. On Dark Rooms, Jhanas, Ecstasy, and the Symmetry Theory of Valence
  6. 10 Cross-Modally Coherent Costume Ideas for this Halloween
  7. Re-observation
  8. Ikigai
  9. 7 Recent Videos: Buddhist Annealing, Is This a Simulation?, The Purple Pill, DMT vs. 5-MeO-DMT, Digital Sentience, Psychedelics and the Free Energy Principle, and Advanced Visions of Paradise
  10. A Field Equation to Mend the World
  11. What Happens When You Ask Questions to the DMT Entities?
  12. Healing Trauma with Neural Annealing
  13. Welcoming Steven Lehar as a QRI Lineage
  14. Buddhist Annealing: Wireheading Done Right with the Seven Factors of Awakening
  15. Collecting Qualia Souvenirs
  16. 7 Recent Videos: Consciousness vs. Replicators, High Entropy Alloys of Experience, Sleep Paralysis Stories, Free-Wheeling Hallucinations, Zero Ontology, The Tyranny of the Intentional Object, And A Language for Psychedelic Experiences
  17. Guide to Writing Rigorous Reports of Exotic States of Consciousness
  18. Ways of Thinking
  19. 7 Recent Videos: Rational Analysis of 5-MeO-DMT, Utility Monsters, Neroli, Phenomenal Time, Benzo Withdrawal, Scale-Specific Network Geometry, and Why DMT Feels So Real

2020 33

  1. The Symmetry Theory of Valence: 2020 Presentation
  2. On the Medium of Thought
  3. Oscillatory Synchrony is Energetically Cheap
  4. Titans Anonymous
  5. Types of Binding
  6. Modeling Psychedelic Tracers with QRI’s Psychophysics Toolkit: The Tracer Replication Tool
  7. Learning the Trade
  8. Improve your Indoor Air Quality by 99% by Optimizing the Use of HEPA Filters
  9. Psychoactive Anecdata
  10. The Fact That We Can Smell Functional Groups is Just Such a Thing
  11. Spiral
  12. Qualia Research Diary: Scents
  13. That Time Daniel Dennett Took 200 Micrograms of LSD (In Another Timeline)
  14. Self-Locatingly Uncertain Psilocybin Trip Report by an Anonymous Reader
  15. Posthuman Art: Towards Full-Spectrum Positive Valence Amplification
  16. Saving Lives with Lemon-Lavender Flavor: THC-Free Nicotine-Laced Joints as a Substitute for Tobacco Cigarettes
  17. QRI’s FAQ
  18. 5-MeO-DMT vs. N,N-DMT: The 9 Lenses
  19. On the Evolution of the Phenomenal Self (and Other Communications from QRI Sweden)
  20. 10 Ways Perception Distorts Reality
  21. Mini-Series on Open Individualism
  22. The QRI Ecosystem: Friends, Collaborators, Blogs, Media, and Adjacent Communities
  23. Fire Kasina: Color Control Experience Report by Daniel Ingram
  24. 5-MeO-DMT Awakenings: From Naïve Realism to Symmetrical Enlightenment
  25. Geometry Through the Eyes of Felix Klein
  26. The Manifesto of Tactilism
  27. QC Coronavirus Edition: Preventing Pandemics by Living on Toroidal Planets and Other Cocktail Napkin Ideas
  28. Qualia Production Presents: “The Seven Seals of Security” (and Other Communications from QRI Sweden)
  29. Making Amazing Recreational Drug Cocktails
  30. Qualiascope
  31. Perfumery as an Art Form
  32. Qualia Computing at: TSC 2020, IPS 2020, unSCruz 2020, and Ephemerisle 2020
  33. A Big State-Space of Consciousness

