Category: neuroscience

• From Microgravity to Mysticism: The “Gravity Switch” Hypothesis of Mystical-Type Experiences

  delpierr111

  1st Jul 2025

  consciousness, empirical, neuroscience, physics

  consciousness physicalism, graviception, gravity, phenomenology, science, spirituality

• Beyond Hormones: Falling in Love as Gravitational Collapse

  Imagine your body and brain constantly building a model of the world and your place in it. Besides coordinates, another important thing to know (and a bit harder to find, determine, or feel) is the sense of direction. The model I’m about to lay out relies on fundamental “reference frames”—Where am I in life and…

  delpierr111

  29th Apr 2025

  consciousness, evolution, neuroscience, philosophy, physics

  consciousness, ego death, gravity, hypothesis, love, philosophy, physics, science, spirituality

• What is More Real, Beauty or My Shoes? An Interview with Michael Edward Johnson

  In September 2024, I traveled from Leipzig to Rome to interview Michael Edward Johnson, a theoretical neuroscientist and philosopher whose work on formalizing consciousness and neural annealing—alongside his cofounder Andrés Gómez-Emilsson—has been a crucial component in the creation of “The Good Annealing Manual: From Psychedelic Alchemy to the Chemistry of the Mind” (QRI, in press)…

  delpierr111

  5th Feb 2025

  consciousness, dual aspect monism, interview, neuroscience, philosophy

  ai, artificial-intelligence, consciousness, dual aspect monism, philosophy, sympathetic resonance

• 14. The Outer vs. Inner Path: Material vs. Phenomenal Trajectory in Dual-Aspect Monism

  I don’t think valence itself is necessarily a complex phenomenon, and just because the methodology of affective neuroscience isn’t generating crisp insights doesn’t mean there are no crisp insights to be had. Michael Edward Johnson, Principia Qualia I. Wisdom and Independence From External Validation In numerous conversations, I’ve often encountered the concept of an “old…

  delpierr111

  4th Jan 2024

  consciousness, cultural evolution, dual aspect monism, metaphysics, neuroscience

  consciousness, dual aspect monism, music, neuroscience, philosophy, qualia, the inner path, the spiritual path

• 7. Gravitation as the Natural Language of Attention

  An analogy crosses my mind, and that is the conquering of Americas. The story goes: there is this archetpye of an arrogant business man, all dressed up, proud and self-confident, coins mingling in his pocket (status). This man with an army of inferior others steps on a continent where he degrades all of the pre-existing…

  delpierr111

  8th Nov 2022

  consciousness, cultural evolution, introduction, metaphysics, neuroscience, physics

  consciousness, graviton, physicalist idealism, qualia, quantum gravity

• 3. strongest memes are in art and they can be biologically selfish towards their host

  oxford dictionary: meme is an idea that is passed from one member of society to another, not in the genes but often by people copying it. in my previous post one-time limerence or touch of divinity I gave insight into a conflict between psychological or rather psychiatric evaluation of a mental state that is objectively…

  delpierr111

  18th Aug 2022

  consciousness, cultural evolution, metaphysics, neuroscience

  design, geometry, philosophy, plato