anatomical images depicting clinical evidence for the full (A, B, C) and content-specific (D, E, F) NCC.

Patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry.

mid-sagittal fMRI image of someone who experienced anoxic lesions to their posterior corpus callosum, resulting in permanent VS following head trauma.

traumatic lesions to the posterior corpus callosum appear to permanently cause states of VS (coma, or impeded consciousness), whereas traumatic lesions to the frontal lobe do not seem to do this.

Behavioral state similar to coma.

Bilateral view of the left and right frontal lobes of someone who experienced extensive prefrontal lobe damage without a noticeable change in consciousness, with certain anatomical regions labeled (top). Lateral view of the left and right hemispheres of that same individual, with certain anatomical regions labeled (bottom).

There are many examples of people who have experienced bilateral lesions to the frontal lobe and still retained most, if not all aspects of consciousness. These instances lend credence to the idea that the anterior cortex may not account for the full NCC. Even when such damage causes deficits in cognition, perception, or executive function, consciousness does not appear to be significantly altered and effected individuals still seem capable of living normal lives.

The NCC and related processes represented in a diagram of the brain. Content-specific NCC are represented in red, full NCC are represented in orange (as a union of all content-specific NCC), neuronal activating systems and global enabling factors modulating full NCC activity are represented in green, processing loops modulating some content-specific NCC are represented in beige, sensory pathways modulating some content-specific NCC are represented in pink, and outputs from NCC are represented in blue.

Recent research has placed emphasis on distinguishing "background conditions" that indirectly generate consciousness from neural processes that directly generate consciousness (or distinguishing consciousness itself from its precursors and consequences). Some neural processes, such as processing loops involved in executive functions, activity along sensory pathways, and activity along motor pathways may tangentially affect the full NCC via modulation of the content specific NCC.

There is an interesting theme of staying true to a center or core of a story which is broadly similar to David Lynch's staying true to the original idea. The difference may be that Lynch is staying true to his own original idea which started the process whereas Coppola is distilling out a core from an original source and then focusing on that rather than having Puzo's own original core.

Which core is the "true" one?

Lynch, David. A Pinewood Dialogue with David Lynch. .mp3. Pinewood Dialogues, 1997-02-16. Museum of the Moving Image. https://movingimage.us/programs/david-lynch/.

Transcript: http://www.movingimagesource.us/files/dialogues/2/64075_programs_transcript_pdf_202.pdf

Audio: https://movingimage.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/86719_media_files_media_595_mp3_with_bumpers.mp3

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/albums/72177720310422752

• for: sensory ecology, sensory ecology - beauty of
• annotate

• for: good explanation: empiricism, empiricism - knowledge gap, quote, quote - Dan Robinson, quote - philosophy, quote - empiricism - knowledge gap, Critique of Pure Reason - goal 1 - address empiricism and knowledge gap

• good explanation : empiricism - knowledge gap

• quote

  • on the traditional empiricist account
    • we do not have direct access to the facts of the external world
    • that is we do not experience externality directly but only MEDIATELY, not immediately but MEDIATELY
      • because between us and the external world are those what do you call them oh yes, sense organs
    • and so the question is how faithfully they report what is going on out there
    • To raise the question how faithful is the sensory report of the external world
      • is to assume that you have some reliable non-sensory way of answering that question
    • That's the box you can't get out of and so there is always this gap between
      • reality as it might possibly be known by some non-human creature and
      • reality as empirically sampled by the senses
        • whose limitations and distortions are very well known
          • but not perfectly classified or categorized or or measured

• Comment

  • Robinson contextualizes the empiricist project and gap thereof, as one of the 4 goals of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
  • Robinson informally calls this the "Locke" problem, after one of the founders of the Empiricist school, John Locke.
  • Robinson also alludes to a Thomas Reed approach to realism that contends that we don't experience reality MEDIATELY, but IMMEDIATELY, thereby eliminating the gap problem altogether.
  • It's interesting to see how modern biology views the empericist's knowledge gap, especially form the perspective of the Umwelt and Sensory Ecology

• for: Critique of Pure Reason - motivation

• for: critique of pure reason - goal - provide metaphysical foundation for science

• paraphrase

  • Another goal of the Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is to provide a metaphysical foundation that
    • respects the achievements of science and
    • provides a grounding so that science itself understands the basis upon which its claims ultimately depend

• for: Kant, quote, quote- Kant, Kant - critique of pure reason - difficult to understand

• quote: on reading the Critique of Pure Reason

  • a disagreeable task because the work is dry obscure opposed to all ordinary notions and long-winded as well

• author: Immanuel Kant

• comment

  • Now I don't feel so bad! :D

• for: Kant, quote, quote - metaphysics, quote - Kant, critique of pure reason, Dan Robinson, philosophy, quote - metaphysics - ubiquity

• quote

  • the human mind will ever give up metaphysical research is as little to be expected
  • as that we should prefer to give up breathing all together to avoid inhaling impure air
  • there will therefore always be metaphysics in the world
  • nay everyone especially every man of reflection will have it and for want of a recognized standard will shape it for himself after his own pattern
• author: Immanuel Kant

• for: quote, quote - metaphysics

• quote

  • even as you set out to ignore metaphysics, you're probably engaged in some form of metaphysical speculation.
• author: Dan Robinson
• date: 2011

Was Coleridge the original source of the idea of suspension of disbelief?

