[Universal Darwinism - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Darwinism#Examples_of_universal_Darwinist_theories) [Evolution - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution) Let's define 5-MeO-DMT peak state as crosscale fractal synchrony/consonance/symmetry [The Future of Consciousness – Andrés Gómez Emilsson - YouTube](https://youtu.be/SeTE8vtJufA?si=9WBvmnfq25j1TZMT&t=3506) , thermodynamic equilibrium in classical field theory [Classical field theory - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_field_theory) [On Connectome and Geometric Eigenmodes of Brain Activity: The Eigenbasis of the Mind?](https://qri.org/blog/eigenbasis-of-the-mind) , where sensations are particles forming ecosystems and interacting subagents with various math properties. Or quantum? Does content of experience have nondivisible quanta? Is it relativistic? [Quantum field theory - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_field_theory) Total structurelessness death at peak 5-MeO-DMT state or Jhanas are mathematically equivalent to the heat death of the universe. In equilibrium, instead of local concrete qualia, global general qualia emerge [In New Paradox, Black Holes Appear to Evade Heat Death | Quanta Magazine](https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-new-paradox-black-holes-appear-to-evade-heat-death-20230606/#:~:text=Susskind%20applied%20this%20concept%20to,It%20becomes%20ever%20more%20complex) After psychologically dying so many times on meditation and psychedelics, a sense of one continuous linear identity/experience/self doesn't make sense anymore. there is lack of globally connected continuity after death ripped a hole into the linear flow of phenomenal time Veritasium logistic map, incompleteness theorems If you take second law of thermodynamics on the quantum level, where the increase of entropy means increase of entaglement, and connect entaglement with space, then technically the total space in the universe is decreasing instead of the classical notion of expansion where its increasing or infinite (this doesn't have to use String theory, Sean Carrol is attempting to derive this just in the framework of quantum mechanics) Different love and kindness practices: - Radiating love to people we know or all beings from local self - Strengthening a metta deity via attention and using pleasant/transcendental/loving associations and let it radiate love and healing to us and all other beings - Nondual whole field of consciousness being the field of love, radiating love to itself from all structures to themselves (including self model if it hasnt been dissolved), from all points to all points, creating global smoothening You can dissolve by: - Paying the least amount of effort to the breath and nothing else. If mind starts doing anything else, come back to breath, without getting angry or forcing it in relaxed way - Looking for the sense of looker and center - Noticing the sense of background vastness, stillness, silence - Seeing all local structures (mental and muscle contractions) as not needed for safety (ideas about the self and the world, defence mechanisms, what comes up when you think about death which doesn’t want to be dropped and let go off) and getting into empty space with no resistance - Looking for sense of spacetime and deconstructing it - Noticing how everything is made of nothingness - Deconstructing even nothingness itself - By having all safety put into in deepest just existence prior - “Abiding” “in” neither perception nor not perception, neither existence nor not existence [Michael Taft - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelTaft108/videos) [Looking into Groundlessness - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqE39Q4kBiY) Everytime i think of peak 5-MeO-DMT experience, my mind stops on complete awe in what the god is even possible to experience, the literal sense of infinitely big totally energized field of consciousness full of sacred meaning before transcending beyond spacetime and into total structurelessness. It shows me how much we know nothing, how everything we think is so fragile, so we can pick the mental tools that are the most useful to us in our everyday life without getting stuck in unhelpful stuff we feel as totally real. It helps me dissolve on meditation more easily as well as """i""" dont fear psychological death that much anymore. In direct experience i can experience much more easily the sense of how all of our language and modelling is relational and not individualistic, """I""" wouldn't exist withot everything else in our shared colective linguistic/overall hallucinated universe (selfworld model with all its sense gates), instead of our individual parts of it. There was no "me" or "meeting". Structurelessness is the closest word I have for it. It feels beyond language and concepts but includes them all. Since it feels like it includes all experience, our everyday experience made of it in a sense. It feels like the most general allencompassing (not only mathematical) structure possible. But also not, hah, escapes all classical logic. All paradoxes in classical logic are nonclassicaly true. It's approximately like "normal experience" is this infinitely small blib in this enormous possible infinitely giant statespace of consciousness. All of this so much dereifies the self, makes it much more flexible, fluid, """you""" gain agency over the sense of """you""", more easily deconstruct and reconstruct it however you