RomansFight

Student of knowledge and justice

[Space and Technology @spaceandtech_]

Earlier this year, DEEP Robotics tested the Lynx M20 robot in the snowy region of Yakeshi, Hulunbuir, China.

The robot operated in temperatures as low as -30°C while moving smoothly through deep snow.

The test showed its potential for rescue, patrol, and exploration missions in harsh environments.

[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

New #preprint with Chris Fields:

https://t.co/rmVJYbaSXq

"Cognitive Offloading Is a Cognitive Universal"

Humans routinely offload cognitive tasks to their environments. Here we show, employing just basic physics and the Free Energy Principle, that all time-persistent information-processing systems offload information-processing tasks to their environments. Hence all cognitive systems engage in cognitive offloading. We show how ecological niche construction, kinematic replication, bioelectric signaling, the development of communication systems based on shared semantics, and the ability of LLMs to demonstrate fluent language use in the absence of extra-linguistic input all exemplify this offloading process. We conclude that both theoretical understanding of problem-solving abilities and the engineering of such abilities into artifacts will be improved by considering active computation by the environment as a ubiquitous adjunct to cognition in both living and artificial systems.

[Param @ParamSiddh]

Types of Fractals

[Mathematica @mathemetica]

Taxonomic graph analysis of personality questionnaire data uncovers this three-tiered network.

Bottom-level facets cluster into six mid-level traits - Neuroticism, Sociability, Conscientiousness, Integrity, Openness to Experience, and Impulsivity - which organize under three meta-traits:
Stability, Plasticity, and Disinhibition.

Node colors align with the legends shown, and connecting lines indicate empirical statistical associations identified in the IPIP-NEO dataset.

It is used to refine personality assessment tools and investigate links between traits and mental health conditions.

[Nirosha J. Murugan @niroshajmurugan]

We experience our bodies as the boundary of the self. Where our skin ends and the outside world begins.

This boundary is shaped through ongoing sensory processing. In humans, this sense of separation depends in part on the left hemisphere. When it's disrupted, after strokes or under psychedelics, that boundary can dissolve, giving rise to the feeling that the self extends into the surrounding world.

Is this unique to us or our big beautiful brains?

This awesome study aims to get at this by showing that octopuses can experience a version of the rubber hand illusion, responding to touch on a fake arm as if it were part of their own body.

If a nervous system can redraw the boundary of the body, perhaps the "self" is less a fixed object than a dynamic model, continuously updated by sensory information from the world around us.

https://t.co/8BLNUrgdlN

[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

New #preprint @LPiolopez @BenjaminLy61243

https://t.co/yDzBbbQI6Q

"Alignment Is to a Virtual Governor: A Theory of Coordination in Diverse Intelligence"

Abstract: Alignment is a central problem in systems composed of diverse, interacting components, from biological development to social and engineered systems. One crucial aspect of this problem is determining an answer to the question of to whom or to what the alignment should be. We argue that in decentralized systems, alignment is necessarily to a virtual governor, an abstract governing entity embodied in the coordinating relationships among agents, such as bioelectric networks or the price system. Crucially, despite not being a physical object, virtual governors are causally instructive, controlling the behavior of a system by aligning its parts toward higher-level goals. As a result, agents, from cells to humans and all manner of diverse intelligences, behave as if pursuing the objectives of the virtual governor. We argue that alignment is necessarily to a virtual governor in decentralized, coordinated systems, discuss examples of virtual governors, and describe how virtual governors are constructed by the very components they align.

[RomansFight @romandaddy]

@Munook there isn't an all of the above

[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

What is Life? Well...

Final version is finally out:

"What Lives? A Meta-Analysis of Diverse Opinions on the Definition of Life"

@karina__kofman @blaiseaguera @reedbndr

https://t.co/uYFCucZEti

[RomansFight @romandaddy]

@derekgilbert Wtfook

[Erik Johnston @SilentAltitudes]

The Orbital Paradox: Gravity, Geometry, and the Biomechanics of the Self

The persistent human self is a functional property of continuous biomechanical stabilization. A biological system must process spatial feedback faster than internal noise and gravity to maintain coherent perspective, this creates the orbital paradox. Standard computational models ignore physical weight, yet embodied geometric frameworks predict fragmentation of the spatial self-model once its inertial anchor is lost. Astronauts nevertheless remain coherent, showing how human architecture geometrically internalizes gravitational constraints.

