Inject Your Preferences: Apps and Live websites

[Michael]

Yo,

Share what apps (right now I can do android, but learning) and websites you want live for a more or less permanent basis?

I've just spent a little time figuring out GitHub for the first time, easier than I thought.

That means, I'll be able to keep websites live indefinitely as long as GitHub remains available in a much more stable condition. 

Which one's do you want? I'm going through a phase where I'm testing out the coding abilities of AI, and with that, app and live website generation : now is the time to make requests, as it will only be for a few weeks or so most likely. So whether its the number series game, or some other, please let me know what your preferences are regarding previous applications I've made.

No guarantees, but feel free to share to share ideas as well across the spectrum cognitive training games and otherwise, for example just to encourage others, I just created my own personalized journal suited to my customized needs : for example, I have tabs that are sorted relative to my model of the mind and how my workflow streamlines rather than having to fit into some pre-furbished map that I have no control over. That's pretty cool for me, I've even added in a drawing entry option to every tab. My process is streamlined where I go from "Thought" to "Experiment" to "Adaptations", and I find that works pretty well for me. 

Best,

Michael

[Arnav Latkar]

I don't know. I want to be a genius though. In whatever way is possible through online training 

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[Michael]

Genius really depends on four things (1) your own personal definition (2) your time in history (3) societies definition, which has only moderate value which is why it's not the only thing (4) sciences definition, again, moderate to high level but not total because it's seeking economically optimal understanding.

I would say, just my own 2 cents to give you some ground to work with, in today's age, genius is all about "how". Not "why" that dominates philosophy not "what if" that dominates sci fi, not "what" that dominates science, but "how", that's what more than anything else marries those 4 worlds. My answer is based on the fact that we live not in the tech era but more precisely, the AI era, and genius then, is about maximal leverage of this tool, which doesn't come from pure convergent but integration of lateral, divergent and synthesis based reasoning.

So, that's my 2 cents, with one principle that's primary there, and that is that as much as science is following an economic based optimisation function, so are our brains with respect to how it's training how we should process the world around us, which is why theres such a relativity to the end product of "genius", despite latent potentials. Another reason why my perspective integrates at the nexus of those 4.

My questions for you, are what does genius mean for you? And proportional to the amount you have that dream how can you ground that in a practical reality whereby you're still only led by your own vision which isn't dependent on the need for the approval, admiration or acceptance of the outside but instead by, simply appreciating and making the most of your own humble existence like all the rest of us, that's the secret to remember for our own unique paths for whatever we make of our own personal endeavours here.

That said, after you have answered this question for yourself, what are your ideas for how you can achieve this starting today? Doesn't need to be a grand gesture, but one gesture, leads you down your own path of independence, the sovereignty we are all gifted from birth, another practical reasons for looking after how our minds processes the world.

[Michael]

What I've decided to do regardless is create a cognitive benchmark site.

What I will do as well is reverse engineer latent 'process' of any one individual benchmark as a new take for how a user will reflect on any training they undertake on their default chosen training (i.e. meta-modelling).

I will create the github site by Sunday of next week, after which I will remain open to implementing improvements.

I got GPT5 now, yeah Claude just interestingly totally blocked me out and refunded my money at the same time they blocked me without my requesting, still pending feedback from them on the why heh! I'm a little proud of the fact that GPT5 fails miserably as well at improving not only my latest technique but just either (1) any of them (2) or coming up with anything that's truly original or even remotely close to being as good. Personally, I'd prefer it if it did come up with far better adaptations, but the over hyped reality of GPT5 despite what will be a site with cognitive benchmarks that will be easier for it to make, is just not the reality we live in, unless we take GPT's past stronger hallucinations as an analogy for accurate perception.

I'm not sure what benchmarks I'll have:

1. Backwards forwards digit span n-back makes sense

2. Basic number series n-back maybe

3. I should probably just include the most rudimentary digit spans as well because people love traditional measures as it's what they know?

4. Feel free to drop your benchmark or ideas in general before or after 

[Michael]

Draft: Cognitive Benchmark Site (GPT5).

I'll have to think pretty creatively between now and next Sunday, because GPT5 as I'm just now finding is just super, super good at re-creating pre-existing ideas. Genuinely impressed with its ability to implement pre-existing ideas, AI creativity will obviously take more time in my opinion. 

Try it out, all I simply asked GPT5 was this precise prompt "in HTML create a website that's designed to test a whole range of cognitive benchmarks and finish with an aggregate IQ score". 

And here was the result, again a reminder that only for a test run I've put it on codepen, the final site will be placed on a GitHub link that will always remain available for the end user for as long as GitHub remains accessible. 

https://codepen.io/qvmbioip-the-typescripter/full/ZYbJKjx

Between now and next Sunday (not this coming Sunday) I'll have to generate some new looks, at the very least decide whether or not to have the final 'aggregate IQ score' it spits out, which may or may not be accurate, I haven't put it through proper research filters yet. Best.

