lacking inherent existence means That no models are ontologically real such as models of valence. Metarationalism combines those two approaches and says that our models just approximate reality so they're semirealist as long as they're somewhat predictive. That approach makes the most practical sense to me in sciences. Then there's the whole landscape of differently philosophically interpreting for example the maths of quantum mechanics which is technically irrelevant for predictions in science itself, but since we think in stories it let's us much easily grasp the maths and potentially more easily find ways how to expand or transform it. Also stories are the most effective for science communication. So you go by truth = predictivity? Both relativity and QTF still have unexplained phenomena or paradoxes, hmmm. Other approaches also try different paths, sometimes equivalently, but i feel like there are some intrinsic parts about nature that are unlearnable to us, as evolution might not optimize for truth but for survival, hmmm. How about emergent phenomena? I like Bobby Azarian approach there, by just explicitly including them, talked with him yesterday. [ActInf GuestStream #015.1: Bobby Azarian, Universal Bayesianism: A New Kind of Theory of Everything - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/live/_JCaic5Cxms) But i wonder if we can construct weak emergence model for aby emergent phenomena, I'm fan of that. Then there's the whole fun about choosing arbitrary ontologies and other philosophical assumptions. But i think the approach of classical emerging from the quantum might be the most fruitful in the future if we want to integrate fundamental physics with cognition! [From Quantum Mechanics to Spacetime - Qiskit Seminar Series with Sean Carroll - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/live/8-ct1IlGUOw?feature=share) https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/991779122831441971/1118154673417883648/Screenshot_2023-06-08-19-30-46-526_com.google.android.youtube.jpg?width=1353&height=608 I see. Correct just for subset of what we can ask. Actually yeah this makes more sense. The statespace of questions you can ask, the states you want to predict, is technically infinite. :FractalThink: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/991777324301299742/1117926568619167784/image.png?width=1083&height=608 General solution of how to make any system well: Align all top down and bottom up causal forces to minimize dissonant interference with common synchrony (governance systems values aligned with values of the parts (groups of people) through potential misaligned power monopoly mutual checking including values layers checking implementational level's exponential tech such that its causally directing evolution of system's structure influence isnt misaligned with societal values [The Dark Side of Conscious Ai | Daniel Schmachtenberger - YouTube](https://youtu.be/g7WtcTATa2U) ) (subagents with different needs / priorities homeostatic objective functions formed by combination of darwinian nature and nurture in the mind (Maslow hiearchy of needs and learned individual or collective meanings of life of for example making the world a better place [I am therefore I think. KARL FRISTON - YouTube]([- YouTube](https://youtu.be/h4KeYkwcJoc)) [OSF](https://psyarxiv.com/ygptv/) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780128192009000107 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02778/full) [- YouTube](https://youtu.be/Thd1UYKWXrM) [The Internal Family Systems Model Outline | IFS Institute](https://ifs-institute.com/resources/articles/internal-family-systems-model-outline) [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/live/4cN5M_8r3Gc?feature=share) or social system)) while maintaining specialized diversity [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/live/_JCaic5Cxms?feature=share) (soon better video on this channel with Bobby Azarian [- YouTube](https://youtu.be/J4vkKTeT5oU) https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/991777324301299742/1117926568619167784/image.png ) to represent and predict the environment (to havest useful negentropy to resist entropy) [- YouTube](https://youtu.be/jZ1fsXQz7M4) and itself via metacognition for useful manipulation. [Towards a computational phenomenology of mental action: modelling meta-awareness and attentional control with deep parametric active inference - PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34457352/) Dont get stuck in overfitting or underfitting [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/live/ZYhrtsyzS_w?feature=share) or unsolvability local minima https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149763422003621 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.943785/full, dont get lost in too much complexity but not have too little to maintain diversity accuracy [I am therefore I think. KARL FRISTON - YouTube]([- YouTube](https://youtu.be/h4KeYkwcJoc)) and adaptibility and consonant symmetrical [The Symmetry Theory of Valence 2020 Overview](https://qri.org/blog/symmetry-theory-of-valence-2020) https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273%2823%2900214-3 predictive dynamics and part to part mostly cooperative information flow through language of what unites us. [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZpKdfbrd6o) Adapting healthy mechanisms to reorganize models, edit network dimensionality [Autism as a disorder of dimensionality – Opentheory.net](https://opentheory.net/2023/05/autism-as-a-disorder-of-dimensionality/) or other network hyperparameters, releasing entropic tension, such as not avoiding issues and resolving them, letting computational resources recharge with periods of nonactivity, defragmentation, cleaning of outdated structures, meditation. [Healing Trauma With Neural Annealing](https://qri.org/blog/neural-annealing) [Active Dreaming is More Powerful than Meditation and Safer than Psychedelics](https://superbowl.substack.com/p/dreaming-is-better-than-meditation) [Qualia Mastery - Building Your Toolkit for Navigating the State-Space of Consciousness - YouTube](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbmYHvGI-YSvnpbh3ppQqcG72lpw4aQdE) [Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself](https://deconstructingyourself.com/do-nothing-meditation.html) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389921000647 [The science behind the world’s most miraculous nap, or, Nirodha