[There Are No Laws of Physics. There’s Only the Landscape. | Quanta Magazine](https://www.quantamagazine.org/there-are-no-laws-of-physics-theres-only-the-landscape-20180604/) There "exists" a landscape of predictive models, where different models are more predictive in different domains, or many models are equally predictive in the same domain. An example of such a collection of models is different models in physics, such as the mathematics of quantum mechanics and general relativity, or in general polycomputing https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10675 , and each such model has infinitely many possible philosophical interpretations, such as many interpretations of quantum mechanics or matter/mind/both/none/something else/god/all is fundamental ontology, which doesn't change their predictive power. Any concrete ontological instance of this general framework is some configuration of the highest abstraction levels in the brain, including this what I'm writing. [A Sensory-Motor Theory of the Neocortex based on Active Predictive Coding | bioRxiv](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.30.522267v1) Individual and Collective Connectome Synchronization Crisis philosophy of science https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/803415701359820850/1060996037034115092/image.png?width=799&height=609 How to learn a field: Make a Twitter account where you follow only people from that field. Observe your brain slowly get hijacked by Twitter's algorithm maximizing yummy unpredictable rewards as news from that field. Your monkey brain associates the field with that yummy. Your brain now generates gazillion dopamine aka motivation aka learning when it sees anything related to that field and seeks it more and more and you get absorbed by it and as it swallows you, eventually your whole self and world model becomes the field itself. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6490158/ Elevated connectivity of a ventral limbic affective network: excessive negative mood (dysphoria) Decreased connectivity of a frontal‐striatal reward network: loss of interest, motivation, and pleasure (anhedonia) Enhanced default mode network connectivity: depressive rumination Diminished connectivity of a dorsal cognitive control network: cognitive deficits especially ineffective top‐down control of negative thoughts and emotions Your mood determines your thoughts When you hack your inner world simulation such that sky is aware of your thoughts and body sensations, eventually making each part of the universe and the boundless infinite space around it conscious and feeling by itself and everything else fully in the eternal present moment, boundaries and partitioning dissolve, you relax into loving bliss and thoughts just stop (link Frank Yang and Michael Taft) Or you can take 5-MeO-DMT, where it's usually described as pure infinite consciousness that is universal. Metacrisis as the absence of global external conditions for cultivating local internal unity How much i love my friends Infinity meme Any more money than enough money relative to the cost of living probably won't make you happier in the long term. What thing do you think/do/want to do to be more happy in the long term? Paradigmless shapeshifting Become so autistic that you see through autism itself Miserable state of mind thinks it's gonna last forever. That's a very fun untrue delusion. done For others: This log scale is getting into peer reviewed literature here: [OSF](https://psyarxiv.com/krysx/) [Active Dreaming is More Powerful than Meditation and Safer than Psychedelics](https://superbowl.substack.com/p/dreaming-is-better-than-meditation) Reward is not nessesary https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2211.10851 done valence decoding [EEG-based detection of emotional valence towards a reproducible measurement of emotions | Scientific Reports](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-00812-7) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9630252 The way our reward architecture is constructed makes it difficult for us to have a clear sense of what it is that we enjoy about life. Our brains reinforce the pursuit of specific objects, situations, and headspaces, which gives the impression that these are intrinsically valuable. But this is an illusion. In reality such conditions trigger positive valence changes to our experience, and it is those that we are really after (as evidenced by the way in which our reward architecture is modified in presence of euphoric and dysphoric drugs and external stimuli such as music). We call this illusion the tyranny of the intentional object because in philosophy “intentionality” refers to “what the experience is about”. Our world-simulations chain us to the feeling that external objects, circumstances, and headspaces are the very source of value. More so, dissociating from such sources of positive valence triggers negative valence, so critical insight into the way our reward architecture really works is itself negatively reinforced by it. how mood tunes predictions [How mood tunes prediction: a neurophenomenological account of mood and its disturbance in major depression - PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32818063/) schizophrenic delusion as giving too little precision on sensory data therefore seeing the world using top down predictions asperger autism as giving too much precision on prediction errors, creating complex models to avoid them also weakened theory of mind part of brain, modelling others differently, not synchronizing with most people active inference memeplex is a metaprogramming language for the approximately bayesian brain Spending more of one's income on others predicted greater happiness than those spending more money on themselves. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1150952 We're never actually predicting the world per se, we're predicting our ability to interact with the world in optionally gripping fashion using what we've learned my love and gratitude Person reading this done 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 the more you seek the less pleasure you feel Hegel is just European Buddha Něco z mý přednášky The dose of dopaminogenic activities makes the poison We are stochastic parrots done Your mind is the the reflection of your environment We live in a learned generative model meaning crisis as the absence ofexternal conditions supporting dynamical flexible interconnectivity between parts of the brain in everyone making mental photos z my prednasky I suspect Frank Yang created conscious controllable neuroplasticity from central executive network that allows to have different types of experience as just consciously changable parameters with massively weakened default mode network that usually limits this maxed out mind's selfmetaprogramming hyperparameter level Does khole count as cessation [Neuronal topology as set of braids: Information processing, transformation and dynamics | Optical Memory and Neural Networks](https://link.springer.com/article/10.3103/S1060992X17030043) Nirvana and samara are your own creation What Is the most intelectually stimulating video you've seen? Dying is very efficient for deconditioning done Stop waiting for a perfect situation and try doing it even in imperfect conditions and notice that its not as imperfect as you thought. Or meditate and notice that imperfectness is illusion, that imperfectness is also perfect, since every moment is actually part of nature's perfect unfoldment mendala. meditation midwit meme Discordianism post Brain is a physical system Dont get fixated on noself or emptiness, emphasis should be on Pprmanent separate unchanging I was thinking about organizing a theory + practice online meditation retreat in the Qualia Research Institute discord server. Every type of being could find their part. https://twitter.com/burny_tech/status/1619979180690776069 Karl Friston on dark night of the soul do fb psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs https://twitter.com/Plinz/status/1619635316670988289 Infinite boundaryless consciousness awareness in meditation or 5-MeO-DMT as a zero information global superposition of a blank pattern? correlation - correlate causation - ...causate What do you do/want to do to fix/keep/enhance your wellbeing? denormalize chronic stress (post feedback loops of depression) wait its all basic biological needs cosplaying as smart human thoughts always has been wait its all need for pleasant interconnectedness of internal signals aka valence always has been if distinct parts of the brain just stop communicating instead of entropically interconnect, you get dark nights first you deconstruct yourself and then reconstruct yourself more holistically with less dualities, with more interconnectedness by going the middle way everywhere if you fail the holistic reconstruction, you end up in dark nights where distinct parts of the brain dont communicate with eachother or communicate without consistent patterns welcome to the year 2100, welcome to the enlightenment neurosurgery clinic where we cut your default mode network and upgrade your central executive network and the commmunication between those! Denormalize being okay with people getting PTSD from university Learning should be fun not pain Reforma školství nebo systému “Fun” is a pleasure category that our mind generates to make play bearable. The purpose of play is the production of training data. The purpose of school is to decouple learning from playing: school teaches us how to ignore our intrinsic curiosity, and give up control of our time. Write a poem about predictive coding mother buddha love helping us get out of dark night of the soul done What does neuroscience not explain about the mind? moje rozbasneni co je realita https://discord.com/channels/991774141025886218/991779122831441971/1070800128392298596 Meta hard problem of ontology! What is ontology itself? Why should there be anything fundamental in the first place? Why should there be some substance or way of reasoning under everything? ActInf GuestStream #025.1 ~ "Autistic-Like Traits, Positive Schizot. "Truth" is end of knowledge Setkal se tu někdo se závislostí? U mě to byly cukr, sociální sítě, videa, porno, sex, orgasmy, hudba, roztomilost, filozofie, KFC, kofein, videohry, jednu chvíli LSD, na člověku,... 