These experiences are full of infinite value and meaning beyond individual comprehesion. ===Meaning and selfactualization=== ====Hyperspecific obsession==== After basic needs are met, hyperspecialized ecosystem of aligned problem solving subagents in one mind or collective that build structure by acting on mental states (example intellectual growth learning) (example sciences, philosophy, art, fantasy, knowing everything about rocks, theories of everything) or the world (example pragmatic application of knowledge in the real word towards some less or more grandiose visions) (example hobbies, engineering, cars, computers) ====Community - social graph==== Leader, or collective of leaders (governing structures), has hyperspecific obsession, lead the collective into its wellness by high level management of subagents, (example state ideologies, utopian visions, collective risks) giving concrete meanings with common goal signaling by visions to the collective's parts by outsourcing needed actions (example engineering, science progress, and application, knowledge growth, solving basic needs, wellbeing engineering, surviving, managing existencial risks, upgrading, evolving, growing, entertainment, unifying culture engineering, engineering access to novel experiences or ways to relax, science communication, minimizing friction in ecosystem of interacting diverse differently evolutionary specialized total mental frameworks aka world views aka lenses aka points of view aka ways of seeing (evolutionary adapted hiearchy of bayesian priors forming homeostatic problem solving subagents through interaction interaction and with the environment by reading/writing states, reading signals reinforcing current state or pointing to or forcing change from others, sending signals aka massage passing in active inference)), beating outgroups in status and power (even tho noncooperative zero sum games of groups competing for same resources probably lead to disaster for everyone) (ingroup outgroup divisions are increased by individualization, increase of languages of what divides us, loss of languages of what unites us) Relationships, family - similar to community but on lower scales, they tend to be bound by implicit biological synchronizations, but that seems to get dissolved in more psychologically or physically intimite, or polyamory communities, then there are people with lone wolf philosophy that are very individualistic. ====Entropic dissolution into everything==== In the extremely deconstructed meditation/psychedelics induced states, no concrete selforganized collective of problem solving subagents (clusters of coherence) fighting for attention but instead the contents of the field of consciousness is dissolved into one giant wave of mostly nonclassifying symmetrical activity (example jhanas, sense of merging with God) with some highly symmetrical structures forming as source of beauty (example nature, poetry, art), which is all also present in (nondual) (optimistic nihhilism) philosophies (just being, being like water (flow state not interrupted by rigid concrete expectations), seeing beauty in everyday things), trance is energizing by repeating (symmetrical) stacked patterns in sensory modelities that's overriding existing potentially dissonant patterns creating global symmetrical metastable attractor mind state that can be futher reinforced internally or from the environment by compatible proofs or overall tautological logic. Life Crafting as a Way to Find Purpose and Meaning in Life [Frontiers | Life Crafting as a Way to Find Purpose and Meaning in Life]([Frontiers | Life Crafting as a Way to Find Purpose and Meaning in Life]([Frontiers | Life Crafting as a Way to Find Purpose and Meaning in Life]([Frontiers | Life Crafting as a Way to Find Purpose and Meaning in Life]([Frontiers | Life Crafting as a Way to Find Purpose and Meaning in Life]([Frontiers | Life Crafting as a Way to Find Purpose and Meaning in Life]([Frontiers | Life Crafting as a Way to Find Purpose and Meaning in Life]([Frontiers | Life Crafting as a Way to Find Purpose and Meaning in Life](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02778/full)))))))) The Tyranny of the Intentional Object [Qualia Research Institute](https://qri.org/)blog/tyranny-of-the-intentional-object [The Tyranny of the Intentional Object: Universal Addictions, Meaning Abuse, and Denied Self-Insights - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Icb4hu0_OE) ====Generalized meaning of life==== We are attempting to find what is in us out there. We are selfactualizing, selfevidencing. Trying to align what we predict as perfect homeostatic conditions about us and the world with what we measure by changing environment through changing our inner models or by changing our environment thorugh actions. Trying reduce uncertainity about our conditions for hardwired basic needs and culturally learned objective functions, of our hiearchical graph of subagents. Trying to create synchrony between the self model and world model. Reducing uncertainity/dissonance -> increasing relaxation, destressification -> symmetrification. Flow state might be seen as stress source that is unstressing everything else in experience, even that stress can be dissolved on meditation and psychedelics. Good predictor and regulator of a system must be a model of that system. ===Cessations=== Cessations are decrease in neural synchronization in alpha bandwith, dissolution of functional integration, functional linking between different ares of the brain, break down of coordinated message passing, increased phase lag index measure [Ep201: Revealing Nirodha Samāpatti - Delson Armstrong, Shinzen Young, Chelsey Fasano, Dr Laukkonen - YouTube]([Ep201: Revealing Nirodha Samāpatti - Delson Armstrong, Shinzen Young, Chelsey Fasano, Dr Laukkonen - YouTube]([Ep201: Revealing Nirodha Samāpatti - Delson