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I think it’s excellent you’re asking such questions thats point number one. Reflection can come just as easily as it can go depending on one’s environments influences and changes in states of consciousness overtime. This makes reflection, in part, better to be thought of as a value more than a personality characteristic, it also puts a fork in the road for people that feel that reflection isn’t an intrinsic part of who they are. By turning it into a value, it becomes something that one covets and grows over taking for granted snd getting too much of a big head. Moreover, thinking of x as an intrinsic part of who we are, especially when we’re taking it for granted in the absence of acting on that part of ourselves, is actually just the self’s ego projection. This kind of self-referentiality is not who we actually are, and therefore it is best to be seen as an instrument of self-actualisation rather than purely what we think about ourselves and life which can grow and change overtime, and often, gets completely misused (i.e. political, religious, institutional alliances). https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/ So there’s some extroverts in there, however by nature I would say most are introverts. Where I would place the contradiction as a reflection, is environmental influences weigh massively in terms of where someone’s values lay. Personality can also change based on values in a way that reveals pre-existing tendencies and how those tendencies for the simple fact that different cells are multiplying within the system. This turns the question of what to do with our time on its head, where “Which cells do I want to multiply within myself?” Actually becomes not just a geeky question; Dispenza and someone whom others may be less familiar with, Harvard professor Dr. Ellen Lenger. I am more of an ambivert relative to my present chemistry, some would view me as extremely introverted to those that know me less, however I view my nervous system leaning towards extrovert at this time of my life. I am very much like my father in this regard. He had many periods in his life where he was extremely extroverted based on different pressures, as he was also so business orientated (environmental influence), however he could just as easily occupy himself alone, and as my father got older he became a comfortable introvert with his wife (together for over two decades, she from Beijing, lovely woman, had a massive positive influence on my upbringing). I am very money driven, however it is for various motivations, I am not a materialistic person however I want freedom, and I strive for freedom in every aspect of my life. Existential decisions I would say play the biggest part for some peoples lives concerning some of these characteristics you mentioned more than introvert and extrovert. Can you think of any ways your mind would be changed to instead value these things you have so far shown you prefer to reject? What are positives that come with more money that you would genuinely value, especially in areas where you only dont value those things as much due to negative experiences? Personally I love being extroverted becsuse it offers me such a massive range of experiences to reflect on, moreover when I can share those experiences with other creative people I get boundless opportunities to have fascinating conversations that move me emotionally and cognitively. Evaluation I would argue, in light of the fact that our personality can change overtime and values can change our personality with environmental influences being a pressure point for both, should question automatic inclinations and allow creative perspectives to enter into the reasoning choice on chosen values. Often it’s a very healthy process that can in return force the integration of alternate internal experiences we were not previously aware of. It is important to recognise as well, that any inclination change towards money, shouldn’t be justified by the change in preference itself if it’s driven instinctually. It’s the instinct thats being questioned, while at the same time you wanna finish by encoding instinctually so that it turns into a healthy motivation that doesn’t need to be thought about nearly as much the more it is practiced. That’s true freedom, and that’s what I go for. Best wishes.

Surrogates, 2009. At lesser degrees of integration, it becomes too fragmenting for the psyche to actually see itself accurately. It only views the world (aka unhealthy mainstream views) that has absorbed the very psyche it relies on to see itself clearly. As it is impossible to view anything outside of what was has been trained to see, like all of one’s flaws, or the flaws of a potential someone, more than where integration of the mind meets unity with another. That is maturity thereabouts, and where society by comparison is the smoke in the mirror itself, which ruins what otherwise could have been amazing relationships. In this frame, relationship compatibility thresholds have been devastated in society, as the minimal breakage point of the bridge that normally connects between people has been lowered significantly. Choose your company with care and wisdom. Otherwise, I recommend watching the film. Followed by the film Arrival 2016, purely for contrast.

@Majed Consciousness is self-identifying through awareness, this is why its only purpose in the context of the human is to grow. Growth comes with so many other ad libs though that take care of themselves through that process, from connection to unity and solidarity to power. This is best reflected in the growth and development of the human body, from infancy to healing and regenerative capacities throughout our life. It’s auto-corrective pattern makes it self-generative to its threshold, equalising up to and including that genetic point. The cool thing about consciousness, is that we’ve barely scratched the surface. We live our lives through localised potential, which breeds narrow scopes and with that attentional filters that distort our vision on tomorrow on not only ourselves, but also others. This feeds regressive perception which contracts thinking about consciousness before it can even begin to imagine the infinite as a scope to if not dive in, lean into. A guiding point to stretch the boundaries of that localisation, where the spotlight of truth expands luminosity, rather than speaking while choking on shadows; missing the essence that awaits to be reborn again in each moment towards its life purpose. The expansion and growth of consciousness. Light and darkness carries a completely different connotation when we view it through this more refined filter.

