https://twitter.com/johnsonmxe/status/1658170065953464325?t=UNHWjGdBX7WMEVm0P6WcdA&s=19 “Fear not the schizo who has 10,000 ideas, fear the schizo-autist who has one idea and tries to explain 10,000 things” Bruce Lee metaphysics are the soul of scientific progress (and social dystopias [Talking Therapy - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@talkingtherapy9420/videos) [Talking Therapy Episode 28: 3rd Wave in CBT??? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpq70zcw8I8) acceptance in cbt https://twitter.com/markooooooo/status/1657853493577695232 blameless sources of pleasure - jhana - metta - stacking sats - sunshine - walking - stretching - breathwork https://twitter.com/RomeoStevens76/status/1655626435573485569 https://philosophyinhell.substack.com/p/instead-of-your-lifes-purpose You don't want 'community' per se, you want dense networks of meaningful activity. Community is the closest correlate that can be envisioned easily. https://t.co/Apolfxs4e3 Rob burbea Freedom from fear and anxiety [Freedom from Fear and Anxiety - (Silent Autumn Retreat, Finland) - YouTube](https://youtu.be/1zSrMOMSab0) Pathological fear is, in a real sense, cancer Towards an evolutionary model of anxiety [Pathological fear is, in a real sense, cancer](https://philosophybear.substack.com/p/pathological-fear-is-in-a-real-sense) [Steven Hayes on Process-Based Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Ep. 008) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq4MLx0jp5I) Steven Hayes on Process-Based Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Ep. 008) [Applied Sciences | Free Full-Text | Consciousness Is a Thing, Not a Process](https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/7/12/1248) Consciousness Is a Thing, Not a Process The central dogma of cognitive psychology is ‘consciousness is a process, not a thing’. Hence, the main task of cognitive neuroscientists is generally seen as working out what kinds of neural processing are conscious and what kinds are not. I argue here that the central dogma is simply wrong. All neural processing is unconscious. The illusion that some of it is conscious results largely from a failure to separate consciousness per se from a number of unconscious processes that normally accompany it—most particularly focal attention. Conscious sensory experiences are not processes at all. They are things: specifically, spatial electromagnetic (EM) patterns, which are presently generated only by ongoing unconscious processing at certain times and places in the mammalian brain, but which in principle could be generated by hardware rather than wetware. The neurophysiological mechanisms by which putatively conscious EM patterns are generated, the features that may distinguish conscious from unconscious patterns, the general principles that distinguish the conscious patterns of different sensory modalities and the general features that distinguish the conscious patterns of different experiences within any given sensory modality are all described. Suggestions for further development of this paradigm are provided. [Episode 16: Adam Safron | The Contemplative Science Podcast - YouTube](https://youtu.be/KnL3TIM0LV0) Adam Safron mechanism of psychedelics wellbeing Karl Friston's new talk (May 15, 2023): "Active Inference and Generalised Synchrony" This is one of his very few talks explicitly addressing the implications of Active Inference to musical perception ["Active Inference and Generalised Synchrony"- Prof. Karl J. Friston - CIMTR Research Lecture Series - YouTube](https://youtu.be/weBegN-uo9s) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811920311381 LSD alters dynamic integration and segregation in the human brain The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms Significant efforts have been made in the past decades to understand how mental and cognitive processes are underpinned by neural mechanisms in the brain. This paper argues that a promising way forward in understanding the nature of human cognition is to zoom out from the prevailing picture focusing on its neural basis. It considers instead how neurons work in tandem with other type of cells (e.g., immune) to subserve biological self-organization and adaptive behavior of the human organism as a whole. We focus specifically on the immune cellular processing as key actor in complementing neuronal processing in achieving successful self-organization and adaptation of the human body in an ever-changing environment. We overview theoretical work and empirical evidence on “basal cognition” challenging the idea that only the neuronal cells in the brain have the exclusive ability to “learn” or “cognize.” The focus on cellular rather than neural, brain processing underscores the idea that flexible responses to fluctuations in the environment require a carefully crafted orchestration of multiple cellular and bodily systems at multiple organizational levels of the biological organism. Hence cognition can be seen as a multiscale web of dynamic information processing distributed across a vast array of complex cellular (e.g., neuronal, immune, and others) and network systems, operating across the entire body, and not just in the brain. Ultimately, this paper builds up toward the radical claim