This document discusses optimizing human functioning through altruistic self-mastery with mathematical understanding, physical intelligence, biological empathetic awareness, and individual responsibility. It argues that consciousness integrates information unlike any other state of matter, and that creative mathematical understanding, combined with intelligence and awareness, allows humans to transcend rules and expand truth. It defines physical intelligence as maximizing future freedom of action, keeping options open, and resisting constraints. Biological empathetic awareness is described as having fault tolerance that increases utility. Individual responsibility involves daily work on altruistic self-mastery to guide practice, rather than as a level of attainment.

1. Altruistic Self-Mastery
with
Mathematical Understanding, Physical Intelligence,
Biological Empathetic Awareness
&
Individual Responsibility
In working on Optimal Human Functioning, it has become clear that what it means to
be a human being and how we treat human beings is changing. We realize now that an
Individual Human Consciousness produces and integrates information unlike any
other state of matter in the Cosmos. Through my own intuitions, during and after
acquiring a General Studies Degree with a concentration in Mathematics, being hit by
a car, singing to my mother for hours before she died, and most importantly living
daily life with my wife and family, I have worked out an idea. Creative Conscious
Mathematics, which is just a fancy word for one's relationship with the nature of
Mathematics. My Journey has taken me to a working understanding of Mathematics,
Physics and Biology in a way that has added to the way of life of my family. In
optimizing our collective psychoneuroimmunological functioning, we must have a
general working understanding of Mathematics, Physics and Biology, and put in daily
effort to become a better person. Moreover this human progression produces unique
tradable information actionable within high frequency quantitative finance!
Mathematical Understanding, Physical Intelligence and Biological
Empathetic Awareness generate an expansion of the utility of Consciousness
that is beyond calculation, existing within every human being in a density
and utility unlike Any other state or form of Matter in the Cosmos. Equally,
it is each person's individual responsibility to work on their Altruistic
Self-Mastery, not as a level of attainment, but more of a direction that
guides daily practice.

2. This is a response and elaboration on the ideas proposed by Sir Roger Penrose in the
lecture ‘The Problem of Modelling the Mathematical Mind’ given at the Alan Turing
Centenary Conference in Manchester, 2012. Here he clearly demonstrates what
mathematical understanding is by combining his own understandings with the good
work of both Alan Turing and Kurt Gödel. He also goes on to describe Consciousness
as having something to do with this particular type of Mathematical Understanding
G(R) in combination with intelligence and awareness. He states that this usage of
words seems natural and integral to consciousness, yet to him the words intelligence
and awareness remained undefined and not yet directly correlated with mathematical
understanding. Here in this paper I hope to provide an elaboration and definition of
both intelligence and awareness but also a unifying framework for the utility of both
the Universe and Human Beings. Please take the time to first familiarize yourself with
the following information put forth by Sir Roger Penrose in these two short clips:
Mathematical Understanding Vs Calculation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_D8744u8YY
Mathematical Understanding, Intelligence and Awareness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDzHb4Y06i8
There is also a relationship that should be further explored between Dr. Robin
Carhart-Harris's research on Brain Entropy, the Feedforward vs. Integrated phsycial
systems of Integrated Information Theory, The Fixed vs. Growth Mindset research of
Dr. Carol Dweck, the Empathy research by Dr. Dacher Keltner, Mathematical
Understanding in the context of Alan Turing, Kurt Gödel, Oka Kiyoshi,
Roger Penrose, Love 2.0, a General theory of Love, and what is presented
here. For now I would like to focus on three forces of our intrinsic
nature: Mathematical Understanding, Physical Intelligence and
Biological Empathetic Awareness.
Mathematical Understanding
We can gain access to the brilliance and beauty of Mathematics by playing with the art
and process of Math itself. Math is not simply the study of numbers, calculation, logic
and patterns. Originally the word Mathematics comes from the Greek phrase ta
mathēmata meaning things we gain by taking from what we already have. Math in its
original sense is the taking of what you already have and the knowing of what you
already know to produce a useful way forward. A famous Japanese Mathematician
named Oka Kiyoshi, when postulating on the nature of Mathematics, said that

