In this video we discuss possible meaningful, novel, and non-trivial parallels between something like the Manhattan Project and what we need to do to catalyze a positive breakthrough in our understanding of consciousness.

We cover how explosive lenses have a parallel in the "brain as a non-linear optical computer" paradigm developed at QRI. The short explanation is that the "index of refraction" for local field potentials (LFPs) can be modulated with drugs/interventions, and so in principle one can use varying concentrations of things like nitrous oxide, ketamine, and MDMA in order to focus waves of energy to catalyze precisely crafted phase transitions of consciousness. There are also much more subtle parallels.

Another one is how the development of the von Neumann computer architecture was a world-transforming significant outcome of the Manhattan Project. In the context of consciousness research, one could envision figuring out the "principles of qualia computing" that allows DMT entities to sample from a wide range of possible "mind designs" as comparable. Arguably most DMT entities are "psychotic", but some of them aren't; the way they copy, mutate, differentiate, and analyze "qualia bundles" hints at a very general set of qualia computing building blocks for alternative qualia-based information processing pipelines. Successful Manhattan Project of Consciousness could in principle lead to a revolution on computing paradigms that generalize to qualia computing systems.

In contrast to the atomic bomb, the kind of "phase transition implosion" developed at the Manhattan Project of Consciousness would be deeply relaxing, rejuvenating, and capable of undoing years of trauma in seconds. Using as research leads "candy flipping done right" (usually with some 2C-B/2C-D/2C-C), 5-MeO-DMT, and LSD + nitrous oxide, one has in fact a lot of hints for how to produce instantly relaxing, deeply healing "waves of enlightened qualia". If it takes a bunch of geniuses in the desert to figure out how to optimize this effect, so be it. It would be a really worthwhile investment!

~Qualia of the Day: Burning Man Collective Intelligence~

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Relevant Links:

Peaceful Qualia: The Manhattan Project of Consciousness - [ Ссылка ]

Hedonium - [ Ссылка ]

Explosive Lens - [ Ссылка ]

Making Amazing Recreational Drug Cocktails - [ Ссылка ]

Burning Man (essay about my 2017 experience at the Burn) - [ Ссылка ]

Burning Man 2.0: The Eigen-Schelling Religion, Entrainment & Metronomes, and the Eternal Battle Between Consciousness and Replicators - [ Ссылка ]

Utopia Neuroscience (David Pearce) - [ Ссылка ]

QRI's Guide to Superhappiness - [ Ссылка ]

Utilitronium Shockwaves vs. Gradients of Bliss (David Pearce) - [ Ссылка ]

QRI Scents (incl. essay about Hedonium Shockwave) - [ Ссылка ]

Harmonic Resonance Theory: An Alternative to the "Neuron Doctrine" Paradigm of Neurocomputation to Address Gestalt properties of perception (Steven Lehar) - [ Ссылка ]

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