QRI HEART – The Secret of the Universe in a Geometric Object

A playful essay on the nature of reality.

Written by Andrés Gómez Emilsson on 22 September 2023. This post is a contribution to the second Qualia Research Institute psychophysics retreat , which took place from 2 September 2023 to 20 September 2023 in Kaslo, British Columbia, Canada. Towards the end of the retreat I was exposed to a lot of intense visions by some of the more mathematically oriented folks. Among which, someone related a vision involving arcane religious figures showing them a black box containing the “final answer to the universe”. These visions had been happening since childhood. But this week, they said, they finally

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