=Total freedom, potentiality for any symbolic or nonsymbolic structure= Our minds are free to think anything about reality! In the beggining before thinking about anything, there is just full potential, where anything can become true. Let's explore various ways of looking at the world in divfferent stories we tell ourselves. =Exploration of possible philosophical assumptions= ==Nature of reality== What is the nature of reality? Do both physics and minds exist in a connected way and they are not inside eachother? (Dualism) Or are they inside eachother/one emerging from the other? (Monism) Is consciousness fundamental? (Idealism) Is physics fundamental? (Physicalism) Is something third fundamental? (Neutral monism) Is this a question that doesn't make sense and doesn't fundamentally touch any "deeper reality" and its just mental model play? (Mysterianism) Is the dichotomy between physics and consciousness not a thing and they're one thing, is all physics conscious? (Panpsychist physicalism) Are those physical systems with some mathematical property the only individual conscious ones? (Nonpanpsychist physicalism) How is boundary of conscious physical systems determined mathematically? Do conscious systems see reality as it is or just some abstract approximated representation of it? (Direct vs indirect realism) [Bayesian Brain and the Ultimate Nature of Reality - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw5Q5h8s6FI) Is quantum physics, quantum field theory or other fundamental physics theory fundamental? (Physicalist reductionism) Are all emergent scales in science also as real, such as classical physics, biology, chemistry, sociology? (Emergence paradigm) [Emergentism: A Philosophy of Complexity and Meaning with Brendan Graham Dempsey - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfRFOJWZ5j0) Is information fundamental? (quantum information theory) [Physics as Information Processing ~ Chris Fields ~ AII 2023](https://coda.io/@active-inference-institute/fields-physics-2023) ==Identity== What is our identity? Are we a segment? (Closed individualism) Are we a physical system that starts existing when it is born and stops existing when it dies, when it dissolves? (Secular) Is there a soul that is minduploaded to heaven? (Christianity, Islam) Are we in a cycle or reincarnation? (Hinduism) Are we a spacetime-slice or a moment of experience? (Empty individualism) Are we everyone? (Open individualism) [Consciousness and Personal Identity: What does it feel like to believe we are all one? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dutINPDaP6A) ==Epistemology== What is the nature of knowledge and truth? Does knowledge come primarly from direct sensory experience? (Empiricism) (Enactivism) From intellect? (Rationalism) Build by experiences and reflections on them? (Constructivism) Is a proposition true according to how much practical consequences it has? (Pragmatism) Is there inherent uncertainity to the possibility of having certain knowledge? (Skepticism) Is knowledge built upon a foundation of basic self-evident truths or experiences? (Foundationalism) Are beliefs justified if they cohere or fit well with other beliefs within a system? (Coherentism) Is truth and knowledge not absolute and varies depending on culture, society, or individual perspectives? (Relativism) Does the strength of a signal determine how true it feels? Are our mental model useful data compressing approximations of our internal and external dynamics, informed by natural sciences and their empirical methods? (Naturalized epistemology) https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/803428963435282452/1137803898552328314/image.png?width=787&height=600 https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/992213422274003066/1116711387394228224/20230609_145134.jpg?width=800&height=600 ==Ethics== What actions are right or wrong? If it leads to the most overall happiness or pleasure or generally gain in value? (Consequentialism, Utilitarianism) If they satisfy objective rules or duties that we must obey regardless of outcomes? (Deontology) Cultivating good character traits and virtues? (Virtue ethics) Is it determined by individual and cultural beliefs? (Relativism) =Most useful philosophical assumptions= I love to juggle different ontologies depending on what is currently pragmatically useful. Not being commited to any particular ontology feels extremely free and full of relief. In explorative analytical mode I am not loyal to any particular set of I love to explore what kinds of assumptions can exist and what are their advantages and disadvantages in as neutral way as possible. In explorative experiental mode I love to explore what its like to deeply experience different ways of being, such as being one with everything on open individualism or nonexistence on empty individualism or increased sense of agency and unlimited possibilities of statespace of consciousness in idealism because of less attachment to the "physical being". Being agnostic because of difficulty or impossibility of empirical