[[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)) The Symmetry Theory of Valence 2020 Overview] ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Wellbeing -> Vasocomputation== [https://opentheory.net/2023/07/principles-of-vasocomputation-a-unification-nomenology-active-inference-and-physical-reflex-part-i/ Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Buddhist Phenomenology, Active Inference, and Physical Reflex (Part I)] ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Neurodiversity and psychopathology== [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028390822004579 Canalization and plasticity in psychopathology] [[OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF](https://psyarxiv.com/uxmz6/))))))) Deep CANALs: A Deep Learning Approach to Refining the Canalization Theory of Psychopathology] [[ActInf GuestStream 048.1 ~ Arthur Juliani & Adam Safron "Deep CANALs" - YouTube]([ActInf GuestStream 048.1 ~ Arthur Juliani & Adam Safron "Deep CANALs" - YouTube]([ActInf GuestStream 048.1 ~ Arthur Juliani & Adam Safron "Deep CANALs" - YouTube]([ActInf GuestStream 048.1 ~ Arthur Juliani & Adam Safron "Deep CANALs" - YouTube]([ActInf GuestStream 048.1 ~ Arthur Juliani & Adam Safron "Deep CANALs" - YouTube]([ActInf GuestStream 048.1 ~ Arthur Juliani & Adam Safron "Deep CANALs" - YouTube]([ActInf GuestStream 048.1 ~ Arthur Juliani & Adam Safron "Deep CANALs" - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFwuucck7a8))))))) ActInf GuestStream 048.1 ~ Arthur Juliani & Adam Safron "Deep CANALs" - YouTube] ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Neurodiversity and psychopathology -> Autism== [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17456916221075252 Untitled] ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Neurodiversity and psychopathology -> Schizotypy== [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17456916221075252 Untitled] [[ActInf GuestStream #025.1 ~ "Autistic-Like Traits, Positive Schizotypy, Predictive Mind” - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYhrtsyzS_w) ActInf GuestStream #025.1 ~ "Autistic-Like Traits, Positive Schizotypy, Predictive Mind” - YouTube] ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Neurodiversity and psychopathology -> ADHD== [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7501181/ Untitled] ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Neurodiversity and psychopathology -> Depression== [[Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net]([Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net]([Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net]([Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net]([Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net]([Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net]([Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net](https://opentheory.net/2019/11/neural-annealing-toward-a-neural-theory-of-everything/))))))) Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net] [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149763422003621 Untitled] ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Neurodiversity and psychopathology -> Bipolar== [[Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net]([Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net]([Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net]([Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net]([Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net]([Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net]([Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net](https://opentheory.net/2019/11/neural-annealing-toward-a-neural-theory-of-everything/))))))) Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net] ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Neurodiversity and psychopathology -> PTSD== [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6961115/ Untitled] ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Meaning== ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Agency== ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Free will== [[ActInf GuestStream #015.3 ~ Bobby Azarian: "The Teleological Stance: The Free Energy Principle..." - YouTube]([ActInf GuestStream #015.3 ~ Bobby Azarian: "The Teleological Stance: The Free Energy Principle..." - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-tFHIqtbSI)) ActInf GuestStream #015.3 ~ Bobby Azarian: "The Teleological Stance: The Free Energy Principle..." - YouTube] ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Love== [[Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net]([Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net]([Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net]([Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net]([Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net]([Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net]([Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net](https://opentheory.net/2019/11/neural-annealing-toward-a-neural-theory-of-everything/))))))) Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything – Opentheory.net] ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Personality models== ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Personality models -> Big five== [[OSF]([OSF]([OSF](https://psyarxiv.com/653wp/))) Untitled] ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Psychotheraphy== ===Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Psychotheraphy -> Main links=== [[3 Stages of Recovery from Trauma & PTSD in Therapy]([3 Stages of Recovery from Trauma & PTSD in Therapy]([3 Stages of Recovery from Trauma & PTSD in