Why do people seem to feel so unhappy? Let's look at the biggest predictor of happiness - strong human relationships. [The secret to happiness? Here’s some advice from the longest-running study on happiness - Harvard Health]([The secret to happiness? Here’s some advice from the longest-running study on happiness - Harvard Health]([The secret to happiness? Here’s some advice from the longest-running study on happiness - Harvard Health]([The secret to happiness? Here’s some advice from the longest-running study on happiness - Harvard Health]([The secret to happiness? Here’s some advice from the longest-running study on happiness - Harvard Health]([The secret to happiness? Here’s some advice from the longest-running study on happiness - Harvard Health]([The secret to happiness? Here’s some advice from the longest-running study on happiness - Harvard Health]([The secret to happiness? Here’s some advice from the longest-running study on happiness - Harvard Health]([The secret to happiness? Here’s some advice from the longest-running study on happiness - Harvard Health](https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-secret-to-happiness-heres-some-advice-from-the-longest-running-study-on-happiness-2017100512543))))))))) In what context do people live happy lives? When they're helping their tribe, or ingroup in general, unless you're a psychopath, and according to some researchers, psychopathy is on the rise. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/surviving-the-female-psychopath/202206/does-psychopathy-begin-us Where's the problem? I doubt genetic profile has changed, let's look into environmental factors. A lot of people report not being satisfied with their job, not seeing meaning in it, such as for example soul numbing corporate jobs, living from paycheck to paycheck. We need to feel connected to the collective and feel like we're doing good for it. This is the loneliness/interconnectedness crisis. We must cultivate a culture of connection to fix this. There are so many asymmetries in cultural dynamics killing this. Instead of making money for overly rich boss that's not altruistic, we wanna feel like adding value to our ingroup directly. This makes sense evolutionary, as this is the conditions we mostly evolved in. Collapse? [Are We Facing the Reality of Civilizational Collapse? | by umair haque | Eudaimonia and Co](https://eand.co/are-we-facing-the-reality-of-civilizational-collapse-18d2817cf85d?gi=671587558829) Open individualism is a memeplex inducing shared goal spaces in society and valence structualism/realism is a memeplex inducing more synergizing theory of mind modelling and also the shared goal spaces by "we all want valence". [ActInf GuestStream #009.1 ~ "Collective intelligence and active inference" - YouTube]([ActInf GuestStream #009.1 ~ "Collective intelligence and active inference" - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/live/odkks5F9ZMM?feature=share)) Daniel wellbeing description [Daniel Schmachtenberger: the urgency of planetary and social change to heal the mental health crisis - YouTube](https://youtu.be/-McfN9r8DzI) [Not a drop to drink: Rainwater polluted by chemicals worldwide, study says](https://www.foxweather.com/learn/rainwater-worldwide-epa-polluted-chemical) [Daniel Schmachtenberger: the urgency of planetary and social change to heal the mental health crisis - YouTube](https://youtu.be/-McfN9r8DzI)?t=3290 Tracking, regulace [The Most Dangerous Weapon Is Not Nuclear - YouTube]([The Most Dangerous Weapon Is Not Nuclear - YouTube]([The Most Dangerous Weapon Is Not Nuclear - YouTube]([The Most Dangerous Weapon Is Not Nuclear - YouTube](https://youtu.be/9FppammO1zk)))) What we owe the future [Can we make the future a million years from now go better? - YouTube]([Can we make the future a million years from now go better? - YouTube]([Can we make the future a million years from now go better? - YouTube](https://youtu.be/_uV3wP5z51U))) solutions: attempting to change the existing monopoly corporate giant's inner structure by enforcing wellbeing research into what they maximize (add values to the objective functions of facebook more [MEANING ALIGNMENT INSTITUTE]([MEANING ALIGNMENT INSTITUTE]([MEANING ALIGNMENT INSTITUTE]([MEANING ALIGNMENT INSTITUTE]([MEANING ALIGNMENT INSTITUTE](https://meaningalignment.org/))))) ) but also understanding their goals with compassion and economic incentives (slowly transform corporate mindfullness into deep compassion traditions by lecturing and practicing it?) will this be enough though, how to change the global maladaptive evolutionary economical incentives, are they centralized in corporates and psychopathic people with giant amount of power or distributed emergent dynamics from noncompassionate society and tons of generational trauma generating endless trust issues and driving disconnection crisis? how to direct psychopathic economic incentives into nonpsychopathic ones?? attempt at slow cultural transformation?? the fact that the cultural divide seems to be exponentially accelerating doesnt seem to be nice https://twitter.com/InferenceActive/status/1671522046407327747 [ActInf Livestream #045.0 ~ "The free energy principle made simpler but not