Dynamical closure occurs through the FVC loop (fascia, vestibular, cortex). The vestibular labyrinth uses otoliths to define a spherical volume of oriented space and supplies a zero-drift gravitational-vertical reference. The cortex issues rapid top-down predictive adjustments from this baseline. The fascial network serves as a slow, distributed mechanical sensor encoding continuous body-state tension and load. These nodes form a feed-forward circuit: vestibular anchor guides cortical prediction, which drives physical correction registered by fascia.

Physical identity persists because the loop binds internal predictive maps to the body’s actual orientation under gravity.

The body manages gravitational load through a tensegrity network whose axial skeleton settles into the lowest-energy configuration. This architecture converges on a dodecahedron whose 12 pentagonal faces saturate every proportion with the golden ratio φ. Over developmental time, long bones and joint angles scale to these φ constraints to minimize elastic energy. The dodecahedral attractor is the geometric solution the nervous system instantiates for physical coherence.

Neurologists detect this 3D geometry via its 2D phase-space projection: a horizontal slice yields a regular decagon whose 10 vertices are cycled at 10 Hz, generating the cortical alpha rhythm. The somatic carrier integrates the geometry at 10 / φ ≈ 6.18 Hz (interoceptive theta). These channels superpose into a standing wave of amplitude 2 φ. The φ ratio—hardest for rationals to approximate, makes the self-model resistant to unstable harmonics amid metabolic noise. Subjective selfhood is successful inhabitation of this phase-locked node.
Microtubules do not generate consciousness bottom-up. Macroscopic fascial tension applies mechanical pressure to the microtubular network, triggering the piezoelectric effect that converts physical shear into electrical body-state error signals the FVC loop requires. Anesthesia does not switch consciousness off; it scrambles microtubular synchronization until geometric decoherence occurs. This is downward causation: macroscale bodily architecture dictates microscale cellular coherence.

The orbital paradox, how the gravitational loop survives microgravity, is resolved because the FVC loop and dodecahedral geometry develop under Earth’s constant load, establishing internal pre-stress within the tensegrity network. Removing external gravity does not erase shear forces stored in the fascia; otoliths retain their spherical reference and tissue preserves its φ proportions. Microtubular nodes continue firing in response to internalized structural shear. The standing wave, locked at the Diophantine φ ratio, remains robust without an external gravitational vector. The self therefore survives microgravity as a geometric attractor carrying the memory of gravity within its own architecture.

[Mathelirium @mathelirium]

When the Lorenz Attractor Becomes a Cosmos

Many of us have seen plots of the famous Lorenz system that famous butterfly-shaped chaos:

ẋ = σ(y - x)
ẏ = x(ρ - z) - y
ż = xy - βz

But here, we went one layer deeper. At every point (x, y, z), we computed the local Jacobian matrix,

J(x, y, z) =
[ -σ σ 0 ]
[ ρ - z -1 - x ]
[ y x - β ]

Then we found its eigenvalues λ and plotted them in the complex plane. Re(λ) tells us whether nearby motion is locally growing or decaying. Im(λ) tells us whether that local motion is rotating.

That gives us the spectral flow of the Lorenz system and not the attractor itself, but the hidden local linear geometry driving its instability.

When I saw that flow, it looked strangely cosmic with two mirrored swarms curling like particles trapped in a mathematical whirlpool. So I mapped that spectral flow onto our living fabric, not as Einstein Spacetime this time, but as a creative geometric stage for chaos itself.

#LorenzSystem #ChaosTheory #DynamicalSystems #Eigenvalues #SpectralFlow #ComplexPlane #NonlinearDynamics #Mathematics #Physics

[RomansFight @romandaddy]

@clashreport Remember the Olympics?

[David Icke @davidicke]

This is a good channel simply exploring the 'paranormal' by giving people a platform to tell their stories: 'I Got Demonitized. This May Be The End After 20 Years On YouTube.'

[RomansFight @romandaddy]

@Cassiopaea27324 Genesis 1-3 says humans were made from dust. Then the serpent will eat from the dust of earth. Same word in Hebrew

[RomansFight @romandaddy]

@GaryMarcus I'm not so sure that's 8. Where are the #s?

[Redacted @RedactedNews]

Incoming EARTHQUAKE? 😳 Southern California’s fault system is reportedly under stress levels not seen in 1,000 years. They cannot predict the day, but the warning signs are lining up in a way that should have every family paying attention.

[RomansFight @romandaddy]

@StuartHameroff Sounds like qbits would get there

[RomansFight @romandaddy]

@ron_dalessio @EastEndJoe He know what section he got that shirt from

[Missileman @MinuteofZombie]

Look up the founders of Apogee Engineering.