Physics of consciousness: A conversation between Atai Barkai and QualiaNerd
May 9, 2025
Transcript of a conversation between Atai Barkai and QualiaNerd on the "psychophysical parallelism".
Globally Bound
Essays on consciousness and reducing extreme suffering.
Posts
Using asana yoga to deepen meditation practice
May 7, 2025
If you, like myself, practice both meditation and asana yoga, you can likely get more juice out of your yoga sessions and accelerate your progress in meditation with some simple tweaks.
It’s time to say goodbye to 'functionally equivalent artificial neurons'
April 26, 2025
The idea that we can substitute carbon-based neurons with functionally equivalent artificial neurons doesn’t withstand closer scrutiny.
The quest for a stone‑free world: Chanca piedra (Phyllanthus niruri) as an acute and prophylactic treatment for kidney stones and their associated extreme negative valence
February 18, 2025
Kidney stones cause an immense amount of suffering worldwide. We investigate chanca piedra as a promising preventive treatment.
Indirect realism illustrated (and why it matters so much for consciousness debates)
February 16, 2025
My attempt to make indirect realism as intuitive as possible using simple illustrations. I then explain how one can get to panpsychism quite naturally.
Quantifying the global burden of extreme pain from cluster headaches
November 1, 2024
I aggregate medical data from a few dozen papers to estimate the burden of pain from 'suicide headaches' globally.
Abandoning functionalism: Some intuition pumps
July 11, 2024
I share a few intuition pumps that I have found helpful when thinking about consciousness in non-functionalist/computationalist terms.