Infinite Loops Tom Morgan & Brett Andersen — Intimations of a New World Worldview (EP.139)
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Dec 29, 2022 AI Snips
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We Were Evolved To Create Positive-Sum Games
- Humans were selected to participate in complexification by discovering and facilitating non-zero-sum games that increase group success.
- This selection favored cognitive capacities for solving combinatorially explosive problems via relevance realization.
Relevance Realization Is Cognitive Criticality
- Relevance realization is the cognitive process that filters infinite inputs to what matters and mirrors self-organized criticality.
- Operating at the border of order and chaos yields insight, creativity, and psychological well-being.
Optimal Functioning Happens At Criticality
- Biological and neural systems function optimally at criticality, the border between order and chaos.
- Consciousness and well-being plausibly emerge from this critical regime, explaining effects of sedatives and psychedelics.