nervous system as insanely interconnected spaggeti selforganized by evolution's nature selection's organism structure's statue sculping that adaptaptively approximately works in general tasks by approximately bayesian inference to reduce uncertainity about the world by modelling using analog electrochemical brain wave computing to survive, reproduce, achieve homeostasis collectively never stops amazing me i suspect the whole world is in similar way totally interconnected mess when one looks at societal systems one is just baffled how this chaos can work coherently by random selection statue sculping of cultural structures but it does laws are such spaggeti its unbelievable OMFG I THINK I KNOW UNDERSTAND (one possible interpretation of the) THE SPAGGETI MONSTER GOD HAAHHAHAHAHA YES MY FAVORITE DMT DEITY https://t3.ftcdn.net/jpg/05/75/12/74/360_F_575127448_7NAYiM39hg2gln2Gh1IYmBe5nommkgIT.jpg there will be always something unpredicted otherwise we would know how to bridge the quantum with general relativity and classical mechanics and our experience/dynamics of society on an implementational level by a falsifiable model, not just by a computational principle Burnydelic — Yesterday at 22:41 i suspect from the chaotic nature and finite computational resources and time for testing and there always being errors in measurments and the insanity of statistical reproductibility and p-hacking and nonunified models and not singular philosophical and scientific framework being everywhere and so on we will never have something "absolute" the deeper you go into science the less sense "absolute truth" in science starts to make experiental feeling of absolute truth is something else not related to this scientific complexity that is achievable by for example meditation/psychedelics or such ideological frameworks and so on one of my favourite sources of wellbeing is looking at flowers and being in complete awe and mindblown of how undesribable by language those infinite fractal patterns in the flower's structure is and how full of mystery it is [Frontiers | To Be Is To Become. Fractal Neurodynamics of the Body-Brain Control System](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2020.609768/full) https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/33/8/4574/6713293 fractal dynamics Emotions Are big part of decision making qualiawiki.com/Book : for science nerds Version 1: Synthesis of neurophenomenology and some other science focused on wellbeing for laymen Version 2: Practical insights from wellbeing science on individual and collective level my fully unfiltered hyperphilosophical unhinged superfluid meditative psychedelic mind Version 3: UNIFIED GLOBAL HAPPINESS SUPERMETAENGINEERING USING COMPUTATIONAL METANEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL FREE ENERGY PRINCIPLAL ANNEALED TOPOLOGICAL BIOCHEMICAL ELECTROMAGNETIC PREDICTIVE CONSONANT SYMMETRICAL FIELD-LIKE OCEAN-LIKE GROUNDLESS GROUND GESTALT [Luiz Pessoa | Funsy Seminar | The entangled brain: the integration of emotion, motivation, ... - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA_X6NLU8pU) Being motivated induces cooperative unified symmetrical dynamics Threat, fear decreases signal coordination Launguage of integrated entagled interacting networks DMN functions https://twitter.com/boeslab/status/1654509093917188099 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/831615167049367603/1102674444759089294/20230501_191604.jpg SVT serotogenics happiness tl;dr: Happiness is stored in the ability to relax, having a direction in life when not relaxing and having basic needs met. The mind can also map lots of phenomena in experience to arbitrary concepts as a causal node in a belief graph for example from physics for example but it might or might not be connected to physically objective structures in the brain and usually isnt Mind reading [Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings | Nature Neuroscience](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01304-9) Be like water Intuition https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/992217802503098409/1104513369710546944/FB_IMG_1682694392774.jpg https://twitter.com/tramazonflora/status/1654881643059097602?t=Nquik8vlt2cfWs-quF4iPw&s=19 Synthesis using FEP [Psychology's five major perspectives explained - Big Think](https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/five-psychological-perspectives/#Echobox=1683264435) Orgasm in big part feels good because of the release of tension In generalized meaning of life: Reducing uncertainity/dissonance -> increasing relaxation -> symmetrification Pleasant meditative practices and succesful leaders are those who are able to do this by language and collective action. Hope is installing objective functions predicting it. From the lens of collective wellbeing engineering, capitalism is a trade off between freedom for the financially succesful in economic arms races for selling and attention, and between freedom and wellbeing of