Rock out

[Michael]

"What I will do as well is reverse engineer latent 'process' of any one individual benchmark as a new take for how a user will reflect on any training they undertake on their default chosen training (i.e. meta-modelling)."

Aka what I'll be doing that hasn't been done before is not only mapping benchmark to hypothetical process (I.e. meta-modelling) but modelling each executive process to psychological outcome. This is the meeting ground between operational objective and methodological objective or fluid objective and executive objective. Very simply, it enables a user to generate more meta-feedback during the their training session on whether or not they're genuinely trying to max out their output. When we don't have many or sometimes, zero leads on feedback and we're just relying on our intuition, false confidence or just false measurements by our self-awareness are just naturally more common. For example, regarding the reaction time test, "Am I responding to right information as quickly as I can?" vs stroop test, "Am I noticing and responding to logical or stimulus conflict as quickly and as accurately as I can?". 

On the surface, this may seem pretty rudimentary, however when we measure what's going on underneath the hood and compare it with our psychology, we often mistake psychology with self and self with the experiences that are just simply biological outcomes, allowing distortions here far more likely to run rampant with Donald Trump being a great example here, despite many of his strengths. Thus, meta-feedback will act as a modelling between benchmark cognitive test as employed like the example site in the previous comment and self-monitoring of their same analogous operational objectives in the training technique (i.e.  meta-modelling), thereby creating an opportunity for the intersection between executive function self-monitoring and technique to be leveraged for max output. 

Breath-back variant of meta-modelling compared to Tiktok alone for example (see other thread to catch the line on meta-modelling), generally both requires and facilitates self-awareness, by not only being aware of the abstract mapping between measured benchmark cognitive process and self-monitoring of the optimal recruitment of underlying function their in training, self-awareness by its very definition is much less likely to self-hallucinate performance like a GPT does and instead make adaptations converted into meaningful gains within training sessions. That said, this is why it makes sense to be prudent about the composite of benchmark tasks employed so that we achieve that best conversion rate between abstract mapping between task and self-monitoring process. So again, either before or after "Sunday-Week", share whatever other tasks you can think of, take a gander at the cognitive benchmark site I made with GPT 5 just previous, and we'll move things to completion after this time and have something comprehensive with respect to both task and abstract mappings irrespectively. 

Thank you for your time, best wishes.

[Michael]

[ EDIT ] Dang phone.

Be as imaginative as you want.

I'm right now creating a syllogistic reading span test for example.

How I came up with this was by reflecting on when I trained on syllogisms a lot more some time back. One observation I made there was just the insane reading speed I had back then. I kid you not, I was reading and comprehensively synthesizing a book a day when I was really rocking it.

Lastly, what I'll be tweaking between now and the first iterative release is an aggregate self awareness score rather than an IQ score.

That's a lot more practical.

I'll promise to be more imaginative between now and the first release but it's totally true, with one caveat being that I trained with the associative pairing I've taught in the past, so not in the usual way.

[Michael]

Case Study Experimental Example - https://codepen.io/qvmbioip-the-typescripter/full/qEOXXXX

Let's see where it is by "Sunday-week". Otherwise thats it from me. As one self-awareness metric I add to the TikTok variant of meta-modelling, I only allow myself "one breath per video", any more time and I'm not placing enough pressure on myself as I'm more likely to overestimate how much time I need rather than underestimate. Moreover it's my backdoor self-awareness trick to get a reading on precisely how I'm performing in precisely the way I'm designing the performance metric of two posts ago. Intersecting reading span with syllogism span as an experimental progress metric with meta-modelling, is a solid, solid move in light of the progress I formerly made as expressed.

Let's see what the before and after will be

Best

[Michael]

Not words I never thought I'd express, but TikTok, albeit I am a new user, actually made me tear-up while meta-modelling. Its because you're analysing things on such a profoundly deep level, and pushing further, across parallel processing stretching however long your n-video-back is, picking up on and generating patterns on life and humanity at large. Combined with the automatic continuous self-questioning upon personal biases, inner conflict-stimulus resolutions and generalised perception, existentially, your identity has no choice but to evolve relative to the depth of the "complexity catharsis" that's achieved. Certainly one of the sub-goals of the action, it reflects high synergy as well between, cognition, emotion, identity and reality resolution routines. Haha. Peace out

That's a big hint to those interested in taking their training to the next level, start the learning curve today on meta-modelling. Rock out

[Michael]

Testing out GPT5's new 'agent AI' capacities.

To conclude in advance, this is the kind of task I'd be looking to incorporate as one of the benchmarks as a means of priming the right circuits in their personal learning phase of meta-modelling. 

