for - quote - mortality salience - Barack Obama - unpack - quote - mortality salience

for - article - LinkedIn - Has Language trapped humanity? - pre linguistic reality

Summary - very interesting exploration of our pre linguistic life - We modern humans spend most of our lives in the symbolosphere. - It is so ubiquitous that we don't even know it's relative and not absolute, like fish that don't know there's such a thing as water - until they are pulled out of it - Feral children are the ones who have been pulled out of the ocean of language, but they suffer a fate that none of us, from our conditioned language perspective would want to suffer - So how do we, who are deeply conditioned into language look at our situation of being so deeply conditioned? Is there life after (and before) language?

for - research further - Approximately 3,000 years ago, humans did not possess self-consciousness as we understand it today. - They operated through a divided mind: <br /> - one part spoke, experienced as divine command, and - another obeyed. Language did not describe consciousness. It created it.

for - book - The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

for - book - The Inheritors - William Golding - to - LinkedIn article - The Inheritors - https://hyp.is/PS13cLmnEfCpw39_5R3t-A/www.linkedin.com/pulse/language-humanitys-first-ai-goldings-forgotten-willy-de-backer-xffze/

for - language - origins - adjacency - language - AI

for - N. Katherine Hayles

for - definition -cognosphere - definition - distributed cognitive assemblage

for - quote - language - inherent circularity this harmonious whole is also incomprehensible, -since any description made by an observer - is part of that which is being described.

for - adjacency - language - is the first AI

for - transition - from embodied to symbolic consciousness

for - quote - symbolic language - when Homo sapiens develop symbolic language, - they create something unprecedented: - a cognitive technology that augments and fundamentally alters how consciousness itself operates

for - definition - distributed cognition

for - ❓- what does he mean by "picture sharing"?

for - adjacency - pre-linguistic thought - book - novel

for - book - The Inheritor - storyline - Neanderthal experience of the first early Homo Sapiens and of language

for - book - Lord of the Flies - The Inheritors - William Golding

for - adjacency - Deep Humanity - language - The Inheritor

for - from - LinkedIn article - Has language trapped humanity? - https://hyp.is/54ZYgrmmEfC5Oft3Op2Hiw/www.linkedin.com/pulse/has-language-trapped-humanity-willy-de-backer-vvwoe/

for - definition - city - definition degree of urbanization - UN Statistical Commission report 2020 - from - there are 10,000 cities on planet Earth - https://hyp.is/91Rx7LgAEfCT6ytaqg9C9Q/nextcity.org/urbanist-news/there-are-10000-cities-on-planet-earth-half-didnt-exist-40-years-ago

summary - This 2020 report was commissioned by the UN Statisticial Commission to develop a robust, standardized definition of cities, towns and rural communities (villages) to aid in international comparison of human settlements

for - definition - degree of urbanization - definition - grid cell classification - definition - urban centre - definition - dense urban cluster - definition - semi-dense urban cluster - definition suburban or peri-urban cells - definition - rural cluster - definition - low density rural grid cells - definition - very low density rural grid cells

for - degree of urbanization - diagram

for - definition - degree of urbanization - a UN Statistical Commission classification that standardizes the definition of city, town and semi-dense areas, and rural areas - definition - city - definition - town - definition - rural area

for - definition - city - towns and cities - to - UN Statistical Commission Report - https://hyp.is/Y4mBcrgGEfCKeB-o1NPMjA/unstats.un.org/UNSDWebsite/statcom/session_52/documents/BG-4a-DEGURBA_Manual-E.pdf

summary - A new definition of cities settles an outstanding ambiguity in urban planning - what is the definition of a city? - Defined as a location with minimum population of 50,000 and population density of 1,500 people / square kilometers, it turns out there are 10,000 cities on the planet, and 48% of humanity lives in cities. - 25% of humanity lives in towns, which are future cities

for - stats - cities - 20% of cities are shrinking

for - example - practical reasons for not naming a settlement a city - Egypt

for - definition - city - a geographic area with - at least 50,000 inhabitants - an average population density of 1,500 people/square kilometer - stats - 25% of people live in towns - 48 % of people live in cities - 25% of people live in villages - towns and cities

