Michael Edward Johnson ✓
@johnsonmxe · joined 14 Aug 2010
Author of Principia Qualia, Symmetry Theory of Valence, Neural Annealing, Principles of Vasocomputation. Friend to the future.
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Had a great conversation with @cxgonzalez about my work; how I’m approaching “consciousness”, how vasocomputation works, research on minds as a way to be friendly to the future. Surprised at how much we covered.
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Michael Johnson: "AI SHOULD be conscious"
In this episode of Seeing Clearly I talk with @johnsonmxe about mathematical theories of consciousness (dual-aspect monism), the symmetry theory of valence, panpsychism and super organism consciousness, vasocomputation, Buddhism, https://
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Very important essay by my friend & collaborator @ginevlily. AI alignment has an “alignment to what” problem and this is exactly the sort of analysis that helps cut that Gordian Knot.
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Today, we’re proud to unveil Heaviside-1, @arenaphysica's second generation foundation model for electromagnetism.
Five months since announcing Heaviside-0, today’s launch marks a critical milestone towards building electromagnetic superintelligence, a foundational intelligence
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Exceptional tweet. Now is a great time to seed the future with good ideas. Future AIs will read your stuff and think much deeper about it than you might expect.
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a surprisingly underappreciated thing when thinking about potential short timelines: even if most of the calendar time to do something useful is in the past, most of the cognitive time is in the future
I've seen this perspective in a few places but never about interp
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Adding my notes on VSMCs vs fascia to this thread
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@relic_radiation Thanks Elena! I think both fascia & VSMCs shape sensation, though I focus on VSMC dynamics as ‘computational’ due to issues of neural access, speed, & precision:
- Neural access: fascia in general has good access to nerves, but not to the brain itself — fascia w
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@johnsonmxe @JoinEdgeCity loved this so much! and much more digestible than when I first read the paper, so thank you.
a funny thought I had was I wonder if this explains why it’s so hard to hold on to any given thought on cannabis since it’s a muscle relaxant? 🤔
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@drmichaellevin @JoinEdgeCity @ShinzenYoung @RomeoStevens76 @insideNiMA Thread of all talks in this series (all really high-quality):
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@drmichaellevin @JoinEdgeCity @ShinzenYoung @RomeoStevens76 @insideNiMA Research context:
⁃Johnson, M.E. (2023). Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Buddhist Phenomenology, Active Inference, and Physical Reflex (Part I)
⁃Moore, C., & Cao, R. (2008). The hemo-neural h
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@drmichaellevin @JoinEdgeCity @ShinzenYoung @RomeoStevens76 And a big thanks to @insideNiMA and Warren Winter for organizing the neuro track at Edge City Lanna, and @joinedgecity for hosting my research. The counterfactual impact for my research is very large
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@drmichaellevin @JoinEdgeCity @ShinzenYoung @RomeoStevens76 Anyway — vasocomputation is likely one of my two most important ideas, along with the Symmetry Theory of Valence. I am best at 0-1. Less good at 1-n. I believe there is something really valuable here. Please reach out if
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@drmichaellevin @JoinEdgeCity @ShinzenYoung @RomeoStevens76 There’s always the question of downside risk — much depends on whether ~50% of latches are safe to open without preparation, or ~99%. Meditation builds dynamical virtue over years and decades; some of that is probably re
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@drmichaellevin @JoinEdgeCity @ShinzenYoung @RomeoStevens76 As a footnote, I expect some tFUS companies will pivot from neural to vasomuscular stimulation in ~1-3 years. Vascular state is the body’s natural programming language, and seems easier to hit with tFUS anyway
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@drmichaellevin @JoinEdgeCity @ShinzenYoung @RomeoStevens76 This theory should be highly testable. A latch is a concrete physical thing; we can create neuroimaging maps of them & study their effects, conditions that form & dissolve them, etc. We can also make maps of “vasomuscula
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@drmichaellevin @JoinEdgeCity @ShinzenYoung Another metaphor via @RomeoStevens76 is “penicillin for the soul.” Before antibiotics, a scrape could lead to infection & death. We seem to be at this stage for spiritual wounds. If vascular tension is where “the body keeps the score,”
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@drmichaellevin @JoinEdgeCity Why is all this important? If there’s a process by which we can improve our daily experience by 10x (@ShinzenYoung ‘s estimate) we should try to understand it. If there is an elegant solution to be found, I believe Vasocomputation is it.
https://t.c
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@drmichaellevin @JoinEdgeCity Tangent 2: this is why I go on about metabolism so much! If vasomuscular clenches essentially congeal or crystallize thoughts… what happens if this system has random microspasms? The texture of experience gets lumpy, in a very bad way
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@drmichaellevin @JoinEdgeCity Tangent 1: I’ve said before that psychedelics could be considered “vasocyclers” — I suspect classical psychedelic features can be derived by simply adding global low-frequency rhythmic energy to the vasomuscular system
From my notes: https://t.co/oo
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@drmichaellevin @JoinEdgeCity “Man is born free [but schizo], and everywhere he is in [vascular] chains.”
The moments of awakening are when these chains drop, but making yourself epistemologically virtuous enough to handle the freedom can take a long time and starts very boring
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@drmichaellevin @JoinEdgeCity Doing Vipassana well tells the body: “I can handle strange inputs without flinching. But here are some sensations we fail at predicting. If we reopen certain latches & regain our default dynamic range, perhaps we could predict them.”
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@drmichaellevin @JoinEdgeCity Vipassana meditation is a recipe for (1) building “nervous system virtue” for handling freedom, & (2) reopening latches. Engaging with raw sensation first requires a strong nervous system; then rapid noting generates rapid-fire prediction errors whic
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@drmichaellevin @JoinEdgeCity As adults we grow our capacity to navigate the world without clenching — managing uncertainty on higher levels of abstraction. We could probably afford to reopen some of our latches and regain dynamical freedom. But latches are sticky; memory of what
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@drmichaellevin @JoinEdgeCity Latches are “frozen compute” — neural patterns that can’t update due to locked vascular tension. We can think of our amount of frozen sensation as our distance from non-dual experience
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@drmichaellevin @JoinEdgeCity We likely latch a specific cluster of networks when we’re ~1-3yo as we interact with and differentiate from The Other, and this semi-permanent tension constitutes the “self”. Most likely these latches are somewhere deep in the brain or brainstem
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@drmichaellevin @JoinEdgeCity Every new latch makes the system simpler & more narrowly useful, but also drains the sense of possibility and aliveness. Latches are semi-permanent tension and tension is costly
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@drmichaellevin @JoinEdgeCity 2. Classical Buddhist Enlightenment is likely real and deals with opening vascular latches
We’re born into unoptimized sensory chaos, and progressively latch networks as we find good predictive solutions or dynamical regions that are unsafe
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@drmichaellevin @JoinEdgeCity Cognitive & emotional development is learning how to flex vasculature with more nuance & stabilize more patterns. Words are pointers to these frozen sensations; to understand a word is to be able to stabilize its pattern
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