Problem with schools: I study in a way that I find a group or person who's the best in the field and look at his text or lecture summarizing the field and then dig into the details while having context. I myself also maximize learning stuff related to wellbeing from all possible perspectives which isnt everyone's case. This is problem with lots of current schools. Kids report not knowing what the stuff they are learning is for. They miss context. It can be how its used in everyday life, future work, science of progress and wellbeing, sustainibility, unifying people and so on. Making money effectively can also be a goal but taking to the extreme kills collective wellbeing and coordinated existencial risks solving. No wonder they are unmotivated to learn it and interpret it as useless noise. Another factor is that school decouples learning from fun. Fun is a oelasure category our mind constructs to make play bereable and play is used to produce training data. If we look at how we learn in neuroscience, knowledge motly gets stuck in our mind if we evaluate it as relevant in our context for our goals that can be reduced to basic needs, we build a coherent unified model of the world where everything wants to relate to eachother in some way. Valence (internal and external attraction) crisis is killing this. That's why adaptive dynamical systems theory is the most effective metalearning language if one has a goal of maximizing predictive transdisciplinary scientific knowledge. Some people also have more individual or more collective goals. Modern society is too individualistic which connects to the meaning crisis and so on. I would also add training dialog by steelmanning deep goals and values of the motivated wants skill to education more. Happiness depression classic Wiki page or overall Google all factors influencing happiness Reference canalization V2 u annealingu 3 types of love: very instinctive animal activities like body connection through cuddling, then feeling of belonging in one's social environment through deep meaningful human social connections, and a transcendental unconditional love for all beyond every concepts that the mind can dream up but also includes them all Valence (internal and external attraction) crisis seems to in general be solved by some interconnecting memeplex on both individual and local level or all the other factors in equation of happiness. "Everything is made, comes from God, awareness." Any common beliefs, goals, values, ideology, philosophy, language, meaning,... No bullshit mode - be as direct with yourself and others as its possible (without hurting in the long term ideally) Thoughts are like winds in a sky Experiental space and time are useful data compression tools. Same goes for any other structures in experience. Meaning valence crisis is about destressing the individualist local structures and stressing collective global structures until they're stressless dissolved unified baseline Spacetime may be seen as fundamental building block in quantum field theory or quantized/emergent from a deeper structure, let it be attempts at quantum gravity such as spin foam, strings, or gravitons. Or emergent from amplituhedron, or my favorite: from quantum information theory. This connects to the phenomenological intuition that experiental space and time are useful data compression tools for quantum information theoretic observers of some beyond language dynamics out there. Same goes for any other structures in experience. Avalokiteshvara (deity of positive valence, attraction, compassion, love, caring, wisdom, happiness, wellbeing, unity, cooperation, kindness, peace, flourishing,...) is a protective force against Moloch (opposite deity of negative valence, disattraction, destabilization, existencial risks, multipolar traps, polarization, anger, panic, depression, frustration,...) Avalokiteshvara explained: [Mother Buddha Love - Deconstructing Yourself](https://deconstructingyourself.com/mother-buddha-love.html) [The Wisdom and Compassion of Avalokiteshvara - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvVdq-Dmoi0) Moloch explained: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ [The Dark Side of Conscious Ai | Daniel Schmachtenberger - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7WtcTATa2U) [In Search of the Third Attractor, Daniel Schmachtenberger (part 1) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XCXvzQdcug) [The Last Campfire: Highlights (our final film!) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=6087&v=X_7U1ApSzaM) More on the side of Bodhisattvas of compassion [The Future of Consciousness – Andrés Gómez Emilsson - YouTube](https://youtu.be/SeTE8vtJufA) Avalokiteshvara will win: https://twitter.com/burny_tech/status/1657923931171434499 Increasing trust with the goverment by signaling that values of the people are thought about more Silicon walley software economy Moloch dynamics. I think this kind of mathematical dynamics can be applied scalefree in society and the mind. Psychopathologies can be seen as maladaptive nash equilibrium configurations of subagents. For example small perturbations can easily create tons of error signals in the system, putting it under stress which can unify it or destabilize it. Or trade off between freedom and governance, competition and cooperation. I care about both scales about everyone. The problem with economy creating incentives that dont benefit wellbeing or longterm flourishing and multipolar traps is that you get competetive evolutionary arms races, exponentially growing compoundong interest in linear resource economy, physics of money making on money on money up to infinitum. This is unrealiable in long term. Exponentially growing economy was the solution to wars over resources moving from physical to economic scale. To sidestep resource scarity, silicon valley attempts to solve it by creating monetary value on software, but even that is limited as hardware and human attention is limited and wont grow infinitely. Attempting to redirect this towards an better nash equilibrium with more adaptibility to existencial risks and wellbeing of people without discoordinated competetive anarchy (too much freedom) or totalitiriam regime (too much control), but a third attractor, is hard. Another big factor is to create intersystemic trust via steelmanning of values and satisfying as much parties as possible to diffuse tension and minimize friction to increase cooperation between clusters of agents and maximize alignment on the most fundamental level possible. (AIs joining the mix - use LLMs to understand LLMs is the most plausible method currently?) More bio/cyber/etc. weapons (synthbio, AI,...) that might be as destructive as atomic bombs that might be even easier to make or control or monitor by open science and so on might be a bit of an issue. Because world today is so interconnected and interdependant than before, destabilizing in one part of the world can effect the whole world for example economically. Climate change also effects everyone. Many of the risks are interconnected and there might be domino effects. Slightly more extreme weather killing crops creating mass economic migration putting stable countries under economic and cultural adaptibility load. There will be always something underterminite when modelling and predicting a system, let it be quantum uncertainity, chaotic dynamics, the fact that we always approximate, or the fact that in order to model some systems we would need to simulate its evolution fully We could maybe test what is needed for consciousness by slowly cutting off or replacing parts of the body and its systems to find out where the boundary is between conscious system and nonconscious system. Problem is pzombies or panpsychist assumptions assume that even an electron is conscious lol, so probably just the subject might know. If the imposed dynamics imply better overall wellbeing of people and better global adaptibility to existencial risks, thats more positive sum for all to me. There are societies today or societies in the past that were more adapted or more well than others. It is determined by both internal and external factors. Regulating climate change or AI has to be global because there are arms races and opponents that externalize costs to get local short term advantage at the cost of global long term get evolutionary advantage. Social determinants of mental health [3 Things to Know: Social Determinants of (Mental) Health | Hogg Foundation for Mental Health](https://hogg.utexas.edu/3-things-to-know-social-determinants-of-mental-health) Meme complexes or organisms in general that evolutionary game theoretically win are those who dominate, convert, risk assert themselves as the only true one, such as Christian crusades, Alexander the great (or democracy is internally asserted as only good one) or China, where nonviolent Tibet is a failing strategy when it comes to survival. Every model is a data compression tool. Mathematical models are the most effective with predictive power. Přemýšlím ci to přímo v mozcich není tak moc silně rigidně vytvořená individuální identita která se hodně liší od celkovyho sociálním grafu lidí co známe, že je tam hodně těžký přes společný rysy tvořit propojení, protože hodně přemýšlíme nad tím jak se lišíme, než co nás spojuje... Na to ani nemusí být použit spirituální jazyk, sekulárně jde říct, že tak nepremyslime nad základníma hodnotama co nás spojují, nebo že jsme všichni homo sapiens co se snaží přežít a hledá spokojenost v životě Spirituální jazyk je jeden způsobů jak tohle propojení tvořit. Přemýšlím jak tyhle pocitově spojovací výhody tvořit nezávisle na kultuře a pak to překládat do sekulární. A spojovat i ty kultury a státy přes syntézy jazyků přes stejný hodnoty. Min polarizace, víc spolupráce, víc wellbeingu, min existenčních risků. Separation of power (market, church, state (legislature, executive, judiciary)) as an implementation of checks and balances as an immunity to prevent dystopian power monopoly and asymmetric dynamics. Hard to implement it long term in changing landscape of internal and external coniditons that needs to be adapted to and people forget why revolutions happened to destroy past power monopolies so they stop inhabiting asymmetric potentials through checks and balances of power structures and they start fusing into power monopolies plus sociopaths having evolutionary advantage. My favorite deconstructive meditation algorithm currently: Dissolve concrete local stabilizing structural energy sinks such as thoughts, intentions, imagery, concepts, ideas, abstract thought, conditioned classified objects as constructed subsets of raw sense data with added abstract structure and feelings about them, percieving raw sensations themself, by tuning into quiet vast still spacious empty boundaryless centerless awareness, empty awake space, quieting the mind. See the emptiness (dreamlikeness) and dissolve global fundamental stabilizing stuctural energy sinks behind everything that form the sense of ground in experience by classifying and freeying them by for example spacious lightness - sense of doer, attention, watcher, self and other distinction, time, space, boundary, center, coordinates, background, knowing, local and global being, truths, ontology, somethingness, perception, nonperception, neither perception nor not perception, trancending the transcendence itself, any "fundamental" classifications, dissolve any logic, any distinctions, any structures in general. Destabilizing any codependently mutually (self)stabilizing clusters of symbolic or intuitive processes by raw not knowing and looking without concepts by generating stochasticity. After this deconstruction into unified stochastic void when everything starts reconstructing, throw in infinite love, kindness, caring, connectedness, healing, light, meaningfulness, protecting, cherishing, safety, comfort, smoothness for all mental objects that emerge in any reconstructed emerged dual category. Put not really big money into happiness equation Civilization can be analyzed in three ways that interconnectedly interact and influence eachother by interforming: what is its a memeplex (world views, value systems, what ought to be) (computational), social coordination strategies (behavior, financial incentives) (algorithmic) and physical tooling set upon it depends (tech) (implementational). What changes in all three od them simultaneously, factoring all the feedback loops, produce a virtuos cycle that orients in a direction that isnt catastrophies or dystopias? Cumulative exponential tech level is currently the most dominant and binding all other levels instead of the other way around. We need values of the people to bind tech instead. Those values can be elected into governance via will of the people via democracy with checking and balances of power from the people and by separation of power, preventing opression, tyranny and dystopias, creating aligned emergent instead of imposed values, by educating people both scientifically and morally and theory of governance, such that collective will of the people isnt dumb and misguided to govern exponential tech and selfterminate creating catastrophies but instead bind it for long term adaptive wellbeing by thinking about its nth order effects without big narrow techno pessimist or techno optimist bias universally globally to prevent arms races to not selfterminate the whole world by multipolar traps. Unity via less narrower more connected through more fundamental similarities value systems preventing stuff like left right polarization. Free energy principle linked with dynamical extended mind hypothesis by dynamical size and content of Markov blankets! Biomaths of shapeshifting and merging with others and machines! Morphological freedom! [Ramstead M. J. D. & Friston K. J. (2022) Extended Plastic Inevitable. Constructivist Foundations 17(3): 238–240](https://constructivist.info/17/3/238) with incoming sense data to a active inferencing system, modelling interconnected mutually stabilizing hiearchical priors (energy sinks) classifying objects as nested conditionings such as: fundamental prior ontology (for example idealism) -> metastructures in the ontology (sense modalities) -> come general structure (sense modality) -> some concrete structure (concrete sensation) Engineering civilizational top down gauge theoretic causal value prios to fix existencial risks raise awareness about existencial risks such that its in the collective unconscious problem solving space [Fireside Chat about Existential Risk | Toby Ord | EAGxLatAm 2023 - YouTube](https://youtu.be/nNuP3bS5NxI) all hyperparameters tunable in active inference when analyzing a system [ActInf ModelStream #001.1: "A Step-by-Step Tutorial on Active Inference" - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5AolqFl2Nw) I wanna experience all beings feeling peace, safety, satisfaction, selfrealization, belonging, acceptance, being understood, freedom, happiness, contentment Is the absence of unified misaligned collective values and goals a sign of pathological disintegration of a hyperorganism? Nakreslit top down singleton control fadibg as a spectrum In dystopia bottom up dissonance from forced goals and values In catastrophies dissonance between differently aligned parts In ideal democracy harmonic consonance between all parts and emergent