Mike Johnson
Executive Director and co-founder of the Qualia Research Institute, focusing on neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and formal approaches to consciousness and valence.
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May 23, 2019 • 1h 27min
AIAP: On Consciousness, Qualia, and Meaning with Mike Johnson and Andrés Gómez Emilsson
Andrés Gómez Emilsson, consciousness researcher and QRI co-founder with a computational psychology background, and Mike Johnson, QRI executive director specializing in neuroscience and philosophy of mind, explore whether consciousness is formalizable. They discuss qualia realism, the Symmetry Theory of Valence, resonant brain harmonics, limits of functionalism, and implications for AI alignment and ethical value.
