# Full Text: Four-fold Fields of Quantum Dreams

> Extracted from `2024_QuantumDreams.pdf`

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Daniel Ari Friedman *1,2 & Dean Tickles 1
1. Active Inference Institute
2. Cognitive Security & Education Forum (COGSEC)
0000-0001-6232-9096 & 0000-0003-2213-0773
March, 2024 ~ Version 1.0 ~ 10.5281/zenodo.10798145
* Daniel@ActiveInference.Institute
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Four-fold Fields
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### SITUATIONAL STATES: PLAY BALL PLAY!........................2
.1 ~ Macro Situation................................................................................. 2
.2 ~ Micro Situation.................................................................................. 2
.3 ~ Big-Screen Replay Of Key Visual-Phenomenological Moment.........2
.4 ~ Preliminary Visual Analysis...............................................................4
.5 ~ Primary Implications..........................................................................5
.6 ~ Secondary Implications.....................................................................5
.7 ~ Tertiary Implications.......................................................................... 6
### 7TH INNING STRETCH......................................................... 7
AM Radio: Talk Show Advertisement....................................................... 7
AM Radio: 7th Inning Stretch Dialog “Who’s the Exec?”..........................7
### END OF STRETCH: BACK TO FINISH THE GAME.......7
.8 ~ Quaternary Implications.................................................................... 8
.9 ~ Closing Questions and the Final Call................................................8
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### SITUATIONAL STATES: PLAY BALL PLAY!
.1 ~ Macro Situation
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We are at Spring Training for the Quantum Baseball team, probably somewhere in the
North American Southwest. The Quantum Baseball game itself is the: “Put me IN to go
ON the field(s) Coach, till everyone’s OUT” part of life.
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We’re at Spring Training at the Institute field satellite office-gym during the OFF-season,
because we want to train to get better at being IN, ON, and OUT of the fields, come that
actual old ballgame.
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If, and once the season starts as planned, getting IN to the game (e.g. getting OUT of
home, ON the road, and into the uniform & park) is a known known; that’s the variability
we reduce so that the variability on the field can be fully retained and even augmented.
So there is some preparation involved, even before the training begins.
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Sure, for the game itself there are always between 9 and 13 official nestmates on the
field plus a bunch of others around. However the total Quantum Baseball environment
(in training and in games) is even more multi-agential than that, coinciding without
remainder to all things there then and their activities. There are the amateurs who paid to
be there (including the disinterested and fanatical), plus all the professionals who were
paid to be there (e.g. the infield raking, ticketing, security, livestreaming, managing,
catcher in the bullpen, team in dugout).
.2 ~ Micro Situation
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One being present, as a nestmate/teammate and situationally aware, in the Spring
Training gym in-between sets, just swapping one perspective at a time and breathing.
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Proximating to the room’s structures as stabilities and dynamics, visually aware within
the timecone of an engineered framework (metaphorically provisioned by a [classical
holographic representation of a] metal squat rack), paying attention to the design; form
and functors.
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In this document the focus is only on some visually-triggered experiences and thoughts
(Blake’s “seeing through the eye”), arising during Spring Training in the gym, as one
looks at a framework and allows it to effect/affect them.
.3 ~ Big-Screen Replay Of Key Visual-Phenomenological Moment
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Imagine being embodied in a real gym situation as shown on the following page, where
the interiority of a visual-metaphorical perspective on a framework was being actualized,
analyzed, and utilized (i.e. decomposed into a set of factors) subsequent to a synchrony
across the interfacial agent-environment’s boundaries, looking like this:
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To be clearer about the fuzzy instigating situation, focus on the blurry part at upper left:
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Zoom in once more:
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Arguably, this third image (second zooming-in) conveys the necessary and sufficient
information for this situation, if there is some sense that the vertical structure in the
foreground and the vertical structure out of focus, are somehow related.
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Then, should one assume this relationship to be the case?
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If yes, then a potential function exists in the GAP BETWEEN (the functor
between) the two vertical stabilities.
.4 ~ Preliminary Visual Analysis
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We can fast-forward through/over a lot of the visual basics here, such as general and
overall aspects of generative models of vision, including the cognitive construction of a
hyperbolic uni-perspectival visual field from binocular inputs and other ecological
characteristics.
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The characteristics of a hyperbolic space, leaves a gap between those curved
vectors (abstracted edges) to either be retained as-is, or to potentially be filled.
