Michael Edward Johnson

Crossposted from opentheory.net STV is Qualia Research Institute‘s candidate for a universal theory of valence, first proposed in Principia Qualia (2016). The following is a brief discussion of why existing theories are unsatisfying, what STV says, and key milestones so far. I. Suffering is a puzzle We know suffering when...

The following is QRI's unified theory of music, meditation, psychedelics, depression, trauma, and emotional processing. Implications for how the brain implements Bayesian updating, and future directions for neuroscience. Crossposted from http://opentheory.net Context: follow-up to The Neuroscience of Meditation and A Future For Neuroscience; a unification of (1) the Entropic Brain...