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. https://twitter.com/InferenceActive/status/1671522046407327747 [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MQQKaKEXs0) Mechanistic physicalist definition of free will is brain's cybernetic irreducible Markov blanket top layer topdown causally influencing bottom layers of mental machinery & the world by actions, gauge theoretic statistical force, thermodynamic flow of information Observer with causal power over mental processes (metacognition, agency, placebo) and actions in world (muscles, language) as most basic construct in experience vanishes when this top markov blanket's activity turns off in anestesia, consciousness disorders, cessations, death. [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Jyj6LAb8g) I also thought about the geometry of this totally relaxed symmetrical flow - no energy sinks that correspond to attention grasping a concrete object in any sensory modality and also not pushing it away, but instead through acceptance and relaxation entropically freely going through both of the classifiers without the classifiers being activated. Neither grasping nor pushing away, true nor false, percieving nor nonpercieving, nor middlewaying between any of those dualities. But just death of this subset of experience into loving accepting stressfree relaxed vast oneness full of freedom. Sense of fundamental agency and deepest observer seems to have neural correlate in the evolutionary oldest part of the brain, irreducible markov blanket at the top of the cortical heterarchy in the hippocampus and its surroundings. https://twitter.com/PessoaBrain/status/1662455704966365184 This part is not influenced by other parts of the brain but it causally influences other parts through neuromodulation. When we lack sense of agency, we lack strength in the our brain's circuits corresponding to that activity, let it be this most fundamental part of our experience, or concrete functional brain regions corresponding to valence assignment, memory, attention, abstract thought, empathy, love for everything and so on. [Large-scale brain network - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-scale_brain_network) Those functions can be healed or enhanced by increasing activity via neurostimulation https://academic.oup.com/brain/article-abstract/146/6/2214/6835141?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2218958120 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6490158/ or psychotechnologies such as meditation. It seems that on deconstructive meditation through depth reduction we strenghten the fundamental agentic processes that lead to more sense of lucity and antiaddictive properties. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342100261X For example on attentional meditation [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg3cQXf4zSE) [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBzag-8USns,) attentional networks are strenghtened. In learning, abstract or concrete, intuitive and symbolic, information processing and memory networks are strenghtened. Wellbeing is stored in the ability of the whole network accurately predict the world and do better than expcted at reducing uncertainity about basic needs or surfing general error reduction slope gradients, [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8gUev5aVFs) which works better when no conerete rigid belief disallows flexibility (that then should be dissolved or transformed [OSF](https://psyarxiv.com/zqh4b/) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149763422003621 https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-canal-papers) which also reduces symmetrical information flow. [The Symmetry Theory of Valence 2020 Overview](https://qri.org/blog/symmetry-theory-of-valence-2020) When the whole networks works in alignment (crosscale consonance <ref>[https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273%2823%2900214-3 Brain rhythms have come of age: "Nearly all psychiatric conditions may be characterized by some level of “oscillopathy” or “rhythmopathy.”"]</ref> https://twitter.com/AFornito/status/1577743997149511680?t=4_iMZbmwyRfNUdeBKMQkng&s=19) with its evolutionary niche of negentropy extraction in relation to the collective formed by nature (preinstalled darwinian subagents in the brain such as basic needs) and nurture (culturally learned useful or less useful conditionings) [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JCaic5Cxms) https://twitter.com/burny_tech/status/1671897888962777089 [OSF](https://psyarxiv.com/ygptv/) with internal aligned complex ecosystem of subagents resulting in sense of flow. [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thd1UYKWXrM) Methods to reduce stress 1) Solve the panicking basic need homeostat generating it by basic need fullfillment 2) Annealing activities like meditation that symmetrify neurvous system into more consonant dynamics - dont feed the source by grasping on it, denying it, pushing it away, by acceptance and relaxing, being with the whole field of awareness generally without concetrating on anything concrete 3) Substances that reduce stress via annealing or energy reduction or other methods How to find meaning and selfactualization: Hyperspecific obsession - after basic needs are met, hyperspecialized ecosystem of aligned problem solving subagents in one mind or collective that build structure by acting on mental states (example intellectual growth learning) (example sciences, philosophy, art, fantasy, knowing everything about rocks, theories of everything) or the world (example pragmatic application of knowledge in the real word towards some less or more grandiose visions) (example hobbies, engineering, cars, computers) Community - social graph - leader, or collective of leaders (governing structures), has hyperspecific obsession, lead the collective into its wellness by high level management of subagents, (example state ideologies, utopian visions, collective risks) giving concrete meanings with common goal signaling by visions to the collective's parts by outsourcing needed actions (example engineering, science progress, and application, knowledge growth, solving basic needs, wellbeing engineering, surviving, managing existencial risks, upgrading, evolving, growing, entertainment, unifying culture engineering, engineering access to novel experiences or ways to relax, science communication, minimizing friction in ecosystem of interacting diverse differently evolutionary specialized total mental frameworks aka world views aka lenses aka points of view aka ways of seeing (evolutionary adapted hiearchy of bayesian priors forming homeostatic problem solving subagents through interaction