Jenny L. Nielsen's "Quanta Qualia"

My favorite fiber bundle....

Jenny's Class Journal ●      Poker table - improv - table position impacting “conversation” ●      https://courseware.ku.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-7051502-dt-content-rid-25881114_1/courses/4189-25334/Resilience%20as%20a%20Unifying%20Concept.pdf - This paper on resilience from the general readings looks very useful for our project and defining resilience in groups, networks, and individuals ●      Susan Dikker’s work: http://www.suzannedikker.net/projects/ (brain entrainment between partners documented in her projects) ●      This honors thesis paper provides information to cite regarding auditory driving / brain wave entrainment in ritual groups: https://web.stanford.edu/group/brainwaves/2006/AuditoryDrivingRitualTech.pdf ●      Good book for general background reading and anyone in our project: SYNC by Steven Strogatz ●      Doelling KB, Poeppel D. Corti...

Freedom as Unrestricted Access to Evolutionary Environment We cannot be limited by the universe in itself because we are enabled by the universe; we are a piece of the universe. Defining free will based upon the restrictions of our framework is a byproduct of mis-attribution of independence to our being from the underlying framework. We are not separate actors from the underlying cosmos but embedded in the cosmos, part and parcel of cosmos. Following universal laws is indenti cal to following our own wishes and whimsies. Freedom is thus engagement with and access to the cosmos, to the natural environs a species evolved in and from. Any restriction on free will is restriction of access of the human being (or the sentient species) from their environment, from their cosmos, from their natural environs. This cannot be acted upon by the universe upon inhabitants, but can, strangely enough, be enacted upon inhabitants in that cosmos by other inhabitant agents, who may att...

strong immersion as proposed criteria for an “aware” /autonomous life form (First appearing on FB in Nov 2016) I think for a being to be so-called "conscious" or have apparent autonomy (what looks like "free will") it must be a global non-equilibrium sensory system folded in on itself and immersed in its environment to an extent that it processes the outside as its inside and the inside as its outside. To appear to have free will it must make its "decisions" based on global non-equilibrium responses to its outer environment (which is also topologically part of its inner environment). Programming based on digitally modelling exclusively pre-assigned choices will result in an automaton dependent on another global sensory non-equilibrium life form immersed in its environment. (Programming based on pre-signed choices represents a language, which can be executed by living systems and used to direct other beings and automaton objects into appar...