@Alexop it sounds like a social misalignment problem you need to solve. Start with empathy, and with enough, you’ll be able to resolve the dichotomy. Exploring a myriad of social environments, having a customised social feedback loop, integrating social experiences to a deeper level so that internal disharmony leads to harmony, having an understanding girlfriend, friend or peer that can bring doubt to dissonances. I promise you, your problem is that most people are not interested in philosophy, it’s that you’ve put yourself too much on an island of self unable to break into networks yet that support your interests most. We are all surfing this cosmic plane on different momentum’s, where better or worse is relative to the reference frame. Absolutes exist on their relative scale. Your social disposition, internally, is a moral choice you’re making towards yourself, outside of you, most wouldn’t give a damn, and the ones that do have the empathy you need to build to solve your own misalignment problem. Throughout most of earlier life I have often been far too overwhelming people, left with the “on” button with no dial or switches, theres only a certain context for most people where they want to feel like their heads sticking out the window at a high fun speed. Where there is most alignment, you won’t have to care as much about having to always put yourself in another’s shoes, however overall I have realised mastering social calibration has too many internal benefits that make it unavoidable. The problem is not you or them, it’s physics, where both only are exclusive to one another relative to a traditional lens. This is the modern world, you get time to craft meaning in a way that continually moves you forward. If we only cut where we want to cut relative to our biases, we’ll dismember ourselves while receiving social validation for being our own existential self-executioner. Feel free to ask questions, it’s your thread, make it mean something that genuinely pushes you forward over just venting, that if it isn’t paired with the right actions, regression calls not progression.

I have now added step 2. Memory to the playlist (starting with “1. Awareness”) directly above. “2. Memory” took me 6 straight hours. What I thought was going to take me just a few days or so has now become a month long project. The first two steps of the project above, “1. Awareness” and “2. Memory”, are done so freaking good that I may as well turn the project into a masterpiece, which arguably, it already completely shows the signs of becoming. I was just planning on translating the technique I made on developing intentional agency and research I’d completed into an essay around it. Now, it’s become so much more, and will be far more useful to myself and others if I just take my time with it. I will add two more steps/songs to the playlist by the end of the week, I just want to spend hours and hours refining my reflections on the nuances of the words to get it all right. Maybe we’ll have less/more than ten vocalised songs by the end of the month to finalise the project which will include both: (1) the essay around the technique (2) the 50+ research studies I have completed to give credit to my work. Let’s see what March 1st reveals. But yeah, this is a completed project that will be valuable to me for the entire rest of the year. The playlist may not work properly so I will just share the second step/song here, likely need to take it off unlisted will see later: Disclaimer: I am not yet a medical, counselling, psychology or psychiatric professional, so with my personal gratitude, please be responsible with all decisions you make following my shares. Thank you and best wishes.

Intermission. My head. Not my body. The first step of a series in sharing and reinforcing of each stage of the technique. The Intermission until the rest are completed by the end of the night. Each song is very carefully considered. This technique, surrounds the development of “Intentional Agency”. This playlist is devoted to its full disclosure in practice. Disclaimer: I am not yet a medical, counselling, psychology or psychiatric professional, so with my personal gratitude, please be responsible with all decisions you make following my shares. Thank you and best wishes.

Entertainment/Media ONLY ever play this out of the song 🎶 “I am Australian”, created right before or before earlier Australians noticed that the transition had fully commented to a future signal to every other country of a One World Government for the New World Order. We are one, but we are many And from all the lands on earth we come We'll share a dream and sing with one voice "I am, you are, we are Australian" - Song: I am Australian. Created 1987, before I was born. This is as blatant 🤣 as it gets and as far as I am aware, surely there’s others somewhere, I’m the only one that’s connected the dots despite how painfully obvious it’s become 😉. It’s a very popular chorus in Australian culture, so much so that many people actually mistake it FOR the national anthem. I love people from overseas, I am all for it, my step-mother is from Beijing and she has been an absolute blessing to our families lives; it has just been the deception and propaganda that the agenda is something different which has hurt my love for the country. The propaganda is only going to get worse until it becomes ‘supra-normalised’ a term I am coining on the fly to describe the normalisation of a trend that is done ‘above’ (supra) the respective persons or public’s awareness. I get it, it’s analogous to “well think about what would happen if aliens from outer space just decided to dump their ufo on the lawn of the Whitehouse (or Parliament House), there’s be global panic on one side and instant fanatical religions in favour created on the other! At the same time, on the other side of the coin I am looking forward to what the New World Order is going to look like, to part what’s not true away to find what remains, or at least, what the general public is told about. Moreover, I am only slightly but meaningfully proud that Australia 🇦🇺 has been made the country thats going to set the example for the New World Order, what that translates to though in practical utility remains to be seen, anyhow it shows you how many deaf, dumb and stupid people we have in Australia 🤣, and I mean that not in an insulting way, as we have many smart people (but still blind) as well, because it’s objectively true, I mean it in the sense that it’s cute.