2019 71

  1. One for All and All for One
  2. Binding Quiddities
  3. Qualia Productions Presents: When AI Equals Advanced Incompetence
  4. Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything
  5. Essential Therapy
  6. Breaking Down the Problem of Consciousness
  7. Break Out of the Simulation Day: Televised Entity Contact, Injection Pulling Experiments, and the Brain as a Game Engine
  8. Is the Orthogonality Thesis Defensible if We Assume Both Valence Realism and Open Individualism?
  9. Toy Story 4 – 20 Movie Review
  10. Three Interesting Math Problems to Work on While on LSD
  11. Psychotic Depression
  12. Early Isolation Tank Psychonautics: 1970s Trip Reports
  13. Two Recent Presentations: (1) Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences, and (2) Harmonic Society
  14. State of the Qualia, Fall 2019
  15. Harmonic Society (4/4): Art as Valence Modulation and Future Affective Language
  16. Harmonic Society (3/4): Art as State-Space Exploration and Energy Parameter Modulation
  17. The Psychobiology of Subcultures
  18. Harmonic Society (2/4): Art as Schelling Point Creation and the Pursuit of Sacred Experiences
  19. Harmonic Society (1/4): Art as Family Resemblance + Cool Kid Theory
  20. Announcement: QRI Presentations at Harvard and NYU
  21. More Dakka in Medicine
  22. Typical N,N-DMT Trip Progression According to an Anonymous Reader
  23. Atman Retreat: Safe, Legal Psilocybin Experiences in Jamaica
  24. Kaleidoscopic Integration: Annealing, Symmetry, and the Information Theory of Experience
  25. Why Care About Meme Hazards and Thoughts on How to Handle Them
  26. Carhart-Harris & Friston 2019 – REBUS and the Anarchic Brain
  27. Does Full-Spectrum Superintelligence Entail Benevolence?
  28. Glossary of Qualia Research Institute Terms
  29. Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain: Rating, Ranking, and Comparing Peak Experiences Suggest the Existence of Long Tails for Bliss and Suffering
  30. Using Ibogaine to Create Friendlier Opioids
  31. Treating Cluster Headaches Using N,N-DMT and Other Tryptamines
  32. Realms as Interpretive Lenses
  33. Cluster Headache Frequency Follows a Long-Tail Distribution
  34. In brief, LSD…
  35. Ephemerisle: Health Homeostasis, Worldview Annealing, and the Long-Tails of Serious Fun
  36. Wada Test + Phenomenal Puzzles: Testing the Independent Consciousness of Individual Brain Hemispheres
  37. 5-MeO-DMT Trip Report by Anonymous Reader
  38. Get-Out-Of-Hell-Free Necklace
  39. Low-Dose Ibogaine + Opioids: A Possible Treatment for Chronic Pain, Schizophrenia, and Depression?
  40. Coffee Saves Lives
  41. Top 10 Qualia Computing Articles
  42. Ego and Symmetry on 5-MeO-DMT
  43. AI Alignment Podcast: On Consciousness, Qualia, and Meaning with Mike Johnson and Andrés Gómez Emilsson
  44. Timothy Leary’s Final Regrets
  45. All-Is-One Simulation Theory
  46. Rational 4-AcO-DMT Trip Report By An Anonymous Reader
  47. Against Fetishizing Cortical Neurons: Prioritizing Humans As Instrumentally Rational
  48. +Transhumanism -Signaling: Education Should Be Relevant to Meaningful Work
  49. An Infinite Variety of Waste
  50. Microaffect Hash Collision Theory of Déjà Vus
  51. Pure Land Youtube Hits
  52. The Meaning Machine
  53. Low-Dose Ibogaine for Hedonic Tone Augmentation
  54. Transcending and Including Integral Theory
  55. Frequency Specific Microcurrent for Kidney-Stone Pain
  56. Every Child is a Genetic Experiment: FAAH Clinical Trials for Hedonic Recalibration as Educated Guesses Rather than Reckless Experimentation
  57. Burning Man Theme-Camps of the Year 2029: From Replicator to Rainbow God (2/2)
  58. Investing Time and Resources in Happiness
  59. Utilitronium Shockwaves vs. Gradients of Bliss
  60. Do you think that some psychedelic drugs, such as DMT, can help mathematicians visualize the hyperbolic geometry of space? Or could mathematicians glean other interesting insights through the experience?
  61. On Hitting the Actual Target of Hedonic Tone
  62. The Resonance and Vibration of [Phenomenal] Objects
  63. “Letter from Utopia” and Other Triple-S Transhumanist Media
  64. Burning Man Theme-Camps of the Year 2029: From Replicator to Rainbow God (1/2)
  65. Cooling It Down To Partying It Up
  66. Cause X – What Will the New Shiny Effective Altruist Cause Be?
  67. Detailed 2C-B Trip Report by an Anonymous Reader
  68. Triple S Genetic Counseling: Predicting Hedonic-Set Point with Commercial-Grade DNA Testing as an Effective Altruist Project
  69. Dream Music
  70. Free-Wheeling Hallucinations
  71. Philip K. Dick’s LSD Trip

