I wanna go from as first principles as possible, really dig into your deep priors that might be different from some others which causes them having trouble grokking you
We'll go into the many philsophical assumptions including ontology, and what parts of applied math in physics do you see as fundamental for consciousness (or neurophenomenology) and build everything from there
I tried to come up with as many alternative positions as possible to each position so that they can be contrasted
IQRI from first principles
Video form: [Grounding QRI in First Principles (Part I): Bridging Computation and Philosophy - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4DPnGxOmh4)
I. Motivation
- Reverse engineering consciousness
- Helping all sentient beings
- Objective functions and motivations
II. Philosophical Assumptions
- Monist nonmaterialist physicalist idealism
- Qualia realism
- Indirect realism
III. Scientific and Technical Concepts
A. Physics
- Standard model
- Classical electromagnetism
- Zero Ontology
- Future physics frameworks
B. Consciousness, Neuroscience & Phenomenology
- Boundaries and binding problem of consciousness
- Marr's levels of analysis for the brain
- Implementational, algorithmic, and computational levels
- Electromagnetic field theory of consciousness
- Topological properties and causal significance
- Implementationist functionalism
- Digital sentience
- Valence Structuralism
- Statespace of consciousness
- Statespace of DMT and 5-MeO-DMT
- Intelligence and generalization
C. Sociology
- People as metronomes
- Consciousness vs replicators
- Implementing paradise engineering
Other Topics
I. Motivation
- reverse engineering consciousness
- help all sentient beings with that knowledge, paradise engineering high valence states of consciousness [Peaceful Qualia: The Manhattan Project of Consciousness | Qualia Computing](https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/03/29/peaceful-qualia-the-manhattan-project-of-consciousness/) [Advanced Visions of Paradise: From Basic Hedonism to Paradise Engineering - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bygZ_jYixPo)
- To engineer a blissful and enlightened future for all sentient beings, minimizing suffering and maximizing the potential of consciousness by developing a deep understanding of its nature, properties, and causal efficacy.
- objective functions (metaheuristic motivations) such as maximizing predictive power and (individual and collective) valence (define valence) and others
- explore (rainbow god) (qualiastream), connect (metta) (hedonium), sustain (pragmatics) (historium)
Fundamental assumptions:
- definining consciousness as the system having qualia
- qualia realism (no illusionism)
- qualia formalism - qualia itself can be mathematized, or approximated by math?
- oneness (all systems with qualia (define qualia) matter)
- math (throw math at qualia)
- valence realism (we can mathematically formalize valence in qualia (valence structuralism)) (dopamine correlates with valence)
**II. Philosophical Assumptions:**
- Monist (nondual) (Panpsychist) Nonmaterialist Physicalist Idealism [Taking Monism Seriously – Opentheory.net](https://opentheory.net/2019/06/taking-monism-seriously/) [Philosophy of mind - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind)
- there are different experiecences ontologically existing (no solipsism)
- indirect realism
**III. Scientific and Technical Concepts:**
**A. Physics:**
- standard model as best model of physics currently, no alternative physics, current physics is very well tested, same for chemistry, neuroscience, biology, other maths that's predictive?
