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Stuart Sims

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Texan | Paratrooper(11B)@USARMY(Retired) | Pankseppian Affective Neuroscience | Ontological Spaceman | Neoplatonism +FEP | GenX | NIИ👨‍🚀🇺🇸

Texas, USA Katılım Ağustos 2012
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Stuart Sims
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Localized Ontology: Earth’s Biological Hierarchy of Consciousness and the Biophysical Roots of Human Religion In the pancognitivist framework, cognition is framed as a universal process governed by the Free Energy Principle (FEP), where systems minimize variational free energy through nested Markov blankets to sustain their integrity against entropic forces (see pinned post). When confined to a strictly local ontology focusing solely on Earth’s biophysical and ecological dynamics, this perspective reveals the planet as a deep, hierarchical cognitive ecosystem. Earth’s geological strata, from the surface crust to the inner core, constitute a Markovian architecture of inferential boundaries, with the core acting as the primary attractor state: a stable, geothermal equilibrium that anchors the entire biological hierarchy of consciousness. This core, often anthropomorphized in religious contexts as a foundational “God” (alpha/omega, beginning/end, the light of eternal mind etc) generates the planet’s bioelectric field - a pervasive electromagnetic envelope derived from core-mantle dynamo processes - that nests and synchronizes all subordinate biological processes. Within this local ontology, human religions emerge not as metaphysical inventions but as intuitive, culture-specific models for navigating and coexisting within this nested biological hierarchy of consciousness, where “realms” of consciousness correspond to stratified ecological and geophysical layers, and “gods” represent higher-order attractor states operating at expanded morphological and temporal scales. Earth’s Strata as a Nested Markovian Ecosystem Earth’s layered structure exemplifies a deep Markovian ecosystem under FEP: each stratum forms a statistical blanket that partitions internal states from external states, enabling nested Bayesian inference to minimize surprise and maintain allostatic coherence. The crust and biosphere represent surface-level MB’s (sensory states), where biotic interactions infer environmental gradients and enact adaptive responses. Deeper mantles handle convective flows, dissipating heat while preserving structural stability. At the most high (or rather, the foundational core) lies the primary attractor state: a high-density iron-nickel alloy under extreme conditions, where minimal free energy fluctuations establish a global equilibrium. This core drives the planet’s magnetic biofield (sensory state), shielding surface life from solar perturbations and facilitating ionospheric and geomagnetic couplings that integrate biological rhythms. All biological consciousness is nested within this biofield, which acts as a scale-invariant transjective communication matrix. Hedonic cognition (the valence-laden inference that characterizes/defines biological awareness/communication) arises as organisms and ecosystems align their predictions with this field, assigning positive valences to states that enhance coherence (symbiotic equilibria) and negative valences to disruptions (ecological imbalances). Surface ecosystems, such as forests or coral reefs, develop their own primary cognitive attractor states: emergent patterns of collective inference, like trophic cascades or microbial consortia, that optimize long-term surprise minimization at the group level. These primary attractor states function as a metacognitive SELF.👇🏻 youtu.be/m9F5RU7YX38?is…
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@Nero Kill all that is evil, so that which is good may flourish.
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@MoMohler Need to rewatch NUMB3RS. Thank for the reminder. 🙏🏻
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𝑴𝒐 𝑴𝒐𝒉𝒍𝒆𝒓
They should make a tv show where a highly autistic detective figures out every single crime using unorthodox methods.
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The point is there’s no evidence of hedonic behavior in non biotic systems. So you’re assigning feelings to non biotic systems without evidence. Based upon intuition. And yours intuition is based upon the idea that feelings cannot come from a non feeling substrate. Which is a false assumption. Baryonic matter is a cognitive substrate. And biotic matter is also a cognitive substrate with a specific category of cognition. Hedonic cognition.
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Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff@StuartHameroff·
You’re being anthropomorphic. Why any self at all? Just conscious feeling, self comes later to optimize pleasure. And pregenetic evolution is an oxymoron unless you mean reproduction which involves pleasureable feelings. There’s a primitive organic molecule called dopamine, the pleasure molecule. Evolutionary biology is bluffing. They’re not acknowledging the role of conscious feelings. Just because all the complexity in the universe can’t explain pleasure or pain doesn’t mean they don’t control biological behavior and evolution. They just don’t have a proper mechanism. Now there is one. sciencedirect.com/science/chapte…
Sidário Malheiros Jr., MD@malheirosMD

With all due respect to the Orch-OR model, attributing purpose or 'feelings like reward' to primordial organic molecules seems to introduce an unnecessary anthropomorphic detour. Pre-genetic evolution can be elegantly explained through non-equilibrium thermodynamics and molecular natural selection. Molecules did not cluster due to psychological drives; they stabilized because certain configurations achieved local persistence, self-sustenance, and structural coherence within the primordial field.  It is not a matter of feeling or reward. It is physics.

