Valence Realism, Consciousness, and AI: A Conversation with Andrés Gómez-Emilsson
Adam Ford speaks with Andrés Gómez-Emilsson, director of research at the Qualia Research Institute (QRI), about valence realism, the mathematics of consciousness, and what all this might mean for AI alignment and the long-term future of sentient life. Valence realism, as QRI uses the term, is the claim that for any given conscious state there…