- classical electromagnetism (Maxwell's Equations), relativistic quantum field theory (quantum electrodynamics (electrically charged particles interacting by means of exchange of photons aka electromagnetism)), [Standard Model - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model)
- Zero Ontology no information under physics, math, qualia (reality is topdown created by subtracting information instead of bottomup adding information) [Why Does Anything Exist? Zero Ontology, Physical Information, and Pure Awareness - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdDNfTREQJU) [Why does anything exist? | Qualia Computing](https://qualiacomputing.com/2015/11/18/why-does-anything-exist/) [The Zero Ontology - David Pearce on Why Anything Exists](https://www.hedweb.com/witherall/zero.htm) [Why Does Anything Exist?](https://www.hedweb.com/nihilism/nihilfil.htm)
- standard model has more particles and forces than electromagnetism (more fundamental forces strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force but without gravity that needs to be quantized, and particles are quarks, leptons, and gauge bosons)
- is current model of physics ontologically it? or should we be more open to future frameworks that might challenge what is fundamental and make standard model emergent? [Physics beyond the Standard Model - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_beyond_the_Standard_Model) string theory? loop quantum gravity? emergent spacetime? Amplituhedron? [Amplituhedron - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplituhedron) [Donald Hoffman: The Nature of Consciousness [Technical] - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmieNQH7Q4w) electromagnetic field in spacetime is doomed? wolfram's computational hypergraph? [Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics… and It’s Beautiful—Stephen Wolfram Writings](https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/) joscha's computational celluar automata? [Joscha Bach: Time, Simulation Hypothesis, Existence - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MNBxfrmfmI)
**B. Consciousness, Neuroscience & Phenomenology (Neurophenomenology):**
!Landscape
- focus on individual experiences
- there is boundary and binding problem of consciousness
- Five boundary sub-problems: hard boundary, lower level, higher level, private, and temporal boundaries.[ActInf GuestStream 054.1 ~ A Gómez-Emilsson & C Percy ~ Electromagnetic Field Topology Consciousness - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhLPZaLmi2k)
- marrs levels of analysis [McClamrock: Marr's Three Levels](https://www.albany.edu/~ron/papers/marrlevl.html#:~:text=David%20Marr%20(1982)%20has%20dubbed,e.g.%20Glass%2C%20Holyoak%2C%20and%20Santa) for brain (or nervous system, or whole organism, localism vs delocalism) are:
- implementational (brain circuits, network analysis, hudgey huxley model [Hodgkin–Huxley model - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodgkin%E2%80%93Huxley_model) , bioelectricity [Bioelectricity: The Body's Cognitive Glue - Michael Levin - 4/18/24 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIHUWOv4nkE) including electromagnetism and local field potentials [Cognition Emerges From Neural Dynamics - Earl K Miller, Wave Club, April 2 2024 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHMTgb8CuDE) , network theoretic connectome-specific harmonic waves [On Connectome and Geometric Eigenmodes of Brain Activity: The Eigenbasis of the Mind?]([On Connectome and Geometric Eigenmodes of Brain Activity: The Eigenbasis of the Mind?](https://qri.org/blog/eigenbasis-of-the-mind)) [A Future for Neuroscience – Opentheory.net](https://opentheory.net/2018/08/a-future-for-neuroscience/) , neural field theory, geometric eigenmodes (brain tissue geometry) [On Connectome and Geometric Eigenmodes of Brain Activity: The Eigenbasis of the Mind?]([On Connectome and Geometric Eigenmodes of Brain Activity: The Eigenbasis of the Mind?](https://qri.org/blog/eigenbasis-of-the-mind)) [On Connectome and Geometric Eigenmodes of Brain Activity - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjB3xGkS_qU) , flows of activity and interactions between neuronal populations canalized by the formation of metastable synchronous complexes (i.e., “self-organizing harmonic modes”) [Frontiers | An Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT) of Consciousness: Combining Integrated Information and Global Neuronal Workspace Theories With the Free Energy Principle and Active Inference Framework; Toward Solving the Hard Problem and Characterizing Agentic Causation](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2020.00030/full) [Frontiers | Integrated world modeling theory expanded: Implications for the future of consciousness](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncom.2022.642397/full) , biochemistry (neurotransmitters), microtubules (with quantum gravity plank level level coherence [Orchestrated objective reduction - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reduction) ?), topology of the brain tissue and brain waves https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359439664_TOPOLOGY_OF_THE_BRAIN_WAVES which are EM fields