wish. I still get sometimes stuck in some addictive stimuli, such as social media, or underestimate how various environmental influences can have lots of effects over my state of mind that are hard to handle in combination with my hypersensitivity to everything, on which i still work a lot, but in comparision to before, its much better. The power of flexible more aware mind adds a lot, but its a never ending path in a sense, as its still strengtening the mind's neural central executive network's etc. muscles. [Fastest Way To Enlightenment (A Complete Guide And Routine For Liberation) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBKEnnRTeSg) [The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg3cQXf4zSE) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342100261X [The Future of Consciousness – Andrés Gómez Emilsson - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeTE8vtJufA) [Mindfulness meditation increases default mode, salience, and central executive network connectivity | Scientific Reports](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-17325-6) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6893234/ [The Pseudo-Time Arrow](https://qri.org/blog/pseudo-time-arrow) focus on breath is one possible path to meditation, but i think there are techniques that are faster that more dissovle conidtionings in the mind not just from them not being focused on, but also targeting them and deriifying/dissolving/transforming them or their sources directly or indirectly [Fastest Way To Enlightenment (A Complete Guide And Routine For Liberation) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBKEnnRTeSg) in experience you can get the feeling of time travelling, but probably not objectively (as in our shared, not individual, hallucination)? (unless tachyons are a thing?), phenomenal time can be warped in many ways, time reversal, parallel time, nonlinear time, cessation of time [The Pseudo-Time Arrow](https://qri.org/blog/pseudo-time-arrow) i suspect there is a genetic parameter, modulated by environmental factors or overall experiences, that sets your baseline rigidity of structures in your nervous system, giving rise to loose mind, and i sense my starting point baseline was more on the fluditity side in this axies already both genetically and environmentally (when i look at my family and through what kinds of experiences ive been though), for an avarage person it is pretty hard, but the more one meditates, the easier it gets - i suspect this distribution of baseline states and of how well one learns these skills lay on the logarithmic scale/gaussian What meditation trains is the ability to turn it on and off whenever you want, or edit it more easily, leading to experiences with much less suffering, getting more flexibility, more flow state, more ability for deep rest. [Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Buddhist Phenomenology, Active Inference, and Physical Reflex (Part I) – Opentheory.net](https://opentheory.net/2023/07/principles-of-vasocomputation-a-unification-of-buddhist-phenomenology-active-inference-and-physical-reflex-part-i/) [x.com](https://twitter.com/KennethFolk/status/1707220944966631823) Its cultivating the agency over how your sense of self and overall world simulation is constructed. Though increased overall fluidity can have its disadvantages as well, such as being in a rigid model for a longer amount of time might be less stable. [Inner screen model of consciousness: applying free energy principle to study of conscious experience - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZWjjDT5rGU) Agency is about how strong your neural connections from central executive network or top of the hiearchy are to other parts of brain. And you can both dissolve sense of agency while still doing stuff, it can agentically de/restructure on its own. Productivity hack is total commitment: "I will do x no matter what for this greater reason that is meaningful to me.", where x is an arbitrary task, sequence of tasks spread over time, among days, routines, higher order goals and so on. By doing one thing there is much less overwhelm in too many options of burning things needed to be done. Plan all the tasks one by one strictly with artificial or real deadlines. Reduce as much vagueness and uncertainity in what you need to do as possible. Direct all your hyperfocus into one thing. No other options at that moment. Does arbitrary information processing have the tendency to selforganize into particular types of intelligence? Is there any pattern inherent to intelligence as we scale it, no matter what substrate or concrete implementation details in architecture it runs on? Or can even the biggest information processing machine be computing arbitrary from reality disconnected things, because it can compure arbitrary functions that are just noise? If you keep exchanging the parts of yourself for nonbiological parts, how far can you go before it stops being you? Is it on spectrum? Is collective human wisdom or progress of power of AI faster? [Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcVfceTsD0A) LLMs memory https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QL7J9wmS6W2fWpofd/but-is-it-really-in-rome-an-investigation-of-the-rome-model ML interpretabilty landscape [Introduction to Machine Learning Interpretability Methods](https://forbytes.com/blog/machine-learning-interpretability/) https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00537 Liv Boeree Moloch Lex [Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk | Lex Fridman Podcast #314 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF-E40pxxbI&pp=ygUObGl2IGJvZXJlZSBsZXg%3D) valence realism = you can locate a specific pattern in physics (in brain dynamics) that corresponds to how good the subjective experience feels, and thus you can edit it with neurotech or other technologies im for as much subjective experience physicalist realism as possible where you can locate neural correlate for any part/pattern in experience and as science progresses we are getting more and more of them enabling us to engineer it directly or indirectly with neurotech or psychotech or other technologies A thing i ponder on often (and try to enact by attenting conferences like Effective Altruism Global and talking and potentially collaborating with people there) is how to as a single agent that has cooperative potential create the most efficient incentives that minimize the risk of humanity's selfdestructive dynamics going too badly in the evolution of humanity. Is the best solution mass AI powered quality science and systems science education grounded in reality to fight epistemic breakdown and molochian multipolar traps? https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/moloch [The Consilience Project | The Consilience Project is a publication of the Civilization Research Institute (CRI)](https://consilienceproject.org/) [In Search of the Third Attractor, Daniel Schmachtenberger (part 1) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XCXvzQdcug) [Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Artificial Intelligence and The Superorganism" | The Great Simplification - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P8PLHvZygo) [Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcVfceTsD0A) https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LpM3EAakwYdS6aRKf/what-multipolar-failure-looks-like-and-robust-agent-agnostic maybe AI will induce breakdown of outdated structures and we will just adapt i wonder what else can we do, im trying to map the landscape that is throwing all sorts of physics or other maths to neurophenomenology, classical or nonclassical, i feel like we can get more and more predictive models but we will never be satisfied that *this* equations fully explains consciousness... i feel like there will be always some ieffable part in it no matter how predictive equations and simulations we will have im trying to map out all the maths (mainly from physics) you can throw at neurophenomenology thats the only language that can help us make nonvague falsifiable theoretical predictions everything else feels like its totally arbitrary in terms of scientific truth i wonder what else can we do to understand consciousness, im trying to map the landscape that is throwing all sorts of physics or other maths to neurophenomenology, classical or nonclassical https://qualiaresearch.miraheze.org/wiki/Effective_Individual_And_Collective_Wellbeing_Engineering i feel like we can get more and more predictive models but we will never be satisfied that *this* equations fully explains consciousness... i feel like there will be always some ieffable part in it no matter how predictive equations and simulations we will have search for scientific truth leads to better technologies as a side effect at least! physics, computers, neurotech, AI... but hopefully we won't selfdestruct ourselves from too good AGI where current language models have origins in trying to understand the nervous system's information processing and then fucking around and finding out various mutations of architectures and scaling them to oblivion when just understand small parts of this giant ieffable blackbox through interpretability research that somehow works and does so many things well without us understand most of it, hah, i wonder whats the future with current ChatGPT upgrades and AnthropicAI partnering with Amazon and Musk joining the AI arms race in the current economic incentives [Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371 - YouTube](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VcVfceTsD0A) everything is an open quantum system under the hood with classical weakly emergent dynamics (or some quantum stuff propagating to the top there are various other ways to look at dynamics from a more abstract/approximated view on a higher scale - various machinery in physics to approximate low level dynamics, or all equations used in chemistry/biology/biophysics etc. Your neurons work bayesian like. You win the rationality game if you manage to make them together (you) do information processing as bayes optimal as possible. Definitions of AGI "Our species is currently unsustainable in the long term and we are by default dead." -Joscha Bach I still have hope for the opposite if we don't let our selfdestructive tendencies go too much free! youtu.be/YeXHQts3xYM As future is changing faster and faster and complexity of the world is increasing, its harder and harder to deeply plan ahead on nation/humanity level. Playing longer games can both increase or decrease chances of winning. Focusing so much on just survival of the whole that parts are neglected and selfdestruct it all. Simple individual goals fullfilled but globally long term unsustainable and harming everyone in the big picture. The degree of coherence is when certain linguistical or conceptual or intuitive (mental) construct has the least amount of contradictions and things fits with