#24 - Michael Johnson | Qualia Formalism & The Symmetry Theory of Valence

Michael Edward Johnson is a philosopher, neuroscientist and entrepreneur. He’s the author of Principia Qualia and the co-founder of the Qualia Research Institute. He’s done pioneering work at the intersection of mathematics and consciousness studies, seeking to systematically map and measure subjective experiences.

Resources:

• Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Buddhist Phenomenology, Active Inference, and Physical Reflex

• Autism as a disorder of dimensionality

• Qualia Formalism and a Symmetry Theory of Valence