- algorithmic [Computational neuroscience - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_neuroscience) (what algorithms the implementational level implements, the algorithms that are used to compute them: IIT, autoencoders and generative adversarial networks, graph neural networks (GNNs), recurrent reservoirs, liquid state machines, neural celluar automata, heat equation, oscillations), forward forward algorithm [[2212.13345] The Forward-Forward Algorithm: Some Preliminary Investigations](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.13345)
- computational/functional (function input output mapping, bayesian inference [Free energy principle - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_principle) (gibbs sampling and massage passing), predictive coding, Global Workspace Theory [Theories of consciousness | Nature Reviews Neuroscience](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-022-00587-4) , coherence inducing operator [Cyber Animism by Joscha Bach - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZl4zom3q2g) , attention schema theory [Attention schema theory - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_schema_theory)
- algorithmic level is internal structure of the functions
- interaction between levels (local fied potentials have top down effect on neural dynamics, topological computing shapes field computing)
!Binding and boundary problem
- no strong emergence (go for weak emergence), non-epiphenomenalism (causally significant), frame invariance (objectivity), hard boundaries, no philosophical zombies follows
- functionalism/computationalism isn't frame invariant (relativity breaks causality, complex AND gates, slicing problem, observer dependence is an issue) [The “Slicing Problem” for Computational Theories of Consciousness](https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opphil-2022-0225/html?lang=en) [Against functionalism: why I think the Foundational Research Institute should rethink its approach – Opentheory.net](https://opentheory.net/2017/07/why-i-think-the-foundational-research-institute-should-rethink-its-approach/)
* binding and boundary problem is not solved by functionalism/computationalism/algorithmicism (Spatial Proximity, Behavioral Coherence) [The "Slicing Problem" for Computational Theories of Consciousness by Andrés G Emilsson & Chris Percy - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNlUl1TWYg) , or by solutions on the implementational level (resonance/synchrony, quantum entanglement itself)
- but its solved by
- a form of implementationalism: a type of electromagnetic field theory of consciousness focused on its topology [Frontiers | Don’t forget the boundary problem! How EM field topology can address the overlooked cousin to the binding problem for consciousness](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1233119/full) [The View From My Topological Pocket: An Introduction to Field Topology for Solving the Boundary Problem](https://qri.org/blog/my-topological-pocket) [Topological Segmentation of the EM Field: A New Approach to the Boundary Problem of Consciousness - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEuVGoKRfoQ) [Neural Field Annealing and Psychedelic Thermodynamics - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM9k1I3VPOg) [Consciousness Isn't Substrate-Neutral: From Dancing Qualia & Epiphenomena to Topology & Accelerators - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMUnN52i2Dg) [Solving the Phenomenal Binding Problem: Topological Segmentation as the Correct Explanation Space - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0YID6XV-PQ) [Electromagnetic Field Topology as a Solution to the Boundary Problem of Consciousness - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX8b3ng37Nw)
- bioelectricity (Micheal Levín), local field potentials (avarages if electric signals) (Earl Miller), shaped by connectome-specific harmonic waves, geometric eigenmodes, topology of the brain tissue, which shapes the topology of the em field in the nervous system
- Topological Segmentation
- local and global binding balloon 🎈
- topologically closed pockets in the electromagnetic field topology, allowing for holistic, integrated behavior, corresponding to single unified experience, causally significiant topology and that shapes resonant modes in brain nonlinear wave dynamics [Nonlinear Wave Computing: Vibes, Gestalts, and Realms](https://qri.org/blog/nonlinear-wave-computing)
* Ontologically unified nature of the EM field offers a potential solution to the boundary and binding problem. (Balloon)
* Local field potentials in the brain exhibit more than the sum of their parts, highlighting the causal significance of the EM field.
* Topological properties, such as closed loops and knots, are frame invariant.
* Topological changes in the field, like magnetic reconnection in the sun, demonstrate clear causal effects.
* Simulations reveal the emergence of topologically closed objects in resonant modes of the EM field.
- Five boundary sub-problems: hard boundary, lower level, higher level, private, and temporal boundaries.