This Be The Verse<br /> by Philip Larkin

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. <br /> They may not mean to, but they do. <br /> They fill you with the faults they had<br /> And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn<br /> By fools in old-style hats and coats, <br /> Who half the time were soppy-stern<br /> And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.<br /> It deepens like a coastal shelf.<br /> Get out as early as you can,<br /> And don’t have any kids yourself.

Philip Larkin, "This Be the Verse" from Collected Poems. Copyright © Estate of Philip Larkin. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd. Source: Collected Poems (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2001)

Reference: Larkin, Philip. Collected Poems. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1989.

Compare with The Kids Are Alright.

Recited in Ted Lasso, S3 https://www.looper.com/1294687/ted-lasso-season-3-episode-11-maes-poem-sounds-familiar/#:~:text=To%20jog%20your%20memory%2C%20the,extra%2C%20just%20for%20you.%22

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Be_The_Verse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Ty-9pHd2o via morganeua

An analog ZK user who prefers that format because "out of sight is out of mind". (mentioned in beginning of the video)

Overview: Brief conversation about ZK followed by taking some notes and turning them into a Luhmann-artig system.

• for: unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics, emptiness, emptiness - unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics

• comment

  • everything is an expression of emptiness

• source
  • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2Fpublication%2F364689654_BEANS_The_Benchmark_of_Animal_Sounds&group=world

• for: making the invisible visible, decoding the language of the biosphere

• for: animals getting high, animals seeking altered state of consciousness, lemurs - getting high, dolphins - getting high, apes - getting high

• for: quote, quote - age of whale and dolphin languages

• quote

  • whales and dolphins have had culture passed down vocally for 34 million years
  • humans have only been speaking vocally impacted on culture for like 200 000 years tops and
  • that which is oldest correlates with that which is wisest
• author - Aza Raskin
• date: 2023

• for: example - animal-plant communication, bee-flower communication, bee - primrose flower communication, communication - animal - plant, communication - bee - flower, 2019 University of Tel Aviv study

• for: animal communication, AI - animal communication, bioacoustic

• title: BEAN: The Benchmark of Animal Sounds

• author

  • Masato Hagiwara
  • Benjamin Hoffman
  • Jen-Yu Liu
  • Maddie Cusimano

• Abstract

  • The use of machine learning (ML) based techniques has become increasingly popular in the field of bioacoustics over the last years.
  • Fundamental requirements for the successful application of ML based techniques are curated, agreed upon, high-quality datasets and benchmark tasks to be learned on a given dataset.
  • However, the field of bioacoustics so far lacks such public benchmarks which cover multiple tasks and species to measure the performance of ML techniques in a controlled and standardized way and that allows for benchmarking newly proposed techniques to existing ones.
  • Here, we propose BEANS (the BEnchmark of ANimal Sounds), a collection of bioacoustics tasks and public datasets, specifically designed to measure the performance of machine learning algorithms in the field of bioacoustics.
  • The benchmark proposed here consists of two common tasks in bioacoustics:
    • classification and
    • detection.
  • It includes 12 datasets covering various species, including
    • birds,
    • land and marine mammals,
    • anurans, and insects.
  • In addition to the datasets, we also present the performance of a set of standard ML methods as the baseline for task performance.
  • The benchmark and baseline code is made publicly available at
    • \url{https://github.com/earthspecies/beans}
  • in the hope of establishing a new standard dataset for ML-based bioacoustic research.

• for: example - animal-plant communication, bee-flower communication, bee - primrose flower communication, communication - animal - plant, communication - bee - flower, 2019 University of Tel Aviv study, education, education - climate change, education - climate departure, education - species extinction

DiResta, Renee. “Free Speech Is Not the Same As Free Reach.” Wired, August 30, 2018. https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-is-not-the-same-as-free-reach/.

https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/301992

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/03/smarter-living/failure-resume.html

13:25 coming of age stories as transformation

• see as stage in hero’s journey

https://app.thebrain.com/brain/3d80058c-14d8-5361-0b61-a061f89baf87/b3c77013-8ce4-29cd-95b9-18112649a306

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere

See also:<br /> - https://subconscious.substack.com/p/noosphere-a-protocol-for-thought - https://app.thebrain.com/brain/3d80058c-14d8-5361-0b61-a061f89baf87/b3c77013-8ce4-29cd-95b9-18112649a306

https://subconscious.substack.com/p/noosphere-a-protocol-for-thought

https://wiki.openglobalmind.com/what%E2%80%99s_a_neobook_

Conference calls at 10:30 AM on Mondays. Search YouTube for past occurrences.

Relationship to wikis and zettelkasten for accumulating knowledge as a ratchet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game

Creating a "signpost user interface" can help to uncover directions to take in digital contexts as out of sight is out of mind. Having things sit in your way within one's note taking workflow can remind them to either link things, or move in particular directions for discovering new avenues of thought.

Example: it would be interesting if Jerry's The Brain would have links directly to material in Flancian's Agora to remind him to search or find relevant material there. This could help with combinatorial creativity with inputs from others, though it needs to be narrow so as not to result in rabbit holes which draw away attention.