2018 34

  1. Lucid LSD Trip Report from an Anonymous Reader
  2. A Non-Circular Solution to the Measurement Problem: If the Superposition Principle is the Bedrock of Quantum Mechanics Why Do We Experience Definite Outcomes?
  3. What is Love? Neural Annealing in the Presence of an Intentional Object
  4. The Purple Pill
  5. Personality Traits Are Continuous With Mental Illnesses
  6. The Phenomenal Character of LSD + MDMA (Candy-Flipping) According to Cognitive Scientist Steve Lehar
  7. The Universal Plot: Interlude ‽ – The Slytherin Wavelength
  8. Hell Must Be Destroyed
  9. The Pseudo-Time Arrow: Explaining Phenomenal Time With Implicit Causal Structures In Networks Of Local Binding
  10. Anti-Tolerance Drugs
  11. Psychedelic Turk: A Platform for People on Altered States of Consciousness
  12. Estimated Cost of the DMT Machine Elves Prime Factorization Experiment
  13. Thoughts on the ‘Is-Ought Problem’ from a Qualia Realist Point of View
  14. David Pearce in SF
  15. The Qualia Explosion
  16. Burning Man 2.0: The Eigen-Schelling Religion, Entrainment & Metronomes, and the Eternal Battle Between Consciousness and Replicators
  17. Materializing Hyperbolic Spaces with Gradient-Index Optics and One-Way Mirrors
  18. Why don’t more effective altruists work on the Hedonistic Imperative?
  19. The Appearance of Arbitrary Contingency to Our Diverse Qualia
  20. Qualia Computing at Burning Man 2018: “Consciousness vs Replicators” talk
  21. Open Individualism and Antinatalism: If God could be killed, it’d be dead already
  22. John von Neumann
  23. Qualia Computing Media Appearances
  24. Marijuana-induced “Short-term Memory Tracers”
  25. The Banality of Evil
  26. Person-moment affecting views
  27. Qualia Formalism in the Water Supply: Reflections on The Science of Consciousness 2018
  28. Qualia Research Institute presentations at The Science of Consciousness 2018 (Tucson, AZ)
  29. Modern Accounts of Psychedelic Action
  30. From Point-of-View Fragmentation to Global Visual Coherence: Harmony, Symmetry, and Resonance on LSD
  31. What If God Were a Closed Individualist Presentist Hedonistic Utilitarian With an Information-Theoretic Identity of Indiscernibles Ontology?
  32. Every Qualia Computing Article Ever
  33. Qualia Computing Attending The Science of Consciousness 2018
  34. Everything in a Nutshell

2017 29

  1. Would Maximally Efficient Work Be Fun?
  2. The Universal Plot: Part I – Consciousness vs. Pure Replicators
  3. No-Self vs. True Self
  4. Qualia Manifesto
  5. What Makes Tinnitus, Depression, and the Sound of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) so Awful: Dissonance
  6. Traps of the God Realm
  7. Avoid Runaway Signaling in Effective Altruism
  8. Burning Man
  9. Mental Health as an EA Cause: Key Questions
  10. 24 Predictions for the Year 3000 by David Pearce
  11. Why I think the Foundational Research Institute should rethink its approach
  12. Quantifying Bliss: Talk Summary
  13. Connectome-Specific Harmonic Waves on LSD
  14. Qualia Computing at Consciousness Hacking (June 7th 2017)
  15. ELI5 “The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences”
  16. Principia Qualia: Part II – Valence
  17. The Penfield Mood Organ
  18. The Most Important Philosophical Question
  19. The Forces At Work
  20. Psychedelic Science 2017: Take-aways, impressions, and what’s next
  21. How Every Fairy Tale Should End
  22. Political Peacocks
  23. OTC remedies for RLS
  24. Their Scientific Significance is Hard to Overstate
  25. Memetic Vaccine Against Interdimensional Aliens Infestation
  26. Raising the Table Stakes for Successful Theories of Consciousness
  27. Qualia Computing Attending the 2017 Psychedelic Science Conference
  28. GHB vs. MDMA
  29. Hedonium