eachother. Nonvagueness minimizes the space of interpretations, allowing for exact simulations and real world applications of it. You can give someone knowledge, thought or intuition by wrapping it in their language and belief system, aka maximizing the degree of coherence. Language models can be extremely good at this when their language gets custom tailored to specific types of languages of thought present in human population. This can have both great altruistucally benevolent and bad malicious uses. Educating people about the complexity of the world's future versus polarizing them politically. What's the current state of the world? What are good and bad statistics? What are solutions to world's most pressing problems? How are they connected? What are probable futures depending on what we do? Let's explore! Agency is the ability to change future, to be able to survive, to keep entropy at bay WE ARE TOGETHER ONE HYPERORGANISM [Cuban Missile Crisis - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis?wprov=sfla1) [Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov?wprov=sfla1) Everything is (bayesian) (quantum) information theoretic bits in thermodynamic systems (topologically) encoding learned concrete and abstract information, symbols and structures, and their nthorder connections (semantical meaning) and (agentic) manipulation of them [Physics as Information Processing ~ Chris Fields ~ AII 2023](https://coda.io/@active-inference-institute/fields-physics-2023) Increase entropy to increase intelligence You believe we cannot fudamentally steer Moloch and humanity is by default dead? How about mass AI powered quality science & systems science education grounded in reality to fight epistemic breakdown and molochian multipolar traps? [x.com](https://twitter.com/burny_tech/status/1708225944148681137?t=R98PWLrpEqLKIZbVUa4CqA&s=19) https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWDPHhjtiesc/agi-ruin-a-list-of-lethalities You can emotionally positively or in other ways optimally (if you want computational benefits of sadness or anger) reframe all situations if you can change your qualia yourself by agentic selfauthoring metacognitive recursive selfwriting Stages of mind - Extended Kegan stages of development: 1. Reactive survival (infant mind) 2. Personal self (young child) 3. Social self (adolescence, domesticated adult) 4. Rational agency (epistemological autonomy, self-directed adult) 5. Self authoring (full adult, wisdom) 6. Enlightened mind 7. Transcendent mind [Levels of Lucidity - Joscha Bach](https://joscha.substack.com/p/levels-of-lucidity?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2) https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04135 Undecidability of the Spectral Gap I'm constantly mindblown how people feel so individualistic when my intuition feels like we're all one, I wish that feeling for all! [Six months on from the “pause” letter | MIT Technology Review](https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/09/26/1080299/six-months-on-from-the-pause-letter/) [x.com](https://twitter.com/burny_tech/status/1708269771479753197?t=4bL1dL5z1isDRj61VG8iCQ&s=19) Everytime you wake up from deep sleep, self gets reconstructed. The sense of continuous identity and time is a constructed illusion. Regulations slow down technological progress, would slowing down development of internet cause the freedom of anyone posting almost anything not emerging? [The Mindfulness Map: A Practical Classification Framework of Mindfulness Practices, Associated Intentions, and Experiential Understandings - PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34712178/) Let's think and talk about everything together What do you think about everything? Who is the biggest galaxy mind? I wonder to what extend trying to limit AGI development has opposite effect on contrarians and for example strenghtened e/acc instead. Maybe you cannot stop AGI from being built, maybe you can just control who's gonna build IT under what context (knowing what's its doing and how it works, for helping people, for beating enemies,...) Red teaming jeremy england thermodynamics biology The more we correlate with others the more we merge into semi unified agent Mathematics of AI https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08890 5-MeO-DMT can give you this insight that when all your mental faculties disintegrate, you cannot control anything anymore, there is no you, there is no space, there is no existence, but all of it, there is no logic, no making sense, no sensical concrete existence after death Boothusafa vow [x.com](https://twitter.com/ferostabio/status/1708537206623584257?t=z17n4XqBqSD3t6puNF1HiQ&s=19) Ecosystems of plants might be much more intelligent than us and operate on much longer (space)time scales Is trying to slow down AGI development locking in better or worse future? Benevolently minimizing risk of consciousness disintegrating from AGI by more safety research, education, regulations, time to adapt vs incentives for accidently unskillfully or misused top down control, transhumanism will never happen as it might be never safe aka incentives for good progress, giving head start to worse actors? Path to quantum enlightenement [x.com](https://twitter.com/skdh/status/1708534243385831757?t=UZbGT6AcZhIHmR61w9qtpg&s=19) plus retrocausalistic Schrodinger cats and one-electron universe In a sense no intepretations and fancy models matter as long as it can predict empirical data, shut up and calculate!