The autobiographical SELF with the indexing capacity (subject-predicate) to intentionally recall what happened last week and think about it is only possible because of language. A dog can’t recall what happened last week and think about it because a dog lacks that indexing ability to recall episodic memory. A dog is trapped in the eternal NOW.

It’s funny because it’s true. Sydney Sweeney has achieved legendary icon status within the heteronormative sexual dominance hierarchy and now she has this weird social power to emotionally disregulate women who are very unhappy with their social/sexual status. We’ve seen this before with Marylin Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Raquel Welch, Pam Anderson, etc. The blond bombshell icon. The archetype for male sexual desire. These female sexual icons become a psychological stressor for unhappy women. Makes you wonder if this repeated pattern is being created intentionally and the enraged hoard of screaming harpy women is the intended goal.

If we set the FEP as an update to the principle of least action and set that as a hyperprior and then update our entire scientific/epistemic stack in that new context, what we get is Neoplatonism from first principles. Which is the important relevance realization here, I think. 🙏🏻

Cultural ethnocentrism is not only good and natural, it’s also a basic survival value for a successful society. Convincing people it’s “racist” to value your own culture above all others was done to destroy our society. It’s like convincing a father it’s “racist” to value his own family above all other families. It’s just dumb af. I really don’t understand how people allowed themselves to fall for this transparently obvious bullshit about racism. It’s like they’re all under some kind of magic spell that makes you stupid. 😂

Women don’t need our forgiveness for being emotional. They need men to love that she’s emotional. She needs her man to learn about her emotions then teach her how to better navigate those feelings. A woman needs a man with enough humility to be both student and teacher. 🙏🏻

Red is an EM frequency to which we assign a specific hedonic value (species specific). This hedonic value represents compressed instinctual memory aggregated transgenerationally over millions of generations. Blood, birth, food, death, all are powerful hedonic experiences that contribute to the specific hedonic quality of red. 🙏🏻

Ontology in my view is equivalent to the FEP’s “internal model”. An ant has an internal model it uses to navigate reality. That internal model (subjective state) is the ant’s ontology. If an ant began to prioritize higher/lower scales of reality and deprioritized local ontology, the ant will die because it lives in a predatory natural ecosystems. The only reason humans don’t die when we prioritize higher/lower scales is because we live in artificial human ecosystems where predation is minimized. We don’t die, but we do become goofy. Ontologically deranged.

Right. Middle out is the natural protocol for a functional ontology. For any/all observers. That’s one of the most important conceptual updates provided by observer theory. Ontology is defined by the observer. Empirical science represents the consensus ontology at the scale of the human observer. We can all watch a ball roll down a hill and agree v=d/t and from such observation create a consensus view of reality. But that consensus ontology must be built middle out or it will drive us batshit. That’s my point 😊🙏🏻

It’s never going to happen. It’s against Texas Constitution to require the Bible in public school. So this law will be defeated in court. The politicians know that. Admin knows that. But all the COVID money has dried up. So now they need a new public school slush fund. Billions will be distributed in the next four years. Money they know will never be used because by the 2030-2031 school year, this law will be defeated in the courts. But this issue will rabble rouse votes, divide Texans against one another, and give the politicians/admin billions of dollars to steal. Very clever. Texas Constitution, Section 6: 👇🏻

Mike went to the lake because he wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if he could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when he came to die, discover that he had not lived. Mike did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did he wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. Mike wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in his next excursion. 😂👇🏻

The holarchy of synchronized homeostats can be directly observed/measured/quantified in biology (hierarchies of “competence”). The biological holarchy optimizes redundant, scale invariant attractor states (NESS). Every scale of the holarchy has homeostatic attractor states, so of course every scale has to minimize variational free energy (VFE) to avoid entropic dissolution.

It’s the difference between knowing vs understanding. Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition (1519–1522) was the first to circumnavigate the Earth. September 20, 1519 — departed Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, with five ships (Trinidad, San Antonio, Concepción, Victoria, Santiago) and about 270 men, seeking a western route to the Spice Islands (Moluccas). September 6, 1522 — the sole surviving ship, Victoria (commanded by Juan Sebastián Elcano after Magellan’s death), returned to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain. Distance traveled: Approximately 37,560 miles (60,440 km) — equivalent to 14,460 Spanish leagues according to contemporary accounts. If you read that, you now have knowledge of Magellan’s circumnavigation of the globe. But you don’t have an understanding of Magellan’s circumnavigation of the globe. Sapient understanding is hedonic. Experiential. Everything that exists beyond the human capacity to experience hedonically exists beyond human cognitive capacity to understand. That includes cosmic/quantum scales, 4D cubes, infinite Mandelbrot sets, just the scale of our own solar system is too large for human cognitive capacity. So all physicists/mathematicians who are “experts” on these subjects do not posses a sapient understanding of these things. They understand a mathematical representation of these things. And some of these experts know and freely admit that fact. The problem is many experts don’t know the difference between knowledge vs understanding. Those people are ontologically deranged.

Morals are the artificial behavioral protocols for artificial human ecosystems. In natural ecosystems, every biological organism follows instinctual behavioral protocols for social self organization. That’s why every generation follows the same behavioral patterns. Morality is humans attempting to recreate these behavioral protocols in human ecosystems. 🙏🏻

The brain sits atop an embodied nested hierarchy of synchronized subjective states (internal models) which construct models of the hidden causes of perception. That’s the nested hierarchy of cognition. 99% of that cognition is instinctual/transgenerational/baryonic cognition. What we experience as a metacognitive/autibiographical SELF is the 1% episodic output of that deeply nested cognitive stack that anchors at the quantum scale. 🙏🏻

You’re accusing Pancognitivism of overfitting. And that’s accurate. This framework is as simple and generalizable as I can make it. It’s designed that way to serve as a SHARED ontological hyperprior so everyone can agree and understand the same thing. Pancognitivism represent a shared conceptual initial condition from which to proceed. I’ve been involved in consciousness studies for ~20y and all we do is talk past each other because we lack a shared vernacular based upon a shared ontology. Pancognitivism was designed to address that problem.

It’s concerning that AI companies are being run by fruitcakes who believe an LLM is conscious.

No, she was among the most uniquely gifted writers of the 20th Century. In high school I reread Fountainhead at least ~50x just because her writing was so magical and transportive. Read Anthem repeatedly, too. Atlas Shrugged left me cold because everything she said in that book she said first and better in Fountainhead.