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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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np-complete pair-wise search or something
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every pairwise juxtaposition is replaced with a new node that must be juxtaposed with every other existing node. each node is a latent state of the system or something
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cardinality of discrete phase space of mind. all possible reachable mind states from current state
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m neurons each of which could be firing or not sets the upper bound of n as 2^m 😀
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there must be redundancy then or don't have to walk the whole thing or something practically asymptotes or i dunno 😁
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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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