Link to: https://hypothes.is/a/iQvo7l1zEe6dZ5_9d9rrVw

Jerry Michalski says that The Brain provides him with a "neighborhood perspective" of ideas when he reduces the external link number for his graph down to 1.

This is similar to Nicholas Luhmann's zettelkasten which provided neighborhoods of related notes based on distance from any particular note.

Also similar to oral cultures who relied on movement through their environment for encoding memories and later remembering them. [I'll use the tag "environmental memory" to track this until a better name comes along.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Dynamics

related to ideas I've had with respect to Werner R. Loewenstein?

reply to u/JonasanOniem at https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/16ss0yu/comment/k2buxsc/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

In digital contexts it is much easier and very common to create orphaned notes that aren't connected to anything. In a paper zettelkasten, you are forced to file your note somewhere and give it a number (only to be able to find it again—it's difficult, but try not to make the mistake of conflating your number with the idea of category). The physical act of placing it in your slipbox creates an implicit link to the things around it. As a result, your four notes would all initially seem to be directly related because they're nearby, but over time, they will naturally drift apart as you intersperse new notes between and among them. Though if they're truly directly interrelated, you can write down explicit links from notes at one end of your thought space to notes which seem distant.

In your example, you may see some sort of loose link between your first and fourth notes relating to music. While it may be a distant one, given what you have, putting marching band "next to" digestible music is really the only place to put it. Over time, you'll certainly find other notes that come between them which will tend to split them apart and separate them by physical distance, but for now, if it's what you've got, then place them into the same neighborhood by giving them addresses (numbers) to suggest they live nearby. (Some note applications like Obsidian make this much harder to do, and as a result orphaned notes will eventually become a problem.)

This physical process is part of the ultimate value of building knowledge from the bottom up. Like most people, you've probably been heavily trained to want to create a hierarchy from the top down (folder-based systems on computers of the late 20th century are a big factor here) which is exactly why you're going to have problems like this at the start. You'll want to place that music note somewhere else, or worse, orphan it. For some people who may not be able to immediately trust the process, it can be easier to create a few dozen or a hundred notes and then come back to them later to file and arrange them. This will allow you to seed some ground from which to continually build and help to bridge the gap between the desire to move top-down in a system designed to move from bottom-up.

Depending on one's zettelkasten application (Obsidian, Zettlr, Logseq, The Archive, et al.) some do a better job of allowing the creation of "soft links" versus the more explicit hard or direct links (usually using [[WikiLinks]]). The soft links are usually best done by providing a number that places one note into proximity with another, but not all systems work this way. As a result, it's much easier to build a traditional commonplace book with Obsidian than it is to build a Luhmann-artig zettelkasten (see: https://boffosocko.com/2022/10/22/the-two-definitions-of-zettelkasten/). The concept of tags/categories in many systems is another form of soft link that can hold ideas together, so use this affordance if your application offers it as well. But also keep in mind that if sociology is your life's work, you'll eventually amass such a huge number of digital notes tagged with "sociology" that this affordance will become useless as it won't scale well for discovery and creating links.

reply to u/JonasanOniem at https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/16ss0yu/linking_new_notes/

This sort of practice is harder when you start out in most digital apps because there is usually no sense of "closeness" of ideas in digital the way that is implied by physical proximity (or "neighborhood") found in physical cards sitting right next to or around each other. As a result, you have to create more explicit links or rely on using tags (or indexing) when you start. I've not gotten deep into the UI of Zettlr, but some applications allow the numbering (and the way numbered ideas are sorted in the user interface) to allow this affordance by creating a visual sense of proximity for you. As you accumulate more notes, it becomes easier and you can rely less on tags and more on direct links. Eventually you may come to dislike broad categories/tags and prefer direct links from one idea to another as the most explicit tag you could give a note . If you're following a more strict Luhmann-artig practice, you'll find yourself indexing a lot at the beginning, but as you link new ideas to old, you don't need to index (tag) things as heavily because the index points to a card which is directly linked to something in the neighborhood of where you're looking. Over time and through use, you'll come to recognize your neighborhoods and the individual "houses" where the ideas you're working with all live. As an example, Luhmann spent his life working in sociology, but you'll only find a few links from his keyword register/subject index to "sociology" (and this is a good thing, otherwise he'd have had 90,000+ listings there and the index entry for sociology would have been utterly useless.)

Still, given all this, perhaps as taurusnoises suggests, concrete examples may help more, particularly if you're having any issues with the terminology/concepts or how the specific application affordances are being presented.

Komplexe Moleküle, die bei der Atmung von Pflanzen ausgestoßen werden, können die Wolkenbildung und damit die Temperaturen deutlich stärker beeinflussen als bisher angenommen. Sie wirken ähnlich wie bei der Verbrennung fossiler Brennstoffe produzierten Aerosole.

https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2023/09/26/news/le_piante_influenzano_la_formazione_delle_nuvole-415174379/

Studie: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi5297

https://www.napkin.ai/

(Separate from https://www.napkin.one/)

-for: quote, quote - David Bollier, call to action, meme, meme - subterranean republic of commoners

• quote

  • The subterranean Republic of Commoners needs to step into the light of day.

• meme: subterranean republic of commoners

• comment

  - catchy!