Here's the best training task it could create in the mapping between relational reasoning and fluid intelligence and its subsequent training.

Any tuning that needs to be done will be completed by "Sunday-week" - https://codepen.io/qvmbioip-the-typescripter/full/dPYzJPW

An educational read below.

Here's the paper that the agent wrote.

https://chatgpt.com/s/6896da2c8f44819186ee2b0b3858562e

[Michael]

Yeah (see just above), this will likely be the best benchmark test and as stated, primer (or otherwise an actual genuine cognitive training task for beginners as some will certainly use it as, and that's perfectly fine of course).

We're all very lucky, this is great.

I'm forcing a user to choose 'match/no-match' as a way of forcing constant engagement. Learning curve will happen faster.

 Rock solid. 

[Michael]

I'll continue to improve any variant as I go along but please, share any errors, improvements however creative. Thank you!

[Michael]

Update/Repost ----> Apex will be ready to go in a few hours, more tweaks needed:

After being requested to provide some feedback on this variant, I have now created a permanently live site for Apex (with new updates) - https://ailivinlove.github.io/Apex/

You can just sit back, relax and let your imagination wonder now rather than having to stare at a screen. Moreover, I express this with the newly applied update of adding "Pause between relations in the same premise (ms): 6000" (a really great feature) as a customizable option for users now. I realise that before I should have added it, well, now I have. Please let me know if you'd like me to increase the customizability in any direction including adding more range to that timer. 

Let me know if you can spot any errors and I'll get right on it!

By the way, if anyone's looking for inclusions or adaptations to meta-modelling without a doubt the all in one package is definitely Apex 

You see I've thought about it a lot, and the only thing to really include that genuinely amps meta-modelling is cross-contextual reasoning and negation/contradiction. But they're so difficult to keep up, the fact that Apex has them already built in and there's only advantages to associating generated stimuli with the symbols of Apex, makes it not only a worthwhile inclusion but arguably a better or complementary primer to the matrices like relational reasoning game (which still needs to be improved in my view by the way) shared a few posts back. 

Best wishes, please share your own ideas with complete freedom, there's no need to hold back I'm open to anything and we'll soon have a full suite that's compact, organised and ready for deployment for everyone and anyone to use as a completely open source project.

Cheers!

On Monday, August 11, 2025 at 6:16:16 PM UTC+10 Michael wrote:

By the way, if anyone's looking for inclusions or adaptations to meta-modelling without a doubt the all in one package is definitely Apex 

You see I've thought about it a lot, and the only thing to really include that genuinely amps meta-modelling is cross-contextual reasoning and negation/contradiction. But they're so difficult to keep up, the fact that Apex has them already built in and there's only advantages to associating generated stimuli with the symbols of Apex, makes it not only a worthwhile inclusion but arguably a better or complementary primer to the matrices like relational reasoning game (which still needs to be improved in my view by the way) shared a few posts back. 

Best

On Monday, August 11, 2025 at 5:52:17 PM UTC+10 Michael wrote:

After being requested to provide some feedback on this variant, I have now created a permanently live site for Apex (with new updates) - https://ailivinlove.github.io/Apex/

You can just sit back, relax and let your imagination wonder now rather than having to stare at a screen. Moreover, I express this with the newly applied update of adding "Pause between relations in the same premise (ms): 6000" (a really great feature) as a customizable option for users now. I realise that before I should have added it, well, now I have. Please let me know if you'd like me to increase the customizability in any direction including adding more range to that timer. 

Let me know if you can spot any errors and I'll get right on it!

Best wishes, please share your own ideas with complete freedom, there's no need to hold back I'm open to anything and we'll soon have a full suite that's compact, organised and ready for deployment for everyone and anyone to use as a completely open source project.

Cheers!

[Michael]

God that was annoying heh, finally got it going, range of voices to choose from. Best. 

[Michael]

Voices need better alignment (male/female mixup in some instances) but overall not bad for Apex, otherwise I've changed time per trial to time per premise, I thought that'd make it flexible and easier. 

Any adjustments let me know, however practical the better, however creative though... the mind-blowing. 

Thank you for your time.

Best.

[Michael]

1. Logic of matches concerning Apex corrected. 
2. Will make all cognitive tests available on one GitHub hosted site 
3. Updates will still arrive until perfected following posting of first full draft

4. Will be continue to be open to alternate ideas / citing of errors

5. Will likely repost this thread after the first draft of the site has passed enough improvement feedback loops. 

Thanks!

Rock out

[Michael]

This link will be updated as we move forward - https://ailivinlove.github.io/CogniVolution/

[Michael]

Real beginners struggling with Apex, I bring you "Imagi-world", a place that is for now the Instruction House for the relational mapping technique I created and have shared piecemeal before.

Genuine beