The podcast explores the boundary problem of consciousness and its relation to the binding problem, discussing the lack of scholarly attention it has received. It delves into potential solutions such as electromagnetic field theories and topological segmentation to address the boundaries of unified first person perspectives. The speaker shares personal insights, collaborations, and experiences in consciousness research, including participation in events like Vibe Camp and Psychedelic Science conference.

In this guided meditation, Andrés will take you through QRI's recent work, focusing on two key aspects:The Thermodynamics of Consciousness: This part of the meditation will explore how energy flows from various sources such as sensory stimulation, valence, attention, surprise, and the background noise signature. This energy is directed towards the bound field of consciousness, which is then shaped via the energy sink landscape of symmetry and recognition. Finally, the processed consciousness exits through motor action or what is referred to as "outer field radiation."The Ecosystem of Agents: Drawing a parallel to next-token prediction engines like GPT-4, this part of the meditation will explain how our minds work similarly, where existing constraints help resolve ambiguity in our experiences. To make accurate predictions of the world, our minds simulate agentive behavior because the world is full of agents. To achieve this, "subagents" are created to play the role of agentive forces, which can be predicted to ensure safety.Throughout the meditation, you will explore a series of strategies to deal with these subagents and harmonize them within a healthy and wholesome ecosystem of friendly subagents that help each other in beautiful ways. Some of these strategies include:Improving the training data for subagents.Guiding lost subagents to a pool of love to re-absorb them.Cultivating good vibes as a base to provide evolutionary selection pressures for friendly agents to arise.Emphasizing equanimity and metta to reward clean intentions rather than flattery.Exploring different network structures for agents that are more easily manageable.By engaging in these practices, you can create a harmonious and beneficial ecosystem of subagents within your mind.

This podcast explores the experience of the divine and the concept of God without favoring any particular belief. It delves into different conceptions of God and their impact on human consciousness, including chaos, hierarchy, love, and synchronicity. The guided meditation encourages listeners to explore different aspects of their experience and appreciate the phenomenology of God without conforming to specific religious beliefs. By open-sourcing God, individuals can access their own understanding of the divine without relying on external interpretations or rules.

In this guided meditation, Andrés will lead you through a series of exercises that illustrate harmonic resonance in the energy body. Subsequently, excess energy will be channeled into high-valence tactile sensations (resembling Piti), which can serve as a potential foundational practice for the 1st Jhana.The meditation primarily focuses on the inner and outer "feel" channels of the (see, hear, feel) X (inner, outer) formulation of the "factorization experience," as introduced by Shinzen Young in his Unified Mindfulness framework. When necessary, feel free to use the inner and outer "see" channel for support, but keep the "feel" channel as the primary point of focus. During this meditation, we will explore the following types of oscillations:On/offLeft/rightTop/bottomFront/backExpand/contractToroidal flow (up, down, both at once)Checkerboard patternZebra patternHomogenous attention in spaceSpace qualities: solid, liquid, magnetic, viscosity, gaseous, plasmaPleasure, joy, peaceLaminal flow and energy management techniquesPrior to attempting this meditation, it is advisable to listen to the guided meditations on Energy, Attention, and Valence from the Qualia Mastery series.

In this guided meditation, Andrés will lead you through a diverse array of potential high-valence states of consciousness, often referred to as phenomenal "heaven worlds."The concept of "meditation calisthenics" draws inspiration from calisthenics exercises, which involve minimal equipment and target all muscle groups in the body. In the context of meditation, "meditation calisthenics" means engaging in various meditative approaches to keep all your "meditation muscles" in shape. Specifically, "high-valence calisthenics" pertains to the practice of exploring every form of positive valence state of consciousness that can be attained without external aids, such as chemical substances, sensory stimuli, or situational factors.During this guided meditation, we will explore high-valence configurations of "see, hear, feel" (both inner and outer experiences), artistic states of consciousness, social mindsets, metta (loving-kindness), the state of "cosmic party mode," the realms of insight, intellectual understanding, realization, and refined and purified high-valence states (Jhanas).We will conclude the meditation by dedicating these beautiful qualities of the mind for the benefit of all beings, wishing infinite bliss for everyone.

In this guided meditation, Andrés will assist you in exploring how attention constructs local binding connections between phenomenal features, and how the flow of attention and awareness can be likened to the graph algorithm called PageRank.Topics covered in the meditation include:Reviewing the nature of attention: what you pay attention to becomes stronger, gets locally bound, and connects to what you were paying attention to right before.Noticing local binding in the experiences of See, Hear, and Feel (both inner and outer).Cross-modal coupling: employing the divide and conquer technique to prevent negative valence and the coherence technique to enhance positive valence.Understanding the oscillatory complementarity between awareness and attention.Recognizing how objects of perception can act as witnesses and witnessed elements of a scene.Exploring hybrid attentional modes.Investigating chains of witnessing and Nth-order intentionality.Examining the concept of PageRank applied to attention.Delving into space witnessing space.These techniques and insights are valuable additions to your Qualia Mastery* toolkit.

In this guided meditation, Andrés will walk you through various methods to modulate the "energy parameter" of experience, which serves as a fundamental component of the Neural Annealing framework in the nervous system. The Neural Annealing approach explores how appropriately defined energy impacts internal representations, aids in solving constraint satisfaction problems, and has the potential to lead to sustainable high-valence states of consciousness by reducing internal stress.During the meditation, we will explore different sources of energy, including:(a) Sensory input (b) Pleasure and pain (c) Attention (d) SurpriseAdditionally, a wide range of techniques for building, managing, and skillfully deploying energy will be discussed and practiced.Enjoy this transformative experience!

In this guided meditation, Andrés will lead you through a transformative journey that includes the following elements:A factorization of experience into three main channels with their corresponding inner and outer versions: "see," "hear," and "feel."Utilizing your energy body as an antenna capable of perceiving both shapes and frequencies of internal representations, exploring the duality between form and vibration in the phenomenal world.Understanding symmetry and smooth geometry as the fundamental basis for valence.Recognizing consonance, dissonance, and noise as tools to assess the valence of our world-simulation.Learning a variety of practical strategies to address phenomenal dissonance effectively.Enjoy this profound exploration!Relevant links/references:High-Valence Meditation - https://qualiacomputing.com/2021/12/03/high-valence-meditation/Michael Johnson's Principia Qualia - Introduction to the Symmetry Theory of Valence, valence structuralism, and qualia formalism - https://opentheory.net/principia-qualia/The Consonance Disonance Noise Signature framework first introduced by Andrés Gómez Emilsson in Quantifying Bliss - https://qri.org/blog/quantifying-blissThe Symmetry Theory of Valence (@The Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London) - https://youtu.be/tSPZ4xt5f2kNeural Annealing by Michael Johnson - https://

In this guided meditation, Andrés will take you on a journey to explore the different ways of believing in various ontologies.Without making any definitive claims about the nature of reality, you will delve into the phenomenology of ontology. This involves exploring what it feels like to inhabit a phenomenal world where the fundamental building blocks of reality are perceived in distinct ways.One essential insight you will gain is the realization of how different facets of your experience can solidify and rigidify an ontology. For example, in the "dualism" ontology where both matter and mind coexist, you may notice how this can trigger the feeling of being encased or trapped within your body. However, through attentive observation, you can recognize that this sense of confinement arises from somatic feelings that render the experience in a particular way, rather than it being an inherent truth.Throughout the meditation, you will explore various ontologies, including:(1) Dualism: The coexistence of mind and matter. (2) Trinitarianism: The interplay of matter, consciousness, and space. (3) Atomism: The understanding that matter is composed of atoms, and the exploration of potential holism or binding. (4) Jain ontology: The existence of approximately nine fundamental kinds of ontological building blocks of reality, including space, time, dynamism, atoms, soul, and "karma particles." (5) Monism: The belief that everything is qualia, awareness, information, algorithms, computation, belief, or a social construction (Strong Tlon Hypothesis). (6) Ontologies of infinities. (7) Ontologies of Zero: Delving into David Pearce's Zero Ontology, where the existence of "zero information" implies the coexistence of all mutually-consistent universes of bound qualia.The exploration of the last ontology, Zero Ontology, is particularly powerful, as it can lead to the "rainbow God" phenomenology, where all flavors of qualia converge and "cancel each other out." This experience is closely related to the phenomenology of 5-MeO-DMT and the formless Jhanas.May all who engage in this meditation benefit from its profound insights!

This is a guided meditation provided by Andrés in order to enrich one's conception of the nature of "attention". Attention is typically thought of as a fuzzy "spotlight" that redirects cognitive resources to a region of one's experience. But this is just one of many varieties of attention. In fact, many changes to one's state of consciousness have very little to do with changes to perceptual features like color, brightness, auditory pitch, tactile sensations, or the texture of thought. At times, one can tell that one's state of consciousness has changed dramatically and yet it is very hard to pin-point exactly what that change consists of. In many of those cases, that's because the change is primarily attentional. Thus, learning about alternative modes of attention is an important tool to enable higher quality phenomenological reports and replications. It has the added bonus that knowing a broad range of attentional modes can radically enhance one's meditation practice. Join us in this guided meditation to get acquainted with a much broader set of attentional modes.