the poor that didnt make it or refuse to compete in this system that minimally maximizes overall wellbeing and sense of meaning of population. Science is great but news, ads and social media hijacking the limbic system, attentional system, loose associations, concrete identity reinforcement, which induces polarization between people, is not, when it comes to wellbeing and meaning. Reference anil Seth being you And toe Reference utok Reference Bobby in thing in itself If anyone feels down, I'm thinking about you, wishing the best for you, i apprecitate and am grateful for everything that you're doing to secure yourself or others you care about, you're loved and understood, good job, keep going winners, you dont have to be scared or doubt youself, you can do everything you wish to do, i believe in you, i care and love you all unconditionally 💞 parts work z furry rationalists co jsem poslal Gabbie Gabbie — Yesterday at 23:58 I have and it's probably the next thing I want to study once I'm finished studying paQFT and doing some preliminary work in creating computer models of it. I learned when I was a lot younger about how representing certain limiting cases of GR in certain ways created a fully renormalizable quantization with all kinds of desirable properties. It seems like LQG and string theory sit at opposite ends of a spectrum in terms of their problems. LQG replicates certain properties and predictions of empty space perfectly with very few free parameters or effective free parameters but currently struggles to express realistic matter content while string theory is expressive enough to represent all the matter in the universe and all the observed properties of spacetime but also an unfathomably huge sea of drek that we don't observe any of lol I hope I'll be able to live to a time where we have a model somewhere between these two extremes and I hope even more that I'll live to see the age of gigascale engineering when we'll finally be able to put theories of quantum gravity to the test [There Are No Laws of Physics. There’s Only the Landscape. | Quanta Magazine](https://www.quantamagazine.org/there-are-no-laws-of-physics-theres-only-the-landscape-20180604/) I love your lens where you compared LQT and String theory and mapped out their properties as a spectrum of "can explain empty space" and "can express realistic matter content" and "amount of unobservable drek" It would be so great to have some kind of a meta (mathematical) language of attempts at ToEs where these properties and other properties one can care about in attempts at ToEs would be free (continuous?) parameters and LQG and String theory models would be special concrete cases of this general language in this abstract mathematical space with string theory for example having "amount of unobservable drek" parameter set to gazilion, and this way in this language find a model that has the best ToE desired properies by just traversing this abstract space, trying to ground it concretely in the the empirical measurements we have as much as possible to make concrete predictions. (property where string theory fails) Middle waying seems like such an universal approach! Each model has its own different advantages and disadvantages in different domains! And some have equivalent properties! One can dissolve the hard boundaries between models by making them spectrummy by mapping out their properies in relation to eachother when reasoning about them! Middlewaying tries to minimize the effects of disadvantages and maximizes advantages! Physical theories live in a landscape as local minimas! I wish for some meta language like this to exist for all natural fields as well, not just physics! And having mathematical correspondence mappings between scales using scalefree dynamical systems theory. In order to get the most predictive model of everything we can, I think merging the best neural ToEs and the best physics ToEs together will be the way! 😄 Figuring out the structure of the black box of current empirical measurement mappings and fitting them into one model as accurately as possible. Free energy principle is a meta reasoning language that through statistics formalizes that when constructing any predictive model in natural sciences or in everyday life in general, minimizing free energy (prediction error, surprise) is the most mathematically efficient way to go, and free energy minimizing corresponds to minimizing complexity (string theory is failing at that) and maximizing accuracy of the model - deflation. These models live in a free energy landscape. Then this mathematical principle is concretely applied to neuropsychological empirical data and through those bayesian mechanics it seems that brain's circuits in general try to approxmately follow this bayesian inference by bayes theorem, which is kind of mindblowing. 