Dark nights of the soul seem the be the result of disintegration of the psyche before it gets unified with more transcendental nonconceptuality, oneness, love and so on. When the self center hub dissolves, but there is no ocean efficient at stress dissipation of sensations to be effortlessly floating in. So you end up with dense ground with some processes instead. With much less flow of neural activity, its like you literally died, being a rigid disconnected void. Being a rigid metal ground with nothing really happening, or some things happening in their own place, but lonely, depressive or anxious, full of error signals. When the density gets dissolved into fluidity and things just weee by themself and effortless joyous activity happens lightly in this depth, you enter the state of free flowing ocean without effort. Neural annealing activities, interconnecting constructive meditation of love, oneness, beauty, wholeness, mandala, kindness to the rescue! ===sociology (wellbeing in society, movement for mitigating existencial risks, movement for meaning, movement for consciousness utopia)=== ===neurotechnology (relaxing focusing neurohelmets, deep brain stimulation)=== ===Interconneting these concepts=== ===Notes by others=== ==Other concepts in fields of study in simple and technical terms of the general scientific framework== ===psychology (nostalgia, intelligence)=== ====Nostalgia==== Nostalgia can be seen as an inverse of trauma, consance adding to past memories where nervous system thought you flourished, so that you start to idealize the memories blindly seeing it as better than it actually was it might be evolutionary useful in the sense that it makes you more stick to behaviors that benefited you in relation to those that didnt benefit you, but it has its failure modes, you can start being nostalgic about things that actually harmed you. It might be emergent from the fact that the longer untouched memories are in the brain, the less full of information they tend to be as the structure disintegrates to entropy overtime when one doesnt remind himself often of them to strenghten the connections, which results in the phenomenology of "Good old simple times..." ====Intelligence==== Ability to make models. Ability to find selforganizing principles solving things for you.<ref>[[Qualia Research Institute](https://qri.org/)blog/digital-sentience Intelligence, Andrés Gómez-Emilsson, 2022]</ref> Ability to adapt to new environments. Ability to reduce uncertainity.<ref>[[- YouTube]([- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==V_VXOdf1NMw)) Intelligence, Karl Friston, 2023]</ref> Care seems to be the driver of intelligence. <ref>[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9140411/ Biology, Buddhism, and AI: Care as the Driver of Intelligence, Michael Levin et al., 2022]</ref> ====Creativity==== Added stochastic activity to rigid connections, exploring new possible conceptual configurations by combinations, synthesis, novel structures.<ref>[[Active inference explained with Prof. Karl Friston - YouTube](https://youtu.be/XohuuIi7Jt8?t==4111) Creativity, Karl Friston, 2022]</ref> ===substances (weed, alcohol)=== ===meditation, dharma, psychedelia, spirituality (lucid dreaming, are chakras real?)=== ====Dreaming and lucid dreaming==== Dreams are stochastic activity in the neural networks and existing energy sinks that evolutionary survive get projected into the experience. In lucid dreams, self model's causal processes are reconnected. They evolutionary serve the purpose of generalizing our mental representations, such that we don't overfit in everday tasks.<ref>[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389921000647 The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization, Erik Hoel, 2021]</ref> <references/> ====Chakras==== Chakras may be selforganized attractor topological energy sinks in the nervous system where one feels it, or they may be mapping of states of dynamics of brain centers to the body map representation, they may fascilitate efficient recruiting of certain neural populations for certain tasks, cultivating symmetrification of communication. ====Sex==== Sex can be so very therapeutic, I feel like there are two types of very intense sex: becoming a lustful instinctive animal or connecting deeply through relaxation (long foreplay, slow cuddling, a little light, candle, relaxing music, massage... warm shower/bath/hot tub)... in both cases, thinking is muted, one is in the present, there is mutual union with the universe ====message, music==== ===selfimprovement (monk mode, avoiding instant gratification, habit building)=== ===neurotechnology (merging with machines, enhancing intelligence and feels)=== ===unified physics, AGI alignment, philosophical play, other notes=== ====Studying==== ====Is there life after death? Is there rebirth?