- rethinking the notion of parts not really working in holistic objects (parts of a wavefunction?)
- Global vs. Local Binding
- Holographic principle - reconstructing whole from "parts"
- how to measure topological pockets in the EM field (manifold of EM activity measured by previous methods, EEG with better resolution)
!Computational power
- brain (or the universe) can be: turing completeness [Turing completeness - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness) (if you can simulate a turing machine), lambda calculus, finite state automata completeness, quantum turing completeness [Quantum Turing machine - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Turing_machine) , stochastic turing completeness, analog turing completeness [General purpose analog computer - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_purpose_analog_computer) , hyperturing completeness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercomputation, topological completeness, QRI wants qualia completeness (more than topological completeness? (string completeness because of topology of strings?) we might not know the computational properties of it yet) (currently implemented as EM field), is topological quantum computing possibly related? [Topological quantum computer - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_quantum_computer)
- or is qualia completeness also more than hyperturing completeness? brain computing noncomputable feynman path integral (Friston approximates) [x.com](https://x.com/MLStreetTalk/status/1745972965278154773)
- generalized church turing thesis between all of these - with enough resources, time and hacks each class can technically simulate the other one even if very slow or inefficient?
- its best to use different accelerator in different usecases (annealing accelerator?) [Qualia Computing: How Conscious States Are Used For Efficient And Non-Trivial Information Processing - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0mpayTwKDM)
- simulated annealing [Simulated annealing - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing)
- heat equation
- how about other forces from the standard model? how about particles? their interactions? particles and interactions? (strong force paints background)
Part 2:
- how about neurochemistry and neurobiology? neurotransmitters? microtubules? are they frame invariant?
- different forces because of different symmetries having different qualia types? strong/weak force?
- topology, waves, symmetry as fundamental? string theory inside neurophenomenology?
- Implementationist functionalism, can you see all functionalist theories as different organized patterns like gliders in conways game of life? iit, global workspace theory, predictive coding, free energy minimization [Psychedelics and the Free Energy Principle: From REBUS to Indra's Net - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45tG1oVigVo) , coherence inducing operator
- all models are wrong but some are useful as in more predictive, higher in valence etc.?
- empty closed open individualism [Open Individualism and Antinatalism: If God Could Be Killed, It’d Be Dead Already](https://qri.org/blog/open-individualism) [A new theory of Open Individualism – Opentheory.net](https://opentheory.net/2018/09/a-new-theory-of-open-individualism/) [Open Individualism (Part 1): Introduction - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JomlwxRAtZo) , goldilock zone of oneness individualism [Consciousness and Personal Identity: What does it feel like to believe we are all one? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dutINPDaP6A) [Mini-Series on Open Individualism | Qualia Computing](https://qualiacomputing.com/2020/06/06/mini-series-on-open-individualism/)
- plants, suns
- qualia dust in current computers
- digital sentience [Digital Sentience Requires Solving the Boundary Problem](https://qri.org/blog/digital-sentience) [Digital Sentience: Can Digital Computers Ever "Wake Up"? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlIgmTALU74) [Digital Simulations of Minds Will Not Be Conscious: from mere causality to real qualia contact - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT9tnzucnPU) : EM field? topological computing not using EM field? photonic (nonlinear optical) computers [Optical computing - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_computing) , organoids [Organoid - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organoid) , something hybrid? are optical computers qualia computing at the speed of light instead of speed of sound being constrained by propagation of neurotransmitters where they bind with EM fields?