Armstrong, Shinzen Young, Chelsey Fasano, Dr Laukkonen - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIEWAerJKOs))) [EEG Connectivity Using Phase Lag Index - Sapien Labs | Neuroscience | Human Brain Diversity Project]([EEG Connectivity Using Phase Lag Index - Sapien Labs | Neuroscience | Human Brain Diversity Project]([EEG Connectivity Using Phase Lag Index - Sapien Labs | Neuroscience | Human Brain Diversity Project]([EEG Connectivity Using Phase Lag Index - Sapien Labs | Neuroscience | Human Brain Diversity Project](https://sapienlabs.org/lab-talk/eeg-connectivity-using-phase-lag-index/)))) Turning off, dissolving, restarting the running software full of hiearchical beliefs, markov blanket homeostats, stored in the cortical hiearchy hardware. [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))))))))))))))))) [OSF]([OSF]([OSF](https://psyarxiv.com/6afs3))) Exponentially going closer to the zero information limit of a state by dissolution of any distinctions and structure in stable patterns in time (deconstructing time as well) in general [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)) Blinking out of existence, sense of linear timeline in a narrative breaking down in memory as sensory sampling rate goes to zero [Qualia Research Institute](https://qri.org/)blog/pseudo-time-arrow Decreasing local connectivity, increasing global connectivity like in psychedelics that create happiness https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811920311381 [Increased global integration in the brain after psilocybin therapy for depression | Nature Medicine]([Increased global integration in the brain after psilocybin therapy for depression | Nature Medicine]([Increased global integration in the brain after psilocybin therapy for depression | Nature Medicine]([Increased global integration in the brain after psilocybin therapy for depression | Nature Medicine](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01744-z)))) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6123521/ How does setting an intention enable regaining consciousness at a desired point in time? Probably in a similar way how you learn to wake up from naps. I suspect you throw in the timing intention as some deep unconscious automatic process canalized through time by repetetion. [OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF]([OSF](https://psyarxiv.com/uxmz6/))))))) Persistent deconstructed state as swimming in loving groundlessness [Love and Emptiness - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) - YouTube]([Love and Emptiness - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) - YouTube]([Love and Emptiness - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) - YouTube]([Love and Emptiness - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) - YouTube]([Love and Emptiness - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) - YouTube]([Love and Emptiness - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) - YouTube]([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://youtu.be/dBPPX_qr1rM)))))))) Suffering and fear is caused by the mental objects we construct and we can unlearn doing that using this process of dissolution of local nonlinearities where distincting objects are stored in the connectome as rigid structure. With no objects there "is" just some effortless flowy undisturbed nonconconceptual happening by its own. ===DMT entities and gods=== DMT entities and Gods are higher order selfsynchronizing superselfmetaprogramming agent metaprocesss, usually outside of self model's agency, editable indirectly, you can merge with them, such as with god of compassion on meditation, or the God of Everything on 5-MeO-DMT as global coherence of clusters of brain dynamics, dissolving internal boundaries. DMT entities can be seen as competing clusters of coherence. DMT entities and Gods are standard background noise of self stabilizing software agents that normally parasitize on organismic information processing networks but get amplified when you blow yourself out of your brain on psychedelics. Gods are metaphors for nonsymbolic aka intuitionbased aka Fristonian free energetic force or attractors in the neurophenomenological statespace. They are usually some extreme of the psyche,: freedom, unity, suffering. Or symbolisms for something: fertility, sea, underworld, art. DMT entities can be projections of sociodynamic landscapes. For example, Jesters/Clowns/Harlequins express "narcissistic vibrational modes" of consciousness. Their traps & childish playpen energy is a manifestation of conditional love. Bodhisattva energy, on the other hand, is a manifestation of unconditional love modes of consciousness. It's such a different kind of vibrational landscape! DMT can help you see what kind of social dynamics you are subconsciously modeling as your "default mode of interaction". <ref>[https://twitter.com/algekalipso/status/1602578160943599617 Andrés Gómez Emilsson tweet]</ref> DMT activates a notion of observing foundational agency, while dissociating the individual self. Fractalized agency = machine elves, Gaia-ized agency = Pascha Mama, unified agency = cosmic consciousness, contracted unified agency = cosmic core <ref>[https://twitter.com/Plinz/status/1364675761781628928 Joscha Bach tweet]</ref> With classic psychedelics, which stand somewhere between DMT and 5-MeO-DMT in their level of global coherence, you always go through an annealing process before finally “snapping” into global coherence and “becoming one with God”. That coherence is the signature of these mystical experiences becomes rather self-evident once you pay attention to annealing signatures (i.e. noticing how incompatible metronomes slowly start synchronizing and forming larger and larger structures until one megastructure swallows it all and dissolves the self-other boundary in the process of doing so).