Neurocosmology

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IT IS NOT WHAT I BELIEVE BUT HOW I BELIEVE

In the course of systematic reflection upon those fundamental essences which appear to be ontologically distinct primary percepts, one may construct a sound and verifiable epistemology with a triad of categorical types. That is, if one is to separate the "WORLD" as perceived into categories which are characterized phenomenologically rather than by the material constituents with which it is constructed, one finds that there are three principle realms which may act in concert and in various combinations to account for the whole of perceptible "reality". These three categories are Experiential, Biophysical and the Abiophysical, more commonly known as MIND, LIFE and MATTER.

Given these abstract categories as primatives, a quick reality check will also reveal that there is a cosmological scale where this "perceptual" reasoning will be most valid; that being the Anthroscopic scale. It is only at this scale that we, as biophysically restrained sentient beings, are truly able to perceive the "world" around us. A second class of restraints which also limit our capacity for a sound epistemological basis are the limitations intrinsic in our biophysical systems' capacity to transduce information from our external and internal environments and present it to our consciousness. We "KNOW" only that which the human nervous system is capable of modulating. A third class of restraints emerge from the fact that the content and context of these consciousness sustaining neuromodulations induce powerful limitations in our capacity to act on our well intended abstractions of what ought to be right actions.

It is my observation that the above mentioned points are for the most part neglected in most modern ethical and moral dialogue. How easily it is to jump right in with an apriori theism and/or humanism in which the ontological basis is assumed to be universal. In reality, there is no rational basis for these beliefs other than questionably authoritative historical documents and/or transiently fashionable, socially specific, emotionally biased, cultured dispositions.

My personal moral and ethical beliefs take into account the fact that I, as an individual, am limited intrinsically not only in what I can know but also, by cultural default, in what I know. Therefore it does not seem reasonable that I have a fixed default reasoning algorhythm to which I blindly adhere, but rather that I have an ecclectically evolving dynamic psychotechnology which I judiciously employ as needed.

Over the course of my intellectual development I have attempted to derive, from first principles, a culturally coherent set of fundamental heuristics which aid in my discerning a course of right action which is consistent with my understanding of the universe and my current status therein.

Neurocosmology aims to illuminate and exploit the biophysical and cultural/historical boundaries of human knowing. This "operational philosophy based on perception" works in the context of information processing systems and the related perceptual modulations wrought by nervous systems interacting with informatic systems (e.g., virtual reality). Humans create knowledge based on what our nervous system has phylogenetically become and what our culture simultaneously makes of our nervous systems. It is reasonable then to suppose that the very nature of knowledge is a culturally specific modulation of the nervous system through an entire range of social and technological media. Finally, and very importantly, Neurocosmology is consistent with General Systems Theory (GST) [link to principia cybernetica page].

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SYSTEMS HIERARCHY

(LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION)

BIOSPHERE

SOCIETY-NATION

CULTURE-SUBCULTURE

COMMUNITY

FAMILY

TWO-PERSON

*PERSON* [experience and behavior]

NERVOUS SYSTEM

ORGANS/ORGANS SYSTEMS

TISSUES

CELLS

ORGANELLES

MOLECULES

ATOMS

SUBATOMIC PARTICLES

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Neurocosmology

Anthroscopic Epistemology:

Metrics in Perception

nK begins with the following notational system

ANY: point in expression space

ANY1: any other point in expression space

IT: the relationship between ANY & ANY1 their Information Trajectory, the string of continuous state-space parameters taking you from any one state of information to any other state of information in expression space. It is a generic connection.

nK states that basically that your perceptual states are a result of a brain state. However, my perception is not of my cortex firing off, etc. I am perceiving a uniform, coherent percpetion at any given time. Hence the state of perception at ANY given time is called PSI, an instant of perception which is all we ever have. Information coming from the outside, causing neurostructures to fire on the sensory cortex is sensation. The brain correlates that sensation with all its other relevant internal functioning and all layers of psychosocial elements and here comes a percpetion. Anybody who wants to know what a perception is, just kind of look around and think humm, this is the movie of me going on all the time. Gestalt of all brain function in consciousness equals perception.

ANY contains a subspace of possible expressions; everything I could possibly perceive is herein contianed. Rather than matter and energy we're refferring to perceptual state-space. The perceptual state is always related to some biologically parameterized state of the brain. The term for these biologically parameterized states of the brain is PHX. This refers to all those entities and processes discussed within the life sciences.

Thus any information that can come into being is one of three categories:

PSI-perceptual space: contents of awareness

PHX-biological space: what chemistry refers to as "organic" and all things related to it.

PHI-abiological: what physics refers to as space, time, mass, energy.

So PSI wishes to perform an action in the outside world. By means of a cognitive operator PSI initiates the required parameters of PHX, via a biological operator, to throw a ball, for example: a PSI to PHX information transection resulting in a PHI operation: the ball flying. So, information from the PSI subspace transferred information (via these various operators) to the PHX subspace which in turn transferred information to the PHI subspace. The principle which derives from this dynamic is that whenever a PSI subspace has influenced a PHI subspace some PHX subspace has mediated the transfer of information.

Neurocosmology comes from the expression space and you define it with perceptual parameters.

KHI- state of PHI whose form can only be accounted for by positing the willful action of PSI via PHX acting on raw PHI, etc. CompuKHI

SKY-that product of KHI having been manipulated by PSI so as to change PSI.

Synectic languaging structure in which we have a generic metaphor to talk about anything; the goal of this notational languaging system is to is to allow you to liguistically navigate to any far reaching PSI space that you want to be involved in.

Move into a higher state of abstraction connecting more information.

e.g., Sensory physiology is talking about the PHX specific state spaces which are involved in transducing and transmitting information to the central nervous system, which is part of the PHX system we think is highly related to perceptual states.

autosomascopicphysiometric

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