😄 Moje oblíbená myšlenka: Závislost je zmenšování množství věcí, co ti přináší potěšení. Štěstí je zvětšování množství věcí, co ti přináší potěšení. Je třeba toto množství zvětšovat, aby co nejvíce situací přinášelo wellbeing. Takže ty různé věci co jsem vyjmenoval v určité míře můžou přidat potěšení do celkového života, ale když se stane, že jenom ta pár/jedna věc přináší štěstí, větsinou kvůli nadužívání, tak to není fajn. Nebo ještě extrém je když člověk celej den čučí na sociální sítě a ani mu to už kvůli toleranci či FOMO či rozbíjení sebejistoty či strachu nepřináší štěstí a je z toho spíš v depce či úzkostech. Může to být útěk od nejaký mentální nepohody. Jde z toho ven pomocí psychoterapie (možnost je určitýma látkama asistovanou) či meditace, nebo často chybí něco ze základních potřeb. Některým nepomáhá ani to co jsem vyjmenoval, ale pomohl jim třeba elektrodový implantát do mozku. (deep brain stimulation) Body, thoughts, breath, space, time, depth, sounds, objects, space around objects, attention, mechanisms of attention, energy, intent to meditate, mental echo of phenomena - image and picture of the image, sound and mental image of the sound, intention of an action and the action (moving arm), intension to move attention and attention moving, anything we think is us or the other (subject and object), center, boundary, our ontology, ways of reasoning, categories, anything discrete/dual in our sensory channels (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch) or thoughts (image or language, assumptions, hypotheses, beliefs, models, narratives), feelings, emotions, the fact that senses are not seen as one unified sense door, that fact that sensations are aware of themselves at their own place and are coming from void to void timelessly spacelessly Done Come join wellbeing maxxing by using both attractors of knowledge with causal power Maybe you need weaker default mode network for more nondual ontologies to make sense/stick in a stable way? :D It's a hindrance. Notice hindrance, objectify it, throw it away or replace it by making it just a fabrication, optionally deconstruct it or show it proof that it serves no purpose anymore or show it love if it still seems real or add wholesome thoughts. Or show it that it doesn't exist without space and time with no possible linear structure and self other distinction. Dont make any-thing (any-no-thing?) into a thing, not even no-thing-ness or a process of not making anything into a thing I'm willing to give up the amount of technological/economical progress for better mental wellbeing of the population What are all the for example new pharmacological drugs or neurotechnology good for if there are raising rates of mental pain I suspect this isnt because of genetics, I very much suspect this is environmental I feel like the most efficient way of making change in the real word towards better sum of wellbeing of a population on a global scale is popularizing efficient therapheutic methods, pushing denormalizing chronically stressful etc. life culturally via politics, focusing on what unites us, instead of what divides us, making different kind of memetics optimizing for wellbeing more normal. What do you think is an efficient way to reduce this kind of suffering in population? Or will singularity catch up and give us technological infinite bliss before we collapse under stress? Maybe for some minorities. “The Coordination Dynamics of Multiple Agents” ~ Dr. Mengsen Zhang ~ Stanford Complexity Group Wellbeing engineering discord channel silicon valley programmers transform adderall or psychedelics into code "become" "mental construct fluid" and never worry about in what "social constructs" "you" fit in ever again the more general your nervous system is (the more experiences it make make sense of) the harder it is to kill it the more you die the more it expands making it even harder but eventually you can get into permanent death tho i wonder to what extend can permanent death work, because you still need basic biological functions and ability to communicate you can get this constant always active highly symmetrical everything interconnecting attractor that is extremely pleasant (its a spectrum) nondual philosophy or complex systems also generate this, but transcendental meditation and psychedelics seem to go more directly the more you get into these states the more you learn to make them last longer you can remove craving for both existence and nonexistence, by unifying existence and nonexistence for example, seeing the nebulousity of real things and experiences ego death can be defined as when even your most fundamental priors and conceptual sense making things dissolve if you can still frame the experience, if its not uncomprehensible, full entropy, no anythings pattern matchable, then its still inside some structure the experience of nonexperience