By Carhart Harris. Cited by 1050

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• im curious abt how entropy is in information theory:
  • Entropy in information theory is reflected in the shape of a probability distribution (Ben-Naim, 2012), i.e., we have less confidence (or more uncertainty) about something when the distribution is broader or more evenly spread.

thoughts

it seems like DMN/ego is just that helpful filter for the uncertain world. it’s like PCA - dimensionally reduction technique. helps us control the world via an idea of ego but also constrains the many infinite things about it.

Doors of Perception

naming = control

highlights

• self-organized criticality - how a complex system forced away from equilibrium by a regular input of energy begins to exhibit interesting property since it reachers critical point in a relatively narrow transition zone between two extremes of system order and chaos.
• quality of any consciousness state depends on the system’s entropy measure via key parameters of brain function
• human brain exhibits greater entropy than other members of the animal kingdom, which is equivalent to saying that the human mind possesses a greater repertoire of potential mental states than lower animals
• through development of self-organized activity in DMN, a coherent sense of self emerges
  • meta cognition and human capacity for reelection

primary state vs secondary state

their (or others cited) arguments