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Andres Gomez Emilsson

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Andrés has a Master’s Degree in Psychology with an emphasis in computational models from Stanford and a professional background in graph theory, statistics, and affective science. Andrés was also the co-founder of the Stanford Transhumanist Association and first place winner of the Norway Math Olympiad. His work at QRI ranges from algorithm design, to psychedelic theory, to neurotechnology development, to mapping and studying the computational properties of consciousness. Andrés blogs at qualiacomputing.com.

Quantifying Psychedelic Phenomenology

30 minutes

In this workshop, we will showcase the latest research methods being developed at the Qualia Research Institute in order to quantify, visualize, and reverse-engineer what is going on in exotic states of consciousness (e.g. psychedelics and meditation). In particular, the workshop will teach participants how to use QRI's Tracer Tool (https://psychophysics.qri.org/) to create replication's of one's psychedelic experiences in visual form. We will also share preliminary results about how different substances and meditation practices affect the signal-processing properties of the visual field based on this research. In turn, we will demo more recent tools under development that aim to explain things like how DMT and 5-MeO-DMT affect the visual system differently using a model of coupled oscillators that replicates the visual character of these substances.

Anyone curious about consciousness, psychedelics, psychology, and philosophy of mind will likely find this workshop illuminating and useful. It will be extra valuable if the participants have psychedelic experiences under their belt so that they can judge the quality of the methods for themselves without having to take my word for it. I bet also that people who work in AI will generally get a lot out of it, since this research gives us clues about how the visual system uses waves for computation, which is an active area of research in AI these days (cf. non-linear optical computers).

• Saturday (4/6) 11am-3pm
• Saturday (4/6) 3pm-7pm
• Saturday (4/6) 11pm-2am
• Sunday (4/7) 11am-3pm
• Sunday (4/7) 3pm-7pm
• Sunday (4/7) 11pm-2am
• Monday (4/8) 11am-3pm
• Monday (4/8) 3pm-7pm
• Monday (4/8) 11pm-2am

I will need additional gear to perform

Ideally we would be able to project something up on a screen. If not, I can still work around that constraint, but it would make things easier 🙂

I think so, on the basis that Cody Gibbons offered me the spot.

Whether it is on a laptop or on a projector screen, I will show how to create "psychedelic replications" in real time and get feedback from the audience. E.g. show a behavior of coupled oscillators that looks like psilocybin visuals and then ask the audience to raise their hand if they think it looks more like mushrooms vs. LSD. That kind of thing.

I am very happy to talk about something else. This just seemed to me to be the most exciting and appropriate topic for this event, especially knowing Cody. But at the drop of a hat I can talk about anything else. If it's in QRI or Qualia Computing somewhere I can for sure give a presentation or speech about it 🙂