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number of mind states in meditation needed to achieve "enlightenment" or something. i was going for something vaguely n choose 2 plus recursion. didn't really think it through.
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Yeah neural macrostates are going to be a much smaller subset. A tighter upper bound would be long-term memory size as a function of age. That’s harder to estimate though. It’s the compression of life log input.
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concretely speaking, afaikt, older people generally have to meditate longer to get same effects as younger. but it's ofc not linear. there is indeed some sort of compression/chunking but surprisingly lossless-seeming for unique/one-off events. i think incompressibility is bound
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compressibility is mind-contingent though. will be tradeoff between unique/incompressible experiences and that person's prereflective learned ability to compress or find elegance. maybe 5% genetics/*hardware* and 95% self-/nurture-(meta-)bootstrapping *software*
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