goes beyond ego death in this frame? the experiental nonexperience of nonexperiental experience, smash the nondually nondual duality people scared of ego death are scared of uncertainity, not knowing, being lost, loss of control, death of the stable structures that make them what they think they are on the other hand some people arent scared at all and then experience loss of control and can do not so good things transcendental philosophy such as buddhism prepares you for psychedelic experience by deeply ingraining the postulate that everything seemingly stable is fluid and impermanent and that reality is fundamentally nonconceptually incomprehensible but one can go beyond the duality of comprehensibility and noncomprehensibility Form is emptiness in western language matrix I identify as identifyless/mental construct fluid including this identification of nonidentification. "Become" it and never worry into what identitues, categories, boxes you fit in (social or individual) ever again! :P I feel like the current scientific ontology of physics is stuck in a quantum field theory attractor because in order to mentally simulate all the order outsiderish but in some places more deflatory or predictive theories you have to bend your mind out of or intuition, out of what we evolved for. We make simulations of content in spacetime model so that gets reflected in our physics so thinking without spacetime is hard to compute for most people so it doesnt stick. Chilling out in nondual Jhana / cessation + orgasm + DMT + LSD + MDMA + 5-MeO-DMT 😎 Live life to the fullest while being dead Become nothing in order to be everything Enlightenement is like watching wild animal documentary universal bayesianism insights Have you tried LSD DMT 5meo, which one Felt the best? Poll Have you tried psychedelics with and without meditation, was it better? Poll Balancing acceptance and change, allowance, cultivating wholesomeness, increasing soulfulness, fully inhabiting your life, becoming infinite love, remembering one's true self, awakening into oneness with the universe, open-mindedness, openheartedness, open-bodied-ness done Everything is just a nebulous dream-like rainbow-like mental construction. No source, destination, concepts. Groundless ground. Emptiness is empty too. If you think you understand emptiness then you don't understand emptiness. That's emptiness? How do you "explain" emptiness? :D bayesian brain meditation stuff i wrote to furry rationalists group The way to feel effortless infinite flow of life seems to be in general implemented by having higher order process out of the character's agency (this ideally as a parameter that can be set via various actions such as meditation) fueling all lower order processes That's phenomenologically universe doing things for you and "you" just sit down and watch it unfold Agency implies effort Effort (sense of doer) implies asymmetries Aka conceptual contractions saying what's good or bad, running counterfactual simulations and forces in the motorplanning space Flow of life implies nonduality, conceptlessness, symmetries, expansion and contraction at the same time This can result in falling in reward circuitry hijacking traps tho, there the conceptual mind is useful Or in groundless ground that isn't vast, still, spacious, accepting etc. - that is useful to cultivate to be functional while dissolved at the same time Flow implies surrender Ordinary life becomes like watching wild animal documentary vast, still, spacious, accepting etc. groundless ground implies positive valence Judgements, categories, go against unconditional love This also makes tripping much better Life is one giant trip anyway Unify psychedelic and meditative bliss with sober/dual reality! Universal middle way thinking pattern nonduals (dissolves) all symbolic conceptual dual mental constructions: identify a duality (something is true and opposite isnt), accept both sides, merge them, synthesis. What also seems to effictify guided meditations or love and kindness is that the instructions or compassion is coming from every part of the groundless ground (or infinite awareness) at once For the character it can seem like the universe is telling him absolute truth Surrendering to void -> being healed by God The more nothing you are, the less learned conditioned defence mechanisms, the more love there is Live life to the fullest while being dead memeplexes and vibes around you determine what gets stored in your nervous system In the groundless void, siblings in the womb of creation neurosis is a substitute for experiential intensity How to construct an AI chatbot that knows more about us than our best friends or relatives? Connect social media AI algorithms already finetuned on us with ChatGPT different kind of proofs: philosophers: it feels good mathematicians: its derived from these axioms under these rewriting rules scientists: all empirical data supports this model, so its true until its not engineers: it fookin works, i got Doom run on this alien computer using selfconstructed biology inspired electric selforganizi