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Advanced Visions of Paradise: From Basic Hedonism to Paradise Engineering

Advanced Visions of Paradise: From Basic Hedonism to Paradise Engineering

FromBuilding a Science of Consciousness


Advanced Visions of Paradise: From Basic Hedonism to Paradise Engineering

FromBuilding a Science of Consciousness

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Length:
79 minutes
Released:
Nov 14, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode, we explore the challenge of thinking wholesome, genuinely useful, and novel thoughts about how to build paradise. Most of the "visions of paradise" we find in our culture, media, and art are projections of implicit aesthetics used for human coordination, rather than deeply thought-out and high-dimensional perspectives truly meant to elevate our understanding and inspire us to investigate the Mystery of reality. Aesthetics tend to put the cart before the horse: they tacitly come with a sense of what is good and what is real. Aesthetics are fast, parallel, and collective ways of judging the goodness or badness of images, ideas, and archetypes. To disentangle ourselves from tacit low-dimensional aesthetics, and inspired by the work of Rob Burbea (cf. Soulmaking), we go over what aesthetics consist of: Eros, Psyche, and Logos. Then, to explore high-quality aesthetics relevant to paradise engineering, we go over 7 camps of a hypothetical "Superhappiness Festival", each representing a different advanced aesthetic: Hedonism, Psychiatry, Wholesome, Paleo, Energy, Self-Organization, and Paradise Engineering.
Released:
Nov 14, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (63)

The Qualia Research Institute (QRI.org) is a California 501(c)(3) non-profit research group studying consciousness in a consistent, meaningful, and rigorous way. Our goal is to spread the ideas of our institute in a more accessible way and to support the research being done by our members.