@Cred this will be my last response to finalise my comment directly above. I write the following purely for your self-education. In an online space it can be so easy to project sometimes, and so I have composed some questions and statements for you to consider concerning. My statements are based on evidence based patterns I have noted in your writing in your reference to me, that are quotable and can therefore be referred to. Nothing else sneaks into my evaluation. Again sincerely, take care Cred. And again, I am done here now. Irrespectively, the encouragement is still behind my words to move onwards and upwards in your journey concerning. You remind me of aspects of myself especially when I was younger and less experienced. I never expressed nor have I shown any misunderstanding. This is projection number one. I raised a point that went unanswered Cred. I never made this claim, and I never denounced it. What went on in your mind the moment you chose this word ‘deluded’ in this context? I genuinely find this intriguing, and let me preface this with the fact that I am extremely hard to offend. What with even the slightest remote detail was ever indicative of any kind of delusion to warrant the selection even by comparison? My words are clear, precise and well resourced with clear reasoning around the sources I provided outside some minor grammar and perhaps for my standards, a little too elongated however it was becsuse I couldn’t get through to you the first few times. But even my elongated response outputted a nil result on moving the needle of understanding there. If you agreed why didn’t you address my critique with even a single word despite pages of text? It depends on psychological primitives. So your statement is inaccurate, and so far aspirational at best relative to the actual literature. Hypothesising, theorisation and abstraction is a lot of fun, however when I am conversing with others, I try to be as strict as possible with myself and where it matters in a social context outside of biting my tongue for politeness, others. Interesting. The pattern of projection has firmly set in now right? It’s okay, I just need to make sure the pattern is now very visible. Stay with me. Holotaxonic is a your own vocabulary, correct? How is a person meant to critique from the ‘Holotaxonic perspective’ when you haven’t yet built the system for them to do that? In what way? What assumptions do you believe you may be making about medical students? What percentage chance is there that all medical students are the same or even that, all medical schools are? Also, in what ways do you believe your own methodology may be better or worse compared to what you believe a medical student follows? Could you improve a medical students approach? Phenomenology and ontological study are uniquely very important to my own personal growth, with a subset to that importance overlapping with my growth as a student of not just medicine, but at the seat of its interconnection with all of life. By the way Cred, I checked out that video you linked. Interesting stuff. Small correction on the video though. It isn’t showing pre-existing axes being discovered mate, it shows axes emerging from accumulated usage. The structure comes from convergence, a pattern I have been asking you to use as a questioning tool over and over now, not from ontologically prior directions. Read that way, it actually undermines irreducible modes rather than supports them. Keep the fire alive though brother, I don’t want to be someone that takes away that inspiration, you gotta keep life’s fire soaring as high as possible. We have many people struggling on this problem, you staying motivated despite some basic set backs that you can overcome is infectious for others, just learn to be more mindful regarding projection thats all, it’s okay we’re human and we’re all growin. Again, best wishes, sincerely. I’m out now.

@Cred I’m not persuaded you’ve engaged with my points deeply enough yet to warrant further response. The convergence constraint remains unanswered. If I weren’t tied up with other people’s work I’d engage more, but that’s the crunch point. I genuinely wish you well with the project.

OMG! And checkout Robert’s daughter! Shes a TOTAL babe! I only just found out he was on YouTube. And to note, I am not at all superficial, I love a woman’s character far more. And I don’t say that to be trite or socially aligned, I genuinely mean it, I play around in relationships sure but I would much rather be in a monogamous one that has validated it’s signal over noise, looks can easily fool.

@SQAAD Sapolsky has been one of my biggest inspirations in life, excellent share. On the point of free will, I have one critique, he never makes the distinction that I know of between free will as an absolute scale vs a relative one that fits on a spectrum. Awareness is the stabaliser to free will, higher awareness is higher thresholds of engagement meets internal actions on choice selection. This is the connector we make to anything we remotely connect as being sentience, that without, or either, both breakdown. Otherwise, viewing his position from my own frame, I completely agree that humans in general have limited free will and or that it has been overhyped and over-scaled relative other species. At the same time, I have little doubts in my mind that more intelligent variations of extraterrestrial whether performative of our own evolution or a genuine alternate species, has a higher choice threshold, and therefore, smoother breaks, higher power and higher space to wield internal wishes for freedom and will to make sense as complementary units evolved to a higher system of sentience. This is where, only as I have so far discerned, Sapolsky has failed to draw accurate distinction, not in form (extraterrestrial); but ontology.