interaction and with the environment by reading/writing states, reading signals reinforcing current state or pointing to or forcing change from others, sending signals aka massage passing in active inference)), beating outgroups in status and power (even tho noncooperative zero sum games of groups competing for same resources probably lead to disaster for everyone) (ingroup outgroup divisions are increased by individualization, increase of languages of what divides us, loss of languages of what unites us) Relationships, family - similar to community but on lower scales, they tend to be bound by implicit biological synchronizations, but that seems to get dissolved in more psychologically or physically intimite, or polyamory communities, then there are people with lone wolf philosophy that are very individualistic Entropic dissolution into everything - in the extremely deconstructed meditation/psychedelics induced states, no concrete selforganized collective of problem solving subagents (clusters of coherence) fighting for attention but instead the contents of the field of consciousness is dissolved into one giant wave of mostly nonclassifying symmetrical activity (example jhanas, sense of merging with God) with some highly symmetrical structures forming as source of beauty (example nature, poetry, art), which is all also present in (nondual) (optimistic nihhilism) philosophies (just being, being like water (flow state not interrupted by rigid concrete expectations), seeing beauty in everyday things), trance is energizing by repeating (symmetrical) stacked patterns in sensory modelities that's overriding existing potentially dissonant patterns creating global symmetrical metastable attractor mind state that can be futher reinforced internally or from the environment by compatible proofs or overall tautological logic Growth, becoming superintelligent general or specialized God https://n.neurology.org/content/87/23/2427.short Conflicts are the result of (overly) confident mutually asymmetric beliefs creating friction by selfevidencing attempts interaction increasing tension leading to blow up lots of psychological problems are expression or consequence of repressed anger or technically any emotion like fear resulting in psychological stress https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1673423275853221888 (and also chronic health issues https://twitter.com/bolekkerous/status/1673467064055414785 ) Meditations that let this anger and fear be free helped me a lot, anger can also be a form of tension Anger can also be a form of tension/contraction the stress relieving strategies (like coping mechanisms) can sometimes be endless if the root cause isnt adressed (trauma, complex trauma, dukkha+tanha in general?) From one to many Philosophy 1 neuroscientific 0 [Decades-long bet on consciousness ends — and it’s philosopher 1, neuroscientist 0](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02120-8) avoiding modifying overwhelming weakening weaking strenghtening transforming concetrating on stillness You can energize (reinforce) mental objects by directing attentional arrow to it, by it being aligned with valence gradient (aethetics, resolving basic needs), sensory data (what aligns with "reality" or imagined expectations is reinforced), surprise (prediction error adds entropic activity to fix prediction errors to tune models by finding policies to edit internal models or act on the world), you can also modify (transform) it into a more consonant shape, you can energize it so much that its dissolves by overwhelming, you can weaken attentional resources (forces) by globalizing them (attention to background stillness, vastness, silentness, boundarylessness, centerlessness, infinityness,...) resulting in global smoothening as local topological shapes in the neural tissue through global acticity gets more coarsegrained, more smoothened, more redistributed, and you can also avoid mental objects We need optimal amount of both cooperative generalists and competing specialists in society depression seems to be downstream of a mix of learned helplessness and a strong overwhelming tyranic and oppressive sense of fear thats closer to a freeze response Ahoj :D Prý máš zkušenosti s psaním o grant, o čem to bylo, jestli chceš sdílet? Přemýšlím že bych zkusil požádat u [Lightcone Infrastructure](https://www.lightconeinfrastructure.com/) . Byl bys ok s tím to s tebou probrat? :D Je to ohledně řešení koordinace společnosti ohledně existenčních risků a mentálního zdraví populace pomocí hledání řešení v matematice komplexních systémů. (Konkrétně Active Inference, jestli tušíš) Variables to monitor and edit: climate change, AI, global coordination, sense of meaning, health, progress, freedom, expressed values, nonopressive binding of behavior, adaptibility , stress level, governing structures resilience Upgradujte na chytřejší Gmail OTEVŘÍT Primární Collaboration adjunctions are generalized analogies across universes of thinking (probabilistic hypergraphs or evolving topological shapes approximatable by formal rules in toposes?) into general formal structures, contextfree scalefree pattern that can be futher generalized by Kan extensions [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49jUnrEuEmY) christianity is so evolutionarily fit in the evoltuionary dnyamics of cultural frameworks because it implements high valence structures (God as reality loves you) and spreads by converting or annihilating those who dont believe (treat others as you wanna be treated: if you didnt believe in god, you would want others to convert or annihilate you in this framework) [Thinking through other minds: A variational approach to cognition and culture - PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31142395/) there are many linear maps of cognitive development like spiral dynamics or stages of meditation by rogerthisdell but in reality it tends to be nonlinear where people tend to adaptively jump between stages depending on the context (being with family versus tripping on 5meodmt) but while on avarage being in some attractor set of states that can correspond to the baseline one is in most of the time (rigid modern ideological closed framework versus extremely open metamodern information processing dynamical system) https://twitter.com/Plinz/status/1660164018332635136?t=XAOPGFHfi9MfAGFRoxwaRA&s=19 science approximates reality philosophy includes mathematics includes physics approximates reality analytical is inside physics petrubative approximates analytical classical is inside analytical quantum is indie analytical relative 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big part of sense of meaning and happiness [- YouTube](https://youtu.be/wOfQyjbAbc8)