#capture | #protocol #research # notes https://youtu.be/uFMLpZkkH_8 Relating to protocol research. Bioelectric signals. A large collection of individuals things will make up a "mind meld" that makes units act in alignment with the collective. If left alone entities will attempt to fulfill the "Immortality Program". Organism as collective of cells held together by a "cognitive glue" called Bioelectricity. Cancer cells "Immortal", disconnect and consider the rest as external. Bioelectric faces is literally a patterns of signals that describes an outcome, a feature. No cells knows the shape of a finger and/or how many should there be, but the collective definitely does. Question, in this whole process where does the memory of forms reside? In other terms, how does protocolized interaction manifest memory ability? > Evolution is looking for pointers in the space of "platonic" forms. ... these organisms use bioelectricity to integrate information across space and time. ==Telling causal stories backward== A. Using Bioelectricity we told this organism to grow 2 heads. B. Oh well, nothing fancy there, just molecules does their things. Essentially reductionism isn't gonna tell an interesting story, because it would require a great deal of details to explain it from that starting point. This essentially tells us to choose a level at which we can not only tell an interesting story about what happened but also be able to enact control. Relating to [[High and Low Level Language]] How cognition scales up? > Nothing is actually anything. We use "frames" to speak about systems but they in fact tell us nothing about the system itself (follow the Kantian concept of things-in-themselves, noumena). Here, frames stand for "representations". Poly-computation, the same physical event can be seen as different computations by different observers and so entertain different interpretations about the same event. A. I see this as X. B. But I see this as Y and thus, I can do something that you cannot. > Evolution is developing problem solving agents. They bioelectricity to integrate information across the colony and to organize feeding cycles as a kind of biorhythm. Related to [[Tempo Interactions]] Some of the ion channels in the cell membrane can be voltage sensitive, which essentially leads to having something like "transistors". Memory and feedback loop. When things are in a mind meld, they cannot have individual thoughts, signals they receive aren't different from those they generate themselves except for the temporal aspect where the signal takes some time to travel through the "meld". Stress is a measure of error. How far away you are from your goal? "Cognitive light- cone" Adopt a top-down approach to systems as that will push all the complexity onto the system. It is a communication problem not a micromanagement problem. You don't try to handle components, you talk to the interface in certain way because it already knows what to do. Engrams are compressed representations of the past. We have to constantly reinterpret.