Samāpatti](https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/the-science-behind-the-worlds-most) [- YouTube](https://youtu.be/yZWjjDT5rGU) If Markov blanket has to have classical information on the boundary memory then it makes sense when that gets disintegrated that we see loss of consciousness Consciousness as irreducible Markov blanket at the top of the predictive hiearchy, write only layer Subjective conscious experience, fundamental Markov blanket prior, coupled with hiearchical machinery, of stuff like attention and world model, under its top down mental causation influence Source of fundamental active states, its structure not influencable by active states from lower levels Nested quantum information theoretic reference frames The topological pocket/global markov blanket is lowered in complex dimensional and functional content on deconstructive meditation and cessations disintegrate even the fundamental agential experiencing distributed irreducible Markov blanket ground This experiencing fundamental prior is beyond spaciotemporal abstract reasoning and concrete planning as well 43:58 sounds exactly the problem of too much dimensionality in autism, giving parts too much degrees of freedom rips apart the emergent whole, leading to autistic phenomenology of no self by default Or buddhist induce this metastable state by deconstructive meditation Its interesting how deconstructive meditation can both increase dimensions through expansion of possibilities in some problem spaces but also decrease dimensionality by fully disintegrating the whole problem space solution seeking specialized machinery Its a spectrum, concrete implementation gets generalized and expanded which increases dimensions and you can overfit in it but when you generalize too hard you underfit and it all collapses into entropy Generalized by increase of information theoretic and thermodynamic entropy low degrees of freedom as specialized solution that can be close minded -> more degrees of freedom resulting in greater complexity -> even more degrees of freedom resulting in unstructured disintegrated chaos of no more information encoded and all of it encoded in it at the same time in some sense You can get more degrees from entropic activity, more neural density, more internal and global interconnectedness, more collapse of small world networks, creating more of a lattice than a spider web and you go full circle phenomenologically seeing one structure and infinite complexity together If everything is connected to everything else then there are no things high energy behaviors as coping aka stabilizing mechanisms for brain network dimensionality fluctations resulted from autism or traumatic or other intense experiences that offsetted the stable equilibrium resulting in all sorts of hightolowenergy oscillatory mental divergences is such a great lens thats so allencopassing Use nothingness as a tool for freedom Is statespace of qualia mathematically reducible to statespace of topological shapes from brain's neural network topologies? With hypothetical infinite computational power and infinite accuracy, could we predict any qualia just from those topological shapes? Does nonclassical phenomenological states beyond spacetime correspond to some neural network topology as well? Does unconsciousness correspond to absence of shape? have some rest first when im sleepy on meditation i just have a rest jhanas are kind of superposition of being aware and rest but depends which jhanas you can generate pleasure or clean your mind by generating big empty space attractor inhibiting creation of concrete qualia structures and destroying even that leading to cessation if parts of the mind are misliagined and dysregulated then thats hardcore to do thats why attention should be trained also that trains top down mental causation aka agency to even do this process strenghtening the connections from the deepest cybernetic controlling networks with other brain regions governing your mind first and then totally relaxing any governance what are your thoughts on shit like Astral projection, near death experiences, DMT trips etc… Annealing manual - generál principle (laymen, technical mechanisms) - in mind - - generál laymen mechanism, technical mechanism, laymen techniques, technical techniques - - concrete processes --- meditation ----laymen mechanism, technical mechanism, laymen techniques, technical techniques --- psychedelics --- meditation plus psychedelics ----subagent healing --- sauna --- massages --- music - in society - Common threat, vision Meaning is the interconnectedness with ourselves, others, the world and everything, which is cultivatable by other annealing activities and collective rituals and reminders that we’re one, which leads to frequent collective annealing, symmetrical neural and societal dynamics and thus wellbeing Neural Annealing manual Ideal is balance between overfitting and underfitting, stability and plasticity, not too low or too high dimensionality Between complexity and accuracy, compression (entropy) Brain geometry https://twitter.com/AFornito/status/1577743997149511680?t=4_iMZbmwyRfNUdeBKMQkng&s=19 [- YouTube](https://youtu.be/uqQVnAWBt0A) The functional properties of our mental faculties are as if there was massage passing in the (quantum information theoretic) electrochemical thermodynamical flow happening, as if attention was paid to certain qualia, as if it originated from somewhere and so on, as if it was happening in spacetime - all dissolvable on meditation, psychedelics, injuries and so on, all of those are useful network theoretic topological structures in the hardware that satisfy same input output mapping with useful functional efficient at stabilizing chaos compression [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/live/FymR0rKdLZo?feature=share) The more metamodern one is, the more open his thermodynamic modelling information integrating system trends to be everything is dynamical shapes functional properties or information is attractors in those dynamicaly changing fluidy shapes classical observables in that quantum chaos everything else is useful fiction but even the shapes are useful fiction everything is empty but shapes are the most general useful fiction out there its all just predictive models to me with some story philosophical baggage so that it sticks coherently in our mind everything is metaphor to some extend to me shapes are the best most general ground language to me i suspect you can get any functional dynamics