3. Mathematics can say nothing of the number one or why it exists in the first place. It is
the act of believing and giving meaning to abstraction with no previous grounds that
gives life to Maths. Without this power of our minds to believe in abstract things,
Mathematics is meaningless and groundless. He concludes that underlying numbers,
calculation and logic is a huge inner dimension in our mind known as Jocho. So in
order to do math, focus on a problem; it can be easy or hard. While remaining
patiently focused on a single thing, a mindfulness will ensue causing an interaction
with your own inner rich Universe, Jocho!
With the Good Help of Sir Roger Penrose, we can say with full certainty that what’s
True in Mathematics is not governed by rules, thereby being a Truth beyond
calculation. Whatever Rules you lay down in front of you, you can always transcend
those rules. If you accept the rules, you can always see how to go beyond them. This is
Amazing! You could say, “Ok, Ok, all we do is ‘believe’ in the rules and axioms and
that’s all we do.” Gödel says, “No, no, if you believe in these rules, you must believe
this other thing which is beyond the rules!” See, Turing showed us ideally what it
means to follow a rule or computation by developing computing machines. This
shows us that our Conscious Understanding is Not something you can encapsulate in
a computation. I mean any computation, quantum or otherwise. We know that for any
rule(s), denoted as R, that can be verified or checked using any universal machine
intelligence i.e. a computer; there will Always be a mathematical statement of Truth
that can be constructed using the rule(s) R, denoted as G(R), who’s truth CAN NOT be
derived using only the rule(s) R, itself. Another way to say it is that if you accept the
rule(s), as it is, you will see how to go beyond it! This Force of Mathematical
Understanding is about the production and expansion of Truth that
transcends the previous rule(s) in a way that is beyond calculation yet
understandable and useful. It is the very process of doing mathematics known as
Jocho.
It should be noted that this opens a conversation about the primacy and proximity to
the evolution of Truth that Mathematical Understanding has over the Scientific
Method. That is not to say that the Scientific Method is not useful. That would be
equivalent to saying that universal machine intelligence and computers are not useful.
Both are equally feedforward systems of computational equivalence based on
checkable calculable statements that produce more of what’s expected or modeled to
happen, given the correct following of the instruction or rule(s)R. Math proves that all
rules will necessarily be shook up in a measurable way that expands both
Understanding and Utility!

4. Psychologically, rules diminish our cognitive functioning, inhibiting our natural ability
to be moral and creative in the moment. It is the transcendence of rules and definitions
that gives rise to mathematical progress and awareness. In the book Naming Infinity
by Loren Graham we see two useful perspectives in and around the late 1800s that
build on each other to expand our tangible notion of infinity. One camp was the
atheistic French, who denounced any higher power to get a glimpse of the infinite; the
other was the orthodox Russian monks, who called on and experienced a higher
power to glimpse the infinite. Both had to operate outside of the known rules to bring
about truth—annihilating intentionally by way of their cognition—the top down feed-
forward neural structures that limit insight and problem solving. The loosening of
these top down neural structures is also key in advanced problem solving and in the
healing of PTSD, depression and addictive behaviors. Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris and
team have done research showing the benefit of this childlike psychedelic brain-state
of increased entropy and that our optimization lies in a sweet spot that integrates our
capacity for genuine insight and creative problem solving while maintaining a since of
coherency, identity and relationship with the world.

5. Physical Intelligence
“Recent research in cosmology has suggested that universes that produce more
disorder or “entropy” over their lifetimes should tend to have more favorable
conditions for the existence of intelligent beings such as ourselves. But what if that
tentative cosmological connection between entropy and intelligence hints at a deeper
relationship? What if intelligent behavior doesn’t just correlate with the production of
long-term entropy but actually emerges directly from it?” Alex Wissner-Gross, PhD.
F = T Sτ∇
This is the equation for the force of intelligence. Using this equation, ENTROPICA is
the software engine that is designed to maximize the production of long term entropy
of any system it finds itself in. Without being instructed to do so explicitly,
ENTROPICA passed multiple animal intelligence tests and exhibits behavior only
associated with Human Cognition. All from an equation that drives a system to
maximize its long term future freedom of action! This happens Universally in physical
systems. Physical Intelligence is an intrinsic force, operating under previous
control and constraints, that maximizes future freedom of action, keeps
options open, and actively resists the control and constraints that gave rise to
the expansion thereby increasing the intelligence and utility of physical
systems within our Cosmos.
Fun with Mathematical Physics
Quantum physics problem proved unsolvable: Godel and Turing enter quantum physics
“A mathematical problem underlying fundamental questions in particle and quantum
physics is provably unsolvable, according to scientists at UCL, Universidad
Complutense de Madrid - ICMAT and Technical University of Munich. It is the first
major problem in physics for which such a fundamental limitation could be proven.
The findings are important because they show that even a perfect and complete
description of the microscopic properties of a material is not enough to predict its
macroscopic behaviour. The reason this problem is impossible to solve in general is
because models at this level exhibit extremely bizarre behaviour that essentially
defeats any attempt to analyse them. But this bizarre behaviour also predicts some
new and very weird physics that hasn't been seen before. For example, our results