- empirically proving sentience of other systems - qualia bridge? [Are Others Conscious? Solving the Problem of Other Minds with Mindmelding and Phenomenal Puzzles - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gvwhQMKvro) [A workable solution to the problem of other minds | Qualia Computing](https://qualiacomputing.com/2015/03/31/a-solution-to-the-problem-of-other-minds/) [Beyond Turing: A Solution to the Problem of Other Minds Using Mindmelding and Phenomenal Puzzles | Qualia Computing](https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/11/12/beyond-turing-a-solution-to-the-problem-of-other-minds-using-mindmelding-and-phenomenal-puzzles/) [Beyond Turing: A Solution to the Problem of Other Minds Using Mindmelding and Phenomenal Puzzles - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCQUedFo1FM) [Wada Test + Phenomenal Puzzles: Testing the Independent Consciousness of Individual Brain Hemispheres | Qualia Computing](https://qualiacomputing.com/2019/07/19/wada-test-phenomenal-puzzles-testing-the-independent-consciousness-of-individual-brain-hemispheres/)
- Valence Structuralism, symmetry theory of valence [The Symmetry Theory of Valence 2020 Overview](https://qri.org/blog/symmetry-theory-of-valence-2020) [Quantifying Bliss](https://qri.org/blog/quantifying-bliss) [The Symmetry Theory of Valence (@The Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSPZ4xt5f2k) [Why we seek out pleasure: the Symmetry Theory of Homeostatic Regulation – Opentheory.net](https://opentheory.net/2017/05/why-we-seek-out-pleasure-the-symmetry-theory-of-homeostatic-regulation/) [Principia Qualia](https://opentheory.net/PrincipiaQualia.pdf) [Symmetry Theory of Valence “Explain Like I’m 5” edition – Opentheory.net](https://opentheory.net/2017/04/stov-explain-like-im-5-edition/) [Effective Altruism, and building a better QALY – Opentheory.net](https://opentheory.net/2015/06/effective-altruism-and-building-a-better-qaly/) [An Intuitive Explanation of the Symmetry Theory of Valence - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2HYrJWge8k) [Quantifying Bliss: Empirically Testable Hypotheses For Valence - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj7PmCnUWds) - full theory or part of the puzzle? what other aspects could be added? how to see Maslow hierarchy of needs (heterarchy of homeostats) in this framework?
- Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain [Frontiers | The heavy-tailed valence hypothesis: the human capacity for vast variation in pleasure/pain and how to test it](https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1127221/full) [Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain](https://qri.org/blog/log-scales) [Review of Log Scales](https://qri.org/blog/review-of-log-scales) [Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain (@Effective Altruism NYC) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeD3nZX1Sr4) [Effective Altruism and the Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgtBg--0fJc) [Befriending Utility Monsters: Being the Adult in the Room when Talking About the Hedonic Extremes - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oImjjYN-OFA)
- Valence as main motivator, everything else emerges
- tyrrany of the intentional object [The Tyranny of the Intentional Object](https://qri.org/blog/tyranny-of-the-intentional-object) [The Tyranny of the Intentional Object: Universal Addictions, Meaning Abuse, and Denied Self-Insights - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Icb4hu0_OE)
- Neural Annealing: injection of energy causes reorganizing itself to minimize dissonance [Healing Trauma With Neural Annealing](https://qri.org/blog/neural-annealing) [Neural Annealing (Presented to Dr. Karl Friston @ the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging @ UCL) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5p9QuqeWsg) [Neural Field Annealing and Psychedelic Thermodynamics - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM9k1I3VPOg) [Energy Management: Discussion on Advanced Techniques for Neural Annealing w/ Libor, Beata, & Andrés - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrC9DG2110c)
- simulated annealing
- heat equation
- on both implementational and computational model (flattened hiearchy)
- wireheading [Wireheading Done Right](https://qri.org/blog/wireheading-done-right) [Buddhist Annealing: Wireheading Done Right with the Seven Factors of Awakening - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGkAP_DYyeQ) [Buddhist Annealing: Wireheading Done Right with the Seven Factors of Awakening | Qualia Computing](https://qualiacomputing.com/2021/04/04/buddhist-annealing-wireheading-done-right-with-the-seven-factors-of-awakening/) [Wireheading Done Right: Stay Positive Without Going Insane | Qualia Computing](https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/08/20/wireheading_done_right/)
- AI valence alignment [How understanding valence could help make future AIs safer – Opentheory.net](https://opentheory.net/2015/09/fai_and_valence/)
- statespace of consciousness [Mapping State-Spaces of Consciousness: The Neroli Neighborhood - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tOogiHHOxM)
