The Premise

The Museum of Consciousness contains exhibits by a multitude of artists, mavericks and consciousness explorers who are keen to transmit their most treasured work: short, audio-based samples that are designed to create expansive states of consciousness. Our past exhibition at Burning Man 2020 elicited many varieties of subjective experience, including thought experiments, sound journeys, death experiments as well as sleep and dream incubations.

The museum is centered around recipes for consciousness augmentation. These are sequences of exhibits that are arranged so that they maximally complement each other to enrich the visitor’s conscious experience. The curators will decide the recipes in advance, but participants will also have the opportunity to craft their own recipes towards the end of the visit.

The museum also has an interactive component. Visitors will rate the samples on a cutting-edge scale that was recently developed for quantifying altered states of consciousness. Additionally, visitors will play a game in which they try to figure out the ratings that the curators had pre-assigned to the samples.

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