​WHAT ⭐️:

​​​​• Ruben Laukkonen PhD and Adam Safron PhD joins our salon online to discuss an Active Inference Theory of Consciousness.

​• Topics include the jhanas, stream entry, cessation, active inference and information theory, computational philosophy, psychedelics & meditation.

​• About Dr. Laukkonen + Social Media: X, Substack, Website, Interview on Essentia Foundation.

​Ruben Laukkonen is the forthcoming director of the Flourishing Intelligence Program (FLIP) at Linacre College, University of Oxford, and co-director of the Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing at Linacre College, University of Oxford. He is also a senior lecturer (US: Associate Professor) at Southern Cross University, Gold Coast, Australia. Ruben has made significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the science of consciousness, meditation, and insight. His recent work reveals a pathway towards better and safer artificial intelligence based on the neuroscience of consciousness and contemplative wisdom. His work has been featured widely, including The New York Times, TIME, Scientific American, TEDx, Vice, ABC, Aeon, VOX, New Scientist, and in the Nature collection.

​• About Dr. Safron + Social Media: Website, YouTube, X.

​Adam Safron is an independent scientist with multiple affiliations, whose research interests include models of consciousness, free will (or mechanisms of agency), psychedelics, artificial life, and AI (and human) alignment protocols. He currently works with Michael Levin at the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University, where he is focusing on editing a special issue of Royal Society on "world models" as part of a broader undertaking (in collaboration with the Active Inference Institute): The AI Capabilities & Alignment Consensus Project.

​​​​​• Hosted by Addy (Founder @ Ekkolapto.org, O'Shaughnessy Ventures 2025 Grantee).

​• Previous hackathons, salons, podcasts, and dinners at MIT, UT Austin, FAU, Harvard, Augmentation Lab, Frontier Tower in SF, DC/Maryland, NYC, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo.​​​

​• Sponsored by Ekkolápto Research and the Computational Philosophy Research Club.

​​PREVIOUS EVENTS 📸:

​• 2024 Longevity & Unconventional Computing Research Hackathon at MIT Media Lab, featuring Stephen Wolfram, Joscha Bach, David Sinclair, Curt Jaimungal, and more: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy5dPSW_KkniuHpoLwlzkYcxhxn50Mn0T

​​​​​​• Past Polymath Salons and discussions are uploaded for you to watch on the Ekkolápto channel: /ekkolapto3

​• Recent Polymath Salon at UT Austin with Professor Scott Aaronson on the Philosophy of Computational Complexity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OST1DjD08Hg

​• Recent Polymath Salon at University of Toronto with Michael Levin, Andrés Gómez Emilsson, and Elan Barenholtz on the Binding Problem and Platonic Spaces: https://youtu.be/0BVM0UC28nY