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Mary Talley Bowden MD@MaryBowdenMD·
Over the past 34 years, healthcare has replaced manufacturing as the top employer in the vast majority of states.
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The “the scale-invariant hierarchy” are all homeostatically synchronized so the frequency oscillations will also be synchronized (with measurable discontinuity between morphological/temporal scales). This scale invariant redundancy appears to be a primary feature of biological consciousness.
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Stuart Hameroff
Stuart Hameroff@StuartHameroff·
Great paper! Too bad it only goes as fast as gamma EEG when the scale-invariant hierarchy should extend faster, deeper and smaller into collective oscillations in microtubule fractal time crystals in kilohertz, megahertz, gigahertz and terahertz frequencies. But they’re not asynchronous across scales, and may harmonize, resonate, interfere, and undergo quantum state reductions for consciousness. EEG overall may be an interference pattern from faster oscillations in microtubules ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/jc… researchgate.net/publication/37… How is the ICN anatomy correlated with synapses? Or are they? What about ephaptic transmission? Or microtubule megahertz and gigahertz functional communication among neurons? journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11… This all only makes sense with the brain as a collective microtubule-based fractal time crystal. That also explains how anesthesia selectively blocks consciousness by quantum interactions with microtubules. academic.oup.com/nc/article/202…
Earl K. Miller@MillerLabMIT

Function is not tied to specific brain structures or time scales. The brain is not just a set of parts that each “do their own job”. Instead, networks are multifunctional and active across different speeds simultaneously. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… #neuroscience

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Marcos Arrut@MarcosArrut·
Eradicating aging will be the greatest victory of the human will over the arbitrariness of nature. That's all.
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Subjective perception of color is species specific. Even within species, there’s variance in subjective perception of color. Your red is not my red 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴
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I think what’s missing from AI is a working understanding of the cognitive teleonomics of the computer substrate. If biological architecture is a good roadmap, then the AI substrate must be morphologically nested and vertically synchronized bottom-up to increase cognitive acuity. Which isn’t possible with Von Neumann architecture.
Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos

The thing AI is missing is a non-verbal unconscious. AGI will require creation and integration of something akin to an artificial Jungian shadow.

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Mary Talley Bowden MD
Mary Talley Bowden MD@MaryBowdenMD·
Swimming in the ocean inspired me to create a sinus power wash treatment in my office. I spray pressurized saline in one side of the nose and suction it out the other side. Instant relief! Even kids like it… this is my son.
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@beffjezos AI is missing deeply nested substrate (as biology is nested), vertically synchronized across scales and anchored at the quantum scale.
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Beff (e/acc)
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The thing AI is missing is a non-verbal unconscious. AGI will require creation and integration of something akin to an artificial Jungian shadow.
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I think map/territory confabulation is bad. What’s worse is assigning higher value to the map than to the territory.
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Ontological derangement 👇🏻
Night Sky Now@NightSkyNow

What if the universe works less like a solid, physical place and more like an enormous video game, only rendering reality in detail the moment someone looks? This provocative idea comes from Thomas Campbell, a physicist who spent years working with NASA. In his theory, which he calls My Big TOE, short for My Big Theory of Everything, he proposes that reality is fundamentally made of information, and that the physical universe is a kind of virtual reality. Just as a video game does not bother rendering a distant mountain until your character turns to look at it, Campbell suggests the universe may only produce concrete physical detail when an observer requests it. His inspiration comes from the genuine strangeness of quantum mechanics. In real, verified experiments, tiny particles behave like blurry waves of possibility until they are measured, at which point they snap into a definite state. Campbell takes this famous observer effect and runs with it, arguing that consciousness itself plays a central role, and that the world we experience is essentially data being processed, like a simulation. Now the essential honesty. This is Campbell's personal hypothesis, not established or accepted physics. The vast majority of physicists interpret the quantum observer effect very differently, pointing out that observation in quantum mechanics means any physical measurement or interaction, not necessarily a conscious mind. There is currently no experimental proof that reality is a simulation or that it vanishes when unobserved. It is a bold, imaginative idea sitting at the edge of science and philosophy. Still, it taps into a question that has fascinated humanity forever. What is reality actually made of, and does it exist independently of us? Similar simulation ideas have been seriously discussed by thinkers like Elon Musk and philosopher Nick Bostrom, which is partly why the concept keeps capturing imaginations. Whether or not it is true, it is a genuinely mind bending thought to sit with. Do you think reality exists completely on its own, or is there something to the idea that observation shapes the world around us?

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I good way to understand homeostatic emotional synchronization is through embryonic development. The developing baby shares emotional synchronization with the mother during gestation, and the babies emotional inventory is constructed/updated through this emotional synchronization. When the baby is born the first developmental milestone occurs minutes after birth through the mother child bond (MCB), which is a biological synchronization created in the brainstem of both mother/child (the MCB occurs in all mammals). When a baby is born it lacks the capacity to regulate its own nervous system (NS) and requires physical contact with the mother so the NS can continue to develop through emotional synchronization. Once the child reaches puberty, the NS is fully developed and capable of developing independently. But this process of emotional synchronization doesn’t end at puberty. Adult emotional development occurs through the same biological mechanism of emotional synchronization (“intimacy”).
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⚡️🌞 Sol Brah 🌞🐬
You may think affirmations are cringe… But simply try the following Stand there and repeat: “I AM A WINNER. I WIN EVERY DAY. LIFE IS A BLESSING AND I LOVE TO WIN.” And see how you feel. Now say: “I am a loser, I suck and it’s another lousy day.” Do u feel a difference?
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@NoahRevoy @SolBrah Self affirmation is good. But it’s performative until affirmed through intimacy. The model of self is constructed/updated through intersubjective social/familial intimacy.
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Coach Noah Revoy | Arms Dealer For The Soul 🏴‍☠️
Yes, that works very well, especially if the goal is to feel better and shift your state. If you want to use affirmations for behavioral change too, it can help to phrase them as: “I am ___ because I ___.” For example: “I am a winner because I finish what I start.” “I am disciplined because I do what I said I would do.” “I am trustworthy because I tell the truth even when it is uncomfortable.” That gives the affirmation something concrete for your mind and behavior to organize around.
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