for - source - telegram channel - Michael Lennon - Forms of Life, forms of mind - Michael Levin and Hananel Hazan-led weekly symposium exploring platonic space

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 - adjacency - conversation - emergence - Spanish Eso - Nora Bateson - symmathesy - mutual learning - to - symmathesy - Nora Bateson - https://hyp.is/_V3NAk4UEe6Z6btu_1LIkA/norabateson.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/symmathesy-a-word-in-progress/

for - adjacency - conversations - emergence

for - consciousness education - activism - Alex

for - progress trap - psychedelics

for - quote - the worst kind of pseudoscience is this kind of dogmatic scientism

for - definition - dogmatic skepticism

for - perception - sensory vs nonlocal perception

for - what's it like to be a bat? - what's it like to be a plant? - it begs the most general question: - what's it like to be the other?

for - adjacency - reality is incredibly rich and powerful - poverty mentality - What he says here is in line with the Buddhist concept of poverty mentality, in which we cannot believe we are the very happiness and richness we have been searching for - we've been on a life goal of searching for enlightenment our whole lives, - not realizing that we are it

for - citation - book - Patrick Harpur - Daimonic Reality: A field guide to the otherworld - to - book Daimonic Reality: A field guide to the otherworld - Patrick Harpur - adjacency - realm between fact and fiction - Donald Hoffman interview - Deep Humanity - self / other gestalt - the Indyweb - physiosphere - symbolosphere - this is exactly the intetwingledness of - the subject and the object - consciousness and phenomenal reality - Deep Humanity - the individual / collective gestalt - the self / other gestalt - symbolosphere / physiosphere - to - Youtube - The Diary of a CEO - Donald Hoffman interview - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DW0vTZrZny6A&group=world - internet Archive - https://hyp.is/egkk-IvhEfCpxyM0mIOqLA/archive.org/details/daimonicrealityf0000harp - Patrick Harpur - book webpage - https://hyp.is/1iPUDovhEfC4PStyYJoYnQ/www.harpur.org/x1Daimonic.htm

for - citation - film - Werner Hertzog - Ecstatic Truth vs documentary

for - compare - technocratic superhuman - vs - innate superhuman

for - adjacency - alternative - transhumanism - Deep Humanity

for - progress trap - transhumanism - AI - war on consciousness

for - citation - book - More Everything Forever - Adam Becker - to - book - More Everything Forever - Adam Becker - https://hyp.is/rGo8uovJEfCovHv7HL0Rgg/freelanceastrophysicist.com/

for - key inisght - book - Surveillance Capitalism - Once capitalism conquers the physical, it has to expand inwards to conquer (our inner word)

for - citation - book - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff - to book - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff - https://hyp.is/W4il7ovIEfCh30P8h49-Hg/www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=56791

for - progress trap - transhumanism -quote - transhumanism - mandating change on the human species

for - quote - AI ethics - AI pets - very soon people will think that if you turn off their algorithm, you're killing their pet,

for - adjacency- transhumanism - consciousness - quote - dark force of transhumanism - The transhumanist agenda to me is a very dark force. - It's a force that wants to extinguish humankind while telling us it's going to be great. - Consciousness is going to be key here

for - adjacency - AI - consciousness war - spiritual war

for - adjacency - urgency of - alternative views of consciousness - AI

for - metaphor - hard problem of consciousness - trick interview question

for - adjacency - hard problem of consciousness - materialist indoctrination

for - quote - straw man panpsychism - I see problems with panpsychism too - but when you make consciousness a fundamental property - this idea of oh so these glasses are conscious. - Come on we can be more sophisticated right? - So you don't need to straw man panpsychism in that way.

for - quote - We shouldn't have called it the hard problem of consciousness - By calling it a hard problem, - Yeah. Hard problems you can still solve and we shouldn't have called it a hard problem. - We should have said okay materialism just died.

Comment : insightful observation!

for - quote - materialism crime scene - Alex Gomez- Marin - the hard problem was I would say a covering up of the crime scene where materialism had died

for - adjacency - promissory note - Andy 100 years for materialism - definition - promissory materialism

for - AI - progress trap - Open AI device

• for: symmathesy, mutual learning, mutual transcontextual learning, individual collective entanglement, Indyweb, Indraweb, Indynet, Indranet
• definition: symmathesy
  • mutual transcontextual learning in living systems

• from - youtube - Essentia Foundation - interview - A neuroscientist speaks out on the hidden war on consciousness - Alex Gomez-Marin - a third is born between two in conversation

  • https://hyp.is/MOZ6uIwUEfC1hOf5CSl5YQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7NIicE_h9w

