Cultivate inner interconnectedness! This is why nondual thinking, deconstructive meditation, antidepressive substances (both psychedelics and SSRIs), healthy lifestyle, relax, social connection, belonging, aligned selfactualization,... work! Brain and thoughts get more connected! ontology agnostic empirical bayesianism maximizing predictive power and positive valence Focus on breath. Slow down breath. Smooth out breath waves. Learn to see pleasantness in breath. Note it as many times per second as possible. Learn to see pleasantness in pleasantness itself. Stack this in feedback loop way into exponential explosion. I imagine intuition-rationality computation spectrum as faster x slower, nonsymbolic x symbolic, more general x more concrete, fuzzier x stricter, fluidier x more solid, less accurate x more accurate (depends on situation, engineering vs throwing a ball), simplier x more complex Before I do anything I always ask myself: "Is this a good part of a systematic symmetrification of my nervous system?" (Where higher symmetry = better wellbeing according to the Symmetry Theory of Valence) https://qualiaresearch.miraheze.org/wiki/Symmetry_Theory_of_Valence Metta for all you metamodern (mettamodern?) mutant beings and nonbeings and those beyond AGI as selforganizing symmetry based analog neuromorphic diffusing harmonic gestalt Hugs are like surrendering to the universe's perfection What are you high on? I'm high on perfectness of the present moment universe loving itself how to kundalini awakening All ises and isn'ts aren't enlightenment meditation any% speedrun infinite happiness all contractions dissolution 5-MeO-DMT glitch world record in -∞ seconds Old memes from Andres or Romeo "No experience occurs when you disengage from all activity (mental and physical), unhooking attention from all mind objects. So the way to reliably do it is to get really good at doing nothing." This supports Josha Bach's model of consciousness = attention/attendance a lot brain is a jelly playing a videogame of what it thinks is the most realistic I'm thinking about what seemed to be my most efficient strategies at making friends. Vibing. Synchronizing. In general best approach I figured out is asking others what they like and talking about that. People love talking about things connected to their identity. Identity wants to selfactualize and this makes it happy. Reinforcement of processes with good associations feels good, consonant, full of symmetrical positive valence (aka pleasant flow), activates ingroup categorizing. What do you think? What are your strategies? What do you think is the fundamental motivation/reason/force behind anything we do? https://discord.com/channels/991774141025886218/991779122831441971/1038294235289501776 gullie convo Species are just attractors in the statespace of possible evolutionary adapted machines, hard categorification boundaries are just a mental construction, try to classify plactypus :D [Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots | Lex Fridman Podcast #325 - YouTube](https://youtu.be/p3lsYlod5OU) <@244200615616446465> posted pretty powerful introduction to QRI: “Last summer, I had the privilege of interning at the Qualia Research Institute (QRI), a non-profit organization dedicated to discovering the science of consciousness. I distinctly remember one night at QRI – May 31, 2019 – that likely changed the course of my life. I was sitting in a circle with the two other interns and the managers of the group house where most of the QRI team was living at the time. We were discussing the importance of conducting research on consciousness, and one of the interns mentioned that the science of consciousness was the ultimate problem. “Why?” I asked. “Well,” he said (and I paraphrase), “the only things that really matter to you are the things that impact the quality of your conscious experience. If we figure out consciousness, then we will know how to induce conscious experiences that are far more extraordinary and blissful than we can even imagine right now.” And that’s when it hit me. I had a very ephemeral and abstract, but nonetheless deeply profound, vision of a world that was completely free from pain and suffering. I caught a faint yet radiant glimpse of paradise. I imagined a world in which scientists had eliminated depression, anxiety, existential insecurities, and all other forms of mental agony; in which sublime joy was the default mode of conscious experience; in which every human felt unconditional love towards all other sentient organisms; in which every human was overwhelmed with ecstatic gratitude and awe at the simple fact of being alive.” -Kenneth Shinozuka from [A Future for Humanity, Part I | Blank Horizons](https://blankhorizons.com/2020/01/01/a-future-for-humanity-part-i/) qri AI art from #artium This Guy Is Experiencing bliss and basically you're suffering meme How about we convert the whole universe into a blob of brain tissue with structure optimized for the most symmetrical brain wave dynamics