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Scry Visuals retweeted
If you are new to procedural generation within game dev, here is a great starting point on how to leverage noise!
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This infographic is AI-generated and mislabels several noise functions and their visual outputs. The post author acknowledged the graphic was generated by AI: x.com/slashskill_/st…
A breakdown of the inaccuracies is detailed here: x.com/XorDev/status/…
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If you haven't checked out the output from QRI's latest HEART retreat, do!
Lot's a of really cool PDP models (Parameterized Dynamic Phenomenology) trying to replicate exotic states of consciousness, like the Jhanas and 5-MeO-DMT, in an attempt to better understand and communicate the fundamentals of consciousness and valence.
The world is in a transition of integrating science and spirituality; ideally grounding the esoteric in the mathematical and empirical and testable, making such insights and states more accessible to the many. It's a long road, but QRI is putting in the work.
May we realise that new paradigm of consciousness that the world is asking for, for the benefit of all beings. 🙏
heart.qri.org
I have something to announce.
We ran a study to compare the jhānas to 5-MeO-DMT.
This was an ambitious undertaking by the Qualia Research Institute @QualiaRI , friends and collaborators. For practically all of May and June, a group of handpicked extraordinary people gathered in Tepoztlán, México: physicists, psychologists, neuroscientists, phenomenologists, advanced meditators, meditation researchers, philosophers of mind, and visual artists specializing in psychedelic replication.
It span over two dozen participants and eight weeks: instrument building, ten days of jhāna practice across three meditation sites, a week of 5-MeO-DMT, and then time to integrate and putting the pieces together to figure out the puzzle of consciousness.
We're now releasing the first tranche of what came out of it ♥️
Here is an example output: every animation we rated (comparing J1 and J3), in a tool where you can visualize the affinity of each animation to any two pairs of specific jhāna states and/or 5-MeO-DMT dose levels.
heart.qri.org/retreats/2026-…
Scry Visuals retweeted
Increasingly BORED of meditation and psychology stuff. We need formalization, we need better theory, we need more studies, we need more experimentation. “There is no self” , “tanha is this fast grabby thing” KILL MEEEE. Imagine if biology talked like this still — “disease is when your four humors get out of balance” ?? just mega abstractions that are unreliable. Where’s the formalization of this stuff for repeatable results?? this is something im working on in my book 'Internal, then External' and I think it's an important problem.
Scry Visuals retweeted
I have something to announce.
We ran a study to compare the jhānas to 5-MeO-DMT.
This was an ambitious undertaking by the Qualia Research Institute @QualiaRI , friends and collaborators. For practically all of May and June, a group of handpicked extraordinary people gathered in Tepoztlán, México: physicists, psychologists, neuroscientists, phenomenologists, advanced meditators, meditation researchers, philosophers of mind, and visual artists specializing in psychedelic replication.
It span over two dozen participants and eight weeks: instrument building, ten days of jhāna practice across three meditation sites, a week of 5-MeO-DMT, and then time to integrate and putting the pieces together to figure out the puzzle of consciousness.
We're now releasing the first tranche of what came out of it ♥️
Here is an example output: every animation we rated (comparing J1 and J3), in a tool where you can visualize the affinity of each animation to any two pairs of specific jhāna states and/or 5-MeO-DMT dose levels.
heart.qri.org/retreats/2026-…
Scry Visuals retweeted
Animal consciousness already brings up many of the AI consciousness moral dilemmas. Suppose it were scientifically discovered that ants are conscious. It still wouldn't work, economically or socially, to treat people who kill ants in their house like mass murderers.
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Great sub-plot in AI development will be the re-emergence of C4th Church Fathers-era Ecumenical Council style debates about metaphysical issues like the immateriality of the soul
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Scry Visuals is driven by creating art in the process of building skills towards a science of consciousness. This sort of science is already growing and to do it properly will require in some cases accurate visualization of complex internal states.