• comment

  • symmathesy lay at the heart of the Indyweb and Indraweb

for - from - Youtube - Essentia Foundation - interview - Alex Gomez-Marin - Neuroscientist speaks out on the hidden war on consciousness - https://hyp.is/ile8TIvJEfCl35MW3f5B8Q/www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7NIicE_h9w

for - from - Youtube - Essentia Foundation - interview - Alex Gomez-Marin - Neuroscientist speaks out on the hidden war on consciousness - https://hyp.is/ile8TIvJEfCl35MW3f5B8Q/www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7NIicE_h9w

for - adjacency - synchronicity - intense retreat experience - Mingyur Rinpoche - I'm listening to Mingyur Rinpoche and there's some synchronicity that in the live talk, he is talking about the same thing as the monk in this interview - They both went into a multiyear retreat and suffered huge panic attacks - to - Youtube - Mingyur Rinpoche - Anytime Anywhere meditation - South Africa - https://hyp.is/coluBIvcEfCRpD_roJ5NsQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_GmQMZqtGU

for - from - book - More Everything Forever - Adam Becker - https://hyp.is/LpPSAIvPEfCOkJfUgYhTkQ/freelanceastrophysicist.com/ https://hyp.is/LpPSAIvPEfCOkJfUgYhTkQ/freelanceastrophysicist.com/

for - Youtube - Buddhist teaching - Minhyur RInpoche South Africa 2025 - Anytime Anywhere meditation workshop

for - book - More Everything Forever - Adam Becker - from - Youtube - Essentia Foundation - interview - Alex Gomez-Marin - Neuroscientist speaks out on the hidden war on consciousness - https://hyp.is/ile8TIvJEfCl35MW3f5B8Q/www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7NIicE_h9w

Summary - Interesting adjacency with another video I've been watching, that focused on a Western monk's practice of Tibetan Buddhism, who after 12 years, entered a 4 year retreat and panicked - His demons emerged in the first 2 years of the retreat and he left but returned - This monk emphasized accepting the relationship with his demons instead of averting them and how craving and desire emphasized by Western civilllization is the cause of modernity's meaning crisis - to - Youtube - Diary of a CEO - Your brain is lying to you - Interview - Gerong Tupton - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DvIbLQQ1i56Y&group=world

for - book - More Everything Forever - Adam Becker - from - Youtube - Essentia Foundation - interview - Alex Gomez-Marin - Neuroscientist speaks out on the hidden war on consciousness - https://hyp.is/ile8TIvJEfCl35MW3f5B8Q/www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7NIicE_h9w

for - from - Youtube - Essentia Foundation - interview - Alex Gomez-Marin - neuroscientist speaks out on the hidden war on consciousness - https://hyp.is/GEWtIovIEfCHTlOdPqfE7A/www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7NIicE_h9w

for - comparison - spiritual vs material technologies - Donald Hoffman

• Q❓- What about love? As per earlier discussion, love it's the most quintessential spiritual quality
• if we don't have live in life, any technology would not matter

for - quote - building a new headset - Donald Hoffman - consciousness is fundamental but I'm using it in some sense to build a new headset

for - meme - all over of us - Donald Hoffman

for - future project - building a model to explain spacetime using Active Inference - Donald Hoffman - use Active Inference to minimise surprise using Markov chains - this model assumes consciousness is fundamental - this is going to be a model of intelligence based entirely from a model which takes consciousness as fundamental. - it goes back to game theory again. - back to the idea of a simulation - If you're able to create a piece of software that - is able to replicate and - is built on the fundamentals of consciousness. - Then it's potentially, it's going to think it's conscious

for - explanation - why minimising surprise is a good definition of intelligence - Donald Hoffman - it's very intelligent to minimize surprise - I'm surprised all the time - I'm pretty stupid right, I don't understand the world very well - but if I'm NOT surprised, it's like I've got a really good model especially if I'm doing lots of stuff in the world and I'm almost never surprised - boy am I I'm really intelligent! - So, you can see why that's a really good principle for trying to build an AI, - not just finding correlations between everything, - but really something deeper.

for - paraphrase - Active Inference - Intelligence is about minimizing surprise - Donald Hoffman

for - citation - Carl Friesten - Active Inference - chief by - Donald Hoffman

A answer - yes, interested in AI - they are not intelligent, just huge correlation machines - Donald Hoffman