• for: quote, quote - David Bollier, quote - silos of communities
• quote
  • The problem is that this pluriverse of system-change players remains largely disorganized. -They are marginalized and eclipsed by the raw power of the market/state system.
• Author: David Bollier

Hamacher, Duane, Patrick Nunn, Michelle Gantevoort, Rebe Taylor, Greg Lehman, Ka Hei Andrew Law, and Mel Miles. “The Archaeology of Orality: Dating Tasmanian Aboriginal Oral Traditions to the Late Pleistocene.” Journal of Archaeological Science, August 10, 2023, 45pp.

Pre-print.

See also: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440323000997

Annotation url: urn:x-pdf:d4ccd0952073ac59932f4638381e6b69

Popular press coverage: https://www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2023/august/tasmanian-aboriginal-oral-traditions-among-the-oldest-recorded-narratives

Knight, Anna. “Tasmanian Aboriginal Oral Traditions among the Oldest Recorded Narratives.” News. University of Melbourne, August 14, 2023. https://www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2023/august/tasmanian-aboriginal-oral-traditions-among-the-oldest-recorded-narratives.

Popular press synopsis of journal article; see: https://hypothes.is/a/5qru3Fu7Ee62eZPHP6EAyw

Die EU hat seit 1995 1500 Milliarden Euro in der Straßennetz investiert 66% mehr als in das Eisenbahnnetz. Während das Autobahnnetz um 60% ausgebaut wurde, wurde das Eisenbahnnetz um 6,5% reduziert. Die Treibhausgasemissionen des Verkehrs wuchsen zwischen 1995 und 2019 um 15%. Die Zahlen stammen aus einer umfassenden Studie zur Entwicklung der europäischen Verkehrsinfrastruktur vielleicht aber doch Infrastruktur oder, die von Greenpeace in Auftrag gegeben wurde

https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2023/09/19/news/greenpeace_trasporti_europa_autostrade_treni-415017423/

Studie: https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-italy-stateless/2023/09/5989cf9a-analysis_development-of-transport-infrastructure-in-europe_2023.pdf

Die Biden-Administration hat alle amerikanischen Bundesbehörden angewiesen, bei allen Projekten die Kosten, die durch die globale Erhitzung verursacht werden, mit zu budgetieren. Damit wird eine bisher schon von der Umweltbehörde EPA verwendete Metrik der "social costs of carbon" auf die gesamte Regierungstätigkeit ausgeweitet.Mit einem Budget von ungefähr 600 Milliarden Dollar im Jahr ist die amerikanische Bundesregierung der größte Verbraucher von Gütern und Dienstleistungenn in der Welt. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/climate/biden-climate-change-economic-cost.html

https://lacountylibrary.libnet.info/event/9097350

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMF37TXAV5w

Presenter Lawrence Mak broke down types of notes into the following three categories:<br /> - general notes (projects, ideas, journals, recipes, budgeting, homework, etc.)<br /> - lists (groceries, reading, gifts, to dos, assignments) - reminders (birthdays, bills, maintenance, health)

Watch the scale and scope of what you're doing. If you read a book and make a hundred highlights and small notes, DO NOT attempt to turn all of these into permanent notes. You might fell like that is the thing to do, but resist it. A large portion are small things or potentially useful facts that you'll likely never use again or would easily remember, particularly once you've read a whole book.

Find the much smaller subset (5-10% or less of the overall total of notes and highlights as a ballpark rule of thumb) of the most interesting and potentially long term useful ones, and turn those into your permanent notes. Anything beyond this is sure to cause overwhelm. Also don't think that your permanent notes need to be spectacular, awesome, or even bordering on "perfect". They just need to be useful enough for you.

If you own the books or keep your brief notes and highlights written down and need them in the future, you'll still have those to search/find and do something with later as a backstop just in case.

• for: social tipping point, multi-scale competency architecture, MET, major evolutionary transition of individuality

• Title: Using emergence to take social innovation to scale

• Author: Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze
• publisher: The Berkana Institute

• for: multi-scale competency architecture, MET, major evolutionary transition of individuality

37:00 going to war with self

• see zk notes on self-discovery & finding meaning in darkness

34:00 potential to be special, choosing path of least resistance

A big problem with what's in this paper is that its logical paths reflect the déformation professionnelle of its author and the technologists' milieu.

Links are Works Cited entries. Works Cited entries don't "break"; the works at the other end don't "change".

• comment
  • Michael does not know what the format of the answer to the hard problem would be
  • Attempting to explain the experience of consciousness begs the question
    • what is explanation?
  • The explanation often attempts to rely on measurable 3rd party observations and the scientific theories and models behind those observations
  • However, as Michel Bitbol points out, the models themselves emerge from the same awareness of consciousness
    • https://hyp.is/gQt0wlg_Ee6ftXcrEi3Z-g/docdrop.org/video/bzPu_USZ-0o/
  • In spiritual teachings, it is often claimed that the observer is actually an expression of the universe that see's itself
  • Seeing itself - what does this mean in scientific terms? Could it mean resonance, like the kind used by musicians to tune string instruments like guitars?
  • Do all the patterns that we sense become sensible precisely because they are all an intrinsic part of us, and vice versa?

• paraphrase
  • Karl Friston takes Andy Clark's perspective
    • the real problem is a meta problem
      • why do we spend so much time trying to make sense of our sense-making?
  • Karl talks about futures and different pathways to the futures
  • Humans seem to have this unique property to plan futures, some of which are counter-factual

• for: hard problem of consciousness

• annotate

Niklas Luhmann's zettelkasten system doesn't impose a heirarchy upon it's contents and in some ways its structure anticipates the ideas of hypertext and the internet's structure.

