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Qualia Re­search Institute

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The Qualia Research Institute (QRI) is a nonprofit research organization based in San Francisco that focuses on consciousness research. QRI’s goals are to develop a precise mathematical language for describing phenomenal experience; to understand the nature of emotional valence; and to develop technologies based on this research that improve people’s lives. It was founded in December 2018 by Andrés Gómez Emilsson, Mike Johnson and Romeo Stevens.[1]

Since 2021 QRI’s board of advisors includes Scott Alexander and David Pearce.[1]

Further reading

Shinozuka, Kenneth (2019) Why we need to study consciousness, Scientific American, September.

Zuckerman, Andrew (2021) Qualia Research Institute: history & 2021 strategy, Qualia Research Institute, January 25.

External links

Qualia Research Institute. Official website.

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    Zuckerman, Andrew (2021) Qualia Research Institute: history & 2021 strategy, Qualia Research Institute, January 25.

In­tro to Con­scious­ness + QRI Read­ing List

andzuck7 Apr 2020 19:00 UTC
35 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.andzuck.com)

Qualia Re­search In­sti­tute: His­tory & 2021 Strategy

andzuck25 Jan 2021 21:38 UTC
81 points
11 comments11 min readEA link

A Primer on the Sym­me­try The­ory of Valence

MikeJohnson6 Sep 2021 11:41 UTC
−10 points
87 comments7 min readEA link

QRI and the Sym­me­try The­ory of Valence

Milan Griffes19 Dec 2020 18:34 UTC
17 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­pe­ri­en­tial­ist The­o­ries of Well-Being

andzuck19 Feb 2021 20:26 UTC
34 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Get-Out-Of-Hell-Free Necklace

algekalipso9 Jul 2019 21:30 UTC
94 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

Us­ing Ibo­gaine to Create Friendlier Opioids

qfrerichs6 Aug 2019 21:31 UTC
27 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing ClusterFree: A cluster headache ad­vo­cacy and re­search ini­ti­a­tive (and how you can help)

Alfredo Parra 🔸21 Nov 2025 11:38 UTC
154 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

Cluster Headache Fre­quency Fol­lows a Long-Tail Distribution

algekalipso2 Aug 2019 22:47 UTC
101 points
20 comments7 min readEA link

Treat­ing Cluster Headaches Us­ing N,N-DMT and Other Tryptamines

qfrerichs6 Aug 2019 5:02 UTC
47 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Log­a­r­ith­mic Scales of Plea­sure and Pain (@Effec­tive Altru­ism NYC)

algekalipso19 Nov 2019 9:55 UTC
14 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

Emerg­ing ev­i­dence on treat­ing cluster headaches with DMT

Alfredo Parra 🔸18 Oct 2025 14:32 UTC
121 points
19 comments9 min readEA link

Log­a­r­ith­mic Scales of Plea­sure and Pain: Rat­ing, Rank­ing, and Com­par­ing Peak Ex­pe­riences Suggest the Ex­is­tence of Long Tails for Bliss and Suffering

algekalipso11 Aug 2019 3:49 UTC
165 points
25 comments41 min readEA link

Pod­cast: solv­ing con­scious­ness and sab­o­tag­ing the he­do­nic treadmill

Garrison7 Nov 2019 1:56 UTC
30 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

We’re search­ing for mean­ing, not hap­piness (et al.)

Joshua Clingo1 Sep 2022 7:34 UTC
21 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

Indi­rect re­al­ism illus­trated (and why it mat­ters so much for con­scious­ness de­bates)

Alfredo Parra 🔸16 Feb 2025 9:20 UTC
31 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

“Most painful con­di­tion known to mankind”: A ret­ro­spec­tive of the first-ever in­ter­na­tional re­search sym­po­sium on cluster headache

Alfredo Parra 🔸18 May 2025 11:23 UTC
163 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Con­scious­ness re­search as a cause? [ask­ing for ad­vice]

Luise11 Mar 2021 7:44 UTC
26 points
26 comments1 min readEA link

New 4-hour pod­cast about the fu­ture of con­scious­ness with An­drés Gómez Emils­son from the Qualia Re­search In­sti­tute

Gus Docker30 Jan 2021 9:41 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The Quest for a Stone-Free World: Chanca Pie­dra (Phyl­lan­thus niruri) as an Acute and Pro­phy­lac­tic Treat­ment for Kid­ney Stones and Their As­so­ci­ated Ex­treme Nega­tive Valence

algekalipso18 Feb 2025 0:08 UTC
76 points
10 comments32 min readEA link

Quan­tify­ing the Global Bur­den of Ex­treme Pain from Cluster Headaches

Alfredo Parra 🔸1 Nov 2024 20:35 UTC
211 points
22 comments27 min readEA link

Costs of Embodiment

algekalipso30 Jul 2024 20:41 UTC
18 points
1 comment14 min readEA link
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