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Wrote a book on consciousness, Principia Qualia; co-founded QRI (left May 2022), currently founding the Symmetry Institute. I think a lot about the far future and how to make it good My Projects: You can email me at johnsonmx@gmail.com. If I’m not responsive please don’t take it personally; I’m usually writing/thinking. Currently interested in giving talks/interviews about my work. Principia Qualia offered a blueprint for building a new science of consciousness; my efforts at QRI were aimed at realizing this. I’m now interested in fostering a diversity of such organizations. My research is almost entirely funded by retroactive donations (current net comp from my writing is ~$.70/hr); if you like the work I’ve done, consider supporting it via hypercerts (coming soon) or a direct donation. BTC: bc1qmdsesj70mgrwusvpznzg6vnp389gm3qeqdy6jt ETH: 0x732DAAaF38F9bd70cdB03C21376Fd00a927862f8 Comments are closed. Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Tabut by Naveen Kharwar.

I’m a philosopher and neuroscientist working on consciousness, valence, cognition, and the physical basis of suffering and well-being. Most broadly, I believe the real and the good exist and deserve a formal account; my headline result so far is the Symmetry Theory of Valence . Major works include Principia Qualia (2016), Neural Annealing (2019), Vasocomputation (2023), and A Paradigm for AI Consciousness (2024). Principia Qualia was written as the founding document of QRI. I chose to leave the organization in 2022. Recent interests in biology involve understanding how “vasocomputation latches

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