- its all symmetry, waves or topology
- each qualia modality (smell, touch, taste, hearing, thought) is its own dimention living in 3 spacial visual dimensions that can have arbitrary geometry and arbitrary geometrical contents (nonlinear wave computing [Non-Linear Wave Computing: Vibes, Gestalts, and Realms - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PrIp55l_MI) [The Brain as a Non-Linear Optical Computer: Reflections on a 2-Week Jhana Meditation Retreat - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELp0904CjLw) [Attention & Awareness: Oscillatory Complementarity, Non-Linearities, and the Pointlessness of It All - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNJrJEA8sEM) [Reflections on my 2nd (Jhana Meditation) Retreat: From Formless Love to Antivortex Defabrication - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j5mRx6SHD0) [How the Huygens–Fresnel Principle Applies to Consciousness - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C49JjaZcFi4) [On the Topology of Sub-Agents: Non-Linear Optical Computers, Mirror Funhouses, and Laser Chess - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRcg9p4gQF8) and topology under the hood) (such as self and object with boundaries between everything) and one dimension of pseudo time arrow that can be arbitrary graph [The Pseudo-Time Arrow](https://qri.org/blog/pseudo-time-arrow) [What is Time? Explaining Time-Loops, Moments of Eternity, Time Branching, Time Reversal, and More... - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBw-b4vy6jA)
- as you deconstruct each modality, they can merge together (synestesia), and spacetime can get more and more empty and then dimensionally collapse (or increase dimensions on DMT?) into 2 1 0 dimensions (nothingness point), and then into no perception, or neither perception or not perception, neither qualia nor nonqualia, neither superposition of ontologies neither not superposition of ontologies
(jhanas or 5meodmtshow it well) (force field incentivizes actions)
- generalizing stage theory of enlightenment [A Conversation with Roger Thisdell about Classical Enlightenment and Valence Structuralism](https://qri.org/blog/classical-enlightenment-and-valence-structuralism) : hyperparameters: attention arrow from some point or subset of qualia, centralization spectrum, labeling subsets of experience as self or nonself
- since qualia corresponds to physicalist configuration, therefore also each philosophical positin in philosophy of mind for example or identities or other beliefs have their own neural correlate
!Intelligence [Qualia Computing: How Conscious States Are Used For Efficient And Non-Trivial Information Processing - YouTube]([Qualia Computing: How Conscious States Are Used For Efficient And Non-Trivial Information Processing - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0mpayTwKDM)) [Qualia Computing: How Conscious States Are Used For Efficient And Non-Trivial Information Processing - YouTube]([Qualia Computing: How Conscious States Are Used For Efficient And Non-Trivial Information Processing - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0mpayTwKDM)) [The Biointelligence Explosion](https://www.biointelligence-explosion.com/)
- Is qualia completeness and topological accelerator what makes biological systems better than current AI systems?
- there is holistic computing and topological binding!
- different definitions of intelligence
- it should help integrating a unified self representation (GWT) represent others (theory of mind), same general principles in more qualia modalities, "autistic" pattern matching, rule following, solving math
- causal modeling [Causal model - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_model) , strong generalization (mine previous experiences to solve problems in novel spaces) [[1911.01547] On the Measure of Intelligence](https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547) [Francois Chollet - LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize to find true solution - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UakqL6Pj9xo) [#51 FRANCOIS CHOLLET - Intelligence and Generalisation - YouTube](https://youtu.be/J0p_thJJnoo) , continuous learning [[2302.00487] A Comprehensive Survey of Continual Learning: Theory, Method and Application](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00487) , data & compute efficiency and stability/reliability in symbolic reasoning, abduction [Abductive reasoning - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning) , ocamms razor, relevance realization [Predictive processing and relevance realization: exploring convergent solutions to the frame problem | Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11097-022-09850-6) , agency, long term planning, more complex tasks across time and space in our world, composed collective intelligence, optimal (rational) bayesian inference, active inference https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5299/Active-InferenceThe-Free-Energy-Principle-in-Mind , geometric vs topological thinking (Francois Chollet: intelligence is generalization capability which is topological while llms are geometric), higher order meta thinking etc.
