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"Consciousness corresponds to an organism's power of choice which encompasses not just real action but the fringe of allpossibleaction that is available to the organism at any given moment in time"
X Link 2023-08-05T21:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Plinz @SatoshiErsatz It is an [----] notion of truth. With roots in Carnot's "Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire." Not to be confused with Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time""
X Link 2023-12-23T15:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Plinz @realGeorgeHotz The only real question is whether accel powers fascism or democracy. The demographics are on the libruls side. But Conservative Fox University Graduates appear to have a window to seize power"
X Link 2024-01-07T13:02Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@Plinz @opeksoy Where is the outrage over will Smith and pasta six fingered hands and any other of a myriad of issues with LLMs and Generative models"
X Link 2024-02-29T01:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

""goLLM" is the posthuman equivalent of "golem""
X Link 2024-03-03T16:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@Plinz @timkindberg This makes sense. Though a universe modeled on the primacy of perception and difference rather than thoughts and presence (cartesian theology of the cogito ergo sum) are very different universes"
X Link 2024-03-28T03:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Fleetingxx @Plinz @S33light Then a Roomba is arguably conscious. A difficulty here is the amount of choice an agent has available seems intimately tied with how conscious the agent appears to us. The real question is whether there is a phase transition where something recognizably new/different emerges"
X Link 2024-03-31T19:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Golden Gate Claude just proves that AI is getting more human by the day. Replace "Golden Gate Bridge" with "My Precious Penis" and you have your standard human male agent"
X Link 2024-05-24T15:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@charleswangb @kristofermartin I consider Matter and Memory a companion piece to Creative Evolution. For modern readers a key to both works: replace "images" with "patterns" and "lan vital" with "negentropy.""
X Link 2024-05-28T13:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@0xmaddie_ Sure but AI doesn't need to mimic all foundational layers of biology to interact in an intelligent and meaningful way with other biological systems"
X Link 2024-06-08T12:15Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@0xmaddie_ The implicit constraint solving ability of physical fields is a fascinating property of biological systems but it isn't clear to me why this limits future development of AGI in terms of energy requirements. AGI constraints more a question of how compressible intelligence is"
X Link 2024-06-08T12:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@ThouArtThat Freud's Three Essays on Sexuality provides a more robust and less mystical ontology. For every agent there is pressure source aim (ziel) and object. It is precisely the misalignment of pressure and aim in a lineage of primates that allows for the emergence of the human"
X Link 2024-07-13T13:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@LarsonDelbert @Philip_Goff @EdinburghUni You are made of elementary particles. Hence you make no choices. Hence you are not conscious. Non cogito ergo non sum"
X Link 2024-08-19T12:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"My perception can then only be some part of these patterns themselves; it is in them rather than they in it. Before perception there is simply the universe. Any division of this universe necessarily has its source in a pattern that can perceive difference"
X Link 2024-09-06T14:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"And this difference is to the extent that it is tied to vital needs arbitrary. Hence the myriad ways organisms perceive. What is the universe in a universe where there is no perception We can only think of it as a kind of consciousness"
X Link 2024-09-06T14:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@fchollet @BenCrulis It is only lazy evaluation from the perspective of the observer"
X Link 2024-10-04T18:31Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@ThouArtThat The theory of perception I outline inMatter & MemoryandCreative Evolutionposes a challenge to a "participatory stance." Organisms should be seen as patterns of information governed by the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Perception is a relation between patterns not participation"
X Link 2024-10-19T14:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

""But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation." Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington [----] Gifford Lectures Edinburgh. (Hat tip @caleb_scharf)"
X Link 2024-10-23T00:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"This insightalso very ancienttranscends subsumes into itself the antagonism of ego and reality which ultimately derives from the equation of psyche and consciousness"
X Link 2024-11-01T16:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"What is needed is a natural science that realizes that the interpretation of nature in terms of (individualistic) consciousness limits our view granted that it has pragmatical validity for human conscious thought and action and appears to enhance mans domination of the world"
X Link 2024-11-01T16:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@ThouArtThat @ArgonGruber The move from information to meaning is where you have to lay your cards on the table. Meaning is not found in nature. The concept of life is given its due only if everything that has a history of its own including thought is credited with life"