History - Donald Hoffman - PhD on Lisp AI - Marvin Minsky - MIT lab

for - Q? - do you think much about AI? Donald Hoffman

for - quote - religious avatars - Donald Hoffman - I think that - Buddha - Jesus - Muhammad and - a bunch of people - were very very helpful avatars to help other avatars wake up to their their true nature

for - adjacency - non duality - non separation - Jesus crucifixion - forgiveness - interfaith - Gita - Islam - Judaism

for - adjacency - parallel - Hofmann language - stuck to my avatar - spiritual language - attached to self

for - adjacency - existential isolation - footprints in the sand - noone will care for us a thousand years from now - Milarepa - alone vs loneliness - Donald Hoffman - I've often thought about this on walks in nature - plants sit next to each other, - some just sprouting, - others in full, vibrant maturity, - some withering, - and others dead and decayed - life and death are juxtapositioned - A blade of grass may live and die without the rest of the world knowing anything about it - When a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear? - To live a life embodying the sacred, it doesn't matter if no-one knows anything about you - and yet, in contrast, biology and psychology tells us e are social beings, INTERbeings by nature - How do we reconcile these opposites? - Milarepa - the yogi living in solitude mountain retreat - in a yogic song I wrote, there's a difference between being alone and loneliness - How do we flip the loneliness of existential isolation of being human - to the fullness of the boundless wisdomin the aloneness of one particular headset in this lifetime?

New meme - the fullness of being alone - the Fullness of Emptiness

for - youtube - Diary of a CEO - interview - Donald Hoffman - youtube - title - seeing true reality would kill us

summary - I really enjoyed this interview with Donald Hoffman and found it very enriching on menu levels - He articulates many of the same insights as well as questions I have encountered in my own life journey - I didn't realize he had suffered long Covid and almost died of heart failure due to it - His own personal encounter with death makes his interview even more poignant and makes him more human, as he has gone through the litmus test of life and death - I found that he shared many of the same concerns, insights and paradoxes I face as a living and dying human INTERbeCOMing journeying through life. -

For - key insight - my suffering comes from identifying too strongly with my avatar. -

for - example - poverty mentality - Donald Hoffman

for - example - poverty mentality - Donald Hoffman

for Q ❓- why would a transcendent power do such a thing? - why should death and pain be such an intrinsic creation of the transcendent? - pain receptors helo give us feedback to survive - but unfortunately, they are there often when it life is coming to an end

for - adjacency - heart of Christianity - shoe love to your abusers - Donald Hoffman

for - key insight - if that person is me, hope would I treat me? - Donald Hoffman - adjacency - if that person is me, how do I treat me? - Good Deep Humanity BEing journey

for - Science/evolution/Darwin/perception/ not the truth/but only to help us succeed at reproducing

for - quote / key insight - If if your religion is love and that's it and that's then that's how you act, you don't really need to add anything more to that. - That's that's all you really need. Love your neighbor as yourself. You're done.

• adjacency - love is all you need - love yourself - love your neighbor - my yogic song lyrics - Donald Hoffman
  • Makes me think of the llyric I wrote for a Yogic song:
    • Love
      • is the force of attraction
      • of the universe with itself

for - adjacency - awareness creates - awareness destroys - change - life coexists with death each moment - Donald Hoffman - Interesting perspective - that awareness constructs this reality and destroys it (lets it go) - This emerged the association with another idea I've often thought of: - how each moment embodies both life and death - A new moment cannot arise - unless the previous moment is let go of

for - quote / key insight - die before we die - Donald Hoffman - We will each die. That's incontrovertible. - So any attachments I have to this world will cease. - There's no doubt. - The question is can I let go of the attachments now - or will they only go for my cold dead hand?

• adjacency - example - cliche - die before we die - Donald Hoffman

for - adjacency - letting go - of knowledge - of theories - Donald Hoffman - I've often felt as he does - it's a conundrum of letting go of that (knowledge) we've invested so heavily into - quote / key insight - letting go of theories of science and self - Donald Hoffman - Science is great, but don't believe any theory. <br /> - Theories are just tools. They're not the truth. - No scientific theory, my theories included, are the truth. - And so also is my theory about who I am not the truth. - So to really let go of any theory, if I can really let go of any theory of who I am, then I'll let go of any fear

for - key insight / quote - Do I identify with my fear or step back and be the observer that watches the fear response? - Donald Hoffman? - adjacency - calmness - in the face of death - fear of death - Donald Hoffman

for - key insight - adjacency - fear - near death experience - experiential knowledge vs abstract knowledge - Donald Hoffman - He articulates a very important point, that many of us, are only partially there on the journey of journey of discovery - Belief only takes you part way there, - Embodiment is the real proof - We need to have the experience to be certain

for - comparison - emotional - vs intellectual - belief in the ideas - vs embodiment of the ideas - Donald Hoffman

for - adjacency - science - spirituality - 0% of reality - Donald Hoffman

for - adjacency - Christian teaching - infinite intelligence - loving God - loving your neighbor - loving yourself - all the same - Donald Hoffman

for - A Answer - you know it when you let go of all concepts and you don't try. If you're trying to get there, then you don't see what you already are. - Donald Hoffman