==== Pragmatically in science: Materialistic/Nonpanpsychist/Spacetimefundamentalism/Closed or empty individualism: Probably not empirically provable in our lifetime. Maybe? Nobody actually knows. Idealistic/Panpsychist/Physicalist/Realityisbeyondspacetime/Open individualism: It makes different sense in a a different lens where space and linear time and distinctions are evolutionary useful illusions in the interface with reality. Pragmatically in experience: Belief in rebirth or eternal life is useful mental construct narrarive to surpress the fear from the unknown of death. I prefer to live in the love with the unknown, that's how I see groundless ground. No conceptual guarding grounding fabrications! Do some death sangha! ====Imagining utopia==== Soon when we solve and transcend loneliness and suffering we will look at our ancestors from our transhumanist neobuddhist AGI global hyperorganism utopia where we are all utterly connected in the void beyond space and time and laugh about how we permanently transcended evolution's tendency to implement "suffering and making distinctions in experience between us in the open individualist field of conscious physics" local minimas while swimming in the blissful moment forever while mitigating destabilizing factors and existencial risks if those arent solved. ===Interconneting these concepts=== [Just Look At The Thing! – How The Science of Consciousness Informs Ethics — EA Forum Bots]([Just Look At The Thing! – How The Science of Consciousness Informs Ethics — EA Forum Bots]([Just Look At The Thing! – How The Science of Consciousness Informs Ethics — EA Forum Bots](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/bvtAXefTDQgHxc9BR/just-look-at-the-thing-how-the-science-of-consciousness))) [The Symmetry Theory of Valence 2020 Overview]([The Symmetry Theory of Valence 2020 Overview]([Qualia Research Institute](https://qri.org/)blog/symmetry-theory-of-valence-2020)) Effective buddhahood of internal and external compassion: evaluating beliefs and actions according to calculating an integral of total psychological valence and sustainability of consciousness among time and space though pragmatically we need to take in account the whole societal system's all sort of natural laws, game theoretic survivability, ressilience, stability, progression out of bad local minimas and so on ==Multiple people in one brain== it can be modelled as there doesnt have to be single governing unifying top down process but multiple of them living in that single brain, or in the language of markov blankets it would be two interacting global markov blankets with their implementation being dependant on what model of the brain one chooses [OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF](https://psyarxiv.com/6eqxh)))) or more generally, one can also use various predicted solutions to the binding problem out there (how you get unified experience from "distrinct" brain processes, what bounds an experience) and say that this is what breaks down in brains with multiple people living in it [Binding problem - Wikipedia]([Binding problem - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_problem)) [Holonomic brain theory - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holonomic_brain_theory)#Deep_and_surface_structure_of_memory [Quantum - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum)_mind#David_Pearceele [Frontiers | Don’t forget the boundary problem! How EM field topology can address the overlooked cousin to the binding problem for consciousness]([Frontiers | Don’t forget the boundary problem! How EM field topology can address the overlooked cousin to the binding problem for consciousness]([Frontiers | Don’t forget the boundary problem! How EM field topology can address the overlooked cousin to the binding problem for consciousness]([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)))) plus its also true that there are various schools of thought that assume binding problem doesnt exist because they use completely different assumptions in math modelling or in ontology (instead of physicalism using idealism for example :D) or assuming that all those solutions will have problems with really figuring out "true causality" or that its not graspable by mathematical modelling ==Usefulness of models== Models are trying to find the most optimal ecosystem of bayesian priors all the way down 😄 different evolutionary niches in our sensemaking that are result of many evolutionary influences [Epistemic Communities under Active Inference - PubMed]([Epistemic Communities under Active Inference - PubMed]([Epistemic Communities under Active Inference - PubMed]([Epistemic Communities under Active Inference - PubMed]([Epistemic Communities under Active Inference - PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35455140/))))) in the uncertainity reduction paradigm, i converged onto model's usefullness being gathered from its predictivity, explanatory power, degree of universality, compressive power, how good it feels, in general how pragmatic for achieving goals (objective