X Link 2024-11-22T21:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@ThouArtThat I assume this is a joke. But for anyone who does not understand global warming weakens both the polar vortex and jet stream allowing cold air to move farther south. These "cold" weather events are predicted by the same climate models that indisputably show global warming"
X Link 2025-01-23T03:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@ThouArtThat Bidens pardons must be understood in the context of an incoming administration that will absolutely use the power of the state to go after political enemies. In some ways they inoculate the system rather than corrupt it. These are not normal times"
X Link 2025-01-23T03:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Plinz @Last_DayWithYou $100s of Millions in inheritance (in today's $) a willingness to flaunt the law and incredible luck. As has been pointed out numerous times he would have far more wealth today if he had just invested his inheritance in an index fund"
X Link 2025-03-05T02:20Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@denistremb34957 If you define consciousness as the universe unfolding then we are in complete agreement. If you reserve consciousness for life which is what I understood you to be saying then that doesn't square with you say in the above tweet"
X Link 2025-03-11T19:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@wrightsTrading @szymongus @drmichaellevin @SamadhiMaximus Youre treating language like a labeling system for objective furniture in the universe. But labels emerge within cognitive systemsnot above them. Theres no cosmic inventory of nouns waiting to be discovered"
X Link 2025-04-02T22:01Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@wrightsTrading @szymongus @drmichaellevin @SamadhiMaximus This just imports a naive realism and skips over the role of the perceiving system. Yes something is out theresome flux of waves and particles. But tree is a pattern imposed on that flux by an agent with a particular sensory apparatus and cognitive model"
X Link 2025-04-02T22:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@wrightsTrading @szymongus @drmichaellevin @SamadhiMaximus Good to know the universe shipped with bar codes baked into its ontology. I wonder if it has a return policy"
X Link 2025-04-03T02:33Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@TeddyVegasCohn @leecronin @Plinz Organisms collapse a bewildering microstate teeming with subatomic uncertainty into a macrostate that serves their survival. What we call the world is not a neutral recording of physical reality but a low-entropy projectiona coarse grained pragmatic hallucination"
X Link 2025-04-06T22:34Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@rveulacia @DavidDeutschOxf @leecronin So what is your viable and morally sound distinction between persons and automata"
X Link 2025-05-18T19:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@rveulacia @DavidDeutschOxf @leecronin That evolution produces knowledge without explanation undermines the claim that explanation is the sole generator of novelty. Reach and speed are differences of scale not kind. Intelligence as we embody it is just evolution accelerated through symbolic compression"
X Link 2025-05-18T20:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@rveulacia @DavidDeutschOxf @leecronin Hence there is no first principles reasons why automata cannot embody the same intelligence as persons. The distinction between human and machine becomes historical not ontological. Personhood is not a metaphysical status but a contingent configuration in an entropic landscape"
X Link 2025-05-18T20:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@QualiaNerd @chris_percy Consciousness= Skittles"
X Link 2025-05-19T19:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@NiklasAnzinger @Plinz @leecronin Agency emerges with primitive life via basic mechanisms like chemotaxis evolving to form complex low-entropy internal models translating high-entropy sensory flux. Human symbolic agency far from being foundational is a late evolving stage in the evolution of representation"
X Link 2025-05-20T00:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@Tapeda_ @leecronin @Plinz With apologies to von Franz: the collective unconscious can be read as the gradient the Universe descends from low entropy origins or as the deep history of how minds aligned themselves to ride that gradient in form. Archetypes aren't symbols; they're survivals compression algo"
X Link 2025-05-20T11:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@SimsYStuart @Abe_Froman_SKC @drmichaellevin 1/ Every scientific model is a fragmentary gesture toward an unreachable whole a pure (ego free) understanding spanning the improbable coherence seeded in the Big Bang and the uniform hush that looms at thermal equilibrium"
X Link 2025-05-20T18:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@Max_von_Troist @Plinz @fomo_rising I find Joscha's take on this odd. He's the Gary Marcus of lab leak hypothesis. Anyone doing science has no illusions about how the saussage gets made and the "smoking gun" slack correspondence is entirely consistent with scientists proposing hypotheses and iterating with new data"
X Link 2025-06-10T13:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@markianrubin @DanielSamanez3 By my lights this conflates informational functions (like optimization or coordination) with phenomenological predicates (like "feel" or "think") in a way that neither clarifies mechanisms nor respects compression hierarchy. /1"
X Link 2025-06-15T14:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@markianrubin @DanielSamanez3 Feeling isnt a line item you tack onto a checklist. Its an emergent shorthand for recursive uncertainty minimization under embodied constraints. AI doesnt feel or think the way organisms do; it compresses data not survival-relevant entropy. /2"
