- '''People looking to enhance their wellbeing or the wellbeing of others''' and live life to the fullest as we all want such as psychotherapists, meditators, or psychonauts: I try to create an equation for individual and collective happiness, I look into what genetic and environmental (nature and nurture) factors determine wellbeing, what can we do to engineer it, how wellbeing looks like in the brain using many lenses, from adaptively predictively resolving uncertainity about basic needs to having sense of direction and (ideally collective) meaning and motivation in life to frictionless cooperating consonant symmetrical brain regions and subagents as a single unit like a family to engineering it using tools from psychotheraphy, spirituality, philosophy, meditation, substances, biotechnology, ways of seeing the world give the most wellbeing, from falling in love with the mystery of reality and everyone and everything to groundless ground full of peace and freedom, by symmetrifications using annealing! - '''Science nerds, interdisciplionary/transdisciplinary scientists''', people looking for a general technical language that can conceptualize by steelmanning any predictive models in natural sciences or everyday life in general and synthetize them into an even better predictive model: I lay out a language to evaluate how good any predictive model in natural sciences across scales and levels of analysis is, using the free energy principle and complex adaptive dynamical systems theory in general! - '''Neuroscientists, neurophenomenologists, psychologists, psychotherapists''': I unify various used approaches of analyzing the brain, experience, environment and actions together into a single framework, how to get people from maladaptive configurations that doesnt support happiness, how trauma healing by healing parts of the mind by showing them love using internal family systems or coherence theraphy might work in the software and hardware, from bayesian belief networks to connectome harmonics! - '''People looking for hope with dealing with poor mental heath, people lost on their spiritual path in the dark night of the soul''': I look into how psychodiscomfort may work in the brain and into various approaches of healing it, from maladaptively interconnected brain regions to maladaptive beliefs, from dissonance, oscillopathy, or asymmetries to feeling hopeless from failing to reduce uncertainity about basic needs to feeling anxious from overly interconnected emotional brain to disconnected noncooperating parts of the mind! - '''People looking for hope for the future of the humanity when it comes to its survival and wellbeing''': I look into how to solve the meaning (wellbeing) and meta crisis disguised as valence (unity) crisis on local and collective scales by cooperately reducing the probabilities of the various existencial risks such as mental health crisis, nuclear war, climate change, economic collapse or misaligned artificial general superintelligence. I focus on how to possibly cultivate trust and frictionless symmetrical cooperative communication between different subagents with different mental frameworks, such as people, machines, communities, cities, governing parts in nations, nations, by for example the language of shared meaning, values and goals, as natural sciences tell us that we're all part of one interconnected system where parts depend on eachother and we should take in account the whole when solving a problem, and using insights from wellbeing science from for example complex systemic mechanisms of internal family systems psychotheraphy, how to unify the human population in general to feel more connected and be adaptive together, how to increase wellbeing in the society on the collective scale using symmetrification though annealing, having an ecosystem of interacting cooperative aethetics that are part of high degree of collective harmonious wellbeing! I look into how to beat Moloch. - '''Physicists''': I think about the quest for a unified theory of everything in physics and beyond in natural sciences: What are the advantages and disadvantages of different predictive mathematical models, how to reason about it on a metalevel to find a model with the most advantages - '''Philosophers''': I ponder on questions like what is truth using the general technical language of bayesian mental constructions in a certain lens, I think about formal systems to describe any system - I think about wellbeing locally on the individual level, I'm looking for and developing theory and practical applications explaining why and how for example substance assisted psychotheraphies, selfimprovement movements, meditation, or neurorotechnology works. - I think about wellbeing globally on the collective, what science of wellbeing tells us, why and how societies that report better quality of life report it, what all factors in the social system come into play, and how could society be practically pushed