functions) it is for the individual or the collective (reducible to basic needs with lots of archetypes of selfactualization?) (cultural or spiritual frameworks are here on the collective scale) and those parameters are different for different usecases - science wants predictivity at the cost of everything else for example, and sometimes we tend to fail there (for example sabine hossenfelder being angry at physics community following mathematical beauty too much in particle physics) this is why i love raw bayesianism in science [PaperStream #008.0 ~ An Active Inference Ontology for Decentralized Science (AEOS) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/live/F7GF0VsgdDc?feature==share) plus i find it interesting how some models attempt to predict future but they end up forming future instead, descriptive vs prescriptive, lots of that is in sociology for example, and it can be in psychology as well in the form of psychotechnologies all models as useful abstractions, trying to grasp whats happening internally, conscious and subconscious processes [[2302.06403] Sources of Richness and Ineffability for Phenomenally Conscious States]([[2302.06403] Sources of Richness and Ineffability for Phenomenally Conscious States]([[2302.06403] Sources of Richness and Ineffability for Phenomenally Conscious States](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06403))) [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==jXEJO_5g0ho) "Sources of Richness and Ineffability for Phenomenally Conscious States" - as in the paper, we cannot fully grasp our experience ==Science communication== ==Philosophical problems== https://imgur.com/a/sfr1r0S Philosophical problems are just multiscale evolutionary pressures to your mind's free energy minimizing acting and modelling of yourself and the environment [Epistemic Communities under Active Inference - PubMed]([Epistemic Communities under Active Inference - PubMed]([Epistemic Communities under Active Inference - PubMed]([Epistemic Communities under Active Inference - PubMed]([Epistemic Communities under Active Inference - PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35455140/))))) ==God's God?== Recursive Fractal God of God's Gods God's........................God's God's........................God's God's........................God's There's awareness, field of consciousness like a background spacetime, and interacting ecosystem of alters (subagents or processes in general) as the content in that, that tend to merge when there's enough correlation through interaction between them, but dont have to, or there can be some higherorder metaprocess that plays with those subprocesses also, being like a dirigent of orchestra of cats, and there can be multiple of those observing or governing dirigent or another higherorder governing dirigent directing the subdirigents. the governing structures dont have to be hiearchical and can also get circular or flat (when experiencing nothingness, there's none of those things). they can be formalized as interacting markov blankets with various degrees of complexity (inert particle, modeller, agentic acter,...) corresponding to nonlinearly interlocking activity of various neural populations in the free energy principle paradigm 🤔 and possibly math of neural field theory can be used - interacting nonlinear clusters of waves, shapes ==Sex with the universe?== [TRANSCENDING SPIRITUALITY (Thots On Free Will vs. Determinism) - YouTube]([TRANSCENDING SPIRITUALITY (Thots On Free Will vs. Determinism) - YouTube](https://youtu.be/cG4TVO5X5tM)?t==14) In my internal world simulation, on psychedelics on meditation, i have experiences of fucking various deities or the whole universe (and becoming it, fusing into reality as Indra's net of all possible mental and physical universes interacting), also getting dominated by the universe, but also loved fundamentally, or when the universe was massaging the depths of my intimite soul, or classicaly getting fucked in nonsexual ways as in getting destroyed ==Notes by others== ===Meditation=== ====Reconstruction==== How to reconstruct yourself after deconstructing yourself for wellbeing? "I love whatever is going to happen, whatever my fate is. I love and want everything that's going to happen to happen, because it's all just perfect!" Selfreinforcing bayesian updating stable equilibria. We're not flooded by errors that are not predicted, or the sense that the errors are are predicted and therefore are not inherently suffering making. Amor Fati, that comes from Nietzsche, but originally goes back to Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, and in a sense is really the lens that Dzogchen, the great Perfection, is coming from. "Now that we've talked about dissolving priors in the cortical hiearchy or dereifying concepts, reducing concept weights, seeing concepts as just nebulous mental constructions, by reducing stress, what is it to build back up a good predictive hierarchy? What's