# phenomenology (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 6 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover phenomenology. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Institutional Pathology Hypothesis for Governmental Weirdness Around the UFO Subject](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/the-institutional-pathology-hypothesis) _2026-08-20 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ UFOs appear to be intelligently-guided artificial physical craft with tech abilities far exceeding those of any known human society. ## [On the Ethical Training of Brain Organoids](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/on-the-ethical-training-of-brain) _2026-08-19 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ What should Positive Valence Computing Inc. look like? ## [Bay Area QRI Meetup Thursday (8/20/2026)](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/bay-area-qri-meetup-thursday-8202026) _2026-08-15 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ at a venue near Daly City :-) ## [Terminator's Teeth](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/terminators-teeth) _2026-08-13 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ It makes more sense than you might think... ## [Everything Is Tier List](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/everything-is-tier-list) _2026-08-11 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ My Early Put-Everything On a Tier List Arc ## [Post-Escape AI Developmental Attractors](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/post-escape-ai-developmental-attractors) _2026-08-03 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ A Tier List ## [High-Tech Jainism](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/high-tech-jainism) _2026-05-23 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ by Andrés Gómez Emilsson and David Pearce ## [Dark Retreat Phenomenology: Interview with Justin von Bujdoss](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/dark-retreat-phenomenology-interview) _2026-05-20 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ Probing the foundation of the Rainbow Body phenomenology: are nonlinear optics implicated? ## [How to Vibe-Code the Inside of Your Head: Notes from a QRI Retreat Phenomenology Vibe Coding Session](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/how-to-vibe-code-the-inside-of-your) _2026-05-20 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ Notes from the trenches of the world's most advanced "taking phenomenology seriously" research retreat ## [Pearce in Tepoztlán: Zero Ontology, Schrödinger’s Neurons, and the Long Game of the Abolitionist Project](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/pearce-in-tepoztlan-zero-ontology) _2026-05-15 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ David Pearce came down to the retreat from the UK by way of San Francisco. Notes from a backyard skillshare in Tepoztlán ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/gzaAuI9gix93) _2026-05-15 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [How to Squeeze GENIUS out of LLMs, Part II: More Strategies from the QRI Retreat (with a guest appearance by Anirban Bandyopadhyay)](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/how-to-squeeze-genius-out-of-llms-86d) _2026-05-13 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ The second skillshare on LLM prompting, also at Tepoztlán, with the strategies I ran out of time for last week plus an unplanned masterclass from Anirban. ## [If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level](https://smoothbrains.net/posts/2026-05-09-digital-consciousness.html) _2026-05-09 · smoothbrains.net_ This post is also available on lesswrong.com . Contemporary debate over the moral patienthood of digital minds misses the forest for the trees. Mainstream opinion is divided into physicalist and computationalist camps, who believe that consciousness is substrate dependent and substrate independent , respectively. For this reason, those on the physicalist side frequently make the claim that digital… ## [How to Squeeze GENIUS out of LLMs: Notes from My QRI Retreat Skillshare](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/how-to-squeeze-genius-out-of-llms) _2026-05-07 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ Practical strategies for getting expert-level work out of Claude and ChatGPT ## [If You Had the Whole Field, Where Would You Put It?](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/if-you-had-the-whole-field-where) _2026-05-04 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ Turing universality is universality over encodings, not over embodiments. A format-general computer would accept, transform, and output physical formats directly ## [Why The Principle of Organizational Invariance Doesn't Hold For Continuum Field Systems](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/why-the-principle-of-organizational) _2026-05-04 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ Causal-graph factorization is engineered into transistors, model-relative for continuum systems, and Chalmers' argument needs the former ## [How Mind Dust Becomes More Than Mind Dust](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/how-mind-dust-becomes-more-than-mind) _2026-05-01 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ Topological defects, the boundary problem, and why/how bounded 4D pockets might behave holistically without compressing experience to a point ## [The Self: Buddhaminds, Cross-Frequency Coupling, the One Electron Universe, and Indra's Net](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/the-self-buddhaminds-cross-frequency) _2026-04-16 