too simple" - YouTube]([ActInf Livestream #045.0 ~ "The free energy principle made simpler but not too simple" - YouTube]([ActInf Livestream #045.0 ~ "The free energy principle made simpler but not too simple" - YouTube]([ActInf Livestream #045.0 ~ "The free energy principle made simpler but not too simple" - YouTube]([ActInf Livestream #045.0 ~ "The free energy principle made simpler but not too simple" - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MQQKaKEXs0))))) Observer with causal power over mental processes (metacognition, agency, placebo) and actions in world (muscles, language) as most basic construct in experience vanishes when this top markov blanket's activity turns off in anestesia, consciousness disorders, cessations, death. [ActInf GuestStream 045.1 ~ Ramstead & Albarracin: "The inner screen model of consciousness" - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Jyj6LAb8g) Sense of fundamental agency and deepest observer seems to have neural correlate in the evolutionary oldest part of the brain, irreducible markov blanket at the top of the cortical heterarchy in the hippocampus and its surroundings. https://twitter.com/PessoaBrain/status/1662455704966365184 This part is not influenced by other parts of the brain but it causally influences other parts through neuromodulation. When we lack sense of agency, we lack strength in the our brain's circuits corresponding to that activity, let it be this most fundamental part of our experience, or concrete functional brain regions corresponding to valence assignment, memory, attention, abstract thought, empathy, love for everything and so on. [Large-scale brain network - Wikipedia]([Large-scale brain network - Wikipedia]([Large-scale brain network - Wikipedia]([Large-scale brain network - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-scale_brain_network)))) Those functions can be healed or enhanced by increasing activity via neurostimulation https://academic.oup.com/brain/article-abstract/146/6/2214/6835141?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2218958120 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6490158/ or psychotechnologies such as meditation. It seems that on deconstructive meditation through depth reduction we strenghten the fundamental agentic processes that lead to more sense of lucity and antiaddictive properties. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342100261X For example on attentional meditation [The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube]([The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube]([The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube]([The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube]([The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube]([The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube]([The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube]([The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube]([The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube]([The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube]([The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube]([The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube]([The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube]([The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube]([The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube]([The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube]([The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg3cQXf4zSE))))))))))))))))) [The True Nature of Now: Meditation and the Predictive Brain | Ruben Laukkonen, Ph.D. - YouTube]([The True Nature of Now: Meditation and the Predictive Brain | Ruben Laukkonen, Ph.D. - YouTube]([The True Nature of Now: Meditation and the Predictive Brain | Ruben Laukkonen, Ph.D. - YouTube]([The True Nature of Now: Meditation and the Predictive Brain | Ruben Laukkonen, Ph.D. - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBzag-8USns)))), attentional networks are strenghtened. In learning, abstract or concrete, intuitive and symbolic, information processing and memory networks are strenghtened. Wellbeing is stored in the ability of the whole network accurately predict the world and do better than expcted at reducing uncertainity about basic needs or surfing general error reduction slope gradients, [ActInf GuestStream #008.1 ~ "Exploring the Predictive Dynamics of Happiness and Well-Being" - YouTube]([ActInf GuestStream #008.1 ~ "Exploring the Predictive Dynamics of Happiness and Well-Being" - YouTube]([ActInf GuestStream #008.1 ~ "Exploring the Predictive Dynamics of Happiness and Well-Being" - YouTube]([ActInf GuestStream #008.1 ~ "Exploring the Predictive Dynamics of Happiness and Well-Being" - YouTube]([ActInf GuestStream #008.1 ~ "Exploring the Predictive Dynamics of Happiness and Well-Being" - YouTube]([ActInf GuestStream #008.1 ~ "Exploring the Predictive Dynamics of Happiness and Well-Being" - YouTube]([ActInf GuestStream #008.1 ~ "Exploring the Predictive Dynamics of Happiness and Well-Being" - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8gUev5aVFs))))))) which works better when no conerete rigid belief disallows flexibility (that then should