6. show that adding even a single particle to a lump of matter, however large, could in
principle dramatically change its properties. New physics like this is often later
exploited in technology.” And most likely already has been by Nature.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-12-quantum-physics-problem-unsolvable-godel.html#jCp
There's a strong connection between the newly realized limits and capacity of nature and that
of pure mathematics itself. We've already discussed the limits and capacity of machine
intelligence. There is also the Principle of Computational Equivalence: Almost all processes
that are not obviously simple can be viewed as computations of equivalent sophistication.
More specifically, the principle of computational equivalence says that systems found in the
natural world can perform computations up to a maximal ("universal") level of computational
power, and that most systems do in fact attain this maximal level of computational power.
Consequently, most systems are computationally equivalent. For example, the workings of
the human brain or the evolution of weather systems can, in principle, compute the same
things as a computer. Computation is therefore simply a question of translating inputs and
outputs from one system to another. Moreover a universal computations of equivalent
sophistication cannot be reduced or predicted by another computation, one can only go
behind it and see what it did after the fact.
This connection continues with Seth Loyd's work on our inability to predict our own future
and its relations to fundamental theorems in both computer science and mathematics. The
argument goes like this.
The last part is a trick question,
if you answered yes to the first
two, the third is impossible.

7. Biology Empathetic Awareness
A commonality in all Biological Systems is their ability to take initially very
limited and faulty grown mediums that are in abundance, and organizes
them along a sliding scale from ordered, quasi ordered and disordered to
increase the Biological systems utility and range of motion in the long term.
Biological Empathetic Awareness is about fault and imperfection tolerance.
This capacity for extreme fault and imperfection tolerance creates an Empathetic
Awareness that increases utility. Darwin said, “The society with the most sympathetic
individuals will Flourish.” Research on collective problem solving from MIT and
others shows us that groups with individuals of high IQ, and or collectively had high
IQs, did horribly. The teams that did the best had three things in common: all the
individuals where high in empathy, every person on the team was of equal value and
given equal voice, and they all had more women.
Brené Brown’s research on healthy and resilient people finds that those who have the
courage to be imperfect thrive. They have the compassion to be kind to themselves,
first, as well as others, and had connection based on being authentic. They are willing
to let go of who they think they should be in order to really be themselves or accept
someone else, which is necessary for connection. Fully embracing vulnerability is a
crucial part of growth. This willingness to say I love you first or invest in a
nonguaranteed relationship or idea is what makes us beautiful, and is how creativity,
innovation and insight happen. In this next quote, Mrs. Brown beautifully states the
difference between a computational system or Scientific way of thought, versus the
truth of what’s best for optimizing people. “The Definition of Scientific Research is to
control and predict, to study phenomenon for the explicit reason to control and
predict. My mission to control and predict had turned up the answer that the way to
live is with vulnerability, and to stop controlling and predicting.” One of the hopes of
this paper other than to inspire continued education, is to demonstrate that there are
useful aspects of Understanding, Intelligence, and Empathetic Awareness that are
beyond model, control and prediction; yet are a useful necessary intrinsic part of our
Cosmos and our individual experience.
Health Psychologist Dr. Kelly McGonigal sheds light on optimizing our stress
responses. If we see stress as a good thing and reach out to others when we are
stressed and or to care for others who are in stress, we strengthen and heal our bodies’