• according to this new definition, which standardizes the definition of city that has, hitherto been quite varied, 48% of humanity lives in cities (2015)

for - towns and cities - towns are the cities of the future

for - definition - city - stats - cities - 10,000 in the world

for - quote - stop trying to boil the ocean - COVID where impacts concentrate

for - adjacency - carbon emissions - 80/20 rule - Psreto

for - climate crisis - YouTube - coral reef planetary boundary exceeded

summary - breached first planetary boundary - coral reefs - referred to a book about climate psychology worth checking out - also referred to a game called planet crafter and a biodiversity group called planet wild

for - planetary boundary - biodiversity loss - planet wild

for - climate crisis - game - planet crafter - why not craft a game for collective action?

for - climate crisis - unhelpful binary - tell the right story

for - hyperobject - climate change - book - Don't even think about it - George Marshall - why our brains are uniquely wired to ignore climate crisis

for - youtube - MSNBC - book - 1929 - Great Depression - book - 1929

summary - A panel discussion about the parallels between the Great Depression of 1929 and the AI bubble today

for - to - youtube - Tucker Carlson - Trump regime change in Venezuela - false pretense - fighting drug problem - https://hyp.is/s-qthLcIEfCyey-n6NKEKw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pc4xNqa9NM

for - youtube - Tucker Carlson - Trump regime change in Venezuela - false pretense - fighting drug problem - from - youtube - The Young Turks - Trump regime change in Venezuela - false pretence - fighting drug problem -

for - adjacency - crony capitalism - drug addiction

for - drug addiction - intimate relationship with drugs

for - drug addiction - almost impossible to do it alone

for Trump corruption - inauguration bribes

for - Social change media - Participant Media - question - Did the success of Participant Media lead to its own obsolescence?

for - SRG Corporation2CO-OPeration program - worker-owned cooperatives - Apis & Heritage - inequality reduction - via worker-owned cooperatives

summary - Apis & Heritage is a unique US private equity firm that has established an investment fund called "The Legacy Fund" which is used to facilitate Employee-Led BuyOut (ELBO). Studies show the enormous potential for reducing inequality and it is an issue that receives rare bipartisan political support in the US. The "Silver Tsunami" describes 3 million small business owners likely to retire in 2035. Together, their businesses account for $10 trillion in assets. Apis & Heritage helps faciliate a smooth transition for owners to sell to their employees, increasing their net worth by as much as 10x by the time they retire.

.> for - quote - worker-owned cooperatives - Michael Brownrigg

for - Apis & Heritage - champions of worker-owned cooperative movement

for - worker-owned cooperatives - rare bipartisan support

for - stats - 2022 - US worker-owned cooperative potential - about 140,000 firms - employing around 33 million workers - would have been suitable candidates for ESOP employee buyouts, - nearly 1.1 million firms - employing over 25 million workers - [are] suitable candidates for cooperative employee buyouts. - Collectively, these firms accounted for roughly $25 trillion in total revenues. - Aspen Institute

for - worker-owned cooperative - opportunities

for - worker-owned cooperative - attitude shift - from paycheck - to investment in future

for - worker-owned cooperatives - attitude shift - more responsibility

for - Apis & Heritage Legacy Fund employee buyout process - Apis & Heritage values the enterprise and offers seller fair price for their life work - Once purchased, they transfer the company's assets to a trust - Using private debt capital, they finance a portion of that transaction. - The trust administers the ESOP - The seller has full liquidity upfront and can retire immediately, The Legacy Fund saves seller from having to manage the complex process of selling to employees. - ESOP is a retirement account for the new employee-owhers. - After 5 years, each employee become vested, with new share allocations made each year.based on wages as a percentage of total payroll - If value of business grows, so do employee share value. - When employee-owner is ready to retire, they sell back the shares based on current valuation - new employee-owners receive training from Democracy at Work Institute (DAWI) - The trust repays debt from initial transaction on behalf of the business to Apis & Heritage and its investors who make an attractive return -

