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Harmonic Society (2/4): Art as Schelling Point Creation and the Pursuit of...
The following essay was recently published in the Berlin-based art magazine Art Against Art (issue). Below you will find models 3 and 4 (out of 8). I will be sharing 2 new models each week until I’ve...
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Harmonic Society (3/4): Art as State-Space Exploration and Energy Parameter...
The following essay* was recently published in the Berlin-based art magazine Art Against Art (issue). Below you will find models 5 and 6 (out of 8), which are new, original, and the direct result of...
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Harmonic Society (4/4): Art as Valence Modulation and Future Affective Language
The following essay* was recently published in the Berlin-based art magazine Art Against Art (buy issue). The essay offers eight different models of art: models 1 through 4 have been discussed in...
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Two Recent Presentations: (1) Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences, and (2)...
Here are two recent talks I gave. The first one is a talk about the Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences I gave at the Harvard Science of Psychedelics Club in mid-September (2019). And the second...
View ArticleToy Story 4 – 20 Movie Review
by Frank Yang (post) Toy Story was my favorite movie growing up. I had the entire collection. The fact that the toys could think without a brain made me explore dualism, monism, the existence of God,...
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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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Qualia Production Presents: “The Seven Seals of Security” (and Other...
By Maggie Wassinge and Anders Amelin (now QRI Sweden and HR helpers; see previous letters) Jewelry by Anders and Maggie (see: Quantifying Bliss for the reference to “C, D, N”) Letter III: On...
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Fire Kasina: Color Control Experience Report by Daniel Ingram
Transcribed excerpt from Daniel Ingram‘s Fire Kasina retreat diary (part 1) [24:20-39:50] [Daniel spent two weeks practicing 10 to 14 hours a day a fire-focused meditation called Fire Kasina. This...
View ArticlePosthuman Art: Towards Full-Spectrum Positive Valence Amplification
Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing...
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Unveiling QRI’s Consciousness Art Contests: Immerse, Innovate, and Inspire
by Hunter Meyer & Andrés Gómez-Emilsson (cross-posted at QRI) The Qualia Research Institute (QRI) is excited to announce the launch of three Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness (NSCs) Art...
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