@Cred and to briefly add to my reply directly above, here are some “directions for engagement” in this space: Go for it man, genuinely. New frameworks are good for the forum, and I said that in the other thread without irony. That said, when you quote me, I’m going to engage at the level of how the engine actually runs. I don’t make statements as edge-play or aesthetics; I make them because they’re load-bearing for the theory, in my mind it’s a simple “what is the causal framework, where does it breakdown vs where does it work and how can we tweak for higher speeds and softer breaks?”. So when you engage me, I expect the question or constraint itself to be addressed. If that doesn’t happen, I’ll just switch off and move on, no drama. My request is you say that outright rather than dragging it out so that I can continue to entertain rather than actually engage with the real physics of something which is what I enjoy doing. As an observation, what I’m seeing so far is a tendency toward linguistic pattern-completion rather than mechanical pressure-testing. The framework is expanding via vocabulary accretion, clusters of terms with shared suffixes (-ionic, -onic, -exonic, -synconic, -taxonic, -animonic, -semionic…), which gives internal symmetry, but doesn’t yet answer how or why one configuration stabilizes over another. Right now, it just feels like you’re getting massive sweeps of dopamine, it’s generating an addictive loop, which feeds the fog. And there’s nothing wrong with that just don’t use them as imaginary swords against things I am saying which has physics to it. That’s where my convergence critique comes in. It isn’t stylistic, and it isn’t psychological. Very simple. It’s a stress test. That pressure keeps getting reframed rather than met with your own deeper critique, which is why it feels like the model is growing lexically instead of being forced to break under the pressure you’re asking the forum for. I’m still engaging in good faith. That engagement though, for me, means answering the constraint, not routing around it.