for - stats - comparison - savings - worker-owned cooperative employee vs non - Rutgers - average median-earnings household - 17K - worker-owned cooperative - 165K

for - definition - Legacy Fund - Apis & Heritage fund that converts small businesses to worker-owned cooperatives - identify well run businesses that can deliver financial returns via interest and principal repayment. - target businesses with low- and middle-income hourly workers in industries: - construction, - manufacturing, - in-home care - uplifting everyday, hardworking Americans. - Deliver - competitive, - risk-adjusted returns - with rates in the low- to mid-teens - that are comparable to traditional investments for this asset class.

for - definition - sliver tsunami

for - stats - small businesses - USA - 3 million - 10 trillion in assets - 11 million baby boomers retiring by 2035 - US - worker-owned cooperatives - potential

for - definition - Employee Led Buyout (ELBO)

for - MTN - UNFR - whole system change - US

for - example - youtube - racial profiling - cop tries to frame judge - 30 million lawsuit - racial profiling - judge

for - US Republican governance failure - blue states provide welfare to red states - youtube - Dave Pakman - blue states vs red states - The US survives Trump's mismanagement because the US is a welfare state in which the blue states, with far better social policies is forced to bail out the tax-friendly red states - The red states keep choosing the same dysfunctional policies, and keep having to get bailed out by the blue states - In this sense, the federal government is being exploited to keep red states doing the same thing

for - youtube - Legal AF - Opus Day - question - Who is Opus Day? What harm have they been doing? - They seem to be associated with dark conservative forces

for - from - youtube - MTN - interview - religious supremacy - https://hyp.is/iU-8wrAZEfCztJ-ZfRs0DQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsL81chx7m4

for - to - youtube - Life Take Two - https://www.youtube.com/@lifetaketwo7662/videos - https://hyp.is/w9QzjLAZEfC7eufi3zgC9A/www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXQa7jW_QmY

for - quote - religious supremacy - religious is, in some ways, just because of the numbers a bigger problem than white supremacy - Jenny Gage

for - youtube - MTN interview - leaving Mormon Church - Jenny Gage

for - Deep Humanity - inspiration - youtube - MTN interview - leaving Mormon church

for - linguistically motivated information retrieval

for - language - linguistic normalization - different phrases with the same meaning - different syntax, similar semantics

for - adjacency - Trump - Inequality

for - stats - climate crisis - decarbonization - 2025 - 2.5 to 4 years of carbon budget remaining for 1.5 Deg C - 20% per annum decarbonization rate

for - climate crisis - major barrier - unwillingness to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies - Johan Rockstrom

for - metaphor - Tour de France - decarbonization - Science in lead - business second - policy distant 3rd - Johan Rockstrom

for - quote - Paris Accord - 2025 - policy lagged but business stayed on track - Johan Rockstrom

for - Johan Rockstrom - planetary boundaries 2025 - earth system boundaries 2025

for - youtube - neuroscience - How the brain remembers and imagines - Donna Rose Addis - memory and imagination have the same basis

summary - Donna Rose Addis is a pioneer in a field that connects past memories to future imagination - Her research has demonstrated that the same brain region, the Default Mode Network is responsible for simulations of past memories as well as future imagination - It is theorirized that episodic memory is reactivated and reorganized for creating future simulations

for - adjacency - depression - double for positive future thinking - even more amongst males

for - examples - autobiographical simulations invoking past episodic memories for future (goal-seeking) - counterfactuals - reimagining the past to see how we could have done better - anterior hippocampus supports imagination of - detailed, coherent and novel events and encoding the simulation so we can recognize when the opportunity arises in the future - creative cognition - populations with memory impairments also suffer difficulty with future imagination - depression results in loss of specificity of memories

for - definition - Constructive Episodic Simulation Hypothesis - episodic memory is a constructive process that reactivates and reintegrates distributed information across the brain - these same memories can be used in new combinations for novel imagination of the future

for - unexpected finding - hippocampus - active for imagining future instead of remembering past

for - adjacency - memory - imagination - Default Mode Network active in both

for - adjacency - memory - imagination critical papers - 2007 - some types of Alzheimer patient cannot imagine the future

for - definition - autobiographical memory - how we remember our personal past

for - adjacency - memory and imagination - episodic memory

for - question - asymmetry in past and future events - what does this mean?