from finding the correct underlying topological dynamics that approximates it enough with enough stability i think this is how brains evolved, slow evolutionary natural selection of network theoretic topologies of neuronal networks until we get all those functional properties of our mental faculties good enough to survive good enough selforganizing harmonic modes highly specialized but still adaptive in the end Burnydelic — Today at 04:08 this is also an approximation, to be more complete you can add quantum nonlocality and other quantum baggage into it and have those classical dynamics as classical information emergent from quantum dynamics with bells inequality and so on (Sean Carrol, Chris Fields, quantum darwinism etc.) i feel i often see i destroy some of my top down inferntial cogntive apparatus by drugs or meditation, leading to living in more raw sensory experiences instead of infered interpretations or altered interpretations lets approximate the equations of dynamics of a system using FEP itself as a heuristic to approximate markov blankets [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odkks5F9ZMM) Alignment emerges endogenously from the dynamics of interacting active inference agents themselves, rather than being imposed exogenously by incentives to agents’ behaviors (contra existing computational models of collective intelligence) or top-down priors for collective behavior (contra existing multiscale simulations of AIF) No matter what's happening in any interaction and situation, choose love and kindness, empathy and understanding, be raw pure boundless indestructible freeing love deep down beyond all concepts. Compliment, care, want the best for all beings in the world. youtu.be/dBPPX_qr1rM Love which can be applied to any mental model creates valence and energization When applied globally it so beautifully makes reality colorful living lovely attracted towards open and so on Collective intelligence [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/live/odkks5F9ZMM?feature=share) i think in ADHD the arrow of attention is more like distributed chaotic arrows of attention that are attemtping to synchronize but have hard time and mutual tension creates mutual reinforcing which leads to inefficient formation of concrete accurate symbolic and nonsymbolic, emotional and neutral, beliefs about inner and outer states as well What differiantes collective behavior of humans from collective behavior of cells is less rulebased more fluid general adaptible behavior creating collective flexible behavior that is still collectively unified and stabilized by norms which helps with the ability to simulate perspectives of others and align goals towards common uncertainity about basic needs reduction Stableators as more general version of replicators Replicators are special cases of stableators, patterns stable in space and time that stabilize their existence by replication function "Immortal" patterns can have different stabilization strategies, like neverending healing or immortal hardware In the mind's concept space, it makes sense for me to maximalize for replicators that enhance wellbeing and predictive and explanatory power Planarias with their immortality can also be considered as stableators beyond replicators Markov blanket analysis in the free energy principle is tool to find any stableators Last few days I'm constantly living in a prior of superposition of existence and nonexistence of the individual and collective sense of self, I love [Dokument bez názvu - Dokumenty Google](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nxjVJZtCurcdO2Rj95NSSXGcZQTxWU5vb3_Z-8KAQW8/edit?usp=drivesdk) Heidegger's Dasein is brain's irreducible Markov blanket at the top of the cortical heterarchy Healing and upgrading society Collective intelligence Active Inference insights Schmatengeberg Language of meaning Meaning crisis Too much order Position space or time being relative classical information on an abstract boundary of Markov blanket for an observer [Entropy | Free Full-Text | A Variational Synthesis of Evolutionary and Developmental Dynamics](https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/7/964) Active inference evolution This is the holy grail Of how i think about evolution Things as stable patterns in space and time across scales and levels of abstraction under the free energy minimizing on a statistical manifold evolution https://twitter.com/InferenceActive/status/1671522046407327747 This is how I think about everything: Markov blanket analysis can identify things as phenotypes as patterns that are conditionally independent and stable in evolution of space and time governed by flow and randomness, seen as bayesian model building and free energy minimizing Connecting it with the QRI formalism of consciousness, Markov blankets with an implementation as a topological pocket in the EM field can be considered as individual experiences, with internal topological segmentations on the implementational level futher partitioning concrete nested hiearchical Markov blankets of experience on the computational level This makes those concrete Markov blankets very stable, objective, nonfuzzy etc.. Many more Markov blankets can be identified in the brain, such as cells, whole brain regions, etc. that can also be nonfuzzy, or they can be dynamical and fuzzy, that don't correspond to concrete objective physicalist qualia themselves, but just for example some of its properties. One objective scientific model More like many competing traditions Aš different niches Having difficulty integrating into eachother I believe it can be done though I wish there was some list if all recorded empirical observations To create a gigamegamodel out of all of it But even there we run at the issue of how measurments themselves are not that objective https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/991777324301299742/1121466110177456128/Screenshot_2023-06-22-17-45-43-439_com.google.android.youtube.jpg?width=1353&height=608 If only science was easy The deeper one goes into it the more it seems we really dont know that much Though engineering gave us so many things already, that's great But so many popsci interpretations and stories people believe in fundamentally that can be totally off Like the serotonin model of depression Neuroplasticity is slightly more accurate but not the full picture i tihnk When it comes to wellbeing there can be mapped out causal forces from all sorta of lenses, scales, or levels of analysis