as physically possible at all times What if all models are just approximations of something humanly ungraspable or what if there's no such thing as fundamental, ultimately satisfying answer? Maybe only important property about them is how predictive they are and how good it feels when thinking with or about them? You are in the perfect place and situation because you are the result of the universe just doing it's own perfect thing Life is paradigmless shapeshifting Inner mental simulation full of form is the vacation for emptiness Zarathustra Amareis Goertzel More analogies with everyday things is a great way! "Human body is piece of a giant puzzle of the universe." "Universe is a snowflake made out of snowflakes made out of snowflakes and our organism is one of those snowflakes and our mind can be any of those, the universal snowflake, body snowflake, no snowflake at all, or all at once, or oscillating between many..." Or I love this Allan Watts quote: "Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun." Look at what is seeking or suffering and interconnect it with the perfection of what is Yonede Lemma is the Indras net of mathematics Mathematical neurophenomenology with focus on suffering What are 2 or 3 of the latest pieces of content you've listened to / watched / read recently that you think more people should know about? i know that i know nothing but if i know that i know nothing how can i know that i know nothing? I like defining truthness of models as a fuzzy property of how the model is predictive in its domain All ises and isnts aren't Retweet Andres Emotion shapeshifting lecture from @Plinz posted by @bronzeagepapi in the QRI discord server youtu.be/LgwjcqhkOA4 Free yourself by unsatisfactiry truthseeking by dissolving truth forming faculties and truth and untruth duality Memes Wandering mind is unhappy mind When you think about the equation of happiness, you think out the equation is not thinking (yes in theory, partially in practice?) (with functional biohardware) You are the reflection of your environment. The people you are around, the content you watch shape your beliefs and reactions. In unloving, judgmental, scared, panicking, hopeless, disconnected, resisting, ingroup outgroup categorizing, environment, one becomes that and feels disconnection, isolation, dissonance, uncertainity, loneliness etc. which causes stress aka inner dissonance which causes most negative mental properties such as anxiety or depression. If a person is in an environment full of love, enthusiasm, joy, energy, compassion, spontaneity, inner peace, helping, healing, wakefulness, trusting, wisdom, humbleness, generosity, relaxation, allowance, nondual interconnectedness of people, absence of resistance to what is, no grasping hyperfixation to concrete thoughts or emotions or sensations in general, etc., one is becomes like that too. All the more positive valence properties seem to share the property of symmetrical thinking, aka easier information flow, less inner tension of experience fluid and less uncertainity of beliefs, or raw nonsymbolic experience where nothing is judged by concepts. Genes can determine initial attractions towards different environments and styles of thinking, but its very plastic when it comes to environmental factors. Meditation or psychedelics increase this plasticity that allows one to change his beliefs even more. Environment, let it be online or in real life, that supports this, makes one feel connected even more. Good regulator theorem from cybernetics plus symmetry theory of valence plus buddhist conception of suffering give interesting pointers to engineering mental wellbeing. Recommend Michael Taft fór trauma work [Healing the Exile in Nondual Awareness - YouTube](https://youtu.be/4cN5M_8r3Gc) Big part of modern society doesn't clean up, defragment, smoothen, harmonize, align, sort, resolve multiple conflicting internal pressures, learn to love their mind enough and end up with unpleasant chaos in their mind generating stress and mental problems as a consequence Share shamanism ChatGPT QRI stuff or the other experiments Disorders of Thought Are Severe Mood Disorders: the Selective Attention Defect in Mania Challenges the Kraepelinian Dichotomy—A Review The very process that makes us effectively adapt to the environment by selecting relevant information in the sensory data and constructing relevant efficient for survival and collective goals useful hypotheses/models about them makes us vulnerable to selfdestructive selfdecieving negative dukkha suffering spirals trip discord msgs Heh now I'm fascinated how some stories we construct try to find some coherent linear story with pure intention in chaotic nonlinear dynamics of society full of tons of codependent cocausing dynamic continuous variables that themselves are beyond human linear thinking approximations. The more an individual tends to neurophenomenologically vibe with other people, the more he feels connected with the whole, the more he agrees with others in