testability can free oneself from not optimal lenses. Being sceptic can find out disadvantages efficiently. Seeing reality as fundamentally mysterious and nongraspable by any concepts generates tons of awe and generates openminedness and epistemic humility meaning one has no total certainity about truthness and accuracy and fundamentalism of his models by dereifying concrete beliefs. ==Assumptions for science== I'm gonna unpack this in the next section: For science, I'm gonna asssume by empirical bayesianism constructed approximating model of reality in physicalist combination of quantum physics and quantum information theory as fundamental ontology which is also panpsychist emergentalist and is optimized for pragmatic utilitarism focused on mathemazited collective psychological valence optimalization and longtermist survival and progressive flourishing. Empiricism assumes that truthness of a model is determined by its predictive and explanatory power guided by occam's razor. Baysianism assumes that this model is slowly determined by slow updating of its structure according to what evidence in empirical data are presented. Approximating means that all our models we assume are finding regularities in dynamics by useful approximations. =Fundamental structure of reality for science= I'm gonna unpack this in the next section: Physicalism means that what fundamentally exists are models of physics and quantum mechanics with quantum darwinism framed inside quantum information theory is our best current approximation that is set as fundamental. Panpsychist means that any unified bound individual system with information processing is a conscious entity and structure of experience corresponds to structure of it's physical dynamics and information networks. Emergentism means that the fundamental quantum physics layer/scale exists as equally as more surface classical scales such as dynamics of atoms, molecules, cells, functional brain regions, animals, societies, planets, galaxies and so on, where each scale can be studied using (quantum) information theory. ==Classical physics== Let's start with classical physics to make sense of macroscopic phenomena, which means lets not look at the quantum behavior of microscopic fundamental particles. Newton's law of motion helps us predict the future trajectory of an object. Thermodynamics helps us predict how concrected heat aka energy has tendency to distribute itself into the surroundings according to the second law of thermodynamics where everything goes towards entropy aka eqilibrium. There are many types of classical differential equations that help us predict behaviors of lots of types of systems, such as how computers work, dynamics of neurons or different variables when analyzing society such as evolutionary economical models. ==Information theory, Classical formulation of the free energy principle formalizing conscious agents== Now let's talk about the free energy principle that I'm gonna use as both epistemological framework (bayesianism) and to define physics of survival. [ActInf Livestream #045.0 ~ "The free energy principle made simpler but not too simple" - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MQQKaKEXs0) [The Physics of AI - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qb28P7ksyE) [Karl Friston's Unfalsifiable Free Energy Principle - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ1fsXQz7M4) https://static.miraheze.org/qualiaresearchwiki/a/af/ActiveInference.png Free energy principle starts with definining a thing. It asks what must a thing that survives do? It must be stable. How it does that? It looks like as if its resisting the 2nd law of thermodynamics where systems tend to go towards entropy, towards disintegrated equilibrium. A thing is an open system, which means that its not fully isolated, where energy is coming inside and out of it via various entrances. It uses this energy to stabilize its structure to resist decay. 4th law of thermodynamics states that biological systems accelerate 2nd law by being a stable negentropic structure that serves as a machine that converts environment's negentropy into entropy through dissipation. For example us eating food which is basis for our biological machine. How do we systematically find food in our environment? We must be able to predict it and act on it. How do we do that? Our brain approximates bayesian mechanics. What is that? Bayes theorem tells us the optimal way of processing information that natural selection approximately recruited in us, where the probaility of our model of the causes of our perception (aka priors) given our measured input sensory data being true aka corresponding to how it is statistically in reality can be calculated by probability of our input sensory data given our predicted causes times probability of our predicted causes, all divided by the probability of our input sensory data. [The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg3cQXf4zSE) Issue is that when analytically calculating the last term we get combinatorial