😄 [Frontiers | Computational Neuropsychology and Bayesian Inference](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00061/full) I like to distinguish between theories of every "thing" - usually unfalsifiable models/principles/mathematical frameworks/languages that can model anything really (usually its some abstract space of all possible models in some domain defined in some way) thanks the the infinite free parameter freedom, and attempts at theories of everything in physics (or natural sciences in general) that try to be as concretely grounded with empirical data in some domain as possible Gabbie — Today at 01:22 I agree, a metalanguage on causal physical models of various kinds would be awesome :D It would be even more awesome if the landscape expressed by the metalanguage was endowed with rich structure that allowed people to select out the subsets of the landscape with desirable properties like -Few free parameters -High number of symmetries that unify in simplifying ways -Minimum unobservable properties -Minimum unobserved observable properties -Testable predictions -Simple explanations of all so far observed physics. Theorists could then explore this most restrictive subset, drop various conditions, or loosen various conditions in their search. Hopefully with something like that they could more effectively find good models to put to the test :D Often times creating continuous landscapes is useful for optimizing discrete systems too so even if most of the theories in the landscape have undesirable artifacts or messiness that would be undesirable, it might be possible for theoreticians to use optimization techniques on the landscape and either select the nearest "clean" model to the solution of their optimization problem or optimize for a section of the landscape and sift all the clean models out of that section. Loving it! :RainbowKittyLove: And maybe category theory in general might be a good abstract ground language of the clean model local minimas! [higher category theory and physics in nLab](https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/higher+category+theory+and+physics) [Categorical quantum mechanics - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_quantum_mechanics) ref [Foundations 8: Formal Type Theory and Homotopy Type Theory and Idris - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2tKbdy_lys) [∞-Category Theory for Undergraduates - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6hXn6QCu0k) Maybe easiest theory of everything for free is taking the finite set of all empirical measurments that we got recorded so far and create input output lookup table from it and that's it. And then slowly compress it by various symmetries - thats a harder part. In search for TOE in physics and beyond one approach to toe is loop quantum gravity, that is good and bad because of ^, and string theory, good or bad because of ^, but it gives a nice general language. a better general language wouldnt include dimension reduction adbstract madness tho! I wrote so much things today everywhere, now when unifying them I feel like collecting parts of my mind as children that are all around the town lost and i am putting them in my book together as a family in one place at home hahh, this is always fun muj chocolate bath metta burst co jsem měl doma https://twitter.com/burny_tech/status/1655303528150171658?t=9rhzwJf5O44oHe-Z0gcZLA&s=19 free energy principle formalizes what is the mathematically best kind of model in any domain (natural science fields or in everyday perception) in theory, maximally accurate while minimally complex put my tolearn to the bottom of the page tag [Novel (Quantum) Computational Methods for Quantum Field Theories - YouTube](https://youtu.be/9Y78STUyos4) Novel (Quantum) Computational Methods for Quantum Field Theories if i havent tag yet then tag [The Future of Consciousness – Andrés Gómez Emilsson - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeTE8vtJufA) tag co postuju do societal system rationalium depths of sciences, frustrated nihllism from little progress in knowing, unfullfilled optimism, looking for answers and finding even more open questions instead the more you know the more you know how we dont know the more you dig the less certainity there is LEARNING TO LOVE THE UNCERTAINITY IS THE SOLUTION TO WELLBEING HERE FALLING IN LOVE AND EMBRACING THE INFINITE COMPLEXITY IN THE QUEST FOR PREDICTIVE MODELS IN THE SEA OF MYSTERY on the other hand the fact that we cannot really predict emergent capabalities of LLMs could do some unpredicted damage Burnydelic — Today at 04:58 helping to minimize the potential damage for all beings Burnydelic — Today at 04:59 looking out of the box at the landscape of maybe failure mode local minimas and for some potential unexplored local minimas or stuff in between ⁠socialium visual intuitive shapeshifting as reasoning goldmine https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/991779122831441971/1104525300475363489/Fu29SOjXwAAy_Li.jpg "I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards." – Albert Einstein alternative formulations of what ive said already: by looking at various