m neurons each of which could be firing or not sets the upper bound of n as 2^m 
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Replying to @vgr
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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so like that person's mental kolmogorov complexity will be upper bound
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er, rather, that's best a person can do and will likely be worse? and upper bound will be if that person never figures out better compression in course of meditating, which is unlikely.
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That’s roughly the concept behind my freyrag staircase concepthttp://www.tempobook.com/glossary/#freytag-staircase …
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Like, can you add more stories about the stories but in a way that somehow shrinks the staircase even as n increases.
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Perhaps number of stories increases but each story is more elegantly built out of previous stories, which are losslessly refactored; more reuse without loss of information.
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That’s roughly Schmidhubers compression progress hypothesis. I think the staircase is lower bounded by accumulation of incompressibles. Like collecting prime numbers as you count. My own current tack is to interpret the process as time experience.
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"accumulation of incompressibles" (nice) and not-yet-and-maybe-never-compressibles Very Schmidhuberian. I want something more neural or winner-take-all mass flow and more phenomenological and more (deep refactorable) ontological and less bitstringy and computationy. But yeah.
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I suppose I started it with the combinatorics and kolmogorovs
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