Improve your sleep today! Head to https://evening.ver.so/toe to get 15% off your first order of Verso's Nightcap Elixir. Every episode days early, ad-free, plus my essays: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/subscribe Full Q&A here: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/the-mathematics-that-predicts-your Live from MIT Media Lab’s Augmentation Lab Summit, I speak with Andres Gomez-Emilsson of the Qualia Research Institute about modeling consciousness and rendering it. You haven't seen psychedelic visuals /experiences explained like this before. We separate qualia from sensory input and map the “geometry” of experience through color—synesthesia, pure hues, after-images, and “is your blue my blue?” Andres demos QRI’s GPU tool, a Photoshop for psychedelia built on coupled oscillators and feedback. It recreates LSD/psilocybin’s fractal tapestries, DMT’s entity-like mirror tunnels, global synchrony, and “white-out.” We cover “psychedelic thermodynamics,” neural annealing and valence flips, and pseudo-time—loops and timeless stretches. The episode makes a case for real-time, in-state phenomenology over questionnaires. This was specifically structured to be informative to both those who have never experienced psychedelics and those who are, let’s say, well acquainted. Thank you to Dunya Baradari, Addy Cha, and Andres, of course. Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Augmentation Lab at MIT Links: - X: https://x.com/auglab - Site: https://augmentationlab.org - ekkolapto: https://www.youtube.com/@UCiIfMNEuY8SglhEOgtyTnDA Links Mentioned: - Qualia Research Institute: https://qri.org/ - The Secret Of The Universe In A Geometric Object [Article]: https://heart.qri.org/retreats/2023-canada/andres-gomez-emilsson/the-secret-of-the-universe - Andres’s Previous Appearance [TOE]: https://youtu.be/BBP8WZpYp0Y - The Zero Ontology: https://www.hedweb.com/nihilism/nihilf01.htm - The Consciousness Iceberg [TOE]: https://youtu.be/65yjqIDghEk - Psychedelic Cryptography [Article]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/psychedelic-cryptography-videos-have-hidden-messages-designed-to-be-seen-while-tripping/ - Albert Nerenberg: https://www.hypnologist.net/ - Neil Turok [TOE]: https://youtu.be/zNZCa1pVE20 - The Pseudo-Time Arrow [Article]: https://qualiacomputing.com/2018/11/28/the-pseudo-time-arrow-explaining-phenomenal-time-with-implicit-causal-structures-in-networks-of-local-binding/ - Julian Barbour [TOE]: https://youtu.be/bprxrGaf0Os SUPPORT: - Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join - Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal - Crypto: https://nowpayments.io/donation/TOE - Support me on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4 SOCIALS: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Guests do not pay to appear. Theories of Everything receives revenue solely from viewer donations, platform ads, and clearly labelled sponsors; no guest or associated entity has ever given compensation, directly or through intermediaries. #science