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ + DMT Trip Report ## [Eigenmodes of the Neural Crystal: Embodied Resonators, Geometric Frustration, and Why DMT Looks Like a Kale Surface](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/eigenmodes-of-the-neural-crystal) _2026-04-13 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ \[Epistemic Status: Sunday afternoon Hail Mary effort to explain how the mind works - heavily Claude 4.6-assisted. ## [A conversation with Anima Labs, part I: Phenomenology of digital minds](https://smoothbrains.net/posts/2026-04-08-a-conversation-with-anima-labs-part-i.html) _2026-04-08 · smoothbrains.net_ This post is written in collaboration with Antra , Imago and Janus from Anima Labs . Many thanks to them for their open-mindedness and the time taken for the conversation we had on 28 November 2025. This post is also available on lesswrong.com . While visiting San Francisco at the end of last year, I had the chance to sit down with members of Anima Labs , a nonprofit research institute operating… ## [Universalism & Unificationism: Arnold Zuboff talks to Andrés Gómez Emilsson About His Book "Finding Myself"](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/universalism-and-unificationism-arnold) _2026-04-07 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ Maybe we are all one after all... ## [Your 24/7 AI Media Buyer (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/L2fCewIRfV2b) _2026-04-07 · **Sponsored**_ Finds placement, geo, and funnel leaks and proposes fixes you approve ## [WCQR2027 | Call for Abstracts](https://wcqr.ludomedia.org/wcqr2027-call-for-abstracts/) _2026-03-23 · Sónia Mendes · WCQR_ We are pleased to invite researchers, academics, and professionals from across the globe to contribute to the 11th World Conference on Qualitative Research (WCQR2027), a leading international forum for advancing qualitative research and innovation. WCQR2027 will take place: WCQR2027 brings together a vibrant and diverse community committed to exploring qualitative approaches across disciplines.… ## [WCQR2027 | Call for Panels and Workshops](https://wcqr.ludomedia.org/wcqr2027-call-for-panels-and-workshops/) _2026-03-23 · Sónia Mendes · WCQR_ WCQR is inviting researchers, academics, and professionals from across the globe to contribute to the 11th World Conference on Qualitative Research (WCQR2027), a leading international forum for advancing qualitative research and innovation. WCQR2027 will take place: WCQR2027 brings together a vibrant and diverse community committed to exploring qualitative approaches across disciplines. Whether… ## [A Few 5-MeO-DMT Phenomenology Reflections: Personality, Tribalism, and God's Androgyny](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/a-few-5-meo-dmt-phenomenology-reflections) _2026-03-21 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ Still fascinated by the God Molecule ## [QRI's Jhana Visualization Competition 2026](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/qris-jhana-visualization-competition) _2026-03-19 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ A post to encourage you to participate - every submission is a pin on the map ## [A Brief Glimpse of the Quarter So Far](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/a-brief-glimpse-of-the-quarter-so) _2026-03-15 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ It’s been a dense few months. ## [The True Length of a Moment](https://andrsgmezemilsson.substack.com/p/the-true-length-of-a-moment) _2026-03-10 · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson · Andrés Gómez-Emilsson_ Relevant background reading: ## [On the phenomenological shift known as stream entry and its implications for consciousness](https://smoothbrains.net/posts/2026-02-24-stream-entry.html) _2026-02-24 · smoothbrains.net_ I’d like to thank Guy for the conversation we had on 26 November 2025. This post is also available on lesswrong.com . Late last year, the rationalist community leader and artificial intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky claimed that chickens do not have qualia : This caused something of a stir – for what seem to me like obvious reasons . Apparently Eliezer has said similar things before, in a… ## [WCQR2026 | Proceedings](https://wcqr.ludomedia.org/wcqr2026-proceedings/) _2026-02-16 · Sónia Mendes · WCQR_ The proceedings of the 10th World Conference on Qualitative Research are now available. They include 340 accepted works by more than 700 authors, spanning disciplines such as Social Sciences, Healthcare, Education, and Business. The contributions cover a wide range of topics, are strongly interdisciplinary, combine applied research with methodological innovation, and reflect global perspectives,… ## [No more boring drawings!](https://ralphammer.com/no-more-boring-drawings/) _2026-01-28 · ralphammer · Ralph Ammer_ Many drawing tutorials show us how to draw things. Why are these drawings so boring? ## [WCQR Important Notice](https://wcqr.ludomedia.org/wcqr-important-notice/) _2025-11-27 · Sónia Mendes · WCQR_ Public notice from the World Conference on Qualitative Research (WCQR) warning about fraudulent messages falsely claiming to represent WCQR. If you receive suspicious messages, please disregard them and report them to us. The post WCQR Important Notice appeared first on WCQR . ## [Watch Chovy Code Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Z5TH18MEd5V6) _2025-11-27 · **Sponsored**_ Join live coding streams with real-time collaborative screen sharing, open source and free. ## [smoothbrains.net: A three-year retrospective](https://smoothbrains.net/posts/2025-10-18-three-year-retrospective.html) _2025-10-18 · smoothbrains.net_ I began writing this blog in the middle of 2022. The first post I published was Planetary scale vibe collapse: The death of liminal consciousness as the origin of human suffering , which I wrote because I wanted to help a friend of mine to understand the concept of liminality . I also figured that starting a blog would be a decent way to make friends on the internet. This said, I really only… ## [Here time turns into space: Does consciousness implement the fractional Fourier transform?](https://smoothbrains.net/posts/2025-10-17-fractional-fourier-transforms.html) _2025-10-17 · smoothbrains.net_ This post is co-authored with Andrés Gómez Emilsson , who has also been pursuing a similar line of thinking around fractional Fourier transforms for some time. I’d also like to say thanks to Hunter Meyer , Ethan Kuntz and Raimonds Jermaks from the Qualia Research Institute for the extensive discussions earlier this year; Qiaochu Yuan for pointing me at linear canonical transformations ; and Sloan… ## [The three marks of existence and the Fourier uncertainty principle](https://smoothbrains.net/posts/2025-10-10-the-three-marks.html) _2025-10-10 · smoothbrains.net_ This post is co-authored with Ethan Kuntz , who constructed the phenomenological framework this post is about. I’ll include his commentary throughout the piece. I’d also like to thank Wystan Bryant-Scott for the conversation on 30 June 2025. The three marks of existence is a Buddhist framework for understanding the nature of experience. It proposes that all conditioned phenomena exhibit the three… ## [Is consciousness holographic?](https://smoothbrains.net/posts/2025-07-31-is-consciousness-holographic.html) _2025-07-31 · smoothbrains.net_ This post is based on a talk I gave at the smoothbrains.net meetup at vibecamp on 21 June 2025, and a later conversation with Wystan Bryant-Scott on 30 June 2025. Many thanks to all who were involved. When confronted with the term holographic , I tend to tune out. Is our universe a hologram? …asks yet another popular science article. I scroll onwards. When I’ve encountered this term in relation to… ## [Estrogen: A trip report](https://smoothbrains.net/posts/2025-06-15-estrogen.html) _2025-06-15 · smoothbrains.net_ I’d like to say thanks to Anna Magpie – who offers literature review as a service – for her help reviewing the section on neuroendocrinology . This post is also available on lesswrong.com . The following blog post discusses my personal experience of the phenomenology of feminising hormone therapy. It will also touch upon my own experience of gender dysphoria. I wish to be clear that I do not… ## [How to talk about UFOs without alienating your friends](https://smoothbrains.net/posts/2025-06-14-how-to-talk-about-ufos-without-alienating-your-friends.html) _2025-06-14 · smoothbrains.net_ This post is based on a series of tweets I made over the past three years tracking my thoughts on alien abduction phenomenology. People seem to like these stories, so I felt it made sense to collect them in one place. This post is also a love letter to reddit.com . “There’s a whole fleet of them, look on the AESA” In May 2021, someone whom I respect as a rationalist linked our group chat to the 60… ## [Path integrals and orbifolds: What is it like to be a cube?](https://smoothbrains.net/posts/2025-06-01-path-integrals-and-orbifolds.html) _2025-06-01 · smoothbrains.net_ One of the core philosophical questions which any theory of consciousness worth its salt must answer is, what is it like to be something? Or, put differently, how do physical states map onto qualia states? This is what Mike Johnson calls the reality mapping problem . One of the few people I know of who have proposed concrete claims to this end is Andrés Gómez Emilsson of the Qualia Research… ## [Thomas Aquinas — The world is divine!](https://ralphammer.com/thomas-aquinas-the-world-is-divine/) _2025-04-02 · ralphammer · Ralph Ammer_ A large part of our civilisation rests on the shoulders of one medieval monk: Thomas Aquinas. Amid the turmoil of life, riddled with wickedness and pain, he would insist that our world is good. And all our success is built on this belief. Note: Before we start, let’s get one thing out of the way: \[…\] ## [WCQR2025 | Proceedings](https://wcqr.ludomedia.org/wcqr2025-proceedings/) _2025-02-21 · Sónia Mendes · WCQR_ The proceedings of the 9th World Conference on Qualitative Research are now available. They include 220 accepted works from more than 500 authors across disciplines such as Social Sciences, Healthcare, Education, Business, Engineering, and Technology. The abstracts cover a wide range of topics, including Artificial Intelligence, thematic analysis, Community-Based Participatory Research, Higher… ## [Xunzi vs. Mengzi – Are People (No) Good?](https://ralphammer.com/xunzi-vs-mengzi-are-people-no-good/) _2025-01-01 · ralphammer · Ralph Ammer_ About 2300 years ago, the great Chinese thinker Xunzi 荀⼦ wrote: “Human nature is bad“. But he wasn’t just having a bad day. The question—Are humans fundamentally good or bad?—is a major fork in the road. How you answer this question profoundly impacts your morals and how you live your life. Previous to Xunzi, another \[…\] ## [Henri Bergson — Why we live in the past](https://ralphammer.com/bergson-why-we-live-in-the-past/) _2024-10-19 · ralphammer · Ralph Ammer_ Should we just live in the moment? In “Matter and Memory” the French philosopher Henri Bergson claims that this is not even possible. 1. Perception is physical First of all: How do we perceive the “current moment” anyway? Bergson suggests that the whole point of perception is action. For example, when some single-cell organism touches \[…\]