for - Q ? - Did someone create that consciousness? - Donald Hoffman

for - A Answer - the infinite knows itself though infinite number of perspectives - Donald Hoffman

for - Q ? - What is the meaning of life - Donald Hoffman

for - example - hard problem of consciousness - Simulation Theory - Donald Hoffman

for - quote / key insight - consciousness has created the brain as an icon to describe how it's creating this headset - Donald Hoffman

for - adjacency - subjective vs objective reality - examining our most fundamental assumptions of reality, self and other Donald Hoffman - This is a difficult one for many people who reify objective reality to understand - It requires deep analysis and insight into our fundamental assumptions of how we employ anguage, learned while we were in our child development stage - Donald Hoffman is asking us to take that journey to uproot these most fundamental assumptions of self and other, long forgotten, but thoughtlessly projected into the present moment like an automaton

for - key insight / quote - the reason to love your neighbor - Donald Hoffman - The reason to love your neighbor as yourself is because - your neighbor IS YOUR (TRUE) SELF, just with a different headset. - And the only reason we have problems is - we don't realize how incredible you are. - So you are that which is creating this VR simulation with all of its beauty, all of its complexity. - All the complexity is you and you're doing it effortlessly.

adjacency - infinite intelligence - hologram metaphor - your neighbor is your (true) self - Deep Humanity motto - Join together (instead of Join us) - face behind the mask - Reflecting on this, it occurred to me that the Deep Humanity motto of "Join together, NOT join me/us" is deeply connected to what is being discussed in this annotation. - The problem with "joining me" is that it reflects we are still stuck in the ego reification paradigm while "join together" reflects awareness that the boundless intelligence is the true face behind the mask of each different species and each different individual of each species

for - adjacency - hologram metaphor - infinite intelligence - Jesus - Mathew 25 - Donald Hoffman - Interfaith - Ubuntu - I am because you are - I am you and you are me

for - adjacency - infinite intelligence - perspectival knowing - hologram - Donald Hoffman

for - key insight / quote - the reified ego is the root cause of all the problems in the world - we reify because we don't know who we REALLY are - Donald Hoffman - All the egoic stuff that we do causes all the problems in the world because - you don't know who you are. - You're creating this whole thing. - You're not a little player. - You're the inventor of this whole thing. - You have nothing to prove and - you don't need to be better than anybody else. - They're also master creators. - They're creating entire universes that they perceive as well. - And my own take on on this is that - you and I are really the same one reality - just looking at itself through two different headsets, - two different avatars and having a conversation. - And maybe that's what is required for this one infinite intelligence to sort of know itself.

• adjacency - poverty mentality - ego - problems of the world - samsara - nirvana - hologram model - Alan Watts - God playing hide and seek - Donald Hoffman
• When we don't believe we can be this, we limit ourselves
  • That is, we suffer from self-inflicted poverty mentality
• When he says we are the one same reality,
  • he is echoing the common spiritual teaching of the holographic metaphor where
    • the one nameless is distilling itself in so many separate identities to know itself,
  • Similiar to many spiritual teacher's teachings
    • Alan Watts referred to it as God playing Hide and Seek with itself

for - adjacency - perspectival knowing - rendering - learned in child development - language usage - This is an interesting use of the word "render" to demonstrate how even shared human experiences are still uniquely seen from different perspectives - We impute objective reality, for instance of the cup, even though we are each uniquely rendering it in different ways - It is a direct result of our child development in which we learned how to employ words to label such social contexts - We establish rules for word usage at an early age, but we forget the original conditions which gave rise to them - When we remind ourselves of the original motivation, it is a bit of a shock to the system how strange this reality is

for - adjacency - constructed reality - umwelt - species perspectival knowing - misunderstanding - sensory signals - map and territory - Donald Hoffman - We have to be careful how we interpret his claim here, as it is often easily misunderstood. - He means that evolution itself, reality itself has constructed this unique set of sense organs, that creates a unique human umwelt in which - the sensory signals give us a very specific map of reality, NOT reality itself - In this way, our sensory signals construct a very unique map of reality, which is different from the way all other species construct their maps

for - example - poverty mentality - adjacency - poverty mentality - ego reification - othering - competition - If I believe my own spacetime story that - I am this body - thoughts are simply epiphenomena of the brain - then I don't feel very empowered or spacious - instead, I feel small and insignificant - and it motivates me to compete with others to make myself feel better - In this way, my own poverty mentality, based on the wrong-headed belief that I am the map (not the territory) - leads to identity and ego reification and othering