Also similar to the idea from Umberto Eco: https://hypothes.is/a/jqug2tNlEeyg2JfEczmepw

• for: question, question - hard problem of consciousness, question - Micheal Levin - Michel Bitbol

• question

  • What would Michel Bitbol think of what Michael Levin claims here?
  • What does Michel Bitbol think about Michael Levin's research and the hard problem of consciousness?

• for: epoche - Jean Paul Satre, epoche, question, question - epoche - symbolosphere, Jean-Paul Satre - Nausea
• paraphrase
  • Jean-Paul Satre
    • The Transcendence of the Ego
    • Nausea (book)
  • both the subject and object are cocreated and emerge simultaneously
• definition start
  • Bitbol calls this "symmetrical effort"
• definition end
  • it takes symmetrical effort to
    • extract invariance from experience (objectification and object permanence)
    • stabilize an experiencing pole (construction of self)
  • when some event causes
• example: epoche
  • reading a book on history
  • you suddenly realize there is no past, no medieval events, just black marks on paper (or on a screen)
• question
  • Is realizing the epoche the same as realizing the symbolosphere?

• for epoche - enlightenment, epoche - ease of performing
• comment
  • the epoche is easy to perform
  • whereas it appears from the philosophical considerations difficult to perform
  • is it analogous to enlightenment, where the perception of it's difficulty is what makes it difficult?

• for: quote, quote - Michel Bilbot, quote - circularity of materialism, scientific materialism - circularity

• quote

  • He (Galileo) concealed the origin of this knowledge by trying to show how you can derive the life of the nowhere out of the nowhere's intellectual byproduct.

• author: Michel Bilbot

• comment

  • This is a very pith observation. It illustrates the circularity inherent in panpsychic scientific theory.
  • In a sense, we are putting the cart before the horse by using theory, which is the nowhere's intellectual byproduct, to derive the life of the nowhere.

• for: quote, quote - Galileo, quote - hiding the origin of knowledge, physical theory - hiding origin of knowledge

• quote

  • According to Husserl, Galileo was the one who performed the trick. Who suddenly was hiding the origin of knowledge.
• author: Michel Bitbol

• for: visual field, visual field - clues of a seer, nondual, non-dual, nonduality, non-duality, science - blind spot, science - subject
• question
  • does the visual field reveal anything about the eye?
• answer: yes
  • vanishing points indicate that the world is being seen from one perspective.

• for: quote, quote - Nietzsche, duality, nonduality, nondual, non-duality, non-dual

• quote

  • The creator wanted to look away from himself. That's why he created the world

• author: Nietzsche, Zarathustra

• comment

  • Bitbol's work is to invert this and explore how we can become aware of the blind spot of science that creates the objective world to study, whilst ignoring the subject..

• for: Edmund Husserl, the Mother of Knowledge, nondual, nonduality, non-dual, non-duality, the ground of existence
• definition: the mother of knowledge
  • the dynamics of lived embodied experience
• author: Edmond Husserl

• for: nondual, nonduality, ground of existence, transcendental, Kant - transcendental, non-duality, non-dual, quote, quote - Michel Bitbol, quote - nonduality, quote - transcendental

• quote

  • What can you say about the transcendental?
  • Can you speak of it?
  • Can you use words to describe it?
  • Can you characterize the condition of possibility of it?
  • And Kant says no.
  • This, namely, the transcendental, cannot be further analyzed or answered because it is of such condition that we are in need for all our answers and for all our thinking about objects.
  • So, the transcendental itself cannot be an object of thought.
• author: Michel Bitbol
• comment
  • Michel Bitbol explains Kant's definition of transcendental that makes sense to me for the first time!
  • It is really quite similiar to the defintion of the nondual.

There's an interesting dichotomy which seems to be arising here. It's almost as if he's defining a folgezettel note in opposition to orphaned notes, most often seen in digital settings when importing lots of "stuff" but which Doto indicates can happen in analog systems as well.

Orphaned notes in an analog space, however are still linked by proximity even though they're not as densely linked (even from a mathematical topology perspective.)

"So long as it happens." And here lies the rub: when will you put in the work to make the note useful and actionable? Will it be now or later?

Some notes are certainly more mission critical than others. Some work towards one's life's work while others are tidbits which may be useful at a later time. Distinguishing along this spectrum isn't always easy, particular in build a bottom up view of one's research.

There is a difference between the sorts of links one might make when placing an idea into an (analog) zettelkasten. A folgezettel link is more valuable than a simple tag/category link because it places an idea into a more specific neighborhood than any handful of tags. This is one of the benefits of a Luhmann-artig ZK system over a more traditional commonplace one, particularly when the work is done up front instead of being punted to a later time.

For those with a 1A2B3Z linking system (versus a pure decimal system), it may be more difficult to insert a card before other cards rather than after them because of the potential gymnastics of numbering and the natural tendency to put things into a continuing linear order.

