{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Leaking Timeline","title":"Andrés Gómez-Emilsson — Mining the Mathematics of Bliss","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/e6997e02\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":6963,"description":"Andrés Gómez-Emilsson, director of research and founder of the Qualia Research Institute, joins Erik and Guy to make the case that consciousness can be studied with the rigor of physics if you're willing to use psychedelics as your particle accelerator. The conversation opens with the question Andrés has heard a thousand times (isn't QRI just a bunch of hippies on acid?) and lands roughly two hours later in the substance Andrés has taken roughly a thousand times: 5-MeO-DMT, which he calls the \"whole package.\" What surprises Erik and Guy is the engineering specificity. QRI is not a salon. It is a research program with a published mathematical model of valence, a Photoshop-for-psychedelic-states tool already shipped at qri.org/oscilEditor, and a three-milligram inhaled-DMT protocol that aborts cluster headaches in under a minute and prevents the next one for weeks.\nKey Topics\n[00:00 - 02:43] Cold open and the \"is this just acid?\" framing** — Andrés contrasts a Grateful Dead tab with six months of psychophysics prep alongside mathematicians and advanced meditators[02:43 - 13:25] Origin story** — Stanford Symbolic Systems, a 16-year-old's weed-catalyzed ego-death, founding QRI in 2018; the \"exotic states as physics' particle accelerator\" argument; the trustworthy-reporter problem and stroboscopic flicker calibration at 13.7 Hz; mathematical vocabulary (orbifold notation, the 17 wallpaper symmetries)[13:25 - 23:25] The oscilEditor** — qri.org/oscilEditor; \"Photoshop for psychedelic states\"; DMT as anti-phase checkerboard coupling; 5-MeO-DMT as universal-synchronization coupling; cross-field coupling kernels for visual, tactile, audio[23:25 - 39:00] Cluster headaches and the logarithmic pain scale** — the 2019 paper showing pleasure and pain follow exponential distributions; 1-in-1,000 prevalence; QALY frameworks systematically miss exponential pain; Bob Wold and Clusters Busters; the vape-pen DMT-titration protocol (3 mg threshold, 10-second abort, weeks of...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/w09OCaydSmdUw4QsvrhHq13j5xWu1BENGfekaqEUOuw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84MjI0/NjAyMTJkYmVkNDcz/OTk4YWU3ODNlZDBi/NzI1Zi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}