Zero to One with Danny Goler #2 - Andrés Gómez-Emilsson: Psychedelics and Consciousness

About this episode

Danny Goler interviews Andrés Gómez Emilsson about psychedelics and their implications for understanding consciousness.

In this episode, I sit down with Andrés Gómez Emilsson — the co-founder and director of research at the Qualia Research Institute. Andrés is a scholar whose work spans computational psychology, affective science, and the mathematical foundations of consciousness. If this conversation resonates, like, comment, and subscribe. We cover: • We dive into psychedelics and their role in exploring consciousness 🧠✨ • Discuss the “hard problem” — why and how subjective experience arises 🌀 • Explore mathematical models and frameworks for understanding consciousness 📊 • Touch on the intersection between science, spirituality, and direct experience 🌌 Support the show: • Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/dangothoughts • Code of Reality (COR) - https://www.codeofreality.com/ Connect with Danny Goler: • TikTok: https - //www.tiktok.com/@dannygoler • Instagram: https - //www.instagram.com/dannygoler/ • X (Twitter): https - //x.com/golerdanny?s=21&t=Gjcrl3ekQAHfVmhYl1OXzA YouTube: https://youtu.be/z6JPQJN8m2o Connect with Andrés Gómez-Emilsson: • Website - https://qri.org/ • YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@QualiaResearchInstitute • Retreat - https://heart.qri.org/ • X…

People in this episode

Host: Danny Goler

Guest: Andrés Gómez Emilsson

Topics covered

• psychedelics
• consciousness
• computational psychology
• affective science
• spirituality
• subjective experience

Keywords

• consciousness
• psychedelics
• hard problem of consciousness
• neuroscience
• philosophy of mind

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Qualia Research Institute, Patreon, Code of Reality, Qualia Computing, Substack

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