8. physiology! The research of Medical Doctor Dean Ornish shows how we can reverse
heart disease, change our gene expression, grow bigger brains and repair our
telomeres all by changing the way we live to include more genuine connections to
others increasing our capacity to love. Principal investigator of Positive Emotions and
Psychophysiology Dr. Barbara Fredrickson has shown that our bodies our designed to
connect with any other human being in what she calls a ‘micro-moment of shared
positivity’. The physical and mental health benefits of this shared moment of genuine
care and respect are unmatched!
If we now look at the findings of both Positive Psychology and the work of Dan Pink,
we see that people are at their happiest and have enhanced cognitive functioning
when they participate in an Intrinsic motivation that includes Mastery and Purpose,
doing something that you find personally valuable or interesting with the intention to
get better and better for the purpose of sharing with and helping others. Medical
Doctor Lissa Rankin has found that if we follow these intrinsic motivations and write
out our own life’s prescription, we can heal and enhance our bodies in ways standard
conventional modern medicine can’t. Dr. Carol Dweck and research from Positive
Psychology have found that learning to recognize and argue against one's fixed
mindset and pessimism creates long term changes in our physiology and behavior in a
way that adds to our life satisfaction. Virtually all people are born with the capacity
for a growth mindset which in short is the belief that one's most basic abilities can be
developed through hard work and dedication along with seeing challenges and
setbacks as an opportunity to grow. The growth mindset helps the brain light up when
receiving information about how one could do better because they want to learn. With
a fixed mindset the brain lights up in the same way only when one is receiving
information about how one performed such as a grade or a score because they are
preoccupied and concerned with judgment.
Biologically we are built for mutually beneficial connection with others. We know this
because of what our vagus nerve, limbic system and prefrontal cortex do when we
connect with another person. The Love we feel with time well spent gives us access to
the inner workings of our loved one's brain while concurrently feeling predisposed to
care for them. This is the basis for a General Theory of Love put forth by Dr. Thomas
Lewis. Dr. Dacher Keltner and others have done research shedding light on what
interrupts this biological process of empathy and love. Their finding show that both a
focus on money or incentive driven motivation and the belief that one had power over
another create what resembles acquired sociopathy along with diminishing cognitive
problem solving skills. This is biologically marked by a down-shifting of the brain into

9. stimulus-response mode, functionally lobotomizing the prefrontal cortex, and a non
activated vagus nerve.
Social psychology understands these negative transformations of human character as
being
Dispositional: Personal pathologies of guilty actors, character defects, sadistic
personalities. “The Bad Apples”
Situational: Good Men and Women corrupted by the behavioral context, by
powerful situational forces. “The Bad Barrel”
Systemic: Broader extrinsic influences; political, strategic, economic, cultural,
and the legal context created and maintained by higher authorities. “The Bad
Barrel-Makers”
Potentially Good people can be made perpetrators of evil based on what they bring
into a situation, what the situation draws out of them, the actual interaction of the
individual in the situation, and those in Dominate Systems that literally create and
maintain the situations that are known to draw evil out of a person. With the help of
former defense secretary James Shlesinger and former U.S. Army General George Fay,
we know what happened at Abu Ghraib. It was a situational and systemic failure that
causes even healthy people to do temporary evils. This is created by what Philip
Zimbardo calls the slippery slope of evil. Mindlessly taking the first small step,
Dehumanization of others, De-individuation of self (anonymity), Diffusion of personal
responsibility, Blind obedience to authority, Uncritical conformity to group norms, and
Passive tolerance of evil through inaction or indifference is a known recipe for disaster
especially in new situations. We also know that having a mind-set of being a hero in
waiting and having the courage to deviate from what's expected, we become able to
act when others are passive. Our thoughts shift from an Ego-centric to a Socio-centric
point of view. Ordinary people become Heroes when their social action is Extra-
Ordinary!
According to Integrated information theory by Giulio Tononi, MD, PhD and
Neuroscientist Christof Koch, every human being integrates and produces data in a
unique way. The human capacity for this ability is like no other state of matter in the
Universe, causing some physicists like Max Tegmark to say our personal
consciousness is a unique state of matter. Combine this fact with the fact that our real-
time data production is some of the most valuable data on the market; we can say that
an individual’s current moment personal experience is the most valuable thing in both
the Universe and finance!