be dissolved or transformed [OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF](https://psyarxiv.com/zqh4b/)))))))))))))))))))) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149763422003621 [The Canal Papers - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten]([The Canal Papers - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten]([The Canal Papers - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten]([The Canal Papers - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten]([The Canal Papers - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten]([The Canal Papers - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten]([The Canal Papers - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten]([The Canal Papers - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten]([The Canal Papers - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten]([The Canal Papers - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten]([The Canal Papers - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten]([The Canal Papers - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten](https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-canal-papers))))))))))))) which also reduces symmetrical information flow. [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)) When the whole networks works in alignment (crosscale consonance <ref>[https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273%2823%2900214-3 Brain rhythms have come of age: "Nearly all psychiatric conditions may be characterized by some level of “oscillopathy” or “rhythmopathy.”"]</ref> https://twitter.com/AFornito/status/1577743997149511680?t=4_iMZbmwyRfNUdeBKMQkng&s=19) with its evolutionary niche of negentropy extraction in relation to the collective formed by nature (preinstalled darwinian subagents in the brain such as basic needs) and nurture (culturally learned useful or less useful conditionings) [ActInf GuestStream #015.1: Bobby Azarian, Universal Bayesianism: A New Kind of Theory of Everything - YouTube]([ActInf GuestStream #015.1: Bobby Azarian, Universal Bayesianism: A New Kind of Theory of Everything - YouTube]([ActInf GuestStream #015.1: Bobby Azarian, Universal Bayesianism: A New Kind of Theory of Everything - YouTube]([ActInf GuestStream #015.1: Bobby Azarian, Universal Bayesianism: A New Kind of Theory of Everything - YouTube]([ActInf GuestStream #015.1: Bobby Azarian, Universal Bayesianism: A New Kind of Theory of Everything - YouTube]([ActInf GuestStream #015.1: Bobby Azarian, Universal Bayesianism: A New Kind of Theory of Everything - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JCaic5Cxms)))))) https://twitter.com/burny_tech/status/1671897888962777089 [OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF](https://psyarxiv.com/ygptv/)))))))) with internal aligned complex ecosystem of subagents resulting in sense of flow. [Guided Meditation: The Thermodynamics of Consciousness and the Ecosystem of Agents - YouTube]([Guided Meditation: The Thermodynamics of Consciousness and the Ecosystem of Agents - YouTube]([Guided Meditation: The Thermodynamics of Consciousness and the Ecosystem of Agents - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thd1UYKWXrM))) Philosophy 1 neuroscientific 0 [Decades-long bet on consciousness ends — and it’s philosopher 1, neuroscientist 0]([Decades-long bet on consciousness ends — and it’s philosopher 1, neuroscientist 0](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02120-8)) adjunctions are generalized analogies across universes of thinking (probabilistic hypergraphs or evolving topological shapes approximatable by formal rules in toposes?) into general formal structures, contextfree scalefree pattern that can be futher generalized by Kan extensions [Category Theory For Beginners: All Concepts - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49jUnrEuEmY) christianity is so evolutionarily fit in the evoltuionary dnyamics of cultural frameworks because it implements high valence structures (God as reality loves you) and spreads by converting or annihilating those who dont believe (treat others as you wanna be treated: if you didnt believe in god, you would want others to convert or annihilate you in this framework) [Thinking through other minds: A variational approach to cognition and culture - PubMed]([Thinking through other minds: A variational approach to cognition and culture - PubMed]([Thinking through other minds: A variational approach to cognition and culture - PubMed]([Thinking through other minds: A variational approach to cognition and culture - PubMed]([Thinking through other minds: A variational approach to cognition and culture - PubMed]([Thinking through other minds: A variational approach to cognition and culture - PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31142395/)))))) Zoomer generation crying for help while their attentional systems being limbically hijacked by social media halting the development of stable cultural and community cohesion and selfcontrol among many things that is big part of sense of meaning and happiness [Stimulus Feed ♪ - YouTube]([Stimulus Feed ♪ - YouTube]([Stimulus Feed ♪ - YouTube](https://youtu.be/wOfQyjbAbc8)))