movements that attempt to implement wellbeing, i see common pattern of symmetrifying communication (for example easier communication between government sectors, more trust between society hieachies, more connected meaning between people, on individual level as well - more communication between brain regions with specific brain functions or personality parts, unified nervous system, and so on) :D "The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is there's no ground." - Chogyam Trungpa. In groundlessness, neurosis is a substitute for experiential intensity and the basic truth of our experiencing It seems to me that mind can learn to see the pleasantness of any sensation, meaning that you can get to Jhanas from any sensation By for example just noticing its smoothness What is energy body? Your bodymap and the sensations and feelings "its made of", its shape (disolution of the body's boundaries feels good), seeing pleasantness by noticng the smoothness of the sensations feels good (can get you into Jhanas by feeling a tickling sensation travelling around the body). Its interlinked with touch, taste, smell, feelings, thoughts. Dark chocolate Hot bath I thought about analogies to explain why one has low energy when he is consuming infinite fast sugar all the time instead of occasionally as a treat or quick energy when its needed When one imagines neurons as animals and sugar as treat, with tons of sugar you get dogs laying unmotivated on a floor surrounded with tons of treats instead of getting occasional treats as a reward to stimuli (such as writing and learning in my case) Resetting the baseline by abstaining is golden This book is from the depth of my caring heart for: - science nerds, interdisciplionary/transdisciplinary scientists, people looking for a general technical language that can conceptualize anything in natural sciences: I lay out a language to evaluate how good any predictive model in natural sciences across scales and levels of analysis is, using the free energy principle and complex adaptive dynamical systems theory in general - neuroscientists, neurophenomenologists, psychologists, psychotherapists: I unify various used approaches of analyzing the mind together into a single framework, from bayesian belief networks to connectome harmonics, from gestalt theraphy to trauma healing by healing parts of the mind by showing them love using internal family systems - People looking for hope with dealing with poor mental heath, people lost on their spiritual path in the dark night of the soul: I look into how psychodiscomfort may work in the brain and into various approaches of fixing it, from maladaptively interconnected brain regions to maladaptive functional properties of beliefs, from from dissonance, oscillopathy, or asymmetries to feeling hopeless from failing to reduce uncertainity about basic needs to feeling anxious from overly interconnected emotional brain - People looking to enhance their wellbeing or the wellbeing of others and live life to the fullest such as psychotherapists, meditators, or psychonauts: I look into how wellbeing might work in and brain, from frictionless cooperating brain regions as a single unit like a family to models succesfully minimizing uncertainity about the world to consonance to symmetries, and how to engineer it using tools from psychotheraphy, spirituality, philosophy, meditation, psychedelics, ways of seeing the world give the most wellbeing, from falling in love with the mystery of reality and everyone and everything to groundless ground full of peace and freedom, by engineering symmetries using annealing - People looking for hope for the future of the humanity when it comes to its survival or wellbeing: I look into how to cooperately reduce the probabilities of the various existencial risks such as nuclear war, climate change, economic collapse, mental health crisis. I focus on how to build trust and frictionless symmetrical communication between nations, governing parts in nations, by for example the language of meaning, or how to unify the population in general to feel more connected and be adaptive together, and how to increase wellbeing in the society on the collective scale using annealing! - Mathematicians: I think about formal systems to describe any system, such as infinity groupoid in category theory - Physicists: I think about the quest for a unified theory of everything in physics and beyond: What are the advantages and disadvantages of string theory and loop quantum gravity, how to reason about it on a metalevel to find a theory with the most advantages - Philosophers: I ponder on questions like what is truth using the general technical language im starting to feel uncontrollable love again its such an amazing qualia it truly feels like a smoothening interconnecting operator of the inner world simulation and its unlimited you can cultivate it infinitely you can swim in love all day with enough cultivation tag roger thisdell's stage theory of enlightenment