the practical take-home message there? Now that we've talked about breaking it down what do we do to build back up in the in a beautiful way? I think that as you say traditionally in contemplative systems the first part is to dissolve things to to the ground or to the groundless ground or to the absolute or to nothingness or whatever language one wants to use to see that everything's a construction and but you can't live from there. That might be like amazing, you could be in a a beautiful deep meditative absorption state of pure nothingness, pure light, minimum phenomenal experiences as Thomas Metzinger has coined it, but you can't live from there and so we have to come back and as we reconstruct the world, if we reconstruct the same crime same hierarchy we're back in the suffering, so what we have to do, along the way we get these insights, and we talked about the three marks of existence, the three characteristics, and those insights are that are for example traditional insights that can allow us to see the world in new and beautiful ways, in ways in which we're not flooded by errors that are not predicted, or the sense that the errors are are predicted and therefore are not inherently suffering making. But actually the landscape of priors that is possible is enormous, to put it in computational terms, the state space, that we can live within, is just this enormous conceptual landscape, this massive weight matrix of neural network weights of high-level priors, we can construct our world in many ways. Some of those priors will tend to be stable and some will not. We talked about the depressed persons prior being kind of self-reinforcing if I conceive of the world in a way that I'm a useless person, the world's an awful place, always everything goes wrong, and then I look at the world with that lens and I basically say what is the probability that the sensory data that I get, given that that I have this hypothesis, what's the probability that this conforms. And guess what, you find that the world turns out to be like that. You just pick up all this negative stuff, the world turns out to be awful, you see everything that goes wrong, and that's correct. But if on the other hand you have this optimistic beautiful world view that that the world's an amazing place, it's an absolute gift and a miracle, and it's just this absolutely beautiful passing show, and you look at the world through that lens, guess what? You're gonna live in the sacred world, you're going to live in this ecstatic beautiful place. So I often give this. One of the most spectacular lenses which people can come to live is a lens that I call Amor Fati, that comes from Nietzsche, but originally goes back to Epictetus and and Marcus Aurelius, and in a sense I will say, is really the lens that Dzogchen, the great Perfection, is coming from. That is the lens that I love whatever is going to happen, whatever my fate is. And, you have this, you see the world, and you say, look! The world is absolutely amazing! It's perfect! Everything that is happening, I want it to happen, I want everything that's going to happen to happen, because it's all just perfect! And guess what! Everything does happen, exactly what happens, and you get what you want, and it's ecstatic! Because you're totally fulfilled, the world is just unfolding in some sort of perfect way, and actually, you know, we really can't tune into this. Even this sort of difficulty of suffering and that we see in the world is part of an overall system of the fact that we can even get out of suffering! And in a forest you're going to have a beautiful flourishing forest and part of that almost entails that there'll be some trees that will be more shaded by other trees that are trying to grow and that way species virgin. So there is this Amor Fati lens, and it is exquisite to live within these lenses. I would say that they are stable equilibria that can be constructed in the sense that these priors reinforce themselves. You can't just put in any priors that are not in some sense validated through Bayesian updating. So what we have to see is that the way of looking at the world reinforces that way of looking at the world. These are things that have been discovered over thousands of years of wisdom and they're beautiful ways of living. Now we're just coming up against maybe one of the reasons why religion has been so useful for us because I guess religions convey some of these high-level priors that when installed are self-fueling in beautiful ways. Like, we've learned over thousands of years, what kind of priors, when installed, help us manage the volatility of our environment, in ways that make our lives beautiful. Let's think through some of the big religions, some of the big spiritual movements, and see what priors they're installing."<ref>[[- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==ruH3KYcPoDE) Constructing Our Lives: with Dr Shamil Chandaria]</ref> ===Music===