for definition - Mental Time Travel - Neither Time nor Travel may be defining characteristics of Mental Time Travel - Mental rendering of experience may be the defining characteristic

for - claim - Mental Time Travel into the past and future are instantiations of one simulation system

for adjacency - simulation - Mental Time Travel

for - adjacency - past - future - Michael Levin - memories - goal-seeking - Michael Levin's research validates that memories serve the role of goak-seeking - This is another way of saying that the past plays a critical role in the future

for - definition - Mental Time Travel - ability to look at the past and the future

for - adjacency - memory - imagination - the same - claim - memory - imagination - the same

for - paper - title - Mental Time Travel? A Neurocognitive Model of Event Simulation - author - Donna Rose Addis - adjacency - memory - imagination - the same - from - paper - https://hyp.is/0Fb6NqdjEfCyTTddI20_aQ/www.dovepress.com/memory-sleep-dreams-and-consciousness-a-perspective-based-on-the-memor-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-NSS

summary - memory and imagination are proposed as fundamentally the same process. - It is the ‘mental’ rendering of experience that is the most fundamental function of this simulation system enabling humans to - re-experience the past, - pre-experience the future, and - comprehend the complexities of the present.

for - key insight - Mental Time Travel (MTT)

for - definition - Mental Time Travel (MTT) - projecting the self into the past and the future

for - researcher - neuroscience - memory - perception - imagination - to - Mental Time Travel? - Donna Rose Addis - https://hyp.is/wqV4gKdkEfCRZGPrIOjeOA/utoronto.scholaris.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/3232f1fb-ed19-4614-9dd5-648c4d443629/content

for - Memory Theory of Consciousness - MToC - definition - Memory Theory of Consciousness - temporally extended, multimodal representations - must be integrated within a unified subjectivity for experience to be coherent - unapack - MToC - unpack - Memory Theory of Consciousness - temporally extended, multimodal representations - multiple sense inputs associated with an event - We could think about it from the perspective of Thousand Brain Theory and cortical columns integrating sense inputs - Do these create memory structures? - Those memory structures must be salient to goal-seeking activity, especially for fitness and survival of the organism

question - memory - evolution - goal-seeking - Is it possible that consciousness emerged early on in our species evolutionary history in the context of memories of multimodal sensory structures that help us achieve goal-seeking activity? - Then extra affordances of memory and consciousness could have evolved and diversified into a wide variety of non-traditional goal-seeking behaviors.

for - Kant - memory

for - sleep - explanation

for - paper - title - Memory, Sleep, Dreams, and Consciousness: A Perspective Based on the Memory Theory of Consciousness - author - Andrew E. Budson, Ken A Paller - adjacency - memories - sleep - dreams - Memory Theory of Consciousness - MToC

summary - The authors present a theory of dreaming and sleep that I resonate with, that sleep is a time in which the brain performs unconscious processing of memories, consolidating them by taking advantage of consciousnesss down time to perform massive parallel processing to connect memories together. - dreams are seen as a small conscious byproduct of the massive parallel processing task, and their meaning may have value depending on how we interpret them.

