Stuart Sims

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.

@drmichaellevin , Karl Friston often describes Markovian architecture under the FEP formalism, where subjective states are “hidden states” which can never be directly observed, only inferred. And the Markovian observer within subjective states can never directly perceive hidden objective states because perception must be transform across Markovian sensory states (perceptual “sparse coupling”). So the causes of perception can never be directly observed, only inferred (active inference). I think the FEP formalism fails to capture an explicit feature of this Markovian architecture. Because in a nested Markov chain architecture + FEP, the objective state functions as the subjective state for higher morphological scales. Just as the genome functions as the internal generative model (subjective state) at lower morphological scales for the objective state of the human morphological scale. In that context, subjective states CAN be directly observed. If we update to the fact that every objective state serves as the cognitive subjective state for higher morphological scales. That appears to be a big conceptual protocol we can use to advance a formal science of cognition. All objective states are also subjective states. And that feature is scale invariant. 🙏🏻

All physical morphology (objective states) encodes memory (subjective states).

Empathy ungoverned by reason destroys capacity for good faith conversation.

@dsawyer A huge part of normative intelligence is heteronormativity.

@dsawyer There’s normative intelligence and neurodivergent intelligence. And neurodivergent intelligent often camouflages itself as normative. But normative intelligence very rarely camouflages itself as neurodivergent.

One of the most hilarious jokes the universe ever played on humans: stupidity and intelligence are not on the same axis. It is therefore possible to be both a rarefied genius and a fucking idiot.

@aliaoftheblade @CalderDune 👇🏻

@SimsYStuart @CalderDune You’re saying that to the wrong guy Stu (coming from someone else who has actually read Frank’s 6), I’m interested on your opinion on Dune then if this one is so hilariously wrong

Another moronic and juvenile analysis of Dune. Good grief people 😂

@buckeye_bond_83 @CalderDune @pskpspspss I get it 😊👍🏻 The sad part is I’ve seen a hundred similar posts which are not satire.

@CalderDune @pskpspspss @SimsYStuart Btw…. It’s a joke 😉

@L0V3L3ZZX Being human is complicated and often painful. What makes life infinitely more painful and difficult is when men are emotionally isolated from intimacy with women. Masculinity isolated from intimacy with the feminine means reason ungoverned by empathy.

Algún día tendrán que aceptar que el mundo es infinitamente más difícil para los hombres.

@DividedGod @CalderDune Oh. Well that makes more sense 😂

@SimsYStuart @CalderDune Lol, the second option. Click on his profile, the dude is one of the most passionate Dune fans out there. This was just a silly joke

@DividedGod @CalderDune Are you agreeing with me or saying the analysis is intentionally bad as a joke?

@SimsYStuart @CalderDune Stuart, it is, very literally, a joke

@CalderDune Dude I’ve tried talking to people about Dune for 30+ years. Inevitably I discover that the person I’m talking to never actually read all six books. And those few who read 1-6 only read them once. Which is like reading all of Shakespeare once and declaring yourself an expert.

@SimsYStuart Oh my gosh this is my favorite conversation ever please can we keep talking

@CalderDune Your analysis is the joke. It’s a bad joke. Like if you read Plato and summed up his philosophy by saying, “We are all just idiots sitting in caves watching shadows we believe are real. Life is fake and gay.” My guess is you’re just very young. 👇🏻

@SimsYStuart Please tell me you are joking

He’s a gifted engineer who surrounds himself with gifted engineers. But like all ASD people, his great gifts come with great deficits. His own emotional inventory is opaque to him and can only be accessed through the intellect. True emotions are extraordinarily painful. And so true social/familial intimacy is impossible. @elonmusk is a prisoner within the suffering of the isolated mind. His gifts are also his curse. He can accumulate all the money in the world but can never have love. So his life is both a tragedy and a comedy. The danger will come when loneliness eventually kills his sense of humor.

@SimsYStuart @Samuel_Gregson @elonmusk I think his only skill is finding the right people to do the work for him. After listening to hours of interviews with him on joe rogan and other more sophisticated shows i have never heard him say one thing that was super clever or that i didn't know before.

I’m told this man is a genius who will save humanity. However, every time *he* is observed, he appears to be an idiot.

@ArtemyBurakh21 @DoctorPerin Chapterhouse does a deep deep dive into the relationship between sexual psychology and power. In my view it’s among the most astonishing displays of literary genius ever put to paper. Frank Herbert at the height of his power. But opinions vary.

@SimsYStuart @DoctorPerin So 6 is worth it to read even with the cliffhanger? I’m looking to read 1-4 but was unsure about the rest cause of their unfinished nature.

Fine I’ll read it

If you want an elimination diet to show how food connects to anxiety, I’d recommend the “lion diet”. Which is an extreme form of carnivore where you only eat beef/salt/water. Ground beef is best. My wife had lifelong anxiety and completely removed her anxiety by doing 6 month lion diet. And we now have thousands of people reporting the same outcome. Lion diet’s not a long term solution but it functions to clearly demonstrate the connection between anxiety/food. Good luck 🦁🙏🏻

@SimsYStuart @AlobhaPatrick What should someone eat instead?

(As a successful clinical psychologist) Mark is incorrect. 1. This is not what causes “anxiety,” whatever that means. 2. There is no “cure.” 3. Refocusing on “something bigger,” whatever that means, can easily worsen different types of “anxiety.”

@bgetsbetter I’m not touching that one 😂

@SimsYStuart That's excitement, sir.

Day 13 without food and hemorrhaging electrolytes. Send help

Natural TRT is the best 😂