Andrés Gómez Emilsson | Free-Wheeling Hallucinations: Be the Free-Willed God of Your Inner World-Simulation @/Andr%C3%A9sG%C3%B3mezEmilsson | Uploaded January 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Once you realize that you inhabit a world-simulation sustained by your neuronal soil it is natural to ask: why can't I control its contents? Why can't I make myself hallucinate whatever I want?
It can be frustrating to realize one lacks control over something that should be truly "ours" - our raw unmediated experience! We could, and perhaps should, be the rightful masters of our very own conscious experience, yet for the most part we remain powerless to explore its possible states at will.
In this video I discuss the existence of some states of consciousness in which you do own and control the contents of your experience. Think of it as acquiring an "experience editor": an interface with your experience that enables you to modify it at will while keeping the modifications stable.
A lucid dream would be an example of a somewhat fluid and unreliable free-wheeling hallucination. The free-wheeling hallucinations I describe here are much more general, stable, reliable, intense, and hedonic than lucid dreams. More so, to spin up free-wheeling hallucinations could amount to far more than being just a fun activity. Doing so may come to be an extremely valuable tool for a new paradigm of consciousness research! All of the parameters of experience that remain outside of our control under normal circumstances can be studied (both from a first and third person point of view) while in a free-wheeling hallucination! One can conduct a sort of "qualia chemistry" and repeat experiments to get reliable accounts of the behavior of consciousness under exotic (yet controlled) circumstances. Artifacts such as the valence-symmetry correspondance can be inspected in detail. Ultimately, this paradigm may allow us to chart the state-space of consciousness in terms of "edit distances" or "sequence of symmetry breaking operations" away from "formless consciousness".
I then go on to explain that "knowing everything about your world-simulation" does not entail that the experience will be boring. Hedonic tone can be dissociated from novelty, but we don't even need to go that far. It suffices to point out that you can set up the parameters of your world-simulation so that it unfolds in a chaotic way, and thus is impossible to predict. Additionally, you cannot really predict what you yourself will think in the future, so the whole setup can continue to generate novelty almost indefinitely (up to one's storage capacity/size of the state-space/heat death of the universe).
I conclude by exercising my free will.
Topics Covered:
Energy Parameter, Predictive Coding, Free Energy Principle, Kolmogorov Complexity of Experience, Principia Qualia, Super Free Will, Quality Trip Reports, DXM + THC Combo, LSD + Ketamine + THC Combo, "Experience Editors", Qualia Critters, Fire Kasina, Color Control, Qualia Chemistry, Agenthood, Coumarin, Chamomile Tea.
Qualia of the Day: You Have to Watch the Video
Further Readings:
Free-Wheeling Hallucinations - qualiacomputing.com/2019/01/06/free-wheeling-hallucinations
Steven Lehar Describing Free-Wheeling Hallucinations - youtu.be/JQ51vrnbAHA?t=754
Harmonic Society (3/4): Art as State-Space Exploration and Energy Parameter Modulation - qualiacomputing.com/2019/09/30/harmonic-society-3-4-art-as-state-space-exploration-and-energy-parameter-modulation
Principia Qualia (Michael Johnson; pg. 53 about free will) - opentheory.net/PrincipiaQualia.pdf
Psychedelic Information Theory (James Kent) - psychedelic-information-theory.com/Download
Harmonic Resonance Theory: An Alternative to the "Neuron Doctrine" Paradigm of Neurocomputation to Address Gestalt properties of perception (Steven Lehar) - slehar.com/wwwRel/webstuff/hr1/hr1.html
The Grand Illusion (Steven Lehar) - slehar.com/wwwRel/GrandIllusion.pdf
Cartoon Epistemology (Steven Lehar) - slehar.com/wwwRel//cartoonepist/cartoonepist.html
Fire Kasina (Daniel Ingram) - qualiacomputing.com/2020/05/28/fire-kasina-color-control-experience-report-by-daniel-ingram
Junk Bond Trader (great trip reports channel) - youtube.com/channel/UCcawyb5injSarAKZQ7pbOug
Super Free Will (Andrew Zuckerman) - andzuck.com/blog/sfw
Formless Consciousness and Zero Information (Kenneth Shinozuka) - blankhorizons.com/2020/08/08/the-philosophy-and-neuroscience-of-consciousness-part-iii-formless-consciousness-and-zero-information
"Chamomile consists of several ingredients including coumarin, glycoside, herniarin, flavonoid, farnesol, nerolidol and germacranolide. Despite the presence of coumarin, as chamomile’s effect on the coagulation system has not yet been studied, it is unknown if a clinically significant drug-herb interaction exists with antiplatelet/anticoagulant drugs. However, until more information is available, it is not recommended to use these substances concurrently." - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-2710.2002.00444.x
Once you realize that you inhabit a world-simulation sustained by your neuronal soil it is natural to ask: why can't I control its contents? Why can't I make myself hallucinate whatever I want?
It can be frustrating to realize one lacks control over something that should be truly "ours" - our raw unmediated experience! We could, and perhaps should, be the rightful masters of our very own conscious experience, yet for the most part we remain powerless to explore its possible states at will.
In this video I discuss the existence of some states of consciousness in which you do own and control the contents of your experience. Think of it as acquiring an "experience editor": an interface with your experience that enables you to modify it at will while keeping the modifications stable.
A lucid dream would be an example of a somewhat fluid and unreliable free-wheeling hallucination. The free-wheeling hallucinations I describe here are much more general, stable, reliable, intense, and hedonic than lucid dreams. More so, to spin up free-wheeling hallucinations could amount to far more than being just a fun activity. Doing so may come to be an extremely valuable tool for a new paradigm of consciousness research! All of the parameters of experience that remain outside of our control under normal circumstances can be studied (both from a first and third person point of view) while in a free-wheeling hallucination! One can conduct a sort of "qualia chemistry" and repeat experiments to get reliable accounts of the behavior of consciousness under exotic (yet controlled) circumstances. Artifacts such as the valence-symmetry correspondance can be inspected in detail. Ultimately, this paradigm may allow us to chart the state-space of consciousness in terms of "edit distances" or "sequence of symmetry breaking operations" away from "formless consciousness".
I then go on to explain that "knowing everything about your world-simulation" does not entail that the experience will be boring. Hedonic tone can be dissociated from novelty, but we don't even need to go that far. It suffices to point out that you can set up the parameters of your world-simulation so that it unfolds in a chaotic way, and thus is impossible to predict. Additionally, you cannot really predict what you yourself will think in the future, so the whole setup can continue to generate novelty almost indefinitely (up to one's storage capacity/size of the state-space/heat death of the universe).
I conclude by exercising my free will.
Topics Covered:
Energy Parameter, Predictive Coding, Free Energy Principle, Kolmogorov Complexity of Experience, Principia Qualia, Super Free Will, Quality Trip Reports, DXM + THC Combo, LSD + Ketamine + THC Combo, "Experience Editors", Qualia Critters, Fire Kasina, Color Control, Qualia Chemistry, Agenthood, Coumarin, Chamomile Tea.
Qualia of the Day: You Have to Watch the Video
Further Readings:
Free-Wheeling Hallucinations - qualiacomputing.com/2019/01/06/free-wheeling-hallucinations
Steven Lehar Describing Free-Wheeling Hallucinations - youtu.be/JQ51vrnbAHA?t=754
Harmonic Society (3/4): Art as State-Space Exploration and Energy Parameter Modulation - qualiacomputing.com/2019/09/30/harmonic-society-3-4-art-as-state-space-exploration-and-energy-parameter-modulation
Principia Qualia (Michael Johnson; pg. 53 about free will) - opentheory.net/PrincipiaQualia.pdf
Psychedelic Information Theory (James Kent) - psychedelic-information-theory.com/Download
Harmonic Resonance Theory: An Alternative to the "Neuron Doctrine" Paradigm of Neurocomputation to Address Gestalt properties of perception (Steven Lehar) - slehar.com/wwwRel/webstuff/hr1/hr1.html
The Grand Illusion (Steven Lehar) - slehar.com/wwwRel/GrandIllusion.pdf
Cartoon Epistemology (Steven Lehar) - slehar.com/wwwRel//cartoonepist/cartoonepist.html
Fire Kasina (Daniel Ingram) - qualiacomputing.com/2020/05/28/fire-kasina-color-control-experience-report-by-daniel-ingram
Junk Bond Trader (great trip reports channel) - youtube.com/channel/UCcawyb5injSarAKZQ7pbOug
Super Free Will (Andrew Zuckerman) - andzuck.com/blog/sfw
Formless Consciousness and Zero Information (Kenneth Shinozuka) - blankhorizons.com/2020/08/08/the-philosophy-and-neuroscience-of-consciousness-part-iii-formless-consciousness-and-zero-information
"Chamomile consists of several ingredients including coumarin, glycoside, herniarin, flavonoid, farnesol, nerolidol and germacranolide. Despite the presence of coumarin, as chamomile’s effect on the coagulation system has not yet been studied, it is unknown if a clinically significant drug-herb interaction exists with antiplatelet/anticoagulant drugs. However, until more information is available, it is not recommended to use these substances concurrently." - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-2710.2002.00444.x