See also: - https://hypothes.is/a/ToqCPq1bEe2Q0b88j4whwQ - https://hyp.is/WtB2AqmlEe2wvCsB5ZyL5A/docdrop.org/download_annotation_doc/Introduction-to-Luhmanns-Zette---Ludecke-Daniel-h4nh8.pdf

Tiago Forte makes a “Hemingway bridge” for his projects

• see zk on trails of interest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abomination_of_desolation

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000187575/klimawandel-trug-zu-flutkatastrophen-am-mittelmeer-bei

The Great Conversation: The Substance of a Liberal Education. 27th Printing. Vol. 1. 54 vols. The Great Books of the Western World. 1952. Reprint, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 1984.

I read the first edition.

Hutchins, Robert M. The Great Conversation: The Substance of a Liberal Education. Edited by Robert M. Hutchins and Mortimer J. Adler. 1st ed. Vol. 1. 54 vols. Great Books of the Western World. Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 1952.

urn:x-pdf:0ce8391ed9f9f1cfc78c28b6c923abac<br /> Annotation search: https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?user=chrisaldrich&max=100&exactTagSearch=true&expanded=true&addQuoteContext=true&url=urn%3Ax-pdf%3A0ce8391ed9f9f1cfc78c28b6c923abac

Zu hohe Temperaturen führen zu Schädigungen in den Baumkronen tropischer Bäume, die die Fähigkeit zur Photosynthese eingeschränken. Eine umfangreiche Studie aus der Basis von Satellitenmessungen und Feldforschung zeigt, dass solche Werte durch die globale Erhitzung immer häufiger erreicht werden und damit die Fähigkeiten vor allem der Regenwälder behindern als CO2 l-Senken zu wirken.

https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2023/09/18/news/fotosintesi_a_rischio_causa_cambiamenti_climatici-414478820/?ref=RHRM-BG-P2-S1-T1ec

• fresh perspective

  • cancer can be interpreted as a breakdown in the bodies multiscale competency architecture causing cancerous cells to lose their higher level synchronizing signals and revert to their more evolutionarily primitive forms as individuals that see the body as simply an external environment

• adjacency between

  • gap junction coupling
  • cancer
  • healthy tissue coherence
  • multiscale competency architecture
• adjacency statement
  • gap junction coupling appears to be an evolutionary means of cohering individuals together to form a larger group
  • hence, they seem to play a critical role in the continued evolution of more complex multicellular organisms
  • their pathologies within multicellular beings destroy multicellular structures and create disease, reverting the organism, or competent multicellular structures of the organism such as tissues and organs back to individualistic behavior, as in cancers

• for: definition, definition - multiscale competency architecture of life, multiscale competency architecture of life, superorganism, MET, major evolutionary transition, question, question - multiscale competency architecture
• definition: multiscale competency architecture of life

• paraphrase

  • The multiscale competency architecture of life is a hypothesis about the scaling of cognition, seeing complex system-level behaviors in any space as the
    • within-level and
    • across-level
  • competition and
  • cooperation
  • among the various
    • subunits and
    • partitions
  • of composite agents (i.e., all agents).
  • The generalization of problem spaces beyond the traditional 3D space of “behavior” into other, virtual problem spaces is essential for understanding evolution of basal cognition.
  • Living things
    • first solved problems in metabolic space, and evolution then pivoted the same kinds of strategies to
    • solve problems in
      • physiological,
      • transcriptional, and
      • anatomical space,
    • before speed-optimizing these dynamics to enable rapid behavior in 3D space.
  • Since every cognitive agent is made of parts, it is essential to have a theory about how
    • numerous goal-seeking agents link together into
    • a new, larger cognitive system that is novel and not present in any of the subunits.

• comment

• adjacency between:
  • multiscale competency architecture
  • superorganism

• adjacency statement

  • The concept of multiscale competency architecture is a useful one for considering and organizing the effects of Major Evolutionary Transitions (METs) over evolutionary timescales.
  • It links and locates the normative scale in which human consciousness exists to the lower scales of cells and subcellular life below, and to society as a social superorganism above.
  • it shows that each human INTERbeing / INTERbeCOMing is not isolated, but is part of a multiscale nexus / gestalt
  • I've incorporated this into my SRG presentation.

• question

  • is there research on signaling mechanisms exist between different levels?
    • in another part of the paper, there is discussion of gap junctions as a way to cohere individual cells into group functionality
    • in particular, is there a way for humans consciousness to communicate with lower levels of its body? ie. to tissues, cells or subcellular structures?
  • Could the Bodhisattva vow be extended not only at the level of the social superorganism of groups of individual multicellular beings, but also downwards in the multiscale competency architecture to all the trillions of cells and microbes that inhabit each multicellular planetary body?
    • if it can, it can be interpreted as taking care of your body through
      • healthy exercise
      • healthy sleep
      • healthy diet
      • healthy thoughts and emotions
      • no self-harm
      • self love but not conceit
  • what are the exact biological and evolutionary mechanisms that allow for coherence of individual organisms at the various levels of the multiscale competency architecture and can they be extended to apply to the scale of humans within a social superorganism scale?
  • could love be another word for care drive that applies to all the different scales of the multiscale competency architecture?
  • do feelings of love and compassion propagate downwards through the multiscale competency architecture and find analogous expression in the appropriate spaces?
• reference
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8988303/