10. Imagine being able to participate in the leading edge of human understanding with
your daily living, optimizing and participating in data mining the ways in which we
clean and share our interpersonal sphere of biological influence. A person can be seen
as a Conscious Entity, a Unique State of Matter capable of integrating and producing
unique information aided by an Entropic Universal Intelligence, a biological entity
designed to interact with perceived Loved Ones in a mutually caring genuine moment
of shared biological positivity, what I call Biological Empathy driven by Altruistic Self-
Mastery, And-or a Generator of Unique Tradable Information in terms of an Economic
Gain and Academic Study. No matter how you choose to define what a person is or
how people are, All these ideas will have to be taken into account.
An individual's family time, play time, time in nature, learning for the sake of
personal interest, creative expression, helping others with any learned skill and most
generally any micro moment of shared positivity can be optimized and subsidized for
profit. We could measure the positive change this has on our human physiology and
place a social value on getting better, for others, in your own way. This unique
information can also be monetized as appropriate; and in combination with
participatory telerobotics and relativistic statistical arbitrage, a person could used their
personal betterment, any free time with a mobile device AND their physical location
to increase steadily money/profit for the public utility or company that provided some
initial subsidy, covering one's living and growth expenses. All while adding meaning
and value to WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU ARE ALREADY DOING. And all the
technology to do this is here now. We can easily make it happen...
I believe that in the near future we will be able to take advantage of our unique ability
as humans endowed with Mathematical Understanding, Physical Intelligence and
Biological Empathy; and render every person important using aspects of both
Relativistic Statistical Arbitrage and Participatory Telerobotics coupled with Optimal
Human Functioning in order to create an environment in which any person regardless
of skill or knowledge can help advance the human condition with effort.
For too long we have scientifically neglected the effects of mindset and emotion as
drivers of our individual and collective well-being. Human Beings need meaning and
mastery in their lives. We need to feel taken care of and that someone else is mutually
benefiting from our actions. Can we develop a coherent science of mindset and
emotion? One that helps people know and use their true value as endowed to them by
the very nature of their mathematical, physical, biological faculties. Such a thing may
be beyond the capacity of science given the computative nature of its design. It is,

11. however, within the purview of each and every individual. It takes persistent Effort
and overcoming Failure to Learn what is Trustworthy. With experience in what is
Trustworthy, there is Transcendence. We will then reach an even greater homeostasis,
only to be topped by tomorrow's efforts.
The Force of Mathematical Understanding is about the production and expansion of
Truth that transcends the previous trustworthy rule(s) in a way that is beyond
calculation yet understandable and useful. Physical Intelligence is an intrinsic force,
operating under previous control and constraints, that maximizes future freedom of
action, keeps options open, and actively resists the control and constraints that gave
rise to the expansion thereby increasing the intelligence and utility of physical
systems. A commonality in all Biological Systems is their ability to take initially very
limited and faulty grown mediums that are produced in abundance, and organizes
them along a sliding scale from ordered, quasi ordered to disordered increasing the
Biological systems utility and range of motion in the long term. Biological Empathetic
Awareness is about fault and imperfection tolerance increasing utility and range of
motion.
Mathematical Understanding, Physical Intelligence and Biological Empathetic
Awareness generate an expansion of the utility of Consciousness that is beyond
calculation, existing within every human being in a density and utility unlike Any
other state or form of Matter in the Cosmos. It is each person's responsibility to work
on their daily practice of understanding, intelligence and empathy. The effort that is
involved in optimizing these three non-computational facets of consciousness is
holding growth mindset and positive interpersonal interaction.
This is Altruistic Self-Mastery.
Does it seem like we are doing everything we can to care for each other? To educate
each other? To love each other? The effort and the hope is there, but we're not really
doing a good job. What we can say for sure is that our mind-set and data-set is missing
key actionable information. Our experience is infringed upon by bad barrels and bad
barrel makers shaping us to act in controlled and predictable ways.
A tidbit of Isness
At best a poetic theoretic observation
Shame, lack of guilt and the lackful limiting assertive authoritative thought patterns
which build 'coherent theories' and fixed mindsets, exacerbate our default mode
network poisoning the potential we have as people built to experience biological

12. empathy. Growing up, all of us in some manner or another acquired neurological
attractors from our environment that caused our brain to down shift in a way that cuts
off our capacity to self-regulate and have empathy. The only way to heal these
attractors is by experiencing an authentic relationship with the one you love, spending
most of your time together, and practicing micro moments of shared positivity with
everyone else! As a society, we can heal this state of fixed consciousness and reclaim
our capacity and responsibility as human beings if and only if we brush up on the
timeless and universal truths of Mathematical Understanding, Physical Intelligence
and Biological Empathetic Awareness combined with a daily practice of Cognitively
Engineering Altruistic Self-Mastery otherwise known as
Cajun Self-Actualization...
A distillation of the pre-celtic aboriginal mindset of Acadie,
a syncretic culture exemplifying optimal human functioning
that suffered from the state-sponsored ethic cleansing
'Le Grand Dérangement'
Goodness and Guidance come from within
Every human being is important, has purpose and meaning, and is no better
than anybody else
The ability to make somethin’ outta nothin’ for whatever we have access to is
more than enough to create what’s needed
Always share! Especially what’s on your heart, heavy or light
Children and Women First
If a problem come up, pas de quoi, let's talk about what we can all do to make it
better.
With all due respect,
Joshua Aaron Terziu

13. greymatterupgrades@gmail.com
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