Collective scale symmetrifications mostly through annealing: synergizing collective individual annealing activities as part of culture, anything that reduces asymmetries between units, that causes higher interpersonal and intergoverningparts trust and coordination instead of competition, that unifies people, unifying thoughts and mental frameworks (movements, cultures, religions, ideologies, philosophies), "doing good increases the probability of good happening to you", "treat others how you want to be treated", meditation philosophy, love and kindness cultivation in culture, more socioeconomic equality in third attractor instead of dystopian 1984 or anarchocapitalism, ideologies, cultural steelmanning "oponent"'s arguments, finding common ground by seeing the best in eachother's argument and synthetizing on a higher level of complexity that respects fundamental values of all in the best possible way, governments hiding less info (Sweden), common threat and existencial risks<ref>[[- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==g7WtcTATa2U))))) Ai Wars & The Metacrisis, Daniel Schmachtenberger, 2023]</ref> (misligned artificial general superinteligence<ref>[[- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==rLG68k2blOc) AI risks, Geoff Hinton, 2023]</ref>, rival (Europe unifying against Russia), climate change, global nuclear war, meaning crisis, Gods), common positive future utopian visions (Team Consciousness<ref>[[- YouTube]([- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==nGmETz-wDMc)) A Universal Plot - Consciousness vs. Pure Replicators: Gene Servants or Blissful Autopoietic Beings?, Andrés Gómez Emilsson, 2021]</ref>, Hedonistic Imperative<ref>[[- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==Lx3rdVQZ3mo) The End of Suffering: Genome Reform and the Future of Sentience, David Pearce, 2022]</ref>, metamodern spirituality<ref>[[- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==YRZIgYwCTJ4) Emergentism: The Religion That's Not a Religion, Brendan Graham Dempsey, 2023]</ref><ref>[[- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==_s-ziTJ3KzI) The Romance of Reality | A Unifying Theory of Everythin, Bobby Azarian, 2023]</ref>, transhumanism, globalism, marxism, Christianity, Buddhism), creating spaces where people can fulfill their values (or in general any default processes that their nervous system is adapted to flourish the most in with symmetrical consonant activity), focusing also on what makes us well and not just on what makes us sick<ref>[[Positive psychology - Wikipedia]([Positive psychology - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology)) Positive psychology]</ref>, and cultural language of shared meaning instead of what polarizes us to unify us more<ref>[[- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==BqB-1ABZJSM) Exit the Void: A Movement for Meaning, Ellie Hain, 2023]</ref> <references/> ==Attraction, Motivation, Basic needs== [[File:MaslowHiearchy.jpg|1000px|Alt text]] [Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia]([Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia]([Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia]([Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia]([Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia]([Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia]([Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia]([Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs)))))))) [[File:ERG.png|1000px|Alt text]] [ERG theory - Wikipedia]([ERG theory - Wikipedia]([ERG theory - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERG_theory))) [[File:Engine of motivation.jpg|1000px|Alt text]] [Joscha Bach]([Joscha Bach](http://bach.ai/videos/)) Positive/negative associations from first impressions attracts/repulses people towards things and that reinforces itself with multiple similar encounters and it's harder to rewrite after that has already happened. Flight or fight responces can then happen. Generalizations happen. It's optimizing valence of already existing belief networks. The first impressions, that start encoding the initial attraction/repulsion (can be mixed) conditioned reactions, seem to usually derive from minds predicting better or worse values of our subjective basic needs from Maslow hiearchy of needs or Joscha Bach's engine of motivation (pic), all of which, I suspect, is emergent from the free energy principle framework. Let it be complex social status, learned cultural aethetics, or anything else in this pic. I suspect all more complex reasons can be fundamentally reduced to this. Or the attraction/repulsion can be formed by direct, instead of indirect, pleasure, or better mental wellbeing, by for example substances, or meditation. Different people are living in different aethetics and are attracted/repulsed by different categories of things that are formed by social learning or subjective generalizations of things that brought goodness or badness of experience in the past. [[File:ActiveInference.png|1000px|Alt text]] [- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==h4KeYkwcJoc))))))))) [[File:Big5Traits.png|1000px|Alt text]] [- YouTube]([- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==QG2gOoX4XdA)) [[File:QuantumInformationTheory.png|1000px|Alt text]] [- YouTube]([- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==NkJKl_yF274)) [- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==ldg2An-tEIE))) [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==RpOrRw4EhTo) [- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==yZWjjDT5rGU)))))) [- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==y0Jyj6LAb8g)))) What