• for: bio-buddhism, buddhism - AI, care as the driver of intelligence, Michael Levin, Thomas Doctor, Olaf Witkowski, Elizaveta Solomonova, Bill Duane, care drive, care light cone, multiscale competency architecture of life, nonduality, no-self, self - illusion, self - constructed, self - deconstruction, Bodhisattva vow
• title: Biology, Buddhism, and AI: Care as the Driver of Intelligence
• author: Michael Levin, Thomas Doctor, Olaf Witkowski, Elizaveta Solomonova, Bill Duane, AI - ethics
• date: May 16, 2022

• source: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/5/710/htm

• summary

  • a trans-disciplinary attempt to develop a framework to deal with a diversity of emerging non-traditional intelligence from new bio-engineered species to AI based on the Buddhist conception of care and compassion for the other.
  • very thought-provoking and some of the explanations and comparisons to evolution actually help to cast a new light on old Buddhist ideas.
  • this is a trans-disciplinary paper synthesizing Buddhist concepts with evolutionary biology

• for: emptiness, shunyata, non-existence of self, no-self, illusory self, deconstructing self
• comment
  • this short description of the reasoning behind deconstructing the self is quite fresh and insightful, especially relating it to cognition.

• for: illusory self, non-self, lack of self, organism - as process, human INTERbeCOMing, bio-buddhism, biology - buddhism

• for: key question, key question - hard problem of consciousness
• key questions
  • how could there be natural phenomena that are private and thus independent of physical processes
    • or how come they seem private?
  • what is the exact relationship between cognitive content and phenomenal consciousness?

• for: nonduality, non-duality, duality, dualism, hard problem of consciousness, explanatory gap, relativistic theory of consciousness, human INTERbeing, human INTERbeCOMing, Deep Humanity, DH
• title: A Relativistic Theory of Consciousness
• author: Nir Lahav, Zahariah A. Neemeh

• date: May 12, 2022

• abstract

  • In recent decades, the scientific study of consciousness has significantly increased our understanding of this elusive phenomenon.
  • Yet, despite critical development in our understanding of the functional side of consciousness, we still lack a fundamental theory regarding its phenomenal aspect.
  • There is an “explanatory gap” between
    • our scientific knowledge of functional consciousness and
    • its “subjective,” phenomenal aspects,
  • referred to as the “hard problem” of consciousness.
  • The phenomenal aspect of consciousness is the first-person answer to “what it’s like” question, and
    • it has thus far proved recalcitrant to direct scientific investigation.
  • Naturalistic dualists argue that it is composed of a primitive, private, non-reductive element of reality that is independent from the functional and physical aspects of consciousness.
  • Illusionists, on the other hand, argue that it is merely a cognitive illusion, and that all that exists are ultimately physical, non-phenomenal properties.
  • We contend that both the dualist and illusionist positions are flawed because they tacitly assume consciousness to be an absolute property that doesn’t depend on the observer.
  • We develop a conceptual and a mathematical argument for a relativistic theory of consciousness in which
    • a system either has or doesn’t have phenomenal consciousness with respect to some observer.
  • Phenomenal consciousness is neither private nor delusional, just relativistic.
    • In the frame of reference of the cognitive system, it will be observable (first-person perspective) and
    • in other frame of reference it will not (third-person perspective).
  • These two cognitive frames of reference are both correct,
    • just as in the case of
      • an observer that claims to be at rest
      • while another will claim that the observer has constant velocity.
  • Given that consciousness is a relativistic phenomenon, neither observer position can be privileged,
    • as they both describe the same underlying reality.
  • Based on relativistic phenomena in physics
    • we developed a mathematical formalization for consciousness which bridges the explanatory gap and dissolves the hard problem.
  • Given that the first-person cognitive frame of reference also offers legitimate observations on consciousness,
    • we conclude by arguing that philosophers can usefully contribute to the science of consciousness by collaborating with neuroscientists to explore the neural basis of phenomenal structures.

• comment

  • This is a promising approach to solving the hard problem of consciosness

• for: relativistic theory of consciousness, question, question - shifting cognitive frames
• question
  • How is this transformation done?

https://www.liberation.fr/culture/photographie/en-images-de-cuba-a-la-libye-du-punjab-a-la-grece-un-mois-de-septembre-meurtrier-sous-les-eaux-20230912_SZZBWRY7J5CQZGZEJE7REZWPG4/?redirected=1

Die Intensität des Sturms Daniel, der in Libyen Tausende Opfer forderte, geht mit hoher Wahrschilichkeit auf die hohe Temperatur an der Oberfläche des Mittelmeers zurück. Ähnliche Extremereignisse jenseits des bisher Erwartbaren werden folgen. Für die katastrophale Wirkung sind auch schlechte Infrastruktur, ungenügende Vorhersage-Möglichkeiten, mangelhafte Alarmsysteme und falsche Planung verantwortlich. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/12/questions-raised-over-deadly-impact-of-storm-daniel-in-libya

Mehr zum Sturm Daniel: https://hypothes.is/search?q=tag%3A%22event%3A%20storm%20Daniel%22

• for: compassion, care, symbiocene, Me2We, W2W, expanding circle of care
• comment
  • unity requires expanding circles of care:
    • care of self
    • care of family
    • care of ingroup
    • care of outgroup
    • care of other species

• for: paper overview, paper overview - the computational boundary of a self

• paper overview

  • motivated by 2018 Templeton Foundation conference to present idea on unconventional and diverse intelligence

  • Levin was interested in any conceivable type of cognitive system and was interested in find a way to universally characterize them all

    • how are they detected
    • how to understand them
    • how to relate to them and
    • how to create them

  • Levin had been thinking about this for years

  • Levin adopts a cybernetic definition of intelligence proposed by William James that focuses on the competency to reach a defined goal by different paths
  • Navigation plays a critical role in this defiinition.