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If left as gap retained, then the function elicited is more “barrier” like (i.e. “Keep
Out!”), and if utilized, then function fulfillment can be served through any number
of actions (i.e. very small baseball diamond, change room, place to dry out your
uniform, etc.)
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The key to remember here is the Pre-liminal of “visual analysis”. Liminal implies
transition to the one making the observation. In physical terms, one could be
passing/crossing a threshold of some type. But the observer is not limited to only
the physical. That “pre” aspect could also be constituted as metaphorical when
one sees a place to change, as existing within the vertical structures and then
labels the area a change room.
.5 ~ Primary Implications
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There is a kind of “moon cycle through time”, playing out in space with the perspectival
vectors in an instant, representing differential visibility through the framework-as-rack
taken from the single visual perspective, looking something like:
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Moon phase visuality, like all other perspectival phenomena and interpretations, are
conditioned upon the position/posture/stance and generative model of the “visual
fielder”.
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You can move around to get an easy dead reckoning on some vectors (e.g. standing
right in front of an eye level hole), of course always at the expense of creating the
moon’s full spectrum waxing and waning, no matter where you go.
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There is no view from everywhere/nowhere (but there is every view taken up till now).
.6 ~ Secondary Implications
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There are many GAP-RESPECTING (“as-is” retaining) ways to move through the frame:
remotely or visually without a trace (like the camera does when it captures the white on
the gym’s back wall), or with a bullet, leaving a pheromone trail, carrying a seed,
weaving a thread, etc.
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And, as actually done in gyms around the world, there is a GAP-FILLING (altering)
placement of a steel pin, for example to stabilize the UP or DOWN position of a bench,
squat, or deadlift. But this “fill” is the opting in (selection) among a series of potential fits.
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Consider this: If a/the framework were totally plugged up (filled, via positiva, so no pins
could be placed), or had even any welded pins, that would scaffold with fewer potential
functions. A trade-off between stability/certainty/rigidity and adjustability affordance,
simply exists. The question around what is optimal (alternatives, options or robustness)
arises. Except in special, possibly unique cases (where/when a particular channel of
arrival is deemed optimal for all) this trading off implication has already been determined
by the one fabricating the rack. The implication then is typically resolved by
taking/making an assumption around “averages” of the user function.
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Frameworks can almost always be upcycled, or used as scrap mental.
.7 ~ Tertiary Implications
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Where, when, and how the pins are set (or unset) in the framework, means everything
for the training exercise. Pinning setups are very dynamic – until set – and then, the
stability/continuity of the SET is expected to hold. The positioning of any pins depends
on, for example, the exercise and person’s height. One prepares by making adjustments
(setting the pins during the warmup sets) and then expects (prefers) that all measures
going forward will remain constant, until the next preparation is made. This is the “work”
characteristic of frameWORK: stability and adjustability dependent on factors “in play”
and filters duly applied and functioning.
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For example, a primary factor would be does the pin fit the drilled hole(s)? A
primary filtering technique would be ensuring that hole alignment across vertical
struts generates a level bracing rod outcome.
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Conditioned on the person (the content) and context (e.g. height, choice of rails on or off
settings) the necessary preparations of placing pins in safely, strongly, and
ergonomically so that they scaffold training: that’s when the framework becomes (after
the preparation, and definitely not as a source of initiation) what the framework is for.
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And that’s essentially WHEN frameworks begin their shift from FORM (only), to
(also) FUNCTION. In making “the shift” as action, the space covered between
content (agent) and context (envelope) becomes a holding space for
Concept(ualization). A framework doesn’t do the work, as much as provide room
for work to be done. This is all that frameworks are good for – which is good,
because that’s how we need them to be & they are good at/for what they do.
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In the gym we are looking to meet exercisAnts how they are, and take a joint approach
that starts with learning-as-postural-strategy and continues on through the learners
actual interior cognitive exertion. Our information-as-physical strategic focus (which is
also strategic physical-as-information, or feedback) in the gym, may be
variability-reducing and/ or variability-retaining given the nature or feed-forward and
feedback loops coexisting. There can be, and are, aspects of appreciation, assessment,
analysis, spotting, co-learning, pre-/post-traumatic care, collaboration, negotiating,
strengthening, and so on.
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### 7TH INNING STRETCH
AM Radio: Talk Show Advertisement
Listen up fans. This year, on the ballot, the Gap-Fillers want to pave paradise with facts.
They want to festoon the framework, and they want season ticket holders to pay for it.
