Qualia Research
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Qualia Research is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between September 13, 2022 and October 20, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “Andres from Qualia Research”; “Andres of Qualia Research”. It most often appears alongside Andres, Alpha, bereavement.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: September 13, 2022
- Last seen: October 20, 2022
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
I got a chance to talk to Andres from Qualia Research about this. He emphasized (sorry if I am mistransmitting any of this) his belief that happiness is related to something like consonance of brain states (which I think sort of relates to low free energy / low prediction error). The reward center works because it’s an interchange between many brain regions, and when activated it connects them and globally increases consonance in the brain. But you can also increase consonance other ways, and predictability won’t cancel these out.
Inline links: Qualia Research, consonance
I read it anyway because of a talk with Andres of Qualia Research that convinced me that brain waves are potentially fascinating. Let me try to explain this, while admitting that unlike the work of the sober Professor Buzsaki, this is all total wild speculation that I can’t back up at all.