governance satisfying everyones mostly unified through education by values in most frictionless way not dense with symmetrical communication Cuddling is great thoughts removal Free will is a felt sense of agent's model of causal power of his individual organism over the global world So many things people sense as eternal fundamental truth goes beyond my sensed experience where nothing is really eternal (but even this what I'm writing can be morphed into its opposite or synthesis) because I can morph into the state where it feels true but morph into a counterfactual one where completely different opposite mental framework with its own assumptions and inferences makes sense, so senced truths to me are just contextdependent states All just pragmatic tools for different purposes Trying to spread evolutionary like replicators Sometimes good, sometimes bad for different dimensions such as wellbeing, predictivity, belonging and so on That's why it makes sense to me to get infected by memes that maximize those the most Another parameter could be sense of freedom, special case of symmetrification, or loveficitation with any mental objects or field of experience in general as another kind of symmetrification Free will is another variable in the cognitive architecture that people have, and if you really implementat the "i have no sense of agency" bayesian prior strongly, then you can get into nihillistic depressive dissonant attractors, or also ones full of freedom, depending if its surrounded by implemented western or eastern philosophical mental construct context lol, and what objective functions you have implemented inside you that can generate error signals when they cannot be selfactualized and socially validated and so on "Enlightenement is the ability to see experience as process." -Kenneth Folk Free will? I think depends. I suppose you're classical hard physicalist determinist with no free will mechanistic implementation in physics present. If you account for certain insights from complex systems theory, you can get free will from top down mental causation fictious force. You can also assert that free will is just a cultivatable feeling, agent's model of his causal power over his mind and environment. (my favorite pragmatic definition) You can also be ontologically agnostic about free will by arguing that our models are just approximation of some reality beyond our usual concepts. I love effectively compressing my inner bits all the time I suffered so much in the past that I will do everything such that nobody will have to experience it ever again Letting go is hard to put into words, its like relaxing the machinery of the mind you normally abide in. Temporarily turning a mental process off. With enough repetetion you can uninstall or transform maladaptive patterns in mind or behavior. Turning off trying in the brain manifests as relaxed circuits in the default mode network, so instead of going to ruminate and stuff, you are in the present moment with much less processing of anything. Global workspace wont get as many external signals what Is avaiable to work with, in the extreme you "experience nonexperience". This article also has neat practice instructions: [Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself](https://deconstructingyourself.com/do-nothing-meditation.html) https://twitter.com/boeslab/status/1654509093917188099?t=q7Tl0R8QdF0IXjL3F3sb2Q&s=19 When it comes to priors, its just hiearchical assumptions about oneself and the world with computational implementation in the brain, linking this lecture is probably great starter. [The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube](https://youtu.be/Eg3cQXf4zSE) Aethetics is just the superstructure framing priors you prefer thanks to canalization. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028390822004579 I guess the easiest sign of bigger energy parameter is less tiredness on avarage, more excitement, sense of more total amount of computational power and total consciousness. Can be distributed among the whole world model (contenment) or directed towards one mental model (can manifest as obsession, which is great for concrete problem solving, and the other one for out of the box thinking, so combination is great) Also wellbeing benefits from symmetrification of the nervous system from distributed activity among the whole model creating global interconnections, increasing small world networkness, collapsing maladaptive local hiearchical structures. For science I mostly abide in a form of neutral monism (quantum information theoretic Markov blanket monism) or classical physicalism or panpsychist psychicalism: maths of physics=maths of mind. In social context when people around me are mostly in some ontology I just adapt to theirs by becoming that one For meditation I abide in idealism at first as that increases sense of agency over ones mental state, but then dissolve even that into every possible ontology and none of them at the same time when everything gets deconstructed. Pain pleasure brain regions https://twitter.com/SooAhnLee/status/1668040786368184320?t=PhwgMsbvbof-2RMOIvVYaA&s=19