Leigh Brasington & Andrés Gómez Emilsson discuss jhāna, consciousness correlates, neural feedback mechanisms, non-duality, psychic powers, lucid dreaming, and strange attractors in a mind-bending exploration of the mind and altered states.

Join Libor Burian and Andrés Gómez Emilsson as they delve into reverse engineering consciousness through neuroscience and phenomenology, exploring qualia, valence realism, and mathematical models. They also discuss the integration of physics and consciousness, boundary types in consciousness, brainwave topology, weak emergence, frame invariance, quantum computing, hypercomputation, and the relationship between physics and consciousness through electromagnetic fields.

Andrés Gómez Emilsson from Qualia Research Institute discusses the struggle between consciousness and pure replicators, aiming to maximize positive valence possibilities. The podcast explores the relationship between consciousness and replication, the evolution of consciousness, and the quest to engineer paradise while critiquing potential pitfalls. A nuanced narrative emphasizing the importance of conscious states over mere replication processes.