@Cred no problem, I’ll answer this in the only way that pulls the blanket off the polish. When I say convergence, I’m not trying to rename your “modal alignment.” I’m pointing at how a normal phenomenon (“people have different reality orientations”, “one reality orientation is a truth sensitive person (TSP)”) that becomes invisible the moment we create a new zoo with different labels on the species and the zoo itself. Like it gets weird real fast when we call a zoo a strip club and then start naming the animals “Alan the barbarian bear gonna take your lady for some mud slummin”, “Sandy the lioness who’s got claws that’ll tear yo back out!”; the labels can look fancier but they’re still a bear and a lioness inside a standard zoo. But that’s just my sense humour relating a point. My convergence test is about going through the cool process of determining what is real, false through the balance of what makes blind through emotion vs what builds clarity through your steely intellect. One adage that applies here “Different roads can lead to the same destination.” And if that’s true, then the destination is not a “species”. It’s a place minds tend to end up under certain conditions. Not “everyone is unique.” Not “everyone has their own world.” That’s true but trivial. Convergence is the opposite claim. The same kind of “world-feel” repeats across different people, even when the wiring story underneath is not the same. Two people walk into the same room and both react like the room is “cold.” They both put on a jacket. The outcome looks identical. But one person is cold because the heater is broken, the other is cold because they’re sick, the third is cold because they’re exhausted, the fourth is cold because they haven’t eaten. Same jacket. Different reasons. Now apply that to mind-styles. You can get a “truth-heavy” orientation through one route (genetics), or through another (development), or through another (social fatigue from masking), or through another (trauma), or through another (chemical / psychedelic re-tuning), and the surface pattern can rhyme hard. To the observer it looks like “ah, same mode!”, though the cause underneath isn’t one essence, it’s multiple routes landing on the same stable habit of being. So convergence is basically a pressure-test for your labels: * If your “mode” is a kind of being, it should have a fairly tight origin story. * If your “mode” is an outcome pattern, it can be reached by many routes. And if it’s the second one (which is what convergence suggests), then the theory shifts shape, modes stop acting like fixed species and start acting like recurring solutions. Ways minds settle into what keeps them steady, functional, protected, rewarded, coherent. That’s also why I poked at the “0%” thing. Because if rerouting is real, then “0% access”, and analogous leaps can easily be a snapshot mistaken for a law. Intuition and brainstorming should lead the way, too much though and like an overcrowded room the VIP guests you nailed down, as in the top tier guests you actually managed to get to your party like a great idea you have for your theory, suddenly either gets squeezed outta the room, is much harder to see or you’re now no longer building on its foundational essence “because look, a new shiny thing!”. So no, I’m not translating convergence into modal alignment. I’m saying, before we crown a label, ask whether we’re naming an essence… or naming a recurring outcome that many different engines can produce. Now the split you’re missing (and the one your model needs if it wants to actually break early rather than cosmetically): 1) Routing-convergence (factory routing) This is the baseline road, aka the “default track” that shows up early, repeats across time, and tends to feel like “this is just me.” Some people are born with a bias toward precision, some toward people, some toward symbols, some toward synthesis others toward athletics. Whatever you want to call it, the point is, the route was laid down early, and life mostly rides its genetic momentum. If your modes are real as kinds, you’d expect a lot of this, so early onset, stable patterning, predictable tradeoffs. That’s routing-convergence. Many individuals, similar starting roads, similar destinations. 2) Re-routing-convergence (detour becomes highwa Aka a mind can be pushed into a similar destination without starting there. Medicine makes this obvious because it’s shamelessly causal. Examples where re-routing produces “new you” patterns that look like a mode. * Stroke: language and social signalling can shift overnight; people rebuild through new workarounds. * TBI / concussion: impulse control, irritability, empathy, risk-taking can change. Same person, different constraints. * Temporal lobe epilepsy (and meds): mood, cognitive texture, even spiritual flavour can swing. (Ask me how I know.) * Parkinson’s + dopamine drugs: compulsions can appear that look like “character” until you change the dose. * Thyroid extremes / steroids / sleep debt: dramatic shifts in drive, agitation, sensitivity. * Rehab + training: the slow version of re-routing - therapy, meditation, skill practice, exposure, conditioning—where a detour gets reinforced until it becomes the main road. And then we have interesting re-case studies to seemingly radically ‘positive’ outcomes through training, injury and creative adaptation. * David Goggins (I brought him up earlier along with Mc Donald’s Fatso thats strangely enough not a diabetic!) - extreme endurance + self-forced psychological re-routing, identity rebuilt through sustained voluntary suffering, pain-tolerance training, and relentless self-conditioning (a “detour” that becomes the highway). * Rudiger Gamm - unusually high mental calculation ability (often described as “human calculator”). An example of strong routing-convergence (early, stable baseline tendency) rather than a sudden re-route. * Acquired savant syndrome (after brain injury / stroke / dementia) - rare cases where head trauma or neurological disease is followed by “miraculous” emergent abilities (math, music, art). Classic example is Jason Padgett (TBI ~> intense geometric/visual-math perception). Re-routing-convergence ~~> new destination via damaged circuitry + compensation. * Blind echolocation kid/young man (human echolocation) - Ben Underwood (blind from early childhood; mastered echolocation clicks to navigate like sonar; later died). Example of training-driven re-routing: sensory substitution becomes functional perception. So here’s the zoo keepers punchline, even the strange stripper dude that made it popular in some weird country: If the same “mode-like” destination can be reached via routing or re-routing, then your labels are describing recurring outcomes, not irreducible essences, and that’s where the knife cuts the bread, are you putting butter on their as a spread of labels or is the butter actually there. This is the more difficult conversation from ideation to integration though Ched that I totally sympathise with mate, it can get super difficult real quick heh. But this is where at the very least, theoretical testability comes into play. So when I say convergence is the test, I mean, show me whether your categories track kinds of beings…or kinds of destinations that different beings can arrive at for different reasons. We already know people on the ASD are on average more ‘truth aligned’, it’s in the outcome symptomology. However ‘truth alignment’ can happen for many different reasons, its not moral superiority in many instances, it’s an absence of cognitive empathy plus the rerouting that occurs following a lifetime of making meaning through the world of immediate sensitivity over the metaphorical lives that by comparison the ‘normies’ traverse more of. And just to swing 360 degrees back to neurodivergence, a TSP here is in the meat of the word itself, people converge towards the same of TSP for completely neurodivergent reasons compared to one another. All or none can hypothetically be a survival reason, all of none can be a purely spiritual reason, and we could have ten paths for each, where another ten relate to genetics overlap. Imagine two cities that look identical from above. Same streets, same lights, same skyline silhouette. One was planned by a central architect, the other emerged from a thousand local constraints, accidents, hacks, black markets and war-time reroutes. From the helicopter, you’d swear they’re the same city, however if you try to repair the plumbing, one needs a blueprint and the other needs a historian; same outcome, different generative story. That’s convergence. It’s not “everyone has a unique world.” It’s almost the opposite, many people share surprisingly similar worlds, just for radically different reasons. If it’s destinations (and medicine screams that it is), then the “bigger picture” isn’t threatened by details, it depends on them. Because otherwise you’ll keep naming skylines while ignoring the roads that built the city.

