a unified theory of everything: GODHEAD
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a unified theory of everything: GODHEAD
Frontiers | Narrative as active inference: an integrative account of cognitive and social functions in adaptation
frontiersin.org
hey I wrote about the winding road I took to understanding active inference and the free energy principle to my satisfaction
I also give a pithy explanation and discuss possible shortcomings
link below https://t.co/6TRiH4wUKe
expanded version of these ideas
https://t.co/ptEbqajnKq
higher order beings coordinate our actions using signals like curiosity, discernment & synchronicity
David Hinton, gives some good descriptions of how "Presence" & "Absence" are essentially synonymous with Tao, with the source-fabric of all things,
"Presence" just emphasizes the way that consciousness differentiates the source-fabric into the ten thousand things,
"Absence" just emphasizes the way that the source-fabric is a single, unbroken weav... See more
A Revolution in Biology
bitsofwonder.co
So we have all these examples of fractal intelligence, at layers up and down the biology stack. But the profound flip-side of intelligence is creativity: biology is capable of not just recovering the same functionality when perturbed, but of adopting entirely new kinds of functionality when given the right set of prompts
re-writing my active inference summary for the Nth times, here are the core statements that I want to communicate and need endless examples for https://t.co/DUckWHhw8H
free energy principle > minimize surprise > active inference as narrative process
I've been hosting retreats with respected AI alignment thinkers in which we've “come out of the closet” to each other about how we think religion / spirituality are relevant for AI alignment.
God, karma, reincarnation, and the Second Coming of Christ are now in our Overton window.
@diviacaroline and @BenGoldhaber interviewed me about my thought... See more