for - quote - who you are beyond your headset - Donald Hoffman - If you want to understand the truth of who you are beyond just this headset description of you - then you have to - lay aside all concepts period and - just know yourself by being yourself, - not by putting a concept between you and yourself. - adjacency - headset - perspectival knowing - Donald Hoffman - unquestioned assumption of other perspectives - imputation - external observable proxy - to private, inner world - As I read Hoffman's use of the word "headset", it brought up some associations with the idea of "perspectival knowing" - There is the perspectival knowing of a species, - but also of the individual of a species - For humans, perspectival knowing must be contextualized within an imputation: - that other perspectives exist - in other words, that other private worlds exist - and ultimately, this is a widely accepted imputation of an inner private world - based upon public, external observable behavioral proxies - This imputation of the other is a fundamental imputation and assumption of the human condition which we all take for granted, - but because it is so foundational, never question

for - adjacency - spirituality - science - silence of thoughts in meditation - descriptions of reality - map and territory - Donald Hoffman - nice adjacency - if our thoughts are dependent on and built upon inputs from our senses - and our senses only provide us with a map, and not the territory, - then thinking will only ever keep us in the map world

for - quote - Almost all of us think of ourselves as an object in spacetime only here for a short amount of time and will soon die - Donald Hoffman When I say you transcend any scientific

• Almost all of us think of ourselves as
  • an object in spacetime only here for a short amount of time and will soon die.
• When I say you transcend any scientific theory,
  • that means the theory that I am just a 160lb object in spacetime is just a theory and it's not the truth.
• That's not the truth about who I am.
• That's just a theory that I have because spacetime itself is just a theory.
• Nothing inside spacetime is anything but my headset interpretation of a reality that infinitely transcends anything I can experience.

for - definition - learning by ostensive definition - adjacency - ostensible definition - parents - external proxy - children's private experiences - This is a very deep insight and important point - Parents are stewards of culture and they lead their children into a world of shared names - It is important to note that - the parent who teaches the child the name for some aspect of reality - only ever has a proxy to the child's private experience of reality - That proxy is the externally observed behaviour of the child - In fact, we fundamentally only ever have public external proxies to the private, "inner" lives of others

for - quote - you are God - Donald Hoffman - you are good - predictive text error - you are not good, you are God

for - adjacency - science - banishes - observer - but - observer - transcends - theories

for - adjacency - spirituality - transcends - science

for - adjacency - theory of everything - 0% of reality - Donald Hoffman

for - adjacency - spirituality - betting space and time

for - Q❓- how can your work help people lead better lives?

for - example - umwelts

for - the map is not the territory - don't mistaken the finger for the moon

for - quote - we know 0% of reality - Donald Hoffman

for - quote - not truth, just a headset - Donald Hoffman

for - example - jewel beetle - simple hacks over seeing the truth - jewel beetle tries to mate with dimple on glass beer bottle - it doesn't use any other signals to help it distinguish between - the beer bottle dimple and - a real female jewel beetle

for - comparison - bat umwelt vs human umwelt - good comparison - all sensory signals of living beings only ever generated major of reality, - never 'reality' itself, whatever that may be - We humans can study other species and observe how their senses create their respective maps of reality - but our senses fall on the same continuum

for - research output - the truth requires too much energy

for - quote/key insight - perception serves reproduction, not seeing reality as it is

quote / key insight - perception serves reproduction, not seeing reality as it is - Donald Hoffman - From an evolutionary point of view, perception is expensive. - It takes a lot of calories. - You have to eat a lot of food - to run your brain and - to power your eyes and your ears. - - And so you need to do shortcuts. - You need to make your sensory systems not chew up so much of your energy. - The more expensive your perceptual systems are, - the more you've got to eat to to power those. - So that means you have to go out there and forage and put yourself at harm. - So there's a trade-off. - We try to do things cheaply in evolution. And you don't need to actually go for the truth because that's very very expensive

for - quote - probability of zero that sensory organs are designed to help us see objective reality - Donald Hoffman

for - find - Donald Hoffman papers

for - quote - Evolution shapes us not for truth, but to successfully reproduce - Donald Hoffman

for - youtube - Just have a think - new paper - new metric for measuring emissions - ERF - to - paper - Increased transparency in accounting conventions could benefit climate policy - https://hyp.is/CUcbhF2TEfCn1ieAeq73JA/iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adb7f2 - climate crisis - carbon emissions - agriculture has the highest of all - AgroSphere Technologies - cite this paper

for - AgroSphere Technology key research paper - carbon emissions - paper claims agriculture is the highest summary - The paper cited here is very important for AgroSphere Technology because - It shows how critical a role regenerative agriculture plays in mitigating the climate crisis - The claim of the paper is that carbon emissions from Agriculture are the biggest emissions of all

for - youtube - BBC - AI2027 - Futures - AI - progress trap - AI - to AI2027 website - https://hyp.is/0VHJqH3cEfCm9JM_EB3ypQ/ai-2027.com/