2016 37

  1. The Binding Problem
  2. The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences: Symmetries, Sheets, and Saddled Scenes
  3. Thinking in Numbers
  4. Praise and Blame are Instrumental
  5. The Tyranny of the Intentional Object
  6. Schrödinger’s Neurons: David Pearce at the “2016 Science of Consciousness” conference in Tucson
  7. Beyond Turing: A Solution to the Problem of Other Minds Using Mindmelding and Phenomenal Puzzles
  8. Core Philosophy
  9. David Pearce on the “Schrodinger’s Neurons Conjecture”
  10. Samadhi
  11. Panpsychism and Compositionality: A solution to the hard problem
  12. LSD and Quantum Measurements: Can you see Schrödinger’s cat both dead and alive on acid?
  13. Empathetic Super-Intelligence
  14. Wireheading Done Right: Stay Positive Without Going Insane
  15. Just the fate of our forward light-cone
  16. Information-Sensitive Gradients of Bliss
  17. A Single 3N-Dimensional Universe: Splitting vs. Decoherence
  18. Algorithmic Reduction of Psychedelic States
  19. So Why Can’t My Boyfriend Communicate?
  20. The Mating Mind
  21. Psychedelic alignment cascades
  22. 36 Textures of Confusion
  23. Work Religion
  24. Qualia Computing in Tucson: The Magic Analogy
  25. In Praise of Systematic Empathy
  26. David Pearce on “Making Sentience Great”
  27. Philosophy of Mind Diagrams
  28. Ontological Runaway Scenario
  29. Peaceful Qualia: The Manhattan Project of Consciousness
  30. Qualia Computing So Far
  31. You are not a zombie
  32. What’s the matter? It’s Schrödinger, Heisenberg and Dirac’s
  33. The Biointelligence Explosion
  34. A (Very) Unexpected Argument Against General Relativity As A Complete Account Of The Cosmos
  35. Status Quo Bias
  36. The Super-Shulgin Academy: A Singularity I Can Believe In
  37. The effect of background assumptions on psychedelic research

2015 39

  1. An ethically disastrous cognitive dissonance…
  2. Some Definitions
  3. Who should know about suffering?
  4. Ontological Qualia: The Future of Personal Identity
  5. Google Hedonics
  6. Solutions to World Problems
  7. Why does anything exist?
  8. State-Space of Background Assumptions
  9. Personal Identity Joke
  10. Getting closer to digital LSD
  11. Psychedelic Perception of Visual Textures 2: Going Meta
  12. On Triviality
  13. State-Space of Drug Effects: Results
  14. How to secretly communicate with people on LSD
  15. Generalized Wada Test and the Total Order of Consciousness
  16. State-space of drug effects
  17. Psychophysics for Psychedelic Research: Textures
  18. I only vote for politicians who have used psychedelics. EOM.
  19. Why not computing qualia?
  20. David Pearce’s daily morning cocktail (2015)
  21. Psychedelic Perception of Visual Textures
  22. Should humans wipe out all carnivorous animals so the succeeding generations of herbivores can live in peace?
  23. A workable solution to the problem of other minds
  24. The fire that breathes reality into the equations of physics
  25. Phenomenal Binding is incompatible with the Computational Theory of Mind
  26. David Hamilton’s conversation with Alf Bruce about the nature of the mind
  27. This post want to apologize for last posts’ overzealous marketing
  28. Make + $$$$ from HOME, guaranteed. Achieve all your professional goals with qualia computing. Use the power of phenomenal binding for computational efficiency never before seen and get rich QUICK!
  29. Manifolds of Consciousness: The emerging geometries of iterated local binding
  30. The Real Tree of Life
  31. Phenomenal puzzles – CIELAB
  32. The psychedelic future of consciousness
  33. Not zero-sum
  34. Discussion of Fanaticism
  35. What does comparatively matter in 2015?
  36. Suffering: Not what your sober mind tells you
  37. Reconciling memetics and religion.
  38. The Reality of Basement Reality
  39. The future of love

2014 9

  1. And that’s why we can and cannot have nice things
  2. Breaking the Thought Barrier: Ethics of Brain Computer Interfaces in the workplace
  3. Consciousness engineering!
  4. How bad does it get?
  5. God in Buddhism
  6. Practical metaphysics
  7. Little known fun fact
  8. Crossing borders
  9. A simple mystical explanation