Back to formal mode again. Traveling away from home over the break I have let myself go a little bit. This hasn’t helped my full adaptation beyond the anti-epileptics I take. I am confident I will be prepared where I need to be by March. That said, I have a new turn now. Each week, one philosophical essay on one of my 2025 integrations. That seams like the most intelligent way to integrate understandings for both myself and the reader. Moreover, my essays will have less urgency than earlier entries becoming day to day artefacts I work on as opposed to all being on the fly as all earlier entries here in my journal are. Today I am setting the intention for completing my first essay by commenting on it now, details below. Diary: Medical School Journal. Chapter: 2025 Integration Date: Planned February 8th Entry Type: Essay #1 - Intentional Agency Developmental Framework. Entry: #INTENTION o————————O————————o Intentional Playground - Where the interface of imagination couples Awareness, Emotion and Reasoning to teach intentional agency. Have invented a completely novel way of establishing a learning environment for the mind on how to train capacities surrounding the ability to form and follow through with an intention. For now, in short, the essay will explore a developmental pathway for growing intentional awareness through inner experimentation. As far as I am aware, this has never been done before. It is simple, straightforward and extremely practical to learn with far reaching behavioural consequences that I will explore and formulate an essay around this Sunday. “Intentional Agency” is the correct terminology, however I have little time for full elaboration, so the bare minimum here is just a one-way (half) mirror, given you can kind of see what I am doing behind the glass, I just haven’t for example fully read the readers constitutional rights yet.

Here’s another addition to the one just above ha!

For a chuckle to serve my points quoted above, just made for fun with AI: Many of my friends are immigrants, it’s just the lies and lack of transparency that I despise, and that fragments my loyalty that is otherwise all things being equal absolute and imperturbable. If they were just open about the fact they were going to be the first example of a country that set the tone of the New World Order I’d appreciate it, but it’s massive disrespect to many intelligent Australian’s. And here’s the Anthem, which in reality is the Anthem of the New World Order, if anyone needs anything pointed out let me know. It becomes obvious when you see the order. Ha! Enjoy the laugh! But I am “Fair Dinkum!” ‘AUSTRALIAN’ NATIONAL ANTHEM Australians all let us rejoice, For we are one and free; We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil; Our home is girt by sea; Our land abounds in nature’s gifts Of beauty rich and rare; In history’s page, let every stage Advance Australia Fair. In joyful strains then let us sing, Advance Australia Fair. Beneath our radiant Southern Cross We’ll toil with hearts and hands; To make this Commonwealth of ours Renowned of all the lands; For those who’ve come across the seas We’ve boundless plains to share; With courage let us all combine To Advance Australia Fair. In joyful strains then let us sing, Advance Australia Fair.

@SimpleGuy Simplicity ~> social reinforcement. From friends and people that do not have those habits, those that are supportive of your changes and or those that are battling the same behaviours and are either genuinely making progress or communication between is still having a positive impact despite setbacks. All things being equal, there is nothing that will best social as a behavioural reinforcer, and thats for better or for worse, away from addiction… or towards it. YouTube of course being an indirect social primer you’re literally watching people that to your subconscious are endorsing and strengthening the behaviour by your very watching, this point is often missed by most and therefore, they’re seduced by it. You’re also likely influenced by number of views, likes and comments, “Everyone else is watching it therefore I…”. I would avoid self-help videos on YouTube that only lead to watching more self-help videos afterwards, thats merciless circular reasoning. In general, I would avoid self-help videos altogether on something so mundane.

@Cred Convergence remains the test (as outlined in the previous thread).

@Cred Cheers and no probs, what I was pointing at isn’t an added detail, rather a change in how the model behaves once convergence is allowed. If similar experiential patterns can arise through different routes (genetic, epigenetic, developmental, pharmacological), then what’s being described functions less like fixed modes and more like recurring process outcomes shaped by stability and cost. That distinction matters for how the larger picture holds together. No urgency to integrate, just wanted that implication visible.

@Cred I follow the reclassification, however that said, it doesn’t yet answer the generative question I posed. Declaring “no dominance” is a semantic equalization; what matters is the dynamics that make one foreground self-stabilizing for a system. In other words, map/territory aren’t rival ontologies, rather they’re rival attractor solutions to different regulation problems. What would falsify “irreducible genetic kinds” versus cost/attractor convergence?

