it has been a little bit more than three years since i first started writing on https://t.co/o9UU8aBsq2. i would like to pause blogging for now! here is a retrospective to cap things off:

i am looking forward to returning to san francisco.

November 20th in San Francisco - @cube_flipper ∪ @QualiaRI ∪ I will be hosting an event about a research paradigm we're developing we think might successfully show the computational benefits that DMT-induced states of consciousness uniquely provides. Stay tuned, and mark your

prehensile ears would be such an asset at a large party...

finally ordering some PePtIdEs~

"his psyche was beyond smooth, it was perfectly Euclidean... if you placed a ball bearing on it it wouldn't roll"

okay i tried one. def seems like it gives me less head tension! 3 mg is way too strong for me tho i had to spit it out after a few minutes

informations. idk why they bothered to put l-theanine in it

i also got some of the nicotine analogue zyn pouches. but i will not try them today (while i am at risk of developing a hangover headache anyway)

the mexican electrolytes will save me today

previous thread here

i have software which can generate these fractional Fourier transform videos btw, if you have any [square] images you would like to see rotated through the time-frequency plane, send them through

something a few people have asked me for help with over the years is a list of recommended papers to read. i compiled a list of fifty papers i think are quirky or interesting here:

this will likely be the last longform piece i will work on this year, and wraps up a three-post sequence – the theme of which is "phenomenology in the frequency domain". until next time~

...as well as @QiaochuYuan for pointing me at linear canonical transformations, @sameQCU for listening to me sperg out (as always), and @MaxDiffusionRL for reminding me about the Gibbs phenomenon.

this is a long infodump of a post and there's many more ideas than i can fit into a summary thread. quite a few people also helped out along the way. i'd like to thank @qualiacomputer, @KanizsaBoundary, and @VisionSymmetric from the qualia research institute...

i think it's possible during altered states, and that we might even see the phenomenological signature of the relevant Fresnel diffraction processes in the form of distinctive ringing artifacts. https://t.co/wBwDAQAyL1

so, if the brain *was* using a travelling wave-based fractional Fourier transform to convert sensory information from spatial domain to frequency domain representations – should we expect to observe this in subjective experience?

...and even quantum systems:

...fiber optics: