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 - 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?