Australia has many positives; whether it is “best” depends entirely on the lens applied. Since the dispossession of Aboriginal culture, Australian identity has passed through multiple phase transitions, not merely political but geopolitical and governmental, particularly over the last decade as international power distributions have shifted. Its most pathological feature is also its most revealing though, Australian culture increasingly exists symbolicall, in newspapers, panels, branding, and mediated narratives, while being almost absent in the country’s most densely populated lived environments. Culture is archived rather than inhabited in a way, yet this same absence is also its latent advantage, especially for immigration policies heh. For those positioned to receive externally redistributed power, Australia functions less like a nation and more like an open operating system, lightly populated by myth, administratively flexible and unusually receptive to global reconfiguration haha. This is the only frame in which Australia’s trajectory makes sense to me, not as some declining national identity, rather, as a country in identity escrow. In an ideal resolution, one that currently feels no better than probabilistic parity, it may become the first genuinely global nation, no longer anchored to a single ethnocultural narrative, acting as an interface to indirectly help other countries burn through older national colours. The timing of this transition has been embedded for decades, even encoded in the national anthem, though rarely read as such. It’s actually pretty humorous, the same people decrying are the same people proudly singing the very same words that detail that pro immigration is like its biggest asset ———- I recommend reading the Australian National Anthem. Mass media instead rebranded the narrative into first- and second-generation jerseys, presenting demographic succession as if it were the final chorus rather than a transitional verse which is why it’s smoke gullibles but I’d argue most if not all good people, will just take the puff of. News media performed the primary work of this reframing, supported by softer propaganda systems, sport chief among them. Australian rules football for example, once a cultural unifier became a demographic amplifier ha! Concentrating identity anxiety and projecting it outward as concerns like “over-immigration,” confusing bait and switch momentum’s. On top of that though the First and Second World Wars were pivotal not only geopolitically but psychologically in creating the generational trauma bond, embedding habits of alignment, obedience, and inherited narrative continuity that persisted long after their strategic necessity expired. These habits shaped how Australia learned to sing itself, even as the underlying score changed. Australia is not self-annihilating per se. It is between stories and always was, it’s becoming always what it set-out to be (again, read the Australian National Anthem). Whether that interval resolves into decay or transformation depends on who recognises that the jersey was never the nation, the choir was never permanent, and the clock has been ticking the entire time on the change of hands heh. There’s a lot of humour in it, it would be satirical if not for all the people it genuinely wounds though which is sad. As people feel lost, and they can’t find the same grace because they’re not told that the truth was always just a puff of smoke they inhaled for existential relief they were told was “cool and hip” branded as “mateship, a fair go and Aussie Aussie Aussie! National pride”, totally oblivious to the fact that as soon as that lie was told, the lie recategorised the inevitability as an existential cancer that was going to take people emotionally from the inside out. A small externalised drip they were told was an internalised drip towards slowly deeper a slowly deeper truth the more one integrated into “TRUE Australian Culture! YEAH G’Day mate!” Until, well a lot of us have woken up now; just on different levels. But yeah, enjoy yourself as a tourist sure, it’s ur holiday when u make the trip and it can facilitate that in many ways; genuinely.

This is a genuinely fun exercise. But why are yal not creating images instead of just scraping them off the internet? Have fun being creative and decoding one another’s artistic farts! I just created this off the cuff with AI:

@Cred To add to my comment (third) directly above, after having read a bit more of your writing, I want to add a constructive challenge that I think sharpens the theory. In 50 words or less, what additional explanatory structure are you positing beyond (a) shared phenomenological clusters and (b) the epistemic point that behavior won’t reliably reveal profile? My move directly above after-all goes one level deeper by treating what you’re calling “modes” as stabilized trajectories of multiplicative convergence within an attractor landscape, where distinct genetic routing and epigenetic re-routing pathways repeatedly renew the same foreground. If you’re instead claiming irreducible genetic kinds rather than process-defined identities, I’m curious what would falsify that. Either way, the aim is refinement, not opposition. It’s good to see an example of this kind of theoretical exploration the forum could have more fun with, even if pure experimentation is the pastime.

