You were separated from the universe by these topological defects.

I turned into just one point, and then that point disappeared.

There's no way to distinguish one thing from another, and there is no internal passage of time.

Today, Andreas Gomez-Emelson of the Qualia Research Institute discloses his new paradigm for modeling psychedelic perception,

as well as what he thinks is actually

occurring ontologically, not just perceptually under psychedelics. His views are informed by research

conducted over the past decade with hundreds of psychedelic trips in controlled settings ranging

from LSD to Silla Seidman to DMT to 5MEO. We discussed the mathematical underpinnings of perceptions

behind psychedelic states, including, of course, the visual distortions and why we get that feeling of

oneness, sometimes even nothingness, and fractalness. We even cover those so-called beings encountered

in DMT trips, such as the mantis being. This was filmed at the MIT lab and was the

last headline event put on by the Augmentation Lab Summit hosted by MIT researcher Danya Baradari.

I'm honored to have been invited. The summit featured talks on the future of biological and

artificial intelligence, brain interfaces, and included speakers such as Stephen Wolfe from,

the interview of which is on this channel as well. Enjoy.

This is Augmentation Lab Summit Weekend, put on by Augmentation Lab at MIT Media Lab.

We're here live recording with an in-studio audience.

Thank you all for coming and waiting.

Okay. with an in-studio audience. Thank you all for coming and waiting. Okay, Andres.

Hello, hello.

Why don't you give a brief introduction to who you are and why you're relevant to people who are psychonauts and psychedelics.

Oh, psychedelic research.

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