This is no “round the bases, and we’re done” challenge.
It’s more like bringing out the in-field tarps “for your protection” on a sunny day “just in case”.
And why? …So that robots do our big cognitive deadlifts for us?
… Because in times like these there must be an easier way?
…To subsidize our already fairly-priced gym memberships?
… For Active Inference to be the biggest coat-hanger in the world?
Aren’t we in Training for curiosity, capacity-building, and the love of the game?
…To build whole-Tet and multi-Tet quantum strength?
…To be the generators of a little perspiration as a down payment?
…And to make it possible to reach for a (choose your gap here; informational, conceptual,
imaginational) canal jump inside-the-mind’er come gametime?
That kind of gap-filling proposal just doesn’t make Epistemic value: Covering up those
beautifully plaided mow lines as the in-field (patterns established) with plastic, kills the life
underneath, as you block the energy from beyond.
….And it doesn’t make Pragmatic value either. Unless of course your version of “covering the
bases” is completely misunderstood, and thus becomes a category error.
So do you think it is going to take us all the way, in the Policy Playoffs?
Talk to your family about it at work. Jump twice to find out more. Not financial advice.
AM Radio: 7th Inning Stretch Dialog “Who’s the Exec?”
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A dialog between the ExecutI’VE (the in-principle commissioner of the league) and the
ExecutOR (the frontline workers who operate ON and OFF the field).
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Stage Direction: continue winnerless, dialectical, tragico-comedic dialectical banter of
“top-down high road identity OR bottom-up low road function”, until all syndicated
commercial breaks are over.
I’VE: “I’VE been tellin’ ya, I’m the ExecutI’VE”
OR: “OR, I’m telling ya, I’m the ExecutOR”
I’VE: “I’VE been tellin’ ya, who I AM makes me ExecutI’VE”
OR: “OR, I’m telling ya, the logic of what I DO makes me ExecutOR”
I’VE: “I’VE been tellin’ ya, for me Exec means ExecutI’VE”
OR: “OR, I’m telling ya, for me Exec means ExecutOR”
### END OF STRETCH: BACK TO FINISH THE GAME
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.8 ~ Quaternary Implications
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Standing further (moving way back) away from the framework, it is more like the sun’s
distance to earth, the rays of light are closer to parallel-in-parallax. While further from the
framework, it can be better understood amidst other frameworks in the row of squat
racks, however, one is more distant from doing bodyweight or barbell exercises at that
rack.
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About intelligence, in the all-seeing case there is a dead reckoning that slices
every vector at once, in the all-knowing case all perspectives are taken at once
upon one or more reckonings (reflections, re-tellings of happenings that never
included a play-by-play), in the all-powerful case the material or imaginary bolt
can be struck and unstruck anywhere in a moment, and so on.
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Closer up to the framework, it is more comprehensible, actionable, and at hand
(frame-working assumes a proximity, but not an eclipsing, as given). Also the
lines of sight are increasingly variable with respect to postural change, and the
moon’s static frequency can become extreme and aliased, the closer one gets to
the framework.
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For singular embodied organisms and other similarly-perspectival things, the centrality of
“When in Doubt: Zoom in, Zoom out” simply cannot be over-esteemed.
.9 ~ Closing Questions and the Final Call
What are Blind Spots, and how are they (re)moved?
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There are Blind Spots no matter where you are, or how you are looking at it: right when
you are looking at it and/or in the periphery depending on how you look at it.
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Simply, there are some vectors and holes which are fully eclipsed (totally blocked due to
the perspectival angle), and sometimes that is visually on- or off-center.
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That “total eclipse of the prior/observation”, is a blind spot for you at that very moment.
Moving around with attention, eyes, and body, all are “blind spot removers”.
Is the Gym a field? Is the Institute a field?
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No(t only). The Institute is a preserve, enclosing & in feedback with, some built
frameworks. There definitely are parts of the preserve that are different and multiple
fields, and parts that are like fields (and also sometimes there is Chris Fields).
Where are Active Inference, Category Theory, Abductive Logic, Identity as dissemination?
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We are not sure how those pillars/pins are deployed, nor what happens then.
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For now it is probably enough to say that: with a Min2(Min2) frame/filter tetralemmal
grasp of each of these pillars alone and in all combinations of 1, 2, 3, 4, and more,
certainly there are many possibilities here.
And we yield the final Measurement to the Umpire-Bard:
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But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;
And time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.
— Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act V, Scene 4
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