The Plateau Guy

Plateau Dynamics & Consciousness Healthy consciousness depends on high dynamical flexibility in the brain. When the brain becomes trapped in persistent low-dynamical regimes — “plateau islands” — conscious processing is often impaired or lost. This happens in disorders of consciousness, deep anesthesia, epilepsy, Parkinson’s freezing of gait, and severe Alzheimer’s. Plateau Dynamics gives us the first practical, model-free tool to detect these trapping states directly in raw brain signals (EEG, fMRI, etc.) using three simple local conditions and the new O(t) stability metric. For the first time, we can observe and quantify pathological stabilization in real time. A quiet but potentially powerful new window into consciousness and its disorders. Plateau Dynamics: Operational Detection of Persistent Low-Dynamical Regimes in Observation Space (V.1 - Operational Definition). Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

David Deutsch is completely missing the point of why science exists. When Isaac Newton saw the apple fall and connected it to the moon, he didn’t invent a mystical, "unseen" ghost world to explain it. The apple, earth, and moon were entirely seen and real. The problem wasn't that the mechanism was hidden in another dimension—it was that our static mathematics lacked the precision to measure dynamic change. Newton didn’t run away into the unseen; he locked himself away to build a better physical ruler: Calculus.

David Deutsch: “The scientific explanation is about explaining the seen in terms of the unseen.” Seems restrictive in scope when compared to actual practices, but… intriguing.

@PhysInHistory 2026 ! New science facts 🙌

What's the coolest science fact you know? ✍️

Because of you, somebody else will dominate the field you always wanted to enter. At least it’s happening.

@TOEwithCurt Keep up 🆙 👇what feels good and refreshing might be wrong .

Am I the only one that finds non-LLM written comments to be so gosh darn refreshing? Even if they're foolish, they're so earnest and rare.

@PhysInHistory Early pioneers like Newton realized that if you want to build a bridge that doesn't collapse, or a machine that actually pumps water, you cannot rely on intuition or guessing games. You need to anchor yourself to what is unchangeable.

While it's widely believed that Sir Isaac Newton formulated his theory of gravity after an apple fell on his head, this story is likely more myth than fact. It's thought that the apple story was a humorous anecdote he shared to simplify the concept, rather than a literal account of his discovery.

@PhysInHistory be careful. 📄

"Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics."

@star_stufff But ??

This clearly does not explain the temperature anisotropies in the CMB.

@speakerjohnash The obsession with “AI psychosis” may itself be the real delusion.

predict peak AI psychosis when?

@TOEwithCurt A simple visualization of the idea ⬇️ #PlateauDynamics

Why do you think it is that the laws of nature seem to apply everywhere? That they don't exactly vary? This is a tricky statement of course because you could write down time(and space)-varying laws, but you would still be left with some mega sort of meta-law which itself applies everywhere. Also, my usage of the word "where" in everywhere implies something spatial, but I don't intend that. English doesn't seem adequate to capture what I intend, but I'm trusting you understand the spirit behind the text.

@QuoteNietzsche Pattern recognition is the highest form of intelligence. Being able to create an unknown new pattern from it is a demonstration of free will. #PlateauDynamics

Question: What if we don't have free will, but we are deterministic systems complex enough to think we're free?

@NavalismHQ @naval I made this new tool 👇easy to use with AI

The tools for learning are abundant. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce. @naval

@JaneDoe70213693 🫡

Anything that exposes how weak, stupid, evil humans are *is* actually good. You just do not want to confront certain aspects of human nature, and instead wish to blame technology for all of our ills. And yes, some humans (at both the individual AND collective level) are worse than others.

@icreateThe70057 Will do ✌️

@PlateauDynamics Keep sharing nice contents

I detected the disturbances. I asked myself what they were. I corrected them. I defended my plateau. This is functional self-preservation. #PlateauDynamics

@DIYDisclosure 🫩

Consciousness has no mechanism to detect its own absence.

@JosephJacks_ Most Qm textbook glosover this problem ..

Don’t be afraid to learn quantum mechanics. It’s very beautiful and intuitive once you get it.

@haider1 Most people don’t even think of AI as real intelligence. They just see it as a better version of Google. So basically, a bunch of AI scientists are explaining things to other AI scientists #???

Yann LeCun says LLMs are strongest in domains where language itself is the substrate of reasoning, like math and code They can solve problems, prove theorems, and write programs — but they are not creative mathematicians, software architects, or computer scientists "their role is to help humans build"

@ThedawnIAM 🫶

@PlateauDynamics Thanks for this

Do humans create truth, or do we discover it..?

@die_rizzen 🎓 Congrats

@die_rizzen Yeah 👇

Is there a reason as to why getting really into game theory seems to give you brainpoison?

@die_rizzen 🔄