An Infinite Variety of Waste
Excerpt from The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (2000) by Geoffrey Miller (pg. 128-129) Zahavi’s handicap principle and the idea of condition-dependence* are...
View ArticleAgainst Fetishizing Cortical Neurons: Prioritizing Humans As Instrumentally...
In response to: [Partially Retracted] Cortical Neuron Number Matches Intuitive Perceptions Of Moral Value Across Animals (see also: 1, 2), and The Cognitive Chain of Being: A New Approach to Animal...
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Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain: Rating, Ranking, and Comparing Peak...
TL;DR Based on: the characteristic distribution of neural activity, personal accounts of intense pleasure and pain, the way various pain scales have been described by their creators, and the results of...
View ArticleNeural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything
QRI‘s co-founder Michael E. Johnson just posted a piece on neural annealing. This is one of QRI’s most important pieces of content to date. I’m very proud of Mike and the team for pulling this off. You...
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Perfumery as an Art Form
About 3% of the population is anosmic, meaning that they cannot perceive scents. An additional 10% have some kind of smell or taste disorder. Sadly, scent perception thins out with age due to many...
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5-MeO-DMT Awakenings: From Naïve Realism to Symmetrical Enlightenment
In the following video Leo Gura from actualized.org talks about his 30-day 5-MeO-DMT streak experiment. In this post I’ll highlight some of the notable things he said and comment along the way using a...
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Titans Anonymous
Excerpt from Opening the Heart of Compassion: Transform Suffering Through Buddhist Psychology and Practice by Martin Lowenthal and Lar Short (pgs. 101-107, 112-113) Beyond Struggle and the Quest for...
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The Symmetry Theory of Valence: 2020 Presentation
Presentation Given at the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London by Andrés Gómez Emilsson (December 8th 2020) www.qualiaresearchinstitute.org Transcribed with otter.ai. Edited for...
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Euphoric DMT Trip Report by Anonymous Reader: Psychedelic Annealing, Smooth...
DMT Experience Report — Learning the Nonlinear Wave Computing theory of subjective experience and internalizing the Symmetry Theory of Valence (originally posted in r/rationalpsychonaut by...
View ArticleThe Phenomenology of MDMA: Self-Honesty, Authenticity, & the Unraveling of...
In this video I discuss in depth the following topics: 1. MDMA is cardiotoxic and likely neurotoxic, with real and significant side-effects when taken often. Don’t do that. Respect and honor this...
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