for - key insight - similarity of waking and dream state - How can - wake experiences be direct reflections of the sensory world at that moment while - comparable dream experiences are created by the brain based on novel combinations of fragments of memories from the past? - The answer must be that our experiences are always constructed by the brain; the very same processing that - gives us dreams - gives us waking experiences of reality. - In other words, our brains do not need incoming sensory input to produce realistic experiences. - Our waking experiences are the way that they are - not because of sensory input but - because of the functional capabilities of the human brain. -The MToC argues that the functional capability that produces our experience of reality, whether - we are awake - or asleep, - is the explicit memory system. - During sleep, we speculate that our brains are simply carrying on with functioning - akin to what happens when we are awake. - The typical modes of action of the human brain persist across wake and sleep. - While we are awake, our brains are producing a stream of experiences of being in the world, punctuated by thoughts. - While we are asleep, without the tremendous barrage of sensory input to constrain experience, perhaps our brains tend to return to these waking habits, - producing a stream of experiences in the world punctuated by thoughts.

for - definition - lucid dream

for - dreams - vividness

for - key insight - memory - memory is critical for - jumping around from one simulation to another or - jumping back to the context of the present moment, and to do so without disorientation.

for adjacency - memory - Alzheimer's disease - disorientation

for - adjacency - memory - Alzheimer's disease

for - example - MToC - When I wake in the morning, it is memory that allows me to experience myself as the same person who went to bed the night before. - I can remember my past experiences and what they mean in the sense of a sequence defining my existence spreading out over time. - Episodic memory enables me to remember - why I set the alarm 30 minutes earlier than usual (a plane to catch) and - why I am wearing these ridiculous pajamas (packed the usual pair for the trip). - Semantic memory maintains my sense of self, including that I am - a professor, - a spouse, and - a parent. -The next morning, when I wake in a hotel room, - episodic memory enables me to recall - my arrival to the hotel, - the city I am in now, and - the face of my new grandchild that I saw yesterday for the first time.

for - adjacency - memory - consciousness -unpacking - memory - consciousness connection - The principal postulate of the MToC is that consciousness is a function of the explicit memory system. - The explicit memory system is not only required for explicit memory - it is also required for our ability to - consciously perceive the world around us, - understand what is happening, and - make conscious decisions that lead to actions. - Thanks to the explicit memory system, - sensory impressions can reach consciousness, and - we can think about what is happening in the world. - In the process of consciously perceiving the world, we rely on - working memory to - maintain and - manipulate the information, on - semantic memory to make sense of it, and on - episodic memory - to relate the current situation - to prior episodes and - to understand the current context.

for - adjacency - sleep - continuity - memory is the bridge!

for - MToC emphasizes - bottom-up sensory memory - top-down episodic and semantic memories - lead to conscious perceptual experience

for - comparison Multiple Draft Theory - vs - MToC - similar - unconscious bottom-up and top down processes produce memory that produce consciousness - different - no waiting til experience is reported before consciousness - similar to sleep based unconscious memory consolidation of MToC

for - definition - Multiple Drafts theory of consciousness - - Daniel Dennett

for - MToC - first order processes can be conscious WITHOUT meta-representation. - interesting! - Question - does this mean sensory input is somehow conscious?

for - comparison - neuroscience - perceptual reality monitoring - vs - MToC - PRM focuses on veracity while MToC focuses on the instantaneous subjective experiences of reality

for - definition - perceptual reality monitoring theory - a theory that seeks to explain the difference between - the perception of external reality and - internal imagination or dreaming

for - MToC claim - purpose of consciousness - same as - purpose of memory - understand the present - imagine possible futures - plan accordingly - adjacency - MToC - memory - consciousness

for - like - Donald Hoffman's Interface Theory of Perception - ITP - to - Mental Time Travel (MTT) - https://hyp.is/wqV4gKdkEfCRZGPrIOjeOA/utoronto.scholaris.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/3232f1fb-ed19-4614-9dd5-648c4d443629/content

for - adjacency - MToC - binding - memory storage - retrieval

for - adjacency - memory - perception - no boundary - Hinze Hogendoorn - to - - adjacency - Memory Theory of Consciousness - Donald Hoffman

for - researcher - neuroscience - perception - memory

for - adjacency - Memory Theory of Consciousness - author's study of - Kant - Critique of Pure Reason

for - definition - Memory Theory of Consciousness (MToC) - The very awareness we have of sensory analysis, of perception, is based on the operation of this memory system. - In other words, the sensory information that constitutes an event is assembled at encoding and consequently can be remembered later.