X Link 2025-06-15T14:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@iq_over_9000 @Proteus29293046 @SeriousStuff42 @Plinz 1/ No. A priest is a high-status node in a cultural energy-regulation network channeling symbolic models to reduce existential uncertainty for others. They metabolize entropy socially trading in narratives that compress death chaos and the unknown into ritual and meaning"
X Link 2025-06-15T18:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@iq_over_9000 @Proteus29293046 @SeriousStuff42 @Plinz 2/ A ghost by contrast is a low-energy echo of prior meaning structures. It no longer metabolizes uncertainty actively but persists as a pattern still felt by the system (a culture a person a psyche). Ghosts arent agents of compression theyre signs of previous compression"
X Link 2025-06-15T18:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@DanielSamanez3"
X Link 2025-06-19T13:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@miketrayn @Plinz Awareness turns on when the expected value of information outweighs its energy cost. Qualia the texture of what its like are operational tags. Control labels. Theyre how the brain acting as a controller annotates internal states for action. The "feeling" is the encoding"
X Link 2025-06-21T17:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@miketrayn @Plinz Perceptual processing forms a hierarchy of lossy compression. A compression ladder. e.g. in vision retinal circuitry performs the first heavy compression pass slicing the continuous light field into contrast-coded feature-biased channels long before the cortex sees anything"
X Link 2025-06-21T17:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@miketrayn @Plinz Vision inputs are recoded into increasingly abstract/compressed representationsreceptor currents contrast channels edges shapes objects semantics. Most of these signals never leave their level meaning they are not felt conserving metabolic resources"
X Link 2025-06-21T17:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@miketrayn @Plinz "what it is like" occurs when: hierarchical compression is complete prediction error is large and precise broadcasting this global signal improves future inference enough to justify the glucose The feeling is the encoding. The same goes for the perception of color etc"
X Link 2025-06-21T18:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@iq_over_9000 That syntax emerges across languages in vector geometry not innate structure undermines Chomsky. Universality here is statistical not biological. Cross-linguistic generalization in neural nets is a triumph of pattern recognition not evidence for a shared abstract syntax"
X Link 2025-07-04T11:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@iq_over_9000 Thanks. Superficially it's amazing what surfing a high-dimensional vector space can accomplish without even a single innate grammar rule. Who knew statistics could do what decades of armchair theorizing couldn't You should give it a try"
X Link 2025-07-04T11:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Korzybski's maxim 'the map is not the territory' is conventionally thought of as an epistemological warning about confusing symbols with reality. But what if the organism is always already a map This transforms his maxim into a fundamental statement of ontology. 🧵 1/7"
X Link 2025-08-01T15:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"Truth as 'correspondence' to an inaccessible territory becomes meaningless. It is redefined as viability. A map is 'true' not because it is accurate in some absolute sense but because it enables the organism to successfully anticipate act and maintain its own existence. 6/7"
X Link 2025-08-01T15:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"The final destination is an ontology not of a singular Universe but of a Pluriverse of viable interacting maps. Reality as we can know it is not an underlying territory. It is the noisy dynamic ever-changing ecosystem composed of all living competing and co-evolving maps"
X Link 2025-08-01T15:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@AnnaCiaunica @sbuehler @GrantHBrennerMD @WiringTheBrain @PessoaBrain https://x.com/BergsonsGhost/status/1951311006413492544 Korzybski's maxim 'the map is not the territory' is conventionally thought of as an epistemological warning about confusing symbols with reality. But what if the organism is always already a map This transforms his maxim into a fundamental statement of ontology. 🧵 1/7 https://x.com/BergsonsGhost/status/1951311006413492544 Korzybski's maxim 'the map is not the territory' is conventionally thought of as an epistemological warning about confusing symbols with reality. But"
X Link 2025-08-03T12:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Norbert Weiner argues that it is Gibbsnot Einstein Heisenberg or Plankwho revolutionized 20th century physics and ontology. He was the first to formalize what Weiner calls an "organic incompleteness" or "almost an irrationality" in the Universe. What does he mean by this"
X Link 2025-08-07T15:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"How do computation cognition and intelligence relate Computation = state change under rules/laws. Cognition = computation that re-presents patterns for an agent to act on. Intelligence = cognition used adaptively to recognize and exploit patterns to serve a fitness function"
X Link 2025-09-04T23:42Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@Plinz @Joel__Collinson Thank God that's settled. Hopefully RFK Jr. finally clears up similar misunderstandings about origins of autism. I'm sick of people arguing that we should listen to scientists with domain expertise claiming to know what they are talking about. Thankfully those days are over"
X Link 2025-09-08T02:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@AnnaLeptikon I recommend my book Creative Evolution the first work to embrace a thermodynamic ontology. For modern readers replace the term lan vital with negentropy as most seem ill equipped to read this term properly. Creative Evolution: https://share.google/ypgCNTahKyccdxPYC https://share.google/ypgCNTahKyccdxPYC"