is the best way to talk about all of this? How to contextualize all of this in the bigger context? I love quantum information theoretic quantum reference frames in the quantum free energy formalism. Qualia Research Institute talks about something similar with subagents in the experiental field having different points of view. What are our deepest desires, our deepest motivations? If you inspect your experience, sometimes they're hidden under the baggage (but sometimes useful) machinery of fluidly changing narrative self. (tangled clusters of hiearchical information processing, usefully predicting for certain contexts, entropy reducing, stabilizing, filtering, surface sensations) Sometimes they seem like crystal clear fundamental darwinian processes based on pure raw nonsymbolic intuition, the sense of source of all motivated behavior itself. They usually can be framed in terms of fullfilling a nonlinear combination of parts in Maslow hiearchy of needs by constructing complex hiearchical stabilizing directiongiving motivating narratives or more fundamentally as surprise (uncertainity, free energy, prediction error) minimizing or stress/dissonance/process misalignment minimizing processes across time (and across other conscious agents in experiental constructed space too). Meditation related narratives with their sensed systems of prior truths and hiearchical inferences from them seem like another such stabilized stress minimizing processes. Behavioral patterns can be seen as set of attractors or limit cycles in the statespace of solutions to fullfilling hiearchical homeostats with good solutions or failure modes in psychopathologies (differently succesful individual and collective strategies to resolve basic needs and uncertainity about oneself and the world [ActInf GuestStream #008.1 ~ "Exploring the Predictive Dynamics of Happiness and Well-Being" - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/live/m8gUev5aVFs) ) In the context of social space and resources, there are different evolutionary game theoretic strategies using competition or cooperation. ==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. [[File:Beyondthebeyond.jpg|500px|Alt text]] Just symmetry, no stable thoughts or priors, infinite undisturbed flow, full freedom, beyond the beyond! [[File:Allexperience.jpg|1000px|Alt text]] ==How does experience work? How can we heal discomfort, learn effectively, have fun, or be happy?== ===Mechanisms of experience=== '''The image above includes it all. Let’s start from the beginning.''' '''What is the only thing we can be certain about? What seems like the only fundamental truth?''' (Existence of that is also debatable) '''There is currently some kind of experience happening.''' (Iamness fundamental prior)<ref>[[- YouTube]([- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==kw5Q5h8s6FI)) Bayesian Brain and the Ultimate Nature of Reality]</ref> '''Let’s look into it. This is a model I like the most: There is a 3D world that changes as time passes.'''<ref>[[- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==LJiXTCbFtu0)))) Harmonic Gestalt by Steven Lehar]</ref><ref>[[Qualia Research Institute](https://qri.org/)blog/hyperbolic-geometry-dmt The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences: Symmetries, Sheets, and Saddled Scenes]</ref><ref>[[- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==-TP49-l46EU) Integrated Information Theory explained]</ref> '''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.'''<ref>[[- YouTube]([- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==p4_wLkD6_x4)) Shinzen Young's "CHART of HUMAN HAPPINESS"]</ref> '''We can pay attention to one or more things, observe, and manipulate them.''' (neurophenomenological inner and outer visual field, auditory field, energy body, touch, taste, smell, feelings, thoughts field that are part of a unified awareness field (substrate on which the global generative model is running on))<ref>[[- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==Eg3cQXf4zSE))))))))))))))) The Bayesian Brain and Meditation]</ref> '''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.''' (clusters of reinforcement learning agents<ref>[[- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==p-OYPRhqRCg))) Generalist AI beyond Deep Learning]</ref>, of hiearchical markov blankets with bayesian generative models minimizing free energy<ref>[[- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==h4KeYkwcJoc))))))))) I am therefore I think. KARL FRISTON]</ref>, of matter and electromagnetic biochemical activity, forming cognitive facultives<ref>[[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)))) Large-scale brain network]</ref> and qualia/beliefs/mental representations together) '''Brown lines are connections between the neurons.''' (axons) '''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.''' (background awareness itself might not) '''Our internal world simulation that we construct to make sense of the internal and external world.''' (global workspace generative model generated from predictive cortical hiearchy<ref>[[Frontiers | An Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT) of Consciousness: Combining Integrated Information and Global Neuronal Workspace Theories With the Free Energy Principle and Active Inference Framework; Toward Solving the Hard Problem and Characterizing Agentic Causation]([Frontiers | An Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT) of Consciousness: Combining Integrated Information and Global Neuronal Workspace Theories With the Free Energy Principle and Active Inference Framework; Toward Solving