his environment, the less contrarian to the mainstream collective outsider mental constructions beliefs emerge in his mind. Which seems to be formed by both environment and genes. Mental issues or in general inner desynchronization or a lot of hard conceptual contractions leads to desynchronization of an individual with the collective. The more an individual tends to neurophenomenologically vibe with other people, the more he feels connected with the whole, the more he agrees with others in his environment, the less contrarian to the mainstream collective outsider mental constructions beliefs emerge in his mind. Which seems to be formed by both environment and genes. Mental issues or in general inner desynchronization or a lot of hard conceptual contractions seems to lead to desynchronization of an individual with the collective when it comes to his beliefs and behavior. IFS The more tense your body is, the more tense/contracted the mind is, the more it suffers, the more dissonance/stress/errors it feels, the more it thinks there's something wrong with it or the environment, the more unsatisfied it Is with what is, the more it gets into fights, the more it wants to escape, the more it feels trapped, the more it wants to fix what already is, the more hopeless that things wont change to good it tends to feel, the more broken it tends to hypothesize it is, the more bad experiences or trauma it forms, the more exiles emerge, the less unconditioned love it can feel, the more active the thinking mind is, the more it wanders, the more it ruminates, the more mental issues emerge, the more angry it is, the more neurotic it is, the more anxious it is, the more depressed, fixated, dangered, worried, uncertain, hurt, bored, tired it is, the less accepting, open, compassionate, at peace, fun, happy, relieved, blissful it is. Relaxing the body relaxes the mind and other way around. Meditation or/and theraphy to identify the sources of tension and relaxing them by befriending, updating them, which can also be helped by substances. Fullfilled basic needs are important too. Tension is associated with x, relaxation is associated with x. Tension is negative valence aka asymmetries aka worse information flow. Relaxation is positive valence aka symmetries aka easier information flow. Mind is like a canvas, you can decorate it with any rainbow you want which determines what other decorations you will want next Your mental framework determines what content is filtered or accepted retweet review of psychodisorders and say that connections between regions Is important in mental health as we measure higher connectivity between regions in patients that made their depression better Isness might be somewhat something moving on a fading road Emptiness in metarationality Linear algebra rap gods are metaphors for nonsymbolic aka intuitionbased aka Fristonian free energetic force or attractors in the neurophenomenological statespace one way to deconstruct all rational conctracted symbolic concepts is to make every concept into a god and then merge all those gods into nondual oneness including the god of nonduality himself merging with the god of duality inlcuding the god of gods merging with the god of nogods then you will see what is a very raw way *My doctor cutting raw into me* Me, in peaceful still state of mind: "What a pretty loving sensations of intense pain dancing in awareness." Just vibe with the environment and maybe embrace omnipotent misaligned AGI in climate change in collapsing civilization while helping remaining people survive with loving joyous compassion while in pure blissful peaceful equanimous stressfree vast spacious accepting state of mind (with trollface meme) Encode as many information in the least amount od bits possible by finding common structures among as many structures as you can. Spirit of category theory and complex systems. I wonder if there is any other label doing the same process. I see all those mental divergences from norm as spectrummy clusters of patterns in behavior caused genetically and environmentally that can create both adaptive or maladaptive patterns in behavior or neurobiology producing more than avarage suffering or happiness depending on the patterns. It can have evolutionary functions (such as being tribe leader, engineer, healer,...) to which one can adapt, but it also can make one desynchronize with the environment or in general with himself internally, creating suffering for the individual, and neurotheraphypharmatechnological methods or any behavior correlating with happiness empirically can change the neurobiology to make the individual fit in his environment more or help his neurobiology have dynamics that supports having hedonium in the first place, making him suffer less. On the other hand in some cases some proposed methods can contract him into social constructs and happiness conditionings which can kill his ability to see freeying emptiness and feel unconditional love. Aka why i didnt want to take calming meds