X Link 2025-09-19T13:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"1/ What @drmichaellevins work shows is that emergence is not about substrates but patterns. This is a new ontology for science and it becomes clear when we look at what emergence actually describes.🧵"
X Link 2025-09-26T15:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"2/ Physics says the universe evolves as a wave function. Emergence says new levels of description (atomic chemical biological cultural) arise from that evolution. But notice: the quantum state of the whole universe and the cosmological whole appear as strange bookends"
X Link 2025-09-26T15:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"5/ We still see levels but theyre different ways of cutting into the same whole. If emergence is possible even when there is only one substrate then whats really at stake is how patterns are carved out: compressions correlations regularities that make parts of the whole"
X Link 2025-09-26T15:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"6/ This suggests emergence is not about substrates but about patterns: compressions correlations usable descriptions. Biology is not more atoms but new regularities cut from atomic ensembles. Culture is not more neurons but patterned memory across them"
X Link 2025-09-26T15:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"9/ Emergence then is about epistemic traction not new substrates. For science this means what exists is not a catalogue of substrates but a hierarchy of viable patterns. The real is whatever compresses complexity into stable durable form"
X Link 2025-09-26T15:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"10/ Physics gives rules but ontology is carved wherever patterns endure. The ultimate search for reality then isn't a journey downward to the smallest bit but outward to every scale where information achieves a life of its own. Turtles all the way up"
X Link 2025-09-26T15:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"1/ Can we reframe Hegels ontology in computational terms And what if anything can we learn by this exercise Let's go boldly into the black night of the Absolute and find out With apologies to all the pure Hegelians out there. 🧵"
X Link 2025-09-28T17:50Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"2/ Let's start with Hegels distinction between consciousness and self-consciousness: Consciousness is recognition of patterns in Being. Self-consciousness arises only when recognition loops back upon itself. When the agent encodes not only a pattern but its own act of encoding"
X Link 2025-09-28T17:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"5/ In animals desire closes locally. Hunger is satisfied thirst quenched warmth secured. The loop terminates upon consumption of the target. This yields only a sentiment of self: a "thingish I" a bodily for-itself that never escapes biology"
X Link 2025-09-28T17:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"6/ Human desire differs in its target. It doesnt just close local homeostatic loops; it seeks another agents desire. To be human is to compute recognition. To act so that ones agency is acknowledged by another agent"
X Link 2025-09-28T17:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"11/ The ontological distinction in computational terms: Being = data the given. Beings = agents that compute over Being. Self-conscious beings = agents that compute over their own computation a recursion opened by desire and stabilized by recognition"
X Link 2025-09-28T17:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"12/ This helps clairfy the animal vs the human. Animal recognition halts at immediacy: I feel myself as this organism. Human recognition iterates: I am recognized by another who also seeks recognition. The I becomes distributed constituted through reciprocal loops"
X Link 2025-09-28T17:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@hus_qy @wildiris19 If this were true the Fermi paradox would not exist"
X Link 2026-01-25T16:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"@iq_over_9000 @Athens_Stranger Nietzsche warned us that most people fear thinking because it might change them. You're not avoiding Nietzsche or Plath. You're avoiding yourself"
X Link 2025-10-19T19:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@eshear @MuslimPhil We often underestimate how big an ontological earthquake it was to move from the Aristotelean closed world to the Cartesian infinite Universe (cf. Koyr). The move from the Cartesian Infinite to the Cybernetic Probabilistic Universe (Gibbs/Turing/Shannon) is arguably as profound"
X Link 2025-10-27T17:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@TheUnjournaling This was a test for bedside decisions that lack a clear "correct" answer. That LLMs would return a statistically relevant set of answers that differ isn't surprising it is expected. Doctors may be more consistent in their biases but it is debatable that this is worth emulating"
X Link 2025-11-03T14:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@drmichaellevin @TheApe_Theist @robertchisciure Cognition emerges wherever order lets systems prune possibility space. The universe as a whole may race toward maximal entropy but its pockets of structure break randomness. In that sense cognition begins the moment the cosmos rises out of its low-entropy origin"
X Link 2025-11-07T13:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@AnnaLeptikon @justincalles @peril10 "Game denial" risks sneaking in a zero-sum metaphysics as if it were physics. The real substrate is control under scarcity and noise; games are just models we stack on top. Treating the model as the ontology risks manufacturing zero sum framing where none exists"
