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Explore the boundaries of perception, time, reality, and consciousness. Each week, we take a deep dive into a research paper, from neuroscience to philosophy of mind to the foundations of physics. New episodes every other Wednesday. Produced with NotebookLM.
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How to Jailbreak the Cosmic Simulation
In this episode, we break down Roman V. Yampolskiy’s paper on the Simulation Hypothesis from a cybersecurity perspective, exploring whether reality itself could be “hacked.” The author argues that if…
Accidentally Engineering Conscious AI
In this episode, we break down David Chalmers’ essay on whether large language models could ever possess consciousness. Chalmers argues that current systems likely lack subjective experience due to…
Your Brain Predicts You Into Existence
In this episode, we break down a paper that connects the physics of self-organizing systems with the biological theory of active inference. The authors argue that any system that persists over time…
Why Materialism Is Almost Certainly False
In this episode, we break down Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, a philosophical critique of reductive materialism and the neo-Darwinian account of life. Nagel argues that consciousness, cognition, and…
Your Emotions Are Constructed, Not Trigged
In this episode, we break down the theory of constructed emotion, a framework that challenges the idea that emotions are innate biological “fingerprints.” Instead, emotions are described as…
Attention Constructs Reality Using Quantum Logic
In this episode, we break down “Quantum-like Qualia hypothesis: from quantum cognition to quantum perception,” a paper proposing the Quantum-like Qualia (QQ) hypothesis, which treats subjective…
Why Evolution Hid the Truth
In this episode, we break down Donald Hoffman's Interface Theory of Perception, which argues that evolution favors fitness over veridical truth. The theory proposes that our senses function like a…
Cancer Is a Shrinking of the Self
In this episode, we break down Michael Levin’s scale-free framework for the biological self, a view arguing that cognition and goal-directedness show up at every level of living systems. Levin argues…
Consciousness Is a Question Your Brain Asks
In this episode, we break down “Qualia as Query: The Phenomenology of Predictive Error Coding,” a paper that links cognitive neuroscience and phenomenology to explain conscious experience. The author…
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Quantum and Qualia has published 9 episodes since January 2026, covering topics in Life Sciences, Science.
Quantum and Qualia is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 18m.