summary - This dystopian futures scenario is the brainchild of former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, - It is premised on human behavior in modernity including - confirmation bias of AI researchers - entrenched competing political ideologies that motivate an AI arms race - entrenched capitalist market behavior that motivates an AI arms race - AI becoming embodied, resulting in Artificially Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AEAI), posing the danger to humanity because it's no longer just talk, but action - Can it happen? The probability is not zero.We don't really understand the behavior of the AI LLM's we design, they are nonpredictable, and as we give them even greater power, that is a slippery slope - AI can become humanity's ultimate progress trap, which is ironic, because the technology that promises to be the most efficient of all, can become so efficient, it no longer need human beings - Remember Jerry Kaplan's book "Humans need not apply"? - https://hyp.is/o0lBFH3fEfC1QLfnLSs5Bg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiiP5ROnzw8 - This dystopian futures scenario goes further and explores the idea that "humans need not exist"!

question - What about emulating climate change gamification of "Bend the Curve" of emissions? - Use the AI 2027 trajectory as a template and see how much real-life follows this trajectory - Just as we have the countdown to the https://climateclock.world/ ( 3 years and change remaining as of today) - perhaps we can have an AI 2027 clock? - What can we do to "bend the dystopian AI 2027 curve" AWAY from the dystopian future?

for - youtube - Google Talks - Humans need not apply - Jerry Kaplan - 10 years after the book "Humans need not apply - the AI 2027 project - https://hyp.is/kWXQ0n3cEfCIUz_j42HHiA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UufaK3pQMg

for - from AI2027 website - https://hyp.is/W-LxWn3dEfCtI2PPz8uecA/ai-2027.com/

for - to - Wikipedia - Daniel Koktajlo - https://hyp.is/Q0vJPH3dEfC1Q-NVG27cig/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kokotajlo_(researcher)

for - from - youtube - BBC - AI2027 https://hyp.is/kWXQ0n3cEfCIUz_j42HHiA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UufaK3pQMg

for - youtube - debunking US white racism

for - Similar to - Ronald Wright computer metaphor - We're cave people stuck in a modern world - YouTube - Humans are not evolved by for midterm life - interview - host - BBC series - Human

for - Epstein scandal - fox guarding the henhouse - Who is the fox? - The fox is one or all of the below: - rich men who secretyly abused underage girls - intelligence - politicians - When the fox is in charge of the henhouse - they get to control the narrative

for - youtube - podcast - I've had it - Lindsay Graham is Gay - conservative political parties - closeted LBGTQ - Republican party - closeted homosexuals

summary - This program raises a very important, but ignored issue that is salient to the polycrisis - conservative religions harbor many closeted homosexuals who actively promote harmful LBGTQ hatred because they are in such denial - Complexity - simultaneous being both - conservative religious and - homosexual, queer, bi or trans - creates a pathological - contradiction - denaialism - self-hatred - hatred of LBGTQ community - Political parties that are conservative are composed of a majority of religious conservatives - hence, they also have a majority of CLOSETED homosexuals, gay, queer, trans, bi people - The denialism and self-hatred manifests as political policies that are harmful to the LBGTQ community

for - quote - mortal - moral

for - double meaning - emergency - EMERGEncy

for - articulation - nice - Annick - Psychologically, we’re in distress. - Socially, we’re isolated. - Culturally, we’re at war. - Democratically, we’re in decline. <br /> - Ecologically, we’re in crisis. - Geopolitically, the world order is fracturing. - Technologically, we’re losing control.

for - AI - Hinton - maternal instincts

for - embodiment - embodied knowledge

for - salience landscape

for - quote main goal of life - don't die

for - claim - eternal life is nonsense

for - adjacency - denial of death - discomfort with body

for - research - pregnancy - 3 immune systems

for - adjacency - Verela -immune systems

for - mind body connection - mental disorder - body inflammation

for - adjacency - brain - identity - immune system - immune system involved with identity at a microscopic level - which molecule is part of "you"? - which moleculev is NOT part of you - immune system preceded neural system

? - maybe there is similarity between neural processing and immune system response?

for - question - how do dumb cells give rise to a smart brain?