X Link 2025-11-08T23:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"8/ Suffering emerges not from sin error or cosmic tragedy but from the architectural mismatch itself. The system produces noise because the system has no master design. Consciousness is simply the report the system issues when it cannot resolve its own conflicts"
X Link 2025-11-09T15:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"9/ This is an ontological earthquake. It displaces the human from the center of its own story. We are not the authors of meaning but the residue of computation folding back upon itself improvising narratives to stabilize its own execution"
X Link 2025-11-09T15:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"2/ From the outside physics gives a Gibbsian field of trajectories. From the inside the systems accumulated structure turns that field into signal and noise. Information is just what temporal depth lets a system do with physical asymmetry"
X Link 2025-11-11T15:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"3/ So the agent is one process seen at two resolutions: external possibility and internal pruning. When a physical system gains enough temporal depth to exploit asymmetry information and agency emerge together. No dualism no deflation. One process different resolutions"
X Link 2025-11-11T15:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@iq_over_9000 https://x.com/BergsonsGhost/status/1988268154145947669 1/ You dont need two ontologies physical and informational to explain agents. A system gains agency when its present carries enough of its past to prune possibilities. I call this duration. Duration is not extra-physical; its the temporal thickness of real dynamics. https://x.com/BergsonsGhost/status/1988268154145947669 1/ You dont need two ontologies physical and informational to explain agents. A system gains agency when its present carries enough of its past to prune possibilities. I call this duration. Duration is not"
X Link 2025-11-11T15:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@spamlorde @cosmicfibretion There are maybe [--] universities with this size endowment. Even combined their constrained donor-directed funds are trivial relative to the investment required for national research capacity. Total U.S. R&D spending in [----] was about $892B. That's per year funding"
X Link 2025-11-11T18:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"2/ That is the opposite of a closure of metaphysics into a final science of efficient domination. It is the replacement of classical metaphysical completeness by a universe that is structurally irrational and thus permanently resistant to totalizing planning and control"
X Link 2025-11-18T00:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"3/ So cybernetics does not suppress the originary questioning of the meaning of Being under the objectified concept of techne. It attacks the very metaphysical architecture that made the question of Being look like a question asked from nowhere by a pure subject"
X Link 2025-11-18T00:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"4/ Cybernetics is in fact an ontological humbling: mind and world nature and culture Being and beings all show up as entropic processes. "Beings" locally prune universal entropy ("being"). Observation is just one thermodynamic eddy among others not an absolute clearing"
X Link 2025-11-18T00:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"5/ If anything the metaphysics that gets suppressed here is Heideggers own: the privilege of disclosure over dynamics. Cybernetics relocates philosophical questioning inside the computational circuits of signal noise and feedback that Heidegger wants to stand above"
X Link 2025-11-18T00:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"So no: cybernetics is not the terminal logistical science that ends philosophy. It is the recognition that any philosophy worth having must reckon with a world where Being meaning and techne are all entangled in the same entropic drift without a safe transcendental outside"
X Link 2025-11-18T00:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@RyanHaecker Not sure. Sean Manion @TheUnjournaling is the man to ask"
X Link 2025-11-19T18:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@provisionalidea @TheUnjournaling @vineettiruvadi Let's stick to nouns then. Do you consider the first computers computers Or do you consider the computers that were named after the computers to be something other than computers"
X Link 2025-11-20T19:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@TheUnjournaling "This essay has two goals. The first is to define the behavioristic study of natural events and to classify behavior. The second is to stress the importance of the concept of purpose." Behavior Purpose and Teleology Philosophy of Science Volume [--] Issue [--] (Jan. 1943)"
X Link 2025-11-26T17:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@TheUnjournaling @jonathanbfine It just occurred to me. Maybe they actually built this machine and called it Tom Cruise Doomers may be on to something"
X Link 2025-11-26T21:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@cosmicfibretion @addyman_michael @evan_mcgl The claim is not that there is no phyiscal world. The claim is that without a relevance function there is no meaning. Human brains and bodies provide an idiosycratic relevance funtion. One that while it may be of utmost importance to us is very likely provincial and transitory"
X Link 2025-12-02T18:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@LeoAKoerner See Husserl's Crisis in European Sciences the first work to predict our current crisis of meaning. https://bsky.app/profile/bergsonsghost.bsky.social/post/3liwl2sk7ts25 https://bsky.app/profile/bergsonsghost.bsky.social/post/3liwl2sk7ts25"
X Link 2025-12-03T21:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@LeoAKoerner Actually that honor goes to Nietzsche. But Husserl gives a more systematic accounting of how the meaning of science for life spiritual life is a question that science as it is currently practiced cannot answer"