@Cred only having just read the broader thread, this feels like a genuinely useful ontological slice. The way I’m reading it, you’re circling stable attractor states, so differences in internal generative architectures that foreground very different “worlds,” and then quietly bias what each system experiences as real, salient, or even worth searching for in the first place. Alongside the correlates you’re already tracking, there also seem to be more intrinsic attractor tendencies in play, things like openness to experience and latent inhibition (as I mentioned earlier), as well as dopaminergic tone and inhibitory control. Not as explanations of the foreground itself, but as parameters that make certain attractors easier to fall into and harder to leave. Big Five–style traits feel downstream here: they don’t define the world, but they clearly tilt the terrain. The only place I’d tread lightly is in letting correlates harden into essences. Very different bottom-up stories, autism, trauma, prolonged social masking, developmental canalization, pharmacological or psychedelic perturbation, can converge on remarkably similar foregrounds while having almost nothing in common under the hood. Psychedelics are a particularly loud reminder that “0% access” is dangerous language (as I noted in my first response); the foreground can reconfigure dramatically without implying the prior mode was ever ontologically sealed off. My hunch is that if you keep pushing bottom-up and stay curious about where adjacent theories refuse to line up cleanly, you’ll keep uncovering new structure, and won’t need to invoke “the map is not the territory” as a ritual disclaimer after the fact. That’s my compressed view on a brief afternoon break before heading back to my work.

Neurodivergence is interesting and spans different categories, with human neurodivergence differentiated from divergence at a species level, and with particulars across both cognitive, psychological and emotional dimensions, which also span various forms of psychism to telepathy. For this comment, I will reserve comment to neurodivergence through the lens of cognitive ideational divergence and imaginative absorption capability. These two tend to overlap with openness to experience (big 5 personality) which tends to cover its two hefty correlated qualities of lower levels of latent inhibition and dopaminergic functioning at the broader level. At scale neurodivergence presents communication across species, where closer similarities like those we share uniquely with dogs compared to cats, create localised potential for communication and outside that, unbreakable parameters of distance. Unsurprisingly, as we zoom in at the human population level, the same pattern emerges, where the “size of thee galaxy matters” significantly especially as it pertains to ability. People with more intelligence and creativity than those with less, the greater the gap is the more they are viewed with the same sense of mystery as stars in the sky, where often, those same people if they do not find the right circles can find themselves as just as lonely, with many generating various forms of psychological coping mechanisms with a sense of “specialness” being one of them. These are just correlations however, awareness often becomes the greatest mediator in a ballroom dance floor to move around correlations and establish one’s own unique track, however from birth inside of a societal system that was built for the mean of sustainability, the average and what worked for the economy, unless you grow up in a privileged family environment where the likelihood of being given a gifted route to prosper, it is likely going to be a long road to salvation however talented you happen to be. The ironic “specialness” then of neurodivergence is not special at all, as you have many more hurdles to jump over and societal traps to avoid as a cost of diverging from the genetic pack. Genetic anomalies are one thing, then we have those that are purpose built epigenetically, such as the many neural adaptations that are correlated with the right improvements in the areas I have cited through specialised psychedelic use. This unique example presents a very stark before and after reality that serves as an interesting case study even purely through the lens of the experiencer themselves and how they awaken new ways of biographical and life reflection. Psychedelics are not the only way, neurodivergence can be seen in other forms of positive and negative examples depending on the lens, from David Goggins to your average far and overweight American who’s brain first began to alter its chemistry only after 3 days of eating mc Donald’s to now 3 years later where underneath an fMRI it looks as though you’re looking at something that better resembles Mc Donald’s logo with Mc Donald’s television commercials than it does a human brain. Western societies fascination and subsequent case studies of various kinds of neurodivergence will continue to push the boundaries of of what is epigenetically possible, where psychedelics are used as a snapshot on creative pharmacological outgrowths. Often, neurodivergence is the antithesis to the thesis of the environment coming together for healthy cultural divergence. Our ecosystem then, like natural evolutionary adaptations, requires just as much, anomalous ways of browsing the internet of life and formulating new connections to share on the Facebook of one’s closest social environment. At the surface level, this looks fine and dandy, however the benefit of divergence as already stated depends on where it fits within the gears of the pre-existing systems it’s a part of. Neurodivergence in a time of war that doesn’t serve it’s adaptation, which in many ways it can depending on your outfit and respective divergence, becomes the very anomaly that is singled out and purpose ostracised, whereas during a time of entrepreneurial expansion, where one is less having to will themselves up a corporate ass pipe, doors don’t only swing open, you can make your own. So no matter who are what kind of neurodivergence you have, my best advice is self acceptance first and foremost followed by assessing the benefit you have of likely coming from a first rather than third world country to engender yourself with the gratitude that you can make a meaningful difference to your life with a far greater degree of freedom. The next is prioritising the clearing out of any “specialness” syndrome while at the same time the importance of understanding your differences at the practical level so you can make sensible social choices. This often accompanies housekeeping on any pre-existing trauma that usually carries as I stated that kind of compensatory baggage. There are many intelligent, creative and high consciousness people in the world, and our job isn’t to compare ourselves to them but to understand where it matters how we can work together to better carve through the edges of normality and play our role in expanding the cultural horizons of our respective creative and social evolutionary ecosystem.