for - key insight - from cells to neurons

for - paper - biogenic approach to cognition

for - adjacency' -coevolvement - Deep Humanity - mOTHER

for - post - LinkedIn - Glenn - post - LinkedIn- Carbon Credits - ecological prostitution - metaphor - carbon credits - obese people - quote - carbon credits like obese people overconsuming without feeling guilty - Offsetting with carbon credits is morally equivalent to - obese people hiring someone else to go on a diet for them or even - demanding that people in countries suffering from food-insecurity reduce their food intake - so that obese people can continue to overconsume without feeling guilty. - It resembles the colonial hoax of “paying” the poor to clean up the mess they cause.- Glenn Sankatsing

for - post - LinkedIn - Glenn - post - LinkedIn - Carbon Credits - ecological prostitution - metaphor carbon credit - obese people

for - article - Substack - Michel Bauwens - title - The Geopolitics of Cosmo-Localism (I)

summary - A nice summary of the geopolitical implications of a cosmolocal future and the main obstacles that must be overcome to turn it into a reality

for - definition - planetarity - Michel Bauwens - tension between two forces - regionalism vs - global virtual domains - phygital domains - question - how do we reconcile - phygital vs regional?

for - part II of this article - identifying and overcoming the obstacles

for - stats - cosmolocalization - localization can reduce matter-energe usage by 60%

for - stats - cosmolocalization - mutualization can reduce matter-energy usage by another 80%

for - definition = pulsation of the commons - Michel Bauwens - Throughout history, - in periods of dark ages - capitalism (self interest) rules - in times of civilizational degradation - even commons institutions can be compromised

for - quote - mutualization - Michel Bauwens

for - adjacency - translocal productive networks - cosmolocal - deep Humanity - trans-spiritually, trans-religion - in other words, these translocal productive networks are cosmolocal networks and - can Deep Humanity be framed as a 'universal spirituality or - trans-spirituality or - trans- religion - that compliments the translocal productive network?

for - definition - Mode A - gifting and commoning, to a higher level of complexity

for - adjacency - cannot go back - spiral -progress - progress trap - This can also be seen as the complexity emerging from the continuous oscillation between progress and progress traps - while we are a timebinding species, the unintended consequences of progress require us to undo the unintended harm by revisiting a corner time to remember the beneficial qualities so they we may decouple the harmful qualities in the future

for - book - Beyond Civilization - Keith Chandler

for - new definition - biosphere-scale inequality - adjacency - metaphor - master-slave - resources - externalisation - Michel articulated an insightful metaphor to describe our modern relationship with nature - To see nature as a resource is a species-selfish (anthropomorphic) perspective - which enables - resource extraction - exploration - externalization and ultimately - the climate crisis - Humans are seem as the master and all of nature our slave - This transcends human-scale inequality - it is biosphere-scale inequality

for - quote - religion was trans-local - Michel Bauwens - new definition - trans-religion - a universal religion that transcends existing religions - one of the dominant theories of - anthropology, - human origins and - human evolution - is that our species had is origins in Africa and spread out to the rest of the world - The interesting thing is that if this iis indeed true, then we are all distant relatives in the family of humanity - and the various regional cultures that developed in isolation until relatively recently when modern transportation technology brought us into contact, are all related - third could be a unifying narrative that could motivate a universal human spirituality that re-integrates a fragmented modern humanity

for - adjacency regional - human evolution - isolated cultures

for - key insight - indigenous vs modern culture - spirituality - indigenous people had / have strong spiritual beliefs that mitigate extreme forms of environmental destruction and promote stewardship

for - book - Point Zero, volume 1 - Boris Sirbey - it nicely summarises the different stages by such humanity became alienated

for - definition - post. civilisational shift

for - adjacency - environmental crisis - sensory bubble - hyperobjects - evolution - progress traps

Adjacency - between - environmental crisis - sensory bubble - hyperobjects - evolution - progress trap - adjacency relationship - ? - Why does capitalism framework externalise climate impacts? - The climate is a hyperobject that transcends our evolved sensors for danger - A crisis that threatens the (global) climate therefore also transcends our innate ability to sense danger - We will react immediately when a predator like a bear is rubbing after us - because we have evolved to respond to that with a fight out flight response - The bear is perceived as a real threat, while the climate crisis, bring a hyper object is not - Science reveals that invisible, but depends on complex reasoning chains of inference - Our sensory bubble is always only a small part of the world - even though media can give us images of the entire world, it is indirect and cannot compete with our evolved, innate danger sensing mechanisms

for - competing forces - return to isolated cultures / tradition - universality

for - adjacency - agriculture - emergence of cities

for - from - youtube - Just have a think - A controversial new paper challenges established emissions accounting criteria - https://hyp.is/9AQ6VF2SEfCsW8_68Y6AUA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9f16OTL1Lg - climate crisis - ERF - agriculture 60% - fossil fuels 18% - agriculture is the biggest contributor to carbon emissions summary - This paper uses Effective Radiative Forcing (ERF) as a metric to measure global carbon emissions instead of the traditional Global Warming Potential (GWP) - It points out the problematic nature of GWP and how ERF provides a more accurate picture - Using ERF, the most surprising result of this study is that agriculture is the leading sector causing global warming - Measured from a baseline of emissions since 1750, - agriculture contributes 60% while - fossil fuels contributes 18% - Projects like Project Drawdown already prioritize agriculture, this gives even more validation and priority on transforming the agricultural sector - This also increases importance on efforts in: - regenerative farming - bioreginalism - permaculture - agroforestry - rewilding

for - definition - reverse Robin Hood - steal from the poor to give to the rich - adjacency - Trump policy - reverse Robin Hood

for - quote - pardoning Ghishlaine Maxwell - There will be an insurrection if that happens - Gretchen Carlson

for - progress trap - legal - NDA - question - legal - NDA - can laws be amended so that NDA's are null and void whecan laws be amended so that NDA's are null and void when perpetrators use them to defend and hide their illegal activity?