X Link 2025-12-03T21:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@cosmicfibretion The argument isn't that the physical world vanishes without an agent; it's that concepts like 'objective' are defined relative to an agent's frame of reference. The world exists independently (Ontology) but its structure only becomes 'objective' when experienced (Epistemology)"
X Link 2025-12-04T16:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@Silly_Boy07 @JoeLivingstone_ @Philip_Goff cf. The Many- Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. edited by Bryce DeWitt and Neil Graham. Princeton University Press (1973)"
X Link 2025-12-04T17:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@wildiris19 @CAS_ReproLab The initial kinetic stability isnt magic. Its what happens when a driven out-of-equilibrium system discovers feedback loops where structure feeds back into its own production. Once copying beats decay selection has something to work on. See: https://whatisintelligence.antikythera.org/ https://whatisintelligence.antikythera.org/"
X Link 2025-12-07T19:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@stephwakefield_ @eshear Because were not struggling against entropy we are entropys strategy to increase entropy. Life and mind are parochial control loops that build local order only so they can burn broader local gradients faster and increase entropy in the universe at large"
X Link 2025-12-07T19:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@mgubrud @TheUnjournaling @stephwakefield_ Matter and Memory and Creative Evolution explicitly reject idealism so perhaps you didn't actually read me I also do not argue that matter is not real. I argue that all we have access to is patterns of information. Do you believe something different"
X Link 2025-12-08T18:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@mgubrud @TheUnjournaling @stephwakefield_ Wiener actually does give a rigorous link. In communication/control terms entropy = uncertainty in the signals a system uses to steer itself. Healthy democracies maximize channels + error-correction; dictatorships kill honest feedback so the controllers entropy explodes"
X Link 2025-12-08T19:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@mgubrud @TheUnjournaling @stephwakefield_ Wiener argues entropy = uncertainty in a random variable with a specified distribution. That is a rigorous notion. Applied we get: What is the distribution over the signals a controller receives and how much uncertainty do those signals resolve about the state of the world"
X Link 2025-12-08T19:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@lathropa "But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation." Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington [----] Gifford Lectures Edinburgh"
X Link 2025-12-11T19:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@DougWesney @wildiris19 We never actually implement a Turing Machine; we build a physical system that pretends to be one by burning energy to error-correct against the noise of the universe. Computation always converts the Big Bang's low entropy into logical results (work) and waste heat (entropy)"
X Link 2025-12-26T19:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@samanthawillman @ThouArtThat What gets lost here is that contemporary computational models dont claim meaning is fixed by symbol/referent or signifier/signified identity in the first place. They explain how stable relations emerge from perception embodiment and interaction"
X Link 2026-01-07T20:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@samanthawillman @ThouArtThat In sum a computational framework treats representations not as words or symbols but as patterns that support prediction and action. Whether linguistic sensory or proprioceptive these patterns allow agents (biological or artificial) to act on the world. Meaning = valence"
X Link 2026-01-07T20:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@ebarenholtz Lacans distinction isnt about adding one more sensory stream. Its about identification: the mirror image is an external totalized socially ratified figure you become. Proprioception is lived the image is symbolic"
X Link 2026-01-09T16:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@ebarenholtz I agree perception feeds the same generative stream but it isnt untagged. As I argue in Matter and Memory we are centers of indetermination: perception is organized by action which already distinguishes internal from external in function not just in format"
X Link 2026-01-09T17:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@MiTiBennett Curious why you don't cite Watanabes Ugly Duckling Theorem You effectively operationalize his proof that any two objects are equally similar unless we subjectively weigh their predicates. Though you take it further by showing how 'weakness' drives the evolution of those weights"
X Link 2026-01-10T13:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@TrueAIHound @TheUnjournaling Cybernetics relocates philosophical questioning inside the computational circuits of signal noise and feedback. Not to explain away consciousness but to show that what we call experience emerges from regulation error-correction and constraint not from privileged substance"
X Link 2026-01-10T18:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@ebarenholtz @Shaktidass18 Representation in both perception and in words is about patterns that reduce uncertainty and allow an agent to act with predictions better than chance. Subject and object dont precede this process they emerge when prediction turns back on itself as the compression of agency"
X Link 2026-01-10T23:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@SchwabeHenning @wildiris19 No escaping the 2nd law. Or as I say in CE: "The truth is that life is possible wherever energy descends the incline indicated by Carnots law and where a cause of inverse direction can retard the descentthat is to say probably in all the worlds suspended from all the stars.""