- The ultimate benchmark would be giving AI systems all the information that Newton, Maxwell, Boltzmann, Einstein, Feynman, Von Neumann, Edward Witten etc. had before their discoveries in physics or other fields and then seeing if the system could come up with the same, or isomorphic, discoveries.
- The Screen of Consciousness is not fundamental, emergent from integration and flow of EM energy and information? [The Screen of Consciousness is Not Fundamental - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fTtcOZdsy4) [How Does the Screen of Consciousness Emerge? - Competing Clusters, Blanketing, Rastering, Filling-In - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pua9gI15KCs)
- The Meta-Problem of Consciousness [The Meta-Problem of Consciousness in Light of the Topological Solution to the Boundary Problem - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm_o9z4KBw0)
- Generalized universal darwinism - survival of the stablest [Meme: Survival of the Stable](https://mxplx.com/meme/3009/) - applies to all fields on top of fundamental physics? in sociology, those who are the most efficient in replication and transfer through our memetic channels - nuance loses
* The brain can be trained to anticipate and generate specific resonant patterns (e.g., 40Hz vibration).
- Self, Attention, Awareness [Attention and awareness: A two-stroke model of consciousness](https://qri.org/blog/attention-and-awareness) , phenomenal space and time
- Consonance-Dissonance-Noise Spectrum
- Mathematics as the Study of Patterns of Qualia [Mathematics as the Study of Patterns of Qualia: From Psychotic Platonism to Enlightened Fictionalism - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQOwG-hcd_k)
- cognitive sovereignty new thoughts [Cognitive Sovereignty: How Do You Incentivize Genuinely New Thoughts? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfYKfI2uEnw&t=15s)
- Category theory is local synchrony/binding of metastable nonlinear resonant structures
- Set theory is global synchrony/binding of metastable nonlinear resonant structures
- Energy Sinks, Vibes, Gestalts, Realms, subagents
- definition of love, warm unifying connecting?
- Motivation, drive, meaning, not burning out
- equanimity as stress dissipation capacity [Equanimity as a Tool to Increase the Stress Dissipation Capacity of the Nervous System - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBKra47sZyU)
- Substances [Paradigm-Shifting Qualia Research Methods: How to Take Exotic States of Consciousness Seriously - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzIAmVztti0)
- 5-MeO-DMT vs DMT: competing clusters of coherence [5-MeO-DMT vs. N,N-DMT: The 9 Lenses](https://qri.org/blog/5meo-vs-dmt) [The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (@Harvard Science of Psychedelics Club) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loCBvaj4eSg) [5-MeO-DMT: A Rational Analysis at Last - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5QZrALrGdk) [5-MeO-DMT vs. N,N-DMT: The 9 Lenses | Qualia Computing](https://qualiacomputing.com/2020/07/01/5-meo-dmt-vs-nn-dmt-the-9-lenses/) [DMT vs. 5-MeO-DMT: 12 Key Differences - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwwZP-Bm7kI) [5-MeO-DMT Awakenings: From Naïve Realism to Symmetrical Enlightenment | Qualia Computing](https://qualiacomputing.com/2020/05/19/5-meo-dmt-awakenings-from-naive-realism-to-symmetrical-enlightenment/) [Why Does DMT Feel So Real? Multi-modal Coherence, High Temperature Parameter, Tactile Hallucinations - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgv1ptz1wOc) [The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences: Symmetries, Sheets, and Saddled Scenes](https://qri.org/blog/hyperbolic-geometry-dmt)
- 5meodmt analogue
- Cannabis vs psychedelics in thinking
- MDMA social smoothening [The Phenomenology of MDMA: Self-honesty, Authenticity, & the Unraveling of Gnarly Knots in the Field - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86nyhA5Fsh0) [The Manhattan Project of Consciousness: The Making of the Love Bomb - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_tCSVvbd2g)