the Hard Problem and Characterizing Agentic Causation]([Frontiers | An Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT) of Consciousness: Combining Integrated Information and Global Neuronal Workspace Theories With the Free Energy Principle and Active Inference Framework; Toward Solving the Hard Problem and Characterizing Agentic Causation]([Frontiers | An Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT) of Consciousness: Combining Integrated Information and Global Neuronal Workspace Theories With the Free Energy Principle and Active Inference Framework; Toward Solving the Hard Problem and Characterizing Agentic Causation](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2020.00030/full)))) Integrated world modeling theory]</ref>) '''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.''' (internal and external states) '''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.''' (computing prediction error as free energy from saved bayesian priors) '''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.''' (consonant or dissonant)<ref>[[- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==JCEYtgbbpxg)))) Dr Selen Atasoy: From Harmonics to Enlightenment]</ref> '''As a consequence, we shift our expectations that encountering such unicorn isn’t as unlikely!''' (bayesian model update of priors) ===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.''' (flexible communication between networks, easy symmetrical information flow<ref>[[- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==bxKtfNRKXpM))) Ecstatic apes: absorption, flow, trance, climax, and orgasm via rhythmic entrainment]</ref><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><ref>[[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]</ref>) '''When we can live life to the fullest! When our basic needs are satisfied.''' (hardcoded darwinian thermostat objective functions of subagents are in homestasis) '''When we selfactualize.''' (our global goals are being paid attention to)<ref>[[Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia]([Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia]([Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia]([Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia]([Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia]([Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia]([Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia]([Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs)))))))) Maslow's hierarchy of needs]</ref> '''When we can do things that make us happy. When we don’t feel stuck, when we feel free, when we can grow.''' (not getting stuck in a dissonant local minima of that blocks information flow) '''When we can just stresslessly be and relax.''' (relaxed dissolved narrative thinking mind) '''When things are going as we assume.''' (no dissonant prediction errors from misalignment with priors) '''When we love what is.''' (everything is predicted as perfect according to ideally nondual priors, very symmetrical flow of brain activity) '''When we can easily adapt. When our values are satisfied.''' (deep work, exploration, vulnerability - (interpersonal) processes on which our nervous system is adapted to and gets easily into flow state of information flow during it)<ref>[[- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==hZpKdfbrd6o))))) Rebuilding Society on Meaning]</ref> '''When there isn’t sense of something being wrong. When our internal parts are communicating with other parts and are not isolated.''' (no dissonant interaction of subagents) '''When there are no hurts parts from trauma, panicking anxious parts from uncertainity, or depresed parts giving up from thinking that they are unsuccesful.''' (anxious error signals, depressive giving up, traumatized hurt subagents exiles)<ref>[[Karl Friston: Schizophrenia, Autism, and the Free Energy Principle - YouTube]([Karl Friston: Schizophrenia, Autism, and the Free Energy Principle - YouTube]([Karl Friston: Schizophrenia, Autism, and the Free Energy Principle - YouTube]([Karl Friston: Schizophrenia, Autism, and the Free Energy Principle - YouTube](https://youtu.be/OwhuncNwzAc)))) Karl Friston: Schizophrenia, Autism, and the Free Energy Principle]</ref><ref>[[- YouTube]([- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==DepOiSw2nF0)) Ryan Smith: A Computational Neuroscience Perspective on Subjective Wellbeing]</ref> '''When everything feels in harmony, generating sense of meaning and being satisfied with current experience.''' (global and local consonant predictions, all internal subagents communicating and aligned with eachother, signaling “homeostasis achieved”)<ref>[[- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube]([- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==m8gUev5aVFs))))) The Predictive Dynamics of Happiness and Well-Being]</ref><ref>[[- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v==x4bO-3SJp1s) Predictive processing, well-being, and wisdom w/ Mark Miller - Voices with Vervaeke]</ref> '''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.''' (or to any mental model in general, emerging from clarity of perception, symmetrical communication between mental models, synchrony of neural populations, when we "love" a mental model, our self model starts to form connections with it, giving rise to higher valence, more symmetrical dynamics in relation to it, so if we love the world, the self model interconnects with the world model and we feel oneness as those models synchronize together in harmony) '''Meaning is the sense of interconnectedness with us, others and the world and overall everything.''' ===Meditation===