Qualia Research Institute

@qualiari.bsky.social joins ALIUS for a post-ASSC 2025 (@theassc.bsky.social) retreat in Crete, uniting 35 researchers to explore altered states, VR, lived experiences, and consciousness. Held July 10-14, it’s a unique space for deep collaboration and experimental demos. Apply now.

YouTube video by Qualia Research Institute The Heavy Tail of Valence: New Strategies to Quantify and Reduce Extreme Suffering

Some people suffer more intensely than most can imagine. Globally, cluster headache sufferers endure nearly 5 million person-days of extreme pain (≥9/10 intensity) every year. It's unacceptable! 🚨

@qualiari.bsky.social joins ALIUS for a post-ASSC 2025 retreat in Crete, uniting 35 researchers to explore altered states, VR, and consciousness models. Held July 10-14, it’s a unique space for deep collaboration and experimental demos. Apply now. 🔗 www.aliusresearch.org/qualius-retr...

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YouTube video by Qualia Research Institute Joscha Bach & Andrés Gómez Emilsson on the Nature of Consciousness | Part 1

Joscha Bach and Andrés Gómez Emilsson have a fun, friendly chat on the nature of consciousness.

YouTube video by Qualia Research Institute What is Consciousness? Joscha Bach & Andrés Gómez Emilsson

The full Interview with Joscha Bach and Andres Gomez Emilsson premieres tonight. Come watch it with us this evening at Feb 28 at 6:00 PM PT / 9:00 PM ET / 02:00 UTC
Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyuR...

QRI Meetup Amsterdam: The Coupling Kernels Revolution · Luma Event Overview Join us for a groundbreaking multidisciplinary gathering where researchers and artists explore the innovative 'Coupling Kernels' paradigm, a…

🥳 Come experience our coupling kernels framework firsthand! (no drugs required) 🥳 RSVP: lu.ma/lnlr664k

QRI Meetup Amsterdam: The Coupling Kernels Revolution · Luma Event Overview Join us for a groundbreaking multidisciplinary gathering where researchers and artists explore the innovative 'Coupling Kernels' paradigm, a…

Excited to be attending this event in Amsterdam on the 25th organized by Till Holzapfel and the @qualiari.bsky.social among other bright minds. Also looking forward to giving a few Viscereality (www.aliusresearch.org/viscereality...) demos on VR at Generator Amsterdam from 13 - 20:00

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Thrilled to have @algekalipso.bsky.social at AI for Animals 2025, March 1-2 in Berkeley. 👏 Director of Research at the @qualiari.bsky.social, he explores consciousness and its implications for AI.

👉 Register today: aiforanimals.org/aia2025

QRI: A Review of 2024 and Plans for 2025

We put together a detailed summary of our 2024 activity, collaboration, team efforts, publications (yes, we do those too), and plans for 2025. If you want to put more fun into consciousness research, consider supporting our work. Thank you!!! (13/13) 💖 🙏

We are fun-draising for a DMT research retreat, non-invasive tools to replicate qualia from exotic states of consciousness, harmonic retuning research, apply our new paradigm to map the state-space of extreme suffering in search of undiscovered cures. (12/13) 💰⬆️

We had fun in 2024 and will continue to have fun into 2025, but not without putting in the hard work and dedication to make fun possible for everyone. (11/13) 🤕

We find the best talent and ideas in all the fun places. (10/13) 🥳

We have the funnest advanced meditator friends and advisors. (9/13) 🧘

YouTube video by Qualia Research Institute Coupling Kernels: Geometrizing Kuramoto Oscillators to Model Network Harmonics (seizure warning)

We release fun music videos when we drop new paradigms uniting phenomenology with physical dynamics. (8/13) 🎶

We have a shape-rotating dolphin who is also a wordcel. (7/13) 🐬

We make fun videos with fun thumbnails, funnails. (6/13) 📽️

We bring fun memes into the collective conscious. (5/13) 🤡

Our website is so much fun there's a game on the top of our homepage. (4/13) 🎮

Our visualizations are fun, designed to be played with and hit different with music. (3/13) 🐰⚡️

We have 99 problems but the Hard Problem ain't one. (2/13) 💯

At QRI, we treat fun as our loss function and a guiding aesthetic. In our opinion, there's no line of research as intrinsically motivating as the study of qualia. (1/13) 🧵

Do we love radial symmetry in nature, art, mandalas etc because of the radial symmetry of the retina? @qualiari.bsky.social #consciousness #mandala #sciencesky

Teamwork makes the dream work

We will ensure that qualia researchers are present at both conferences 🤝

YouTube video by Qualia Research Institute Preventing Suffering and Engineering Paradise

We just posted our latest video from QRI's Sweden Meetup this summer www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iqA...

A Year in Thumbnails