- DMT entities [Aligning DMT Entities: Shards, Shoggoths, and Waluigis - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARVF87flWvI)
- 5-MeO-DMT attractors
- meditation [The Neuroscience of Meditation: Four Models – Opentheory.net](https://opentheory.net/2018/12/the-neuroscience-of-meditation/)
- mettannealing [Mettannealing](https://qri.org/blog/mettannealing) [Metta: The Fabric Softener of Reality - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN-Wfk8bYo0)
- MDMA
- benzos [Benzos: Why the Withdrawal is Worse than the High is Good (+ Flumazenil/NAD+ Anti-Tolerance Action) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBe_0UIBylY)
- High Entropy Alloys of Experience [High Entropy Alloys of Experience - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5lpR-3iORw) - non-linear synergiees between substances - states of consciousness with nonnewtonian fluids, combination of substances creating nonlinear combinations [Candy Flipping Optimized: Why LSD + MDMA Points to Blissful Nondual Awareness and How to Maximize It - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIe0KOiRKuU)
- Each substance is a different neural operator on thoughts information processing dynamics. Each ecosystem of darwinian interacting clusters of thoughts is a network with its own geometry and topology. Stimulants speed up, increase precision and stickyness of processes. Psychedelics increase the dimensionality of the whole network locally and globally and small world networkness, leading to more complex thoughts or dissolution. Dissociatives decentralize integrated information processing into slower more autonomous often novel points of view having more time to process composing in more localized ways with less overlap. Cannabinoids increase small world networkness and edit the whole geometry of the space to novel points of view. Entactogens add smoothening unifying bias to each process.
- free wheeling hallucinations [Free-Wheeling Hallucinations: Be the Free-Willed God of Your Inner World-Simulation - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1wjDOwXjY4)
- Degrees of freedom in metta (love and kindness meditation):
From/to:
Localized, delocalized representations (or centralized, decentralized)
Representations corresponding to real, imaginary people, beings, or things (imaginary as in not present in our shared hallucination)
Grabby, nongrabby process
Degree of agency
Mine:
Localized/global agentic deity/property of field of consciousness
Universal care and love for all sentience, all humanity, wanting flourishing and growth of freedom, wellbeing, intelligence, meaning, fullfillment
Care for more local community
Stronger single bonds, to people, other beings, real or imaginary, or even math
**C. Sociology:**
- people as metronomes
- group chanting
- consciousness vs replicators [The Universal Plot: Consciousness vs. Pure Replicators](https://qri.org/blog/universal-plot) [A Universal Plot - Consciousness vs. Pure Replicators: Gene Servants or Blissful Autopoietic Beings? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGmETz-wDMc) , effectors, entropy maximizers
- implementing paradise engineering clusters across the globe?
- hedoinium (physical systems optimized for valence), qualiastream (physical systems optimized for interestingness, novelty, complexity,...), historium (physical systems stabilizing the whole superorganism)
Other
- Purple Pill [Is This a Simulation? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NXj1og0SYo)
- simulation hypothesis in indirect realism
- dmt entities types
- art [Harmonic Society: 8 Models of Art for a Scientific Paradigm
of Aesthetic Qualia](https://qri.org/pdf/Harmonic-Society.pdf) [Harmonic Society: 8 Models of Art for a Scientific Paradigm of Aesthetic Qualia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoJuV5Xi9qU)