Therapy](https://healingmatters.ca/3-stages-of-recovery-from-trauma-ptsd-in-therapy/))) 3 Stages of Recovery from Trauma & PTSD in Therapy] [[List of psychotherapies - Wikipedia]([List of psychotherapies - Wikipedia]([List of psychotherapies - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_psychotherapies))) List of psychotherapies Wikipedia] [https://www.choosingtherapy.com/types-of-trauma-therapy/ 9 Types of Therapy for Trauma] ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Psychotheraphy -> Healing trauma== ===Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Psychotheraphy -> Healing trauma -> Description only in introduced language and concepts that is linear, bottomup=== Synthetizing what lots of functioning trauma healing strategies have in common leads to something like: 3) in this open window for change, reframing through reliving those memories in this better context (Coherence Theraphy, Cognitive Processing Therapy), building a new connected self with less dissociation, balancing between change and acceptance (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), and potentially learning healthy coping strategies with any distress (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) Neuroscience models assume that trauma is maladaptive bayesian beliefs with too high percision responding to stress [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6961115/ Untitled] or patterns of dissonance in the nervous system [[Healing Trauma With Neural Annealing]([Healing Trauma With Neural Annealing]([Healing Trauma With Neural Annealing]([Qualia Research Institute](https://qri.org/)blog/neural-annealing))) Healing Trauma With Neural Annealing] that can be changed via the above memory reconsolidation process Various belief weakening substances like psychedelics, entactogens, dissociatives can help in belief transformation by weakening those sticky structures in the nervous system, or downers in relaxing, or betablockers in memory reconsolodation, or stimulants in focusing on the memories and so on. ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Meditation== ===Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Meditation -> Main links=== When it comes to guided meditations I love Sam Harris, Rob Burbea, Michael Taft, Shinzen Young, Daniel Ingram, Frank Yang, Roger Thisdell, Meditative Dev, Qualia research Institute guided meditations,... [[Qualia Mastery - Building Your Toolkit for Navigating the State-Space of Consciousness - YouTube]([Qualia Mastery - Building Your Toolkit for Navigating the State-Space of Consciousness - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbmYHvGI-YSvnpbh3ppQqcG72lpw4aQdE)) Qualia Mastery - Building Your Toolkit for Navigating the Statespace of Consciousness] [[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 Bayesian Brain and Meditation - 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]([The True Nature of Now: Meditation and the Predictive Brain | Ruben Laukkonen, Ph.D. - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBzag-8USns)))) The True Nature of Now: Meditation and the Predictive Brain | Ruben Laukkonen, Ph.D. - Youtube] [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342100261X From many to (n)one: Meditation and the plasticity of the predictive mind] ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Meditation -> Love and kindness== ===Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Meditation -> Love and kindness -> Main links=== [[Love and Emptiness - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) - YouTube]([Love and Emptiness - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBPPX_qr1rM)) Love and Emptiness - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) by Rob Burbea - YouTube] ===Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Meditation -> Love and kindness -> Description only in introduced language and concepts that is linear, bottomup=== Metta (love and kindness) can be divided into: - Radiating love to people we know or all beings from local self (most mainstream love and kindness or gratefulness guided meditations) - Strengthening a metta deity via attention and using pleasant/transcendental/loving associations and let it radiate love and healing to us and all other beings [[The Wisdom and Compassion of Avalokiteshvara - YouTube]([The Wisdom and Compassion of Avalokiteshvara - YouTube]([The Wisdom and Compassion of Avalokiteshvara - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvVdq-Dmoi0))) The Wisdom and Compassion of Avalokiteshvara - YouTube] - Nondual whole field of consciousness being the field of love, radiating love to itself from all structures to themselves (including self model if it hasnt been dissolved), from all points to all points, creating global smoothening [[Mother Buddha Love - Deconstructing Yourself]([Mother Buddha Love - Deconstructing Yourself]([Mother Buddha Love - Deconstructing Yourself]([Mother Buddha Love - Deconstructing Yourself]([Mother Buddha Love - Deconstructing Yourself]([Mother Buddha Love - Deconstructing Yourself]([Mother Buddha Love - Deconstructing Yourself]([Mother Buddha Love - Deconstructing Yourself]([Mother Buddha Love - Deconstructing Yourself]([Mother Buddha Love - Deconstructing Yourself]([Mother Buddha Love - Deconstructing Yourself]([Mother Buddha Love - Deconstructing Yourself]([Mother Buddha Love - Deconstructing Yourself](https://deconstructingyourself.com/mother-buddha-love.html))))))))))))) Mother Buddha Love - Deconstructing Yourself] ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Meditation -> Deconstructive meditation== ===Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Meditation -> Deconstructive meditation -> Main links=== Best instructions to do