• reference
  • source paper
    • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6923654/#:~:text=Any%20Self%20is%20demarcated%20by,and%20limits%20of%20its%20cognition.
  • hypothes.is annotation:
    • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fpmc%2Farticles%2FPMC6923654%2F&group=world

Compare this list to what ultimately became the Great Books of the Western World in 1952. Lots more 20th century writing on it to begin...

This book was published originally in 1940 and apparently the Great Books of the Western World was hatched in 1943, so this book isn't necessarily a stepping stone to pitching/selling those, though obviously it informs the ideas which led up to its creation.

Note that it is roughly contemporaneous to his article a year later:

Adler, Mortimer J. “How to Mark a Book.” Saturday Review of Literature, July 6, 1941.<br /> https://stevenson.ucsc.edu/academics/stevenson-college-core-courses/how-to-mark-a-book-1.pdf

Surely this won't include the idea of John McPhee's Draft #4 use of a dictionary?

Der Sturm Daniel in Libyen Tausende von Todesopfern gefordert, 27 davor in Europa und der Türkei. Der Attributions-Spezialist Davide Faranda stellt ihn im Interview mit der Libération in den Kontext der um 3-4° erhöhten Meerestemperatur und mediterranen HItzewelle im Juli und später Hitzewellen im August und September. Hitzewellen wie Medikane intensivieren sich. Dringend sei eine europaweite Planung von Anpassungsmaßnahmen. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/evenements-climatiques-extremes-en-mediterranee-cet-ete-on-a-vecu-dans-le-futur-20230912_O7A53XIZKZDPZC2NH4RD355GNA/

Der Sturm Daniel hat sich, nachdem er Verwüstungen in Griechenland, Bulgarien und der Türkei angerichtet hat, auf dem Weg über das Mittelmeer nach Libyen in einen Medikan, einen „Mittelmeer-Hurrican“ verwandelt. Dort wurden in Al Baida 414,4 mm Niederschläge an einen Tag gemessen.

https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/inondations-ce-que-lon-sait-de-la-tempete-daniel-qui-a-touche-de-la-grece-a-la-libye-20230912_QQEOMJOEMBGSJNAPFXMG7HEUQM/

Mehr zum Sturm Daniel: https://hypothes.is/search?q=tag%3A%22event%3A%20storm%20Daniel%22

Der UN-Hochkommissar für Menschenrechte Volker Türk hat festgestellt, dass wir bereits in einer dystopischen Zukunft leben, in der Millionen wegen des Klimawandels hungern. Türk griff scharf die Gleichgültigkeit gegenüber dem Schicksal der Migrierenden an. Die Libération sieht in Türks Rede ein Echo auf den G20-Gipfel, bei dem nicht zum Ausstieg aus fossilen Brennstoffen aufgerufen wurde. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/migrants-climatiques-le-futur-dystopique-est-deja-la-alerte-lonu-20230911_IG6ZC4SXRNFVJA2KDDJQR7LO7U/

Rede von Volker Türk: https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2023/09/turk-human-rights-are-antidote-prevailing-politics-distraction-deception

Eine Koalition kleiner Inselstaaten hat beim internationalen Seegerichtshof eine Aussage zur Belastung der Ozeane durch Treibhausgase beantragt. Wenn diese als Verschmutzung im Sinne des Seerechts anerkannt wird, lassen sich damit Klagen gegen die Industriestaaten auf Einschreiten gegen die globale Erhitzung begründen. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/pollution/des-etats-insulaires-intentent-une-action-en-justice-pour-proteger-les-oceans-20230911_ATZV3N2EAZCMXEWEKUZ32ACL4Q/

"A meaningful narrative focused on opportunity rather than fear." —u/khimtan at https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/16i7w56/inspired_by_apple_layout/

• for: adjacency: adjacency - monotheistic religions and maerialism
• adjacency between
  • monotheistic religion
  • materialist / physicalist scientific theories
• adjacency statement:
  • Good observation of an adjacency, although not all religions hold those views, and even in those religions, those are those views are held by less critical thinkers.
    • In the more contemplative branches of major world religions, there is a lot of deep, critical thinking that is not so naive.

• for: Indyweb provenance,
• comment
  • Indyweb would enable Michael to trace all public interactions with his papers so he WOULD know.

• for: bio-buddhism, bodhisattva vow, compassion
• comment
  • interesting adjacency between:
    • Buddhism and
    • biology:
  • Adjacency statement
    • The bodhisattva vow is a commitment to enlarge your cognitive apparatus, your cognitive light cone of compassion to enable the pursuit of bigger goals

• reference
  • Biology, Buddhism, and AI: Care as the Driver of Intelligence
    • https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/5/710/htm

https://developer.massive.wiki/converting_mediawiki_to_massive_wiki

Peter Kaminski suggested to me for export from MediaWiki to Massive Wiki

https://www.classicpress.net/