<ref>[[On Rhythms of the Brain: Jhanas, Local Field Potentials, and Electromagnetic Theories of Consciousness | Qualia Computing]([On Rhythms of the Brain: Jhanas, Local Field Potentials, and Electromagnetic Theories of Consciousness | Qualia Computing]([On Rhythms of the Brain: Jhanas, Local Field Potentials, and Electromagnetic Theories of Consciousness | Qualia Computing]([On Rhythms of the Brain: Jhanas, Local Field Potentials, and Electromagnetic Theories of Consciousness | Qualia Computing](https://qualiacomputing.com/2022/10/27/on-rhythms-of-the-brain-jhanas-local-field-potentials-and-electromagnetic-theories-of-consciousness/)))) On Rhythms of the Brain: Jhanas, Local Field Potentials, and Electromagnetic Theories of Consciousness]</ref> God, or ontology and morals in general, as this ultimate abstraction on the highest level that controls everything else in the lower levels in some ways, and top down processing! Higher abstractions are bending the spacetime of lower abstractions in a cortical hiearchy! You merge with god/nature/reality on meditation or psychedelics when those kinds of hiearchies dissolve into hiearchyless attractor where everything influences and synchronizes with everything! Nondual unified oneness! <ref>[[A Sensory-Motor Theory of the Neocortex based on Active Predictive Coding | bioRxiv]([A Sensory-Motor Theory of the Neocortex based on Active Predictive Coding | bioRxiv]([A Sensory-Motor Theory of the Neocortex based on Active Predictive Coding | bioRxiv]([A Sensory-Motor Theory of the Neocortex based on Active Predictive Coding | bioRxiv](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.30.522267v1)))) A Sensory-Motor Theory of the Neocortex based on Active Predictive Coding]</ref> <references/> ==Philosophy== ===Ontologies=== ===Identities=== ===Epistemologies=== ===Ethics=== Ethics [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 if we assume different buddhistic notions (or other framework's notions) where positive valence exists too, then its about maximizing that utility, though in the panpsychist symmetry formalism its again creating as much symmetries in physics as possible 5-MeO-DMT trips or Jhanas that are meditative states are with almost no structure, with the least amount of symmetry breaking in experience, which seems to be measured in the brain as well to a first approximation, and I also dont know any other states of consciousness that feel as good as those assuming the utility we maximize is psychological valence under those formalisms 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 ==Sociology== ===Effective Collective Wellbeing Engineering=== ====Context==== What are the underlying causes of all the problems we are as humanity facing, such as nuclear war to environmental degradation to animal rights issues to class issues, what do these things have in common? "We have to shift is the economy because perverse economic incentive is under the whole thing, there's no way that as long as you have a for-profit military-industrial complex is the largest block of a global economy that you could ever have peace there's an anti-incentive on it as long as there's so much money to be made with mining, etc., like we have to fix the nature of economic incentives!" "The core of the thing that we have to address is education because you can have so much change occur in a generation if those children are growing up different as as different as it is learning Chinese is your first language versus learning English we're so neuroplastic by the time we're adults we're not that neuroplastic we're kind of screwed if you get education right we want adults who care about the animals and the oceans and the contend to all of these things and can think complexly if we really get education right we'll be able to solve everything it's upstream from all that!" "Really the thing is it's about social media because we're continuously being bombarded and we were ready to go do a capital Riot or a George Floyd protester Riot or whatever it is based on the stuff that's coming in if we could change the media environment of what people were in taking it would change all of these things!" "No the thing is really at the end of the day it's about government and law and how do we get that right because the economic incentive wouldn't be that same issue if we could govern it properly if we could force the internalization of the price of carbon and get carbon pricing properly and get costs of everything proper all that would be fixed but we have to do that through law so how do we fix governance and law!" "You can't because laws written by lobbyists that get paid for by somebody and wherever the economic motive is what's going to pay for that which is why you have to think about economics and a lot of the other so the key is political economy and how do you get that!" "No really the key is actually parenting what we've really got to do is restore the family because before education by the time that kid goes to school at five or six that so much of their identity and psyche and value system has already said it happens early on we have to actually change the entire culture to have parenting emphasize raising better kids from the beginning!" "Everything you're saying is so anthropocentric the key is the environment because we're none of us are anything without the environment like you have to prioritize that everything else doesn't matter that much and like what is an economy like we can breathe without money we can't breathe without air and so be less anthropocentric and focus on the integrity of the environment because that's upstream from everything!" unifying languages, cultural compassionate transformation expanding caring cognitive lightcones, mental health reform, antimoloch narratives, (secular?) religion, structure of cities, preparing for climate/economic migrants