for - key insight - paraphrase - adjacency - memory consolidation - sleep - massive unconscious parallel processing - From a memory perspective, - sleep can be understood as critically important for normal memory function, - given the lasting ramifications of consolidation. - Consolidation is the establishment of new connections - anchoring recent memories within relevant knowledge networks - While consolidation happens, some conscious experience (the dream) may be synthesized as the memory processing unfolds - Dreams reflect a storyline generated to make sense of a subset of activated memory fragments. - Consolidation that wires new connections happens across the entire cerebral context, without the constraints that come with conscious experience. - Unconscious processing during sleep takes advantage of massive parallel processing to connect all these thoughts together. - Dreams reflect a small portion of overnight memory consolidation work.

for - adjacency - claim - sleep - memory reactivation is - unconscious

for - adjacency - memory consolidation - storyline - dreams

for - research claim - dreaming - byproduct of sleep-based memory consolidation - adjacency - dreaming - sleep-based consolidation

for - adjacency - memory consolidation - sleep

for - adjacency - salience landscape - memory

for - training wheels - words that show you how they are pronounced

for - language - Wordbank - children's vocabulary - from - article - Atlantic - The Mystery of Babies’ First Words - https://hyp.is/OKsHnqU-EfCLelsZRWUhxw/www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/04/babies-first-words-babbling-or-actual-language/588289/

for - directory - Wordbank - baby vocabulary - to - Wordbank - https://hyp.is/dsbUfKU-EfCLKH8JOS680A/wordbank.stanford.edu/

for - language - first words of babies

for - definition - constitutive view of language

for - from - search - Google - how new words divide the world in new ways - https://hyp.is/55MHUKUxEfC-TAfy9q1VjA/www.google.com/search?q=how+new+words+divide+the+world+in+new+ways&oq=how+new+words+divide+the+world+in+new+ways&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigAdIBCDgwODFqMGo0qAIAsAIB&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

• book review - The Language Animal
  • self awareness emerges out of intersubjectivity
  • like Melanie Klein
  • relationship is necessary to form self identity
  • culture and language are intertwingled
  • “The basic thesis of this book is that language can only be understood if we understand its constitutive role in human life.”

for - book review - The Language Animal

for - relationship defines the self - adjacency - relationship defines the self - Melanie Klein - Taylor

for - language - word meaning - adjacency - language - culture - adjacency - Taylor - Pearce

for - language philosophy - book - The Language Animal - Charles Taylor - language philosophy - book - Sources of the Self

for - key insight - language - wanting stability - adjacency - wanting stability - interpretant - Charles Saunders Pearce

for - language - game - let's destroy anything - adjacency - game - let's destroy anything - Buddhist teachings on interdependent origination - this game reminds me of Buddhist teachings on interdependent origination - nothing really has an essential nature - if you try to look for it in its parts, you won't find it

for - language development - depends on social interaction

for - language - difficult to define anything

for - search - Google - how new words divide the world in new ways - https://www.google.com/search?q=how+new+words+divide+the+world+in+new+ways&oq=how+new+words+divide+the+world+in+new+ways&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigAdIBCDgwODFqMGo0qAIAsAIB&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 interesting results returned - How words shape our world - https://hyp.is/v03HxqUxEfCM7h8cfH031w/www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/48612/how-words-shape-our-world

for - key insight - there are other spaces where beings live that we cannot visualize - Michael Levin

for - invalid assumptions - Michael Levin - finding counterexamples that invalidate long standing general principle

for - paradigm shift - outdated framework - Michael Levin

for - comparison - causation - engineer vs philosopher - Michael Levin

for - adjacency - mathematics - physical reality - Descarte - Micahael Levin

for - causation - Michael Levin

for - quote - patterns are goal states intelligent systems are pursuing - Michael Levin