when I havent figured myself out yet. It felt like solving symtoms instead of cause, it couldnt help me find fullfilling meaning and i didnt want to be nihilistic not thinking individual, it felt like escaping method, that's why I always want to go to the source of the problems. Different systems also maximize different things with different intensities with different philosophical and political systems. Happiness or agency or productivity or technology or spirituality for example, after basic needs of people are met (not always haha), which determines what should be normal by social constructs,... Its fascinating how different cultures have different set of normal behaviors and therefore different definitions of mental divergences that dont make the individual fit into the environment which then tries to fix him to fit into the environment. Avarage modernist american/european city where psychosis is seeing empirically unmeasurable stuff (which sometimes breaks down haha) versus buddhist monk centers where its weird to not be dissolved versus spiritual groups where experiencing minds to the fullest isnt weird versus hyperfundamentalist muslim or christian countries where not believing in god is sign of devil that needs to be fixed with with neurotheraphypharmatechnological intervention. I'm an individual that loves to play with his internal models in the sea of atheistic Czechia, which isnt very compatible with most people here lol, but i can find compatible people where anyway. But I'm glad we don't tryhard capitalism as hard as America. The very process that makes us effectively adapt to the environment by selecting relevant information in sensory data and constructing relevant for survival and collective goals useful hypotheses/models about them makes us vulnerable to selfdestructive dukkha suffering spirals. ADHD, causing the individual to jump from one thing to other on his mind, having trouble finishing stuff, forgetting stuff, or autism making the individual create meaning of life around super specific topic, which makes him not being able to talk to people with normal social constructs, can create suffering. But combined gives the ability to do asperger like hyperfocus on topics that are extremely meaningful for the individual, which can on the other hand create meaningful life, status, sense of freedom,... It has to be compatible with the environment tho, to sustain the individual with the collective. To reduce individual's sense of uncertainity of his basic needs and meaning of life being fullfilled,... it can be adaptive or maladaptive. Stress is mostly not good neurobiologically for hedonium belief networks with consonant activity and functioning biohardware that isnt collapsing even tho it can enhance concrete productivity. You also dont want configurations that permanently break down some needed brain's functions such as for example consistent inner world simulation or ability to model somewhat coherent stories to make you survive with the environment or not getting sucked into bad wellbeing attractor. In thinking of getting a certificate in internal family systems psychotheraphy im thinking of absolutely symmetrical highest positive valence state as this universal wave function across mental representations where everything is entangled this way (post categorical quantum natural language processing study) my list of goodness (post my hypnosis nahravka text) Hughlow selffocus image [Self-Entropic Broadening Theory: Toward a New Understanding of Self and Behavior Change Informed by Psychedelics and Psychosis - PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36113878/#:~:text=SIGNIFICANCE%20STATEMENT%3A%20Self%2Dentropic%20broadening,transdiagnostic%20applicability%20of%20classic%20psychedelics.) _"Trips and neurotransmitters: Discovering principled patterns across 6850 hallucinogenic experiences"_ image I was ať a nerd party and they gave me all the badges I discussed application of AI social communication with lonely elders here in Czechia yesterday I showed this to my friend that is stuck in strong grief for mom attractor Reconstructing, approximating her via AI that can do dialogs is one way that could help him 🤔 There's no noness Meditation and psychedelics seem to have two dangers, a permanent unified identity dissolution without internal holistic integration (such as with buddhist philosophy memeplexes for example) creating too much sense of uncertainity (dark night of the soul) or annealing into some very dissonant top down processing patterns attractor (hell realms). Wellbeing is physical configuration in the brain that can be engineered Make distractions become your meditation object Observing, accepting, noticing the needs of, creating compromises, showing updated environment to outdated sensations in open vast spacious safe awareness that includes (is made of) of all other conceptual thoughts Little bayesian computational neuropsychology as a treat Science starts with faith that world is learnable and controllable