nothing and dissolve everything in experience [[Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself]([Do Nothing Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself](https://deconstructingyourself.com/do-nothing-meditation.html)))))))))))) Do Nothing Meditation by Michael Taft] ===Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Meditation -> Deconstructive meditation -> Description only in introduced language and concepts that is linear, bottomup=== Paying the least amount of effort to the breath and nothing else. If mind starts doing anything else, come back to breath, without getting angry or forcing it in relaxed way Looking for the sense of looker and center Noticing the sense of background vastness, stillness, silence Seeing all local structures (mental and muscle contractions) as not needed for safety (ideas about the self and the world, defence mechanisms, what comes up when you think about death which doesn’t want to be dropped and let go off) and getting into empty space with no resistance Looking for sense of spacetime and deconstructing it Noticing how everything is made of nothingness Deconstructing even nothingness itself By having all safety put into in deepest just existence prior “Abiding” “in” neither perception nor not perception, neither existence nor not existence [[Looking into Groundlessness - YouTube]([Looking into Groundlessness - YouTube]([Looking into Groundlessness - YouTube]([Looking into Groundlessness - YouTube]([Looking into Groundlessness - YouTube]([Looking into Groundlessness - YouTube]([Looking into Groundlessness - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqE39Q4kBiY))))))) Looking into Groundlessness guided meditation by Michael Taft - YouTube] [[Michael Taft - YouTube]([Michael Taft - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelTaft108/videos)) Michael Taft] I suspect there is a genetic parameter, modulated by environmental factors or overall experiences, that sets your baseline rigidity of structures in your nervous system, giving rise to loose mind, and i sense my starting point baseline was more on the fluditity side in this axies already both genetically and environmentally (when i look at my family and through what kinds of experiences ive been though), for an avarage person it is pretty hard, but the more one meditates, the easier it gets - i suspect this distribution of baseline states and of how well one learns these skills lay on the logarithmic scale/gaussian. What meditation trains is the ability to turn it on and off whenever you want, or edit it more easily, leading to experiences with much less suffering, getting more flexibility, more flow state, more ability for deep rest. [[Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Buddhist Phenomenology, Active Inference, and Physical Reflex (Part I) – Opentheory.net]([Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Buddhist Phenomenology, Active Inference, and Physical Reflex (Part I) – Opentheory.net]([Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Buddhist Phenomenology, Active Inference, and Physical Reflex (Part I) – Opentheory.net]([Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Buddhist Phenomenology, Active Inference, and Physical Reflex (Part I) – Opentheory.net]([Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Buddhist Phenomenology, Active Inference, and Physical Reflex (Part I) – Opentheory.net]([Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Buddhist Phenomenology, Active Inference, and Physical Reflex (Part I) – Opentheory.net]([Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Buddhist Phenomenology, Active Inference, and Physical Reflex (Part I) – Opentheory.net]([Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Buddhist Phenomenology, Active Inference, and Physical Reflex (Part I) – Opentheory.net]([Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Buddhist Phenomenology, Active Inference, and Physical Reflex (Part I) – Opentheory.net]([Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Buddhist Phenomenology, Active Inference, and Physical Reflex (Part I) – Opentheory.net](https://opentheory.net/2023/07/principles-of-vasocomputation-a-unification-of-buddhist-phenomenology-active-inference-and-physical-reflex-part-i/)))))))))) Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Buddhist Phenomenology, Active Inference, and Physical Reflex (Part I) – Opentheory.net] [https://twitter.com/KennethFolk/status/1707220944966631823 Untitled] ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Meditation -> Deconstructive meditation -> Cessations of consciousnesss== ===Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Meditation -> Deconstructive meditation -> Main links -> Cessations of consciousnesss=== Lecture on mechanisms behind cessation of consciousness in predictive processing by Ruben Laukkonen [[Ruben Laukkonen (Southern Cross University), How Meditation Induces a Cessation in Consciousness - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxQghUJF8AQ) Ruben Laukkonen (Southern Cross University), How Meditation Induces a Cessation in Consciousness - YouTube] ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Psychedelics== [[OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF](https://psyarxiv.com/zqh4b/)))))))))))))))))))) On the Varieties of Conscious Experiences: Altered Beliefs Under Psychedelics (ALBUS)] ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Entactogens== MDMA ==Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Best state of consciousness== ===Science -> Consciousness -> Concrete phenomena -> Best state of consciousness -> Description only in introduced language and concepts that is linear, bottomup===