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@manuel bon Cardio is of course amazing but I have found it is not as good as powerlifting for dealing with anger because you are still in your head. Nothing shakes you out of like 405 lbs on your back.

@Letho What is “meaningful”? IME it changes at each level. What determines the “function” of something? All good questions to contemplate. Let us not derail this thread further.

Go hit the gym. I have a lot of aggression and have found weightlifting and powerlifting especially good for this. It is a physical emotion after all.

@Letho The unstructured space you are referring to is Consciousness itself, which sits at the base of it all. It can subdivide and complexify itself indefinitely, transcending any structure and heuristic, as you pointed out. As such, I would argue that cognition in fact never stops refining structures, climbing the ladder of abstraction ad infinitum. Only by scaling it do you gain access to fundamentally rewrite the source code - creating AGI, solving nuclear fusion, eradicating all diseases, engineering ecosystems. At that level of complexity, all systems have the capacity to recursively self-rewrite .

@Letho Your critiques are on point - expanding beyond the Markovian assumption is one part of my research. Their work is a really good start but still lacks mathematical sophistication. So indeed, I find them as useful heuristics on the road to more solid epistemic structures. That’s where modular flows, recursive functorial dynamics and topological operads come into play.

@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.