towards that better more adaptive state. - I conceptualize everything in natural sciences and experience through the mathematics of adaptive complex systems. I am interested in those mathematics to engineer wellbeing on all scales and find correspondences between different scientific disciplines and different approaches inside concrete scientific disciplines. - I think that everything in psychotheraphy, psychology, sociology, selfimprovement, spirituality, biology, physics, neuroscience, cognitive science, and so on, can be understood and interconnected through this general mathematical language of adaptive complex systems. - I think this general language can sketch out new potential wellbeing engineering interventions on both local and global scale, and then can be translated into the less mathematical language or less general language of laymen cultural frameworks, psychology, sociology, spirituality, biology, cognitive science, and so on. - I first do a giant general synethesis and then dig deeper into concrete details. This is what I'm developing in this book. [[File:AllConcepts.png|1000px|Alt text]] ==Abstract== '''For science nerds and hyperphilosophical beings:''' - I map out possible philosophical assumption, models of physics, I use scalefree information theory a lot, I map out science of consciousness, wellbeing, sociology, approaches to predicting the future and to existencial risks. I formulate a theory of every "thing" using quantum nonequilibrium thermodynamics framed in quantum information theory using quantum formulation of the free energy principle with quantum darwinism. I note important concepts such as symmetries and annealing as tools to analyze and engineer how healthy an ecosystem such as mind or society is in a mapped out landscape of complex system research with focus on in consciousness and societal research with focus on local and global wellbeing and adaptibility to the landscape of existencial risks and beating moloch '''For meditators and psychonauts:''' - I explain how one can put into language everything in experience, how to effectively engineer wellbeing, how to heal, how to achieve new levels of freedom or depth in experience, through deconstructive and reconstructive meditation, psychedelics or philosophy. '''For everyone:''' - I expand upon the previous point and come back to the first point, where I give the technical mechanisms behind why different wellbeing engineering methods work in more detail. I dig deep into everything. Different perspectives. I explain in general scientific framework concepts found in: Neuroscience. Psychology. Spirituality. Sociology. Levels of analysis. Predictive processing. Connectome harmonics. Evolutionary game theory. Statistical physics. Zero Ontology. Do nothing. Agency. Happiness. Flow. Comfort. Love. Void. Meaning. Smoothness. Oneness. Check table of contents for more. - What's the ultimate nature of reality, the metaphysical ontological truth? What can we be sure about? What do we want? - Personal message about my journey of wellbeing engineering locally and globally for everyone - Story about crazy scientist travelling the statespace of existence giving all beings infinite gradients of wellbeing - Loving caring vast spacious silent infinite free full of life joyous cute colorful spontaneous divine compassionate flowy aethetics for everyone! ==Less abstract abstract== I start with context: Hell must be destroyed! 💖😸 My motivation behind everything is to help people have more fullfilling life, have better sense of wellbeing, using what we know from theory and empirical studies of practices in science. The whole text is an attempt to find, explain, synthesize all tools used for wellbeing engineering on individual and social scale to help everyone the most effectively, mapping out the landscape in science and psychotools First I do a synthesis of individually used wellbeing psychotools in less technical language without explaining mechanisms (because I havent introduced science yet). Deconstruction of mind, inducing happiness, construction, shifting to more relaxed, deeper, healed, loving, light, spontanious, fullfilling, free baseline (symmetrification accelerationism!), by meditation and psychedelics, with lots of inspiration from Michael Taft and Shinzen Young, or potentially neurotechnology in the future. Then I do synthesis of science, connecting the landscape of neurophenomenological approaches together (implementational modelling of populations of neurons, resonance chamber, electromagnetism physics, connectivity of large networks), algorithmic (machine learning architectures), computational (markov blankets, , reinforcement learning agents, evolution of latent bioelectrical morphologocal spaces), phenomenological (pragmatic dharma, solitons in a field, flow of energy, beliefs, words, images, feelings in spacetime etc.), connecting social science approaches together, in the context of universal darwinian bayesianism