A random series of events brought together a band from the St. Petersburg with the Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies and the Institute for Perspective Studies of the Brain of Moscow State University. We were discussing problems of consciousness for hours together, shared experience and knowledge. And as a result, there has been released a music album on consciousness. Every track of that album is dedicated to one or another important problem of consciousness and brain studies. It seems to us that musical expression allows us to say something about consciousness that we cannot express by words, allows to pick out the very phenomenon of consciousness. The title 'Dancing Qualia' goes back to David Chalmers' thought experiment in 'The Conscious Mind'.

"Consciousness is a dance of mysterious qualia, we know everything about them, but we can’t explain them. Qualia weave a canvas of subjective reality. Consciousness crumbles without them. In the darkness of a huge Universe, combinations of qualia create worlds of conscious minds. They are colors, sounds, pain, euphoria, the experienced aspect of physical processes. They are an integral part of the history of the Universe, which is right in front of us, and about which we still know little. " - Konstantin V. Anokhin
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Written, arranged, performed and produced by Klim Sukhanov, Anton Kochnev, Semyon Perevoshchikov, Sam Konyakhin. Mixed by Klim Sukhanov and Semyon Perevoshchikov. Mastered by Andrei Zakharov at TMTC Studio (St.Petersburg). Cover art by Michael Kroz.

Dancing Qualia

Dear friends
"Stars" release is postponed on Febriary 18, 2014.We apologise unreservedly for inconvenience and with connection with this Parallel Galaxy Records presents you new release from our residents Frau Mai feat. Lovinsky "Night travel". Open the bottle of wine, get comfortable and imagine the atmosphere of night flight.
Sincerely yours, Parallel Galaxy Records team.
Track is available for free download.

Frau Mai feat. Lovinsky - Night travel (Original mix)

We made a new mixtape to celebrate the fact we have a new Song coming in January 2015.

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Mixtape 4

03 - e2thal

Not for the club, not for silence – somewhere in between.

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Near Death Experience

'Comfort You’ feat. @fractures-music is out now through @etcetcmusic.

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Remixes from @pillow-talk-1, @poolclvb, @moodsprod & @jpaulgetto out 22nd July.

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Set Mo - Comfort You feat. Fractures (Michael Tello's PillowTalk Remix)

Le Café Abstrait - Be Here

collected & mixed with some additional production by D-Pulse.
"Strobelight Ouverture" mixtape cover photo by Kiyoshi Nakabayashi (c) 2012

strobelight ouverture mix

01.Róisín Murphy - Jacuzzi Rollercoaster (feat. Ali Love)
02.Ilija Rudman - Lovers Change Minds (Hot Toddy Extended Remix)
03.Honeyfeet - Meet Me on the Corner (Crazy P Remix)
04.Ron Basejam - The French Exit (Original Mix)
05.Roisin Murphy – World’s Crazy (Original Mix) 
06.Super Paolo - Going To The Bank (Original Mix)
07.Marcel Vogel feat. Khalil Anthony - Dance The Blues Away (Original Mix)
08.New Franklin Theory - In Orbit (Original Mix)
09.Nu Guinea - Je vulesse (Original Mix)
10.Snax - Hands Dirty (Original Mix)
11.Ladybird & Phil Weeks – What Goes Round (Original Mix) 
12.Ant LaRock - Goddess (Original Mix)
13.Woolfy - Your Past Behind (Original Mix)
14.D-Pulse & Alex Neivel - Let It Go (feat. Charitha Big-G)

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At the beginning of the last century, I. P. Pavlov dreamed:  “If one could see through the skull bone and if the focus in the cerebral hemispheres with optimal excitability shone...” A hundred years later, Russian scientists developed the methods to make the animal’s brain literally transparent and see traces of its work. The Transparent Brain project is a special technology of optical enlightenment of biological tissues, creation of glowing of fluorescent protein in active neurons and new methods of laser microscopy of the whole brain. They allowed “capturing the thought” for the first time—that is, making glow all the neurons of the brain that participated in one or another of its activities. Today, it is one of the most powerful approaches by which neuroscience explores the cellular traces of subjective experience.

Transparent Mind

Do Androids dream of electric sheep? This name refers to the famous novel by Philip Dick, which is better known as “Blade Runner.” As in the modern "Westworld," we are talking about the inside of the creatures of the artificial world. Many people believe that evolution is blind, but in its complete ignorance, it has led to the emergence of those who inquire about their nature. But what if, in the same ignorance, we created a new quality of life in androids? However, the interest of these works is not only in how ably they turn to the scenarios of the future. At the same time, they make us think about the present. Aren't there the same androids among us that dream of electric sheep?

Android Dreams

As Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the DNA double helix, said, “neuroscience has not yet discovered the double helix of the brain.” One of the new ideas in this field is that the codes of the mind and consciousness are hidden in the neural hypernetwork of the brain. The brain hypernetwork is a network of networks. The nodes in it are clouds of neurons jointly encoding certain knowledge and relations of the body. Connections, communication between such hypernodes are carried out through the common neurons. Our consciousness, according to this theory, lives in this neural hypernetwork.

Hypernetworks

A hard problem of consciousness is “Why are processes in the brain accompanied by conscious experience?  Why don't they happen in the "dark"? It is called "hard" because it cannot be solved by standard methods of the natural sciences. And it is possible that its solution requires a review of the very structure of the natural world.

Hard Problem

The "Chinese room" is the most influential argument about artificial intelligence in the 20th century. It states that regrouping of symbols any computer program is based on does not intrinsically lead to understanding. Imagine that a person is placed in a closed room and, using the instructions, they regroup the Chinese characters they received and pass these further out. But no matter how long they do this, they will not begin to understand Chinese, although a native speaker of Chinese outside the room, who transmits messages inside and receives answers to them, can think differently. Therefore, for understanding and perception, a correctly programmed machine is not enough. Some extra ingredient is required, which provides these properties.

Lost in Chinese Room

The first-ever Nobel Prize in Physiology was awarded to I. P. Pavlov. After receiving it for research of digestion, he stated in his Nobel speech: "Practically speaking, we are interested in only one thing in our life—in our mental content." A new way to study this content was the acquired reflexes discovered by him. 

"Pavlov's bell" forcing the dog to salivate before the appearance of the food it expected, made him famous all over the world. However, he did not find a satisfying answer to the question burning in his mind: "How does the brain matter produce a subjective phenomenon?"

Spoken-word in this track belongs to P.K.Anokhoin and A.R. Luria and it is an excerpt from an archived interview for British Themes television.

Hard Problem

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