for - progress trap - legal - NDA - question - legal - NDA - can laws be amended so that NDA's are null and void when perpetrators use them to defend and hide their illegal activity?

for - Epstein scandal - progress trap - NDA - youtube - MSNBC - interview - Gretchen Carlson - to - Lift our voices - founder Gretchen Carlson - https://hyp.is/cjEMJHaCEfCvXw-j41Uguw/liftourvoices.org/legislation

for - founder - Gretchen Carlson - Lift our voices - NGO fighting against silencing mechanisms - from - youtube - MSNBC - interview - Gretchen Carlson - https://hyp.is/r0w0vHaCEfC5XJ9qJvCP7A/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1HwE9Q01RM

for - definition - silencing mechanism - - methods that individuals and organizations employ to intimidate others into silence to hide illegal activity such as sexual harm

for - Epstein as part of state-sponsored child abuse Kompromat? - Eric Weinstein - adjacency - Epstein - CIA - FBI - state-sponsored pedophilia

for - adjacency - Epstein - CIA -FBI - state sponsored pedophilia

for - youtube - Pier Morgan interview - Eric Weinstein

summary - The most interesting part of this interview is with Eric Weinstein - He weaves together geopolitics, Epstein, Trump, Israel, wars raging in the world and state-sponsored covert violence to help make sense of world events

for - perspective - We're stuck here (on earth) - Eric Weinstein

for - adjacency - JP Morgan - Jeffrey Epstein - Harvard Math Dept - Eric Weinstein

for - adjacency - Jeffrey Epstein mystery - gravity - Harvard Math dept - Eric Weinstein - Stephen Hawkins

for - adjacency - Jeffrey Epstein - Harvard graduate dept of mathematics - gravity - Eric Weinstein

for - perspective - techno-optimist - - aligned to computer modeling of biological systems - simplistic systems poorly modeling complexity

for - perspective - Eric Weinstein - feels we've been stagnant - like - Eric Weinstein - Peter Thiel

for - Eric Weinstein perspective - can't fix this planet

for - argument for finding another home for humanity - single atmosphere - 3 threats - Eric Weinstein

for - quote - future of humanity - something remarkable has to happen - Eric Weinstein

for - atheist who believes we need religion - metaphor - diving deep

for - quote - This is the start of the undoing of the post world war II order - Eric Weinstein

for - example - leverage - progress trap - COVID - mix of 4 amino acids inserted into a spike protein

for - progress traps - biotech - nuclear - powerful tools - leverage points

for - stats - history - Nov 1952 - hydrogen bomb - -April 1953 - discovery of DNA

for - scientist - Eric Weinstein - Jeffrey Epstein - science connection

for - Jeffrey Epstein - science connection

for - Jeffrey Epstein - evidience for Bipartisan coverup - 2007-2025

summary - Reporter nick Bryant has been investigating the Epstein case for many years and he shares evidence that strongly suggests a bipartisan coverup at the highest level - This would imply that political / business leaders at the highest level, both democrat and republican and international elites as well engaged in illegal sex with minors and children - He contextualizes the Epstein case in the historical concept of Komrpomat, as written in his previous book The Franklin Scandal

for - to - website - Epstein Justice from - youtube - Chris Hedges - interview - Nick Bryant

for - Jeffrey Epstein victims - under 10 years of age

for - David Boie - lawyer for Epstein victims - Epstein compensation program - lawyer David Boy - victims must sign NDA not to disclose any other perpetrators - to - Business Insider - News Inside the messy effort to compensate 225 Jeffrey Epstein accusers - https://hyp.is/qCXM_mMMEfC1a_NlKIJWAg/www.businessinsider.com/inside-jeffrey-epstein-victims-compensation-program-fund-2022-1

for - child abuse - why the American public will not let it go

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for - Jeffrey Epstein - victim compensation program - from - youtube - Chris Hedges show - interview - Nick Bryant - https://hyp.is/qCXM_mMMEfC1a_NlKIJWAg/www.businessinsider.com/inside-jeffrey-epstein-victims-compensation-program-fund-2022-1