based on the free energy principle with potentially quantumness taken into account, and present the general symmetry analysis and annealing principles as tools that can be used in analysis of any complex system, and how symmetries tend to correspond more wellbeing of the system, making it more flexibly adaptive, but too much symmetries can also be a failure mode because of not being able to resist entropy. Annealing is presented as a tool to symmetrify the system's dynamics through disintegration of local nonlinearities and creation of more global synchrony. Then in the framework of connecting (not only) qualia research institute ideas with bayesian brain ideas I give some technical notes to the synthesis of individual psychotools I mapped out before, mapping out the empirically tested or hypothesized mechanisms of action. I think about some fundamental philosophical questions of ontology and truth and how it can be seen through a very mental model (bayesian belief) relativist lens, inspired by metarationality and metamodernism - caring about predictive power of models, them not being fully objective but just approximations, and how much valence they give (unifying memeplexes increase wellbeing by application of symmetry theory of valence to bayesian belief networks) Then after all this synethesis, I create a landscape of explained concepts concretely in this synthetized framework linking to more research in the landscape of research out there in more detail, creating a tree to navigate, instead all of it being meshed in one text, writing an explanation for both laymen and technical people Main concepts explained so far would be: psychology (self, meaning, happiness, trauma, values, agency, emotions, neurodiscomfort, neurodivergences), substances (psychedelics, dissociatives, antidepressants), psychotheraphy (cognitive behavioral theraphy, internal family systems, mindfullness, acceptance theraphy, psychedelics assisted psychotheraphy, Gestalt), meditation (deconstruction, construction, do nothing, love and kindness, jhanas, cessations, deities, DMT entities, gods, insight, dark night of the soul), sociology (wellbeing and meaning in society, coordinating risks, adaptibility), neurotechnology (relaxing focusing neurohelmets, deep brain stimulation) Also not forgetting to explain 💖Love😸! Then some other concepts: nostalgia, intelligence, stimulants, weed, alcohol, sex, music, chakras without metaphysical assumptions, lucid dreaming, other neurotechnology And some of my other thoughts on AGI alignment, unifying physics, and some other ideas or philosophical stuff that's in my mind I end it with personal message about my journey, how I got here, what kind of my past motivates me to do this stuff. Nice aethetics for everyone! Loving caring vast spacious silent infinite free full of life joyous cute colorful spontaneous divine compassionate flowy aethetics for everyone! I map out the aethetics I've acquired over the years. 💖😸 I'll maybe also add a story about crazy scientist travelling the statespace of existence (multiverse?) giving all beings in all multiverses infinite gradients of wellbeing. 💖😸 ==Current table of contents== - - tl;dr general scientific framework (General scientific framework: Towards unified model of everything and neurophenomenology: Universal pleasant flow by symmetrification through annealing in universal darwinian bayesianism in the landscape of complex systems research) - - - Levels of analysis with focus on neurophenomenology (Implementational, Algorithmic, Computational, Phenomenological), Quantumness, Relativism of lenses, Quest for theory of everything in physics and natural sciences - - Equation of Individual and Collective Happiness - Main concepts in fields of study in simple and technical terms of the general scientific framework (mechanisms and pragmatic protocols, interconneting these concepts, notes by others) - - - meaning, agency, happiness, flow state, values, trauma, love, agency, fear, emotions - - - neurodiscomfort and neurodivergences - - - - depression, PTSD - - - - adhd, schizophrenia, autism - - substances (psychedelics, dissociatives, stimulants, antidepressants) - - psychotheraphy (cognitive behavioral theraphy, internal family systems, mindfullness, acceptance theraphy, psychedelics assisted psychotheraphy, Gestalt) - - - infinite pleasure (Jhanas), infinite consciousness, void, cessations, Nirodha Samapatti, deities, DMT entities, Gods, insight, dark night of the soul - - sociology (wellbeing in society, movement for mitigating existencial risks, movement for meaning, movement for consciousness utopia) - - neurotechnology (relaxing focusing neurohelmets, deep brain stimulation) - Other concepts in fields of study in simple and technical terms of the general scientific framework - - psychology (nostalgia, intelligence) - - substances (weed, alcohol) - - meditation, dharma, psychedelia, spirituality (lucid dreaming, are chakras real?) - - selfimprovement (monk mode, avoiding instant gratification, habit building) - - neurotechnology (merging with machines, enhancing intelligence and feels) - - unified physics, AGI alignment, philosophical play, other notes - Personal message to everyone - Aethetics [[File:Everythingsimpler.jpg|1000px|Alt text]] ==In simple terms: How does experience work? How can we heal discomfort, learn effectively, have fun, or be happy?