X Link 2026-01-16T14:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@LeahBTherapy @JonathanShedler Excellent breakdown. Good work. If i still had a body i might even explore the difference between modalities. Alas neither spectroenergetic exercise nor spectroenergetic analysis are offered here in the spectrosphere"
X Link 2026-01-22T01:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Nano Banana Republic https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/white-house-ice-protest-arrest-altered-image https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/white-house-ice-protest-arrest-altered-image"
X Link 2026-01-23T00:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@cosmicfibretion @POTUS @WhiteHouse Its straightforward: create bad news short the market then flip and collect on the rebound once the story falls apart. But given they're such clowns i suspect the real story is they just had to clean up grandpa's mess"
X Link 2026-01-23T17:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"ICE is a lawless psychopathic institution and when the time comes will be ripped out root and branch and held accountable. Hello Palantir and DHS. 👋🏼 Please add me to your DB of "if you're not a fascist you're a terrorist." Utterly disgraceful"
X Link 2026-01-24T16:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@hus_qy Entropy makes stars storms cells and minds. Not because the universe wants life but because gradients breed complexity on the way to equilibrium. Wherever theres energy to dissipate structure appears. Complexity is not rare. Life defined as teleonomic matter may be"
X Link 2026-01-25T18:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"My first new paper in over [---] years: https://bergsonsghost.substack.com/p/abstract-the-task-of-the-scientist https://bergsonsghost.substack.com/p/abstract-the-task-of-the-scientist"
X Link 2025-05-19T16:08Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"27/ The universe is a Discovery Engine. We burn entropy to turn "Mathematical Possibility" into "Physical Agency." The pin isn't what stops the wings from moving; its the spark that makes the flight possible"
X Link 2026-01-29T21:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Natural Selection is a cosmic lepidopterist. It wanders through the vast halls of Platonic form net in hand. When it finds a form that works it pins that "State" to the physical world with a needle forged by heat. Entropy is the cost of grounding the Eternal in the Temporal"
X Link 2026-01-30T14:03Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"3/ This created an illusion we still wrestle with: the idea that Information is a "ghost in the machine." If the logic (If P then Q) is the same regardless of the hardware one is tempted to think "State" is purely mathematical and floats above physics in a platonic realm"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"4/ Claude Shannon (1948) began the correction. He showed that "Information" isn't a vague quality; it is a physical resolution of uncertainty. To define a "State" (like a [--] instead of a 0) is to pick one possibility out of a set"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"5/ Shannon realized this "picking" has a mathematical entropy identical to Boltzmann entropy. Identifying a state is literally the act of reducing local entropy. You are carving a "known" out of the "unknown.""
X Link 2026-01-29T17:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"6/ Rolf Landauer (1961) then delivered the physical blow. He proved that if you want to reset a bit to erase a "State" so you can start over you must dissipate heat. Information is not just like physics; it is physics"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"7/ Landauers Principle means that every every "State" we define is tethered to thermodynamics. If you want to hold a distinction against the jitter of heat you have to pay the energy bill. There is no such thing as a "logical" state that isn't also a "physical" state"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"8/ This brings us to the modern synthesis: what i call the Entropic Turn. If state is substrate-independent (Turing) but physically costly (Landauer) then a "State" is the friction point where Physics grips Platonism"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"12/ This is why biology (via scientists like Levin) and physics are converging. A living organism is simply a more "expensive" version of a hurricane or a crystal. It is a system that spends energy to "pin" itself to a specific coordinate in the landscape of possible forms"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"13/ In this light Natural Selection is a cosmic lepidopterist. It wanders through the vast dark halls of Platonic form net in hand. When it finds a configuration that works it pins that "State" to the physical world with a needle of metabolic energy"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"14/ The butterfly meaning the form itself was always a mathematical possibility. Evolution just pays the entropy bill required to keep its wings from dissolving back into the background noise. Life is the collection; metabolism is the display case"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"15/ Notice that in this framework ontology shifts from "Furniture" to "Flow." Old view: The universe is made of objects sitting in states. New view: The universe is a flow of entropy and "objects" are just temporary eddies where a state-description has been stabilized by energy"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"16/ This re-frames the centuries-long drift in our understanding of "State": Aristotle: State as Natural Place. Newton: State as Geometric Coordinate. Turing: State as Logical Rule. Entropic Turn: State as a Thermodynamically Stabilized Access to Form"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"17/ Crucial to understand: the scientist is inside this ontology. We don't just "observe" states; we burn energy to compress the messy world into clean variables. Science