that cognition should not be confined to one system alone, namely, the neural system in the brain, no matter how sophisticated the latter notoriously is. [Frontiers | The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnint.2023.1057622/full) https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/991777324301299742/1108732809004208168/Screenshot_2023-05-18-14-28-04-362_com.google.android.youtube.jpg Same in the mind, psychedelics and meditation tend to create less internal seperability https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811920311381 The absence of fear makes us more susceptible to exploitation and it makes animals more susceptible to predation. There was one study in which mice with FAAH knocked out drank more, however that's likely due to the absence of the throat and stomach burn that comes with alcohol consumption, because anti-addictive behavior has been noted in a number of studies of FAAH inhibition. Some studies showed increased appetite, but I don't know of any in which FAAH inhibition led to obesity. [Frontiers | Tissue Engineering for Clean Meat Production](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2019.00046/full) tissue meat engineering Karl Friston's new talk (May 15, 2023): "Active Inference and Generalised Synchrony" This is one of his very few talks explicitly addressing the implications of Active Inference to musical perception: ["Active Inference and Generalised Synchrony"- Prof. Karl J. Friston - CIMTR Research Lecture Series - YouTube](https://youtu.be/weBegN-uo9s) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149763423002026?dgcid=author Objective models of subjective feelings [Love and Emptiness - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) - YouTube](https://youtu.be/dBPPX_qr1rM) Rob burbea love and emptiness [AI x Crypto x Constitutions – Opentheory.net](https://opentheory.net/2023/05/ai-x-crypto-x-constitutions/) [Bioelectric networks: the cognitive glue enabling evolutionary scaling from physiology to mind | Animal Cognition](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-023-01780-3) Michael Levin Bioelectric networks: the cognitive glue enabling evolutionary scaling from physiology to mind [The Qualia Structure paradigm & the Quantum Qualia hypothesis @ CatTheory Workshop 2023 Apr16 Oxford - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZsdqD29E60) The Qualia Structure paradigm & the Quantum Qualia hypothesis @ CatTheory Workshop 2023 Apr16 Oxford [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twFC3UAKe3Q) Andreas Horn: How the connectome can guide neuromodulation mental health Canalization updated Thread tldr https://twitter.com/awjuliani/status/1659544460609609730?t=AvJ-VliXyVb0XacZ8KSmLw&s=19 Vervaeke x Levin [Michael Levin and John Vervaeke on Free Will, Character, Attention and Causal Relevance - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWMSlcZbEMw) Hamilton Morris DMT Entity Diplomacy With Dr. Andrew Gallimore [DMT Entity Diplomacy With Dr. Andrew Gallimore - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba5pAjM8HZM) Feynman curiousity [CURIOSITY - Featuring Richard Feynman - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjEngEpiJKo) author of rhythmopathology paper https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273%2823%2900214-3 [Ways to think about the brain: Emergence of cognition from action | ISTA Lecture with Gyorgy Buzsaki - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bll2kw7ufno) neural basis of valence [How the Brain's Dopamine Circuitry Helps Regulate Cognitive Flexibility and Reward-Seeking - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAhYgg9JMPo) Sean Carroll how spacetime emerges from quantum information. [From Quantum Mechanics to Spacetime - Qiskit Seminar Series with Sean Carroll - YouTube](https://youtu.be/8-ct1IlGUOw) Why is everyone suddenly neurodivergent? Sabine Hossenfelder [Why is everyone suddenly neurodivergent? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPDlo5jrhmI) Quantum information theory stream ať gabbie https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ [Active Inference BookStream 002.01 ~ Parr, Pezzulo, Friston ~ Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/live/FV7pW4p60VI?feature=share) FEP in brain carhart harris on humberman [Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris: The Science of Psychedelics for Mental Health | Huberman Lab Podcast - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcxjwA4C4Cw) https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(20)30005-2 Thalamus Modulates Consciousness via Layer-Specific Control of Cortex https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-radical-acceptance-5120614 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6834646/ The Easy Part of the Hard Problem: A Resonance Theory of Consciousness [Robert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRYcSuyLiJk) Robert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst [The Digital Quest for Quantum Gravity - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7NTNkYPr9Q) The Digital Quest for Quantum Gravity [Brian Wachter, The new paradigm: quantum interbeing - PhilArchive](https://philarchive.org/rec/WACTNP) The new paradigm: quantum interbeing [Theories of consciousness | Nature Reviews Neuroscience](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-022-00587-4) Theories of consciousness https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2021/2/niab013/6334115 Minimal physicalism as a scale-free substrate for cognition and consciousness Justin Riddle Nested Hierarchical Consciousness: viewing your mind as composed of minds [#17 - Nested Hierarchical Consciousness: viewing your mind as composed of minds - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q37UfNpCLs) [ActInf Livestream #014.0 ~ The Math is not the Territory: Navigating the Free Energy Principle - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/live/Uheml5XRCWk?feature=share) [The Math is not the Territory: Navigating the Free Energy Principle - PhilSci-Archive](http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/18315/) ActInf Livestream #014.0 ~ The Math is not the Territory: Navigating FEP, philosophy of FEP [Inner screen model of consciousness: applying free energy principle to study of conscious experience - YouTube](https://youtu.be/yZWjjDT5rGU) Inner screen model of consciousness: applying free energy principle... https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07161 stát physics of human cooperation https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06403 Sources of Richness and Ineffability for Phenomenally Conscious States Pain and pleasure generators https://twitter.com/SooAhnLee/status/1668040786368184320 [Autism as a disorder of dimensionality – Opentheory.net](https://opentheory.net/2023/05/autism-as-a-disorder-of-dimensionality/) [The Canal Papers - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten](https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-canal-papers) https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2020/1/niaa010/5856030?login=false social neural synchrony [Northoff Lab - YouTube](https://youtube.com/@MBINCA) harmonic resonance organized freqency bands needed for consciousness mania https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763421002463 [Interacting spiral wave patterns underlie complex brain dynamics and are related to cognitive processing | Nature Human Behaviour](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01626-5) Interacting spiral wave patterns underlie complex brain dynamics and are related to cognitive processing LSD helps learning https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1655193087461806081?t=RLhmB0JQPvHpVHEMnVHetg&s=19 Effect of LSD on Reinforcement Learning in Humans “LSD enhanced the rate at which humans updated their beliefs based on feedback. RL was most enhanced by LSD when receiving the reward, and … following punishment. LSD also increased exploratory behaviour.” [Psychedelics reopen the social reward learning critical period | Nature](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06204-3) Psychedelics reopen the social reward learning critical period Neuroscience of decision making https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(23)00400-2#%20 repeating patterns neuroscience https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9497189/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301008223000667?via%3Dihub Cytoelectric coupling: Electric fields sculpt neural activity and “tune” the brain’s infrastructure [Hacking Bacteria Programming Using Control Theory & Math - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNzFcOaThIg) Hacking Bacteria Programming Using Control Theory & Math The Digitized Self: AI, Identity and the Human Psyche (YouAi) Machine Learning Street Talk Automater cognitive architecture discovery [OSF](https://psyarxiv.com/f68ej) Complexity Theory of Psychopathology [Stop AGI](https://www.stop.ai/) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361691550_On_religious_practices_as_multiscale_active_inference_Certainties_emerging_from_recurrent_interactions_within_and_across_individuals_and_groups On religious practices as multiscale active inference: Certainties emerging from recurrent interactions within and across individuals and groups Experimental validation of the free-energy principle with in vitro neural networks [Experimental validation of the free-energy principle with in vitro neural networks | Nature Communications](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40141-z) https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/7/pgad228/7230197 Discovering the mesoscale for chains of conflict [Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Conflict_Location_and_Event_Data_Project) physics as information processing not chris https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.0535 https://effectiveselfhelp.org/ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/33KewgYhNSxFpbpXg/scientific-self-help-the-state-of-our-knowledge Dark night https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1704308108686762380?t=7Tl_4GKYrJJEwcIzZDwqig&s=19 dark night https://twitter.com/johnsonmxe/status/1704518623660798052?t=7bkRYCkGG0ZNcNq9_GQBHw&s=19 caffeine [How Complex Systems Fail](https://how.complexsystems.fail/) [Rethink Wellbeing](https://www.rethinkwellbeing.org/) https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2305290120?af=R