explosion, leading to it not being computable. Evolution sidesteps this issue by partially by evolution preprogrammed priors, such as subconsciously monitoring and influencing our blood pressure, or doing lots of partitioning of sensory data, such as dividing into different senses, doing distinctions between self and other, modelling our own ability to influence the world and so on, all of which is maintained in an always active generative model that acts as a software that looks at sensory data, compares it with our priors, and sends a prediction error if there is a mismatch, which creates evolutionary pressure to update our model of the world, such as for example changing our perspective on some issue when presented with different evidence (certain ways of thinking are stuck in rigid attractor where this mechanism of updating is malfunctioning) or for example when we see a pink unicorn dancing on a rainbow when on psychedelics we get confused and see it as outlier that probably isnt real according to our priors, but seeing lots of unicorns overtime might change our priors. This whole process reduces our uncertainity about the world. More generally and formally, a thing corresponds to a markov blanket, which is a graph of nodes that learn correlations from its surroundings where you can locate a statistical boundary, where depending on how this particle (an observer with a reference frame) is complex https://imgur.com/a/xHvym29 you can locate nodes that seem to encode hidden states, meaning correlations encoding the outside world's (outside blanket's) structure, nodes that look as if they're just measuring and compressing the outside nodes, and nodes that look as if they're acting on the environment by statistical causal influence (doesnt exist in inert particles), and it tends to be nested a hieachy of markov blankets composed of markov blankets and so on, where you get dynamics of message passing and circular causal influence of the agent with the environment. Even more formally on this markov blanket a principle of least action is applied that minimizes statistical quantity of variational free energy that helps the model to be as accurate as possible while being the least complex as possible. It can be seen through the lens of thermodynamics as energy contractions and flow on this topology of information networks. You can crave certain neural classifiers or certain paths and then interconnect them via higher order nonlinear neural connections. The probability distribution which best represents the current state of knowledge about a system is the one with largest information entropy aka avarage amount of information or uncertainity inherent to the variable's possible outcomes. (generalization of thermodynamic entropy) [Principle of maximum entropy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_maximum_entropy) All of those insights can be used for ideal rational epistemology! ==Quantum physics== We've covered classical physics so far, now let's look at quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is a general framework that can be used to study evolution and dynamics of particles like in classical physics, but instead of objects and particles as deterministic points or shapes in classical 3D space, their classical information becomes inherently probabilistic and a concept of entaglement is introduced that says that any two systems that are entagled are inseparable. When we apply quantum mechanics to the fundamental particles level, particles are represented using complex values wave function that evolves the probability distribution of the particle's classical properties. ==Unifying quantum with the classical, Quantum darwinism or other options== spacetime from entaglement ==Quantum formulation of the free energy principle== We can assume localist superdeterminism, where the inherent uncertainity in the wavefunction is result from mathematically unpredictable chaotic behavior and if we knew initial conditions of the universe there wouldnt be randomness. I'm gonna assume that observers have quantum reference frames about any classical information that runs on quantum darwinism von neumann entropy ==Emergence of all other scientific fields inside this framework== =Consciousness= ==Total freedom, potentiality for any symbolic or nonsymbolic structure== Our minds are free to think anything about reality! They can have any bayesian priors in the statespace of consciousness. In the beggining before thinking about anything, there is just full potentiality, there is a mental model superposition of everything being neither true nor not true, meaning that classical logic itself is another rulebased construction that can be transcended. As we explore the world we collapse this superposition into various concrete forms as we explore various ways of looking at the world in divfferent stories we tell ourselves ==Intelligence== ==Wellbeing== ==Meditation and psychedelics== =Philosophy= ==Ontologies== ==Identities== ==Epistemologies== ==Ethicals== =Sociology= =Moloch= =Love and transcendence=