for - progress traps - perspective - Michael Levin

for - adjacency - 4E science - platonic space

for - paradigm shift - anomalies reaching threshold - John Vervaeke

for - adjacency - cognitive science - biology - platonic space - John Vervaeke

for - quote - minds occupying platonic space - Michael Levin - I think that some of the more complex high agency patterns from the space are behavioral propensities - aka kinds of minds. - I think that's what minds actually are - they're actually the inhabitants of that of that space. - adjacency - claim - minds in Platonic space - spirituality - Michael Levin

for - to - platonic space symposium - https://hyp.is/N9oZJIwoEfC99VP017xTLg/thoughtforms.life/symposium-on-the-platonic-space/

for - adjacency - questioning evolution - xenobots - anthrobots - Michael Levin - Is Levin's lab experiements bringing evolution's primacy into question? Is there an even MORE fundamental foundation for life? - Is the platonic form more fundamental than evolution?

for - new life forms - xenobots - anthrobots - novel electric faces - Michael Levin - progress trap - xenobots - anthrobots

for - youtube - interview - MIchael Levin - John Vervaeke

for - definition - electric face - electric profiling of early embryos - that predict facial features - platonic?

for - quote - platonic patterns are now actionable - Michael Levin - I've been thinking about this stuff for decades, and I had not broached the topic of platonic patterns until this year. - And that's because I think it is now actionable. - question - progress trap - moral questions and alarm bells? playing God? - Michael Levin

for - opinion - mutant life - possible - Michael Levin

for - regenerative medicine - regrow body parts - Michael Levin

for adjacency - goal - memory

for - Michael Levin - experiment - normalized cancer cells

for - interlevel communication - Michael Levin - What he's really saying is that we have to find the RIGHT LANGUAGE to speak to the agents at that different level - This is an important lesson for interlevel communication in social systems! - comparison - interlevel comm - cells vs societies

for - adjacency - not micromanaging the cell - high level instruction - Michael Levin

for - quote - Michael Levin - what is a good story? - the question is: Why didn't that biochemical story get you to this (new) discovery? - adjacency - good models - predictive power - good story - a good model is a good language - new words frame the world in new ways, - it allows us to divide reality in different ways - and can lead us to look in places we otherwise might now - and that can lead to new observations

for - definition - Platonic Space - a structured, non-physical space of patterns, - such as the properties of mathematical objects, - perhaps other, higher-agency patterns that we detect as forms of - anatomy, - physiology, and - behavior - in the biosphere. - Thus, the contents of this space may inform (in-form) events in our physical world (constraining physics, and enabling biology).

for - source - telegram channel - Michael Lennon - Forms of Life, forms of mind - Michael Levin and Hananel Hazan-led weekly symposium exploring platonic space - from - youtube - interview - Michael Levin - John Vervaeke - https://hyp.is/H727RKOrEfC5IAN-dmo5uw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwOJ9PWcPmo

for - comparison - multi-level agents - scaffolding

for - definition - level environment - the level environment for each agent at that respective local level of a multi-level, hierarchical intelligent system

for - key insight - whole system behavior emerges form the emergent coordination of all the agent interactions at different levels

for - adjacency - TAG - living systems - cell agents - consciousness agent

for - definition - TAG - Tame AGent framework

for - building AI systems more like biological systems

for - comparison - biological vs AI systems

for - adjacency - inter level communication - environmental steering - this is very interesting (and obvious) but far from trivial. - adjacency - meditation - interlevel communication - enlightenment? - could we naturalistically frame meditation that leads to non dual awareness, or enlightenment - as being a way for higher level agents - to get in touch with / communicate with - lower level agents - in a multi-agent environment?