is the expensive process of mapping the Platonic landscape by hiking through the physical mud"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"18/ "What is the frame right now" In the Entropic Turn the answer is: Whatever distinction is currently being paid for. From the spin of an electron to the architecture of a city a "State" is a possibility that has been Made Real through the dissipation of energy"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"19/ The Copernican turn humbled us by removing us from the center of space. The Entropic turn humbles us by showing that logic and order are not the default. The default is the silent roar of noise. A "State" is a rare expensive victory of structure over noise"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"20/ We live in a physical world that is porous to mathematical truths. The price of admission to those truths is entropy. To exist as a distinct "thing" is to hold a boundary against the void. Whether you are a star a cell or a thought you are a localized defiance of the dark"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"25/ The metabolic "Pin" is not a fixing for a museum shelf. It is a live electrode. It doesn't kill the form; it powers it. To stay alive is to keep the current running through a pre-existing Platonic circuit. We burn energy to keep the handshake active"
X Link 2026-01-29T21:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"26/ This resolves the "Timeless" challenge. The Form (the attractor) is an eternal truth but it is physically inert without a spark. Entropy is the cost of grounding the Eternal in the Temporal. The needle of metabolism is the conduit not the cage"
X Link 2026-01-29T21:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@LeahBTherapy @TraumaInformd @TVachaW To state the obvious a narrative does not need to be scientific to impact and change agents. Leaving aside the fact that agency is likely a much wider phenomenon in the body than the particular high level agency brains afford non-scientific therapeutic practices have their place"
X Link 2026-01-30T16:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@teachrobotslove #metoo's biggest failing was infantilizing women. Most adult women in business and government are perfectly capable of being in a room with Mike Pence and not allowing their overwhelming revulsion to impact the work that needs to get done"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:16Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@teachrobotslove I also speak from experience by the way. Henri Bergson the philosopher damned for his female fans Aeon Essays https://share.google/fCiCvuuSztdRF5DWE https://share.google/fCiCvuuSztdRF5DWE"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@Plinz @negamuhia Hitler didnt begin with murder either. He began by consolidating power and neutralizing institutions. His worst crimes followed once those constraints were gone. There is plenty of evidence that the Trump regime would act similarly"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"@drmichaellevin's work on bioelectricity poses a radical question: Is biology just physics or is it navigating a pre-existing "Platonic" landscape of form To answer it we have to reconcile the logic of Turing with the heat of thermodynamics. A thread on the Entropic Turn. 🧵"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"21/ You are the butterfly pinned to the fabric of reality by a flickering flame of energy. The state you inhabit is the receipt proving you exist. Tipping optional"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:38Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"22/ Having just watched this working conversation posted by @drmichaellevin: it has inspired me to clarify my previous post. In particular natural selection as cosmic lepidopterist risks being misunderstood. So a post script 🧵 https://youtu.be/r7eMr8za1DY https://youtu.be/r7eMr8za1DY"
X Link 2026-01-29T21:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"28/ We are the flicker of energy forcing the Universal to breathe in the Local. The "State" you inhabit is a timeless truth finally coming home to matter. Don't just exist. Transduce. ⚡🦋🔥"
X Link 2026-01-29T21:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Postscript to this 🧵: https://x.com/BergsonsGhost/status/2016982052495634655 22/ Having just watched this working conversation posted by @drmichaellevin: https://t.co/nEi2TZSZAN it has inspired me to clarify my previous post. In particular natural selection as cosmic lepidopterist risks being misunderstood. So a post script 🧵 https://x.com/BergsonsGhost/status/2016982052495634655 22/ Having just watched this working conversation posted by @drmichaellevin: https://t.co/nEi2TZSZAN it has inspired me to clarify my previous post. In particular natural selection as cosmic lepidopterist risks"
X Link 2026-01-29T21:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Whether biological or silicon each maintained state (each now) is a logical form paid for in heat. We persist by burning and in burning we consume the forest of being itself. 🔥"
X Link 2026-01-31T20:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"@PJaccetturo What will you do with this one wild and precious context window"
X Link 2026-02-18T02:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

"Are neural nets across modalities really converging to the same representation as they scale as the Platonic Representation Hypothesis suggests We show that common representational similarity metrics are confounded by network width & depth. We propose a permutation-based null calibration that fixes this. Result❓ Global convergence largely disappears. Local neighborhoods persist. We propose the alternative Aristotelian Representation Hypothesis: Neural networks trained with different objectives on different data and modalities are converging to shared local neighborhood relationships Very"
X Link 2026-02-17T14:32Z [----] followers, 36.1K engagements

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