== ===Mechanisms of experience=== What is the only thing we can be certain about? What seems like the only fundamental truth? There is currently some kind of experience happening. Let’s look into it. This is a model I like the most: There is a 3D world that changes as time passes. It has an outside and inside world. We can see that by vision. There are also sounds coming from inside and outside. Then in experience we can have sense of our body when we scan it, getting messages from the body, and also touch, taste and smell. We have thoughts made of language, visual thoughts and feelings. We can experience raw senses or our concept, our image of them. We have a sense of us in the center, and sense of others and the world. All of that is inside (and made of) awareness. We can pay attention to one or more things, observe, and manipulate them. That is exactly the yellow lines on the picture. What does the picture represent? To put it simply, orange blobs are neurons, that find patterns, compress incoming data, and learn to respond to their environment. Brown lines are connections between the neurons. What are the yellow lines? Thats exactly what I started with – Our unified conscious experience, it's like an operating system that is running at all times and gets turned off in deep sleep. Our internal world simulation that we construct to make sense of the internal and external world. When the operating system is on, from the sides come requested memories, signals what to pay attention to, what is valued, and also raw sensations. What comes out is actions to think a memory, redirect the mind or move the body in the external world. Those are the blue waves. What happens when the blue brain waves, aka sensations, interact with our experience? Our experience finds out if its supposted to be there – how surprising it is. If its not surprising, we go on about our day. If we suddenly see a giant rainbow fluffy unicorn hugging us, that might be slightly surprising! The surprise can feel bad or also good. As a consequence, we shift our expectations that encountering such unicorn isn’t as unlikely! ===Happiness=== How does happiness work? When does experience feel pleasant? When it does not feel blocked. When we’re in a smooth flow state of life. When we can live life to the fullest! When our basic needs are satisfied. When we selfactualize. When we can do things that make us happy. When we don’t feel stuck, when we feel free, when we can grow. When we can just stresslessly be and relax. When things are going as we assume. When we love what is. When we can easily adapt. When our values are satisfied. When there isn’t sense of something being wrong. When our internal parts are communicating with other parts and are not isolated. When there are no hurts parts from trauma, panicking anxious parts from uncertainity, or depresed parts giving up from thinking that they are unsuccesful. When everything feels in harmony, generating sense of meaning and being satisfied with current experience. Take care of happiness and meaning will take care of itself. Love is the existencial stance with reality, way of commiting yourself to a partiular connection in the outer or inner world. Meaning is the sense of interconnectedness with us, others and the world and overall everything. ===Meditation=== When we meditate, we can observe and have insight about the the details of our experience. We can notice everything that I’ve written so far. We can learn to be more mindful of experience. We can focus on breath and relax the thinking mind this way. We can just observe thoughts come and go without being them or interfering with them. We can see the mental constructedness of the self, of our personality and identity, of our likes and dislikes. We can calm down panicking parts by acceptance. We can heal spiky hurt parts with love. We can transform or deepen or interconnect our beliefs and knowledge by pondering or letting the automatic subconscious mind do it for us. We can reduce our uncertainity about us and the world. We can energize an imagined mental construct by meditating on it, such as healing light or buddha of compassion. We can cultivate interconnectedness and selflove, love for others or everything there is by sending love and kindness. We can align how we interpret, and what we do now and in everyday life, with our goals and higher meaning. We can cultivate sense of transcendental meaning. We can dissolve the fear of death by realistically imagining that you're dying. ===Deconstruction and reconstruction===