question - could we interpret enlightenment as an ecosystem goal of intentional whole system environmental steering? This suggests a new term: - new definition - intentional whole system environmental steering - when environmental steering is intentional done at the highest level for the wellbeing of every level - The author uses the example of hunger as being a high level experience driven by lower level needs - This could qualify as an intentional whole system environmental steering so the term doesn't distinguishing enlightenment drive as anything special. We need some other distinguishing quality

for - definition - environmental steering - interlevel communications via environmental steering - interlevel control - interlevel communications

for - Michael Levin - Multi Scale Competency Architecture - Hierarchical systems

Summary - Biomimicry - mimicking natural systems for new AI models - human body is a hierarchical system - society is extension of human body and also hierarchical system

for - definition - multi-level cognition

for - multi-scale competency architecture - extend hierarchy of human body to society - continuation of levels - human being as cell in social superorganism - adjacency - multi-scale competency architecture - social superorganism

for - like - Michael Levins - Richard Sutton - youtube interview

Summary - interesting talk on learning - reminds me of Michael Levin's work - the priority is on goal directed activity

for - neuroscience - how brains store memory - engrams

for - why LLM memory still fails

for - semantic fingerprint - semantic space - semantic folding - cortical.io - sparse distributed representation - Numenta

for - health - insulin doctor - youtube - diary of a CEO

for - PhD thesis - Graph model for words and their meaning

for - semantic folding - semantic fingerprint - symmathesetic folding - symmathesetic fingerprint

for - youtube - Radical Platonism and Radical Empiricism - Michael Levin's work

for - consciousness, AI, Alex Gomez- Marin, neuroscience, hard problem of consciousness, nonmaterialism, materialism - progress trap - transhumanism - AI - war on conciousness

Summary - Alex advocates - for a nonmaterialist perspective on consciousness and argues - that there is an urgency to educate the public on this perspective - due to the transhumanist agenda that could threaten the future of humanity - He argues that the problem of whether consciousness is best explained by materialism or not is central to resolving the threat posed by the direction AI takes - In this regard, he interprets that the very words that David Chalmers chose to articulate the Hard Problem of Consciousness reveals the assumption of a materialist reference frame. - He used a legal metaphor too illustrate his point: - When a lawyer poses three question "how did you kill that person" - the question is entrapping the accused . It already contains the assumption of guilt. - I would characterize his role as a scientist who practices authentic seeker of wisdom - will learn from a young child if they have something valuable to teach and - will help educate a senior if they have something to learn - The efficacy of timebinding depends on authenticity and is harmed by dogma

for - adjacency - suffering - compassion - Minhyur RInpoche talk in South Africa - synchronicity - Mingyur Rinpoche's talk today on the intertwingled triplet of awareness, compassion and wisdom and the myriad ways in which we want to lessen suffering - If we look, these ways of mitigating suffering are everrywhere - https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_GmQMZqtGU

for - social impact of science - This kind of authentic science education that reaches people takes science out of its ivory tower - and makes it relevant to the masses - We probably wouldn't have a climate crisis if scientists had consistently reached out to lay people but we failed there and allowed climate denialists to promote their agenda with greater efficacy

for - adjacency - everyone's probably wrong - Donald Hoffman - science says 0% about ultimate reality - See the recent Youtube podcast of Diary of a CEO - interview with Donald Hoffman, where - he consistently argues that all scientific models teach us 0% about ultimate reality - https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0vTZrZny6A

for - quote - Alex Gomez-Marin - I don't see that education is going on in schools. - I don't see that knowledge is being produced in universities. - I don't see a lot of healing happening in hospitals. And - I don't see a lot of food being sold in supermarkets

comment - we need to flip civilization - we do not live in a wellbeing civilization - one future alternative is commons-based, with tools such as the Indyweb, that can allow life-long learners to build up their own private store of information - individual, yet connected through interpersonal trust networks for social learning

for - synergy - with Indyweb

for - crowdsourcing science - via media and mass voting - Eric's media project

for - pivot science education - spend resources to educate and influence lay people, - adjacency - influence lay people - BEing journeys

for - quote - scientific publishing is a very sophisticated Ponzi scheme - quote - Alex Gomez-Marin - alignment - Alex Gomez-Marin - Indyweb networked self-publishing

for - quote - scientific publishing is misdirection and huge business for publishing companies - quote - Alex Gomez-Marin - alignment - Alex Gomez-Marin - Indyweb - networked self-publishing

for - AI - progress trap - Open AI device