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@Letho Of course the breakdown is not fundamental. What you are suggesting is part of a general trend of transitioning away from static models towards dynamic systems. That is part of what my math research is based on. If you are interested in what that entails, study the work by Karl Friston, Chris Fields and Michael Levin.

Being construct-aware implies understanding that any model is incomplete, including the analogy I just gave you. Most of them break down after that transition, because you no longer have just one dimension along which to explore, so any 1D projection will necessarily be incomplete.

You most definitely can experience it through meditation alone. However, i would recommend neti-neti instead of do-nothing meditation.

DEI is a step in the right direction but it doesn’t do enough. For it to cause such reactions, it is pretty clear the US is very far from healing as a nation, which cannot happen without reparations.

@Letho Stage 5 in Kegan’s model, construct-awareness in Cook-Greuter or Tier 2 in Spiral Dynamics all communicate the same thing - that you have realised you are running on pre-installed OS (beliefs, ideologies, etc.) and can now begin to actually change it. For those who have not yet jailbroken their mind it is impossible to access the compilers/kernels of their OS and as such any statement about their structure is conflated with a program they have access to, whereas the two processes are happening at a different level of abstraction.

@The Crocodile You are not construct-aware which is why you keep conflating my perspective with some caricature you have of “western materialism “.

@The Crocodile I responded to you so people reading can get an idea of where the problems with your worldview are. I am beyond the idea of convincing you in anything, given how dense you are, and as such am not interested in engaging with you. Your conduct is a sufficient marker for an immature intellect.

And yet that’s exactly what I mean. You still have a linear (1D) view of awakenings as if there were achievements to be unlocked. The space of minds is infinite-dimensional, including various types and degrees of intelligence. You are falling squarely within the pre/post fallacy. It is pretty clear you are at the Green/ new age stage of development, and as such cannot yet appreciate the post-rational forms of logic that include self-loops, paradoxes, superstition and relativity of truth values, etc. A consciousness ontology is by definition incompatible with materialism, so your point is moot.

Note that the human cryptochrome (CRY2) is light-dependent and as such not the same as the one animals have (CRY4 in birds is a pair-based magnetoreceptor).

I am hesitant about all of the EM arguments coming from people who don’t even understand what a spectrum or wave polarisation is. It is the first thing new age types latch on for their pseudoscientific justification. That said, the impact and potential of psychedelics is definitely understudied and I am erring more on the side of increased capabilities by virtue of reality being Consciousness. I have had some rather unique experiences, such as telepathy, premonition and alien intelligence.

Europe trynna scrape a peace deal but you already know it’s gonna get shut down by Trump unless he gets his neo-colonial deal.

Never buying a Tesla that’s for sure. Can’t wait for them BYD and Xiaomis to flood.

AI seems pretty-ordained to be in the hands of the reactionaries because they are the ones with the capital and the puppet president to make it happen. Neither Schmachtenberger nor Zizek have a rats ass to contribute. With the latest white house buffoonery, you can forget international cooperation. This is why it is an arms race.

I rewatched the meeting a few times. I am almost certain that Vance, being the avatar of the oligarchs, is having a parallel agenda. You can see him setting traps for Zelenskyy (commenting on conscription, “disrespect”, etc) and egging Trump (saying Zelenskyy was talking to the opposition, i.e democrats). At the end, he was smiling.

What is the structure and dynamics of consciousness all the way from mind to matter?

That’s a given. Tis why Zelensky has been standing up to Trump for those security guarantees.

Amen to the nature of intelligence post. The free energy and active inference principles are lenses that allow one to see intelligence from the level of particles to that of ecosystems (a la Michael Levin, Karl Friston, Chris Fields) That is what will sit at the basis of the upcoming scientific paradigm - liberating it from the shackles of materialism and anthropocentrism and beginning the study of the intelligence of all systems and on all levels, be it physical or “platonic”. I am glad to see you warming up to the deep spirituality of true Mathematics. Order isn’t a coincidence. It is the logical necessity of existence.

What are you classifying as “human domain”? Does it include posthumanist constructs or are you simply referring to self-development stuff? I have largely left the anthropocentric realms, but there still seems to be an ability to compress on the level of meta-dynamics and complexity structures.

The last post about relativity raises a point that is so under appreciated. It reminded me of my favourite quotes from Leibniz:

Thanks for sharing. It is a mission of mine to explore as many psychs as possible, Shulgin-style. Are there any other particularly cognitive that you have found other than O-PCE?

The US is indeed declining, but Europe is in no shape to take up the mantle. We are more so seeing a fracturing of geopolitical poles without a unifying hegemony.

I’m with you. That’s such a red flag for cognitive development, let alone being a spit to the face of what I represent as an immigrant.

I have no qualms with sucking big tech dry to get to a few billion (B2B, SaaS). Some pretty systemic changes can be done with surgical use of money. Could give a fuck about some mansions.

The amount of russian talking points in this thread is baffling. Unless your country had been colonised by the soviets or is a puppet state like Belarus, you don’t understand what is at stake for Ukraine.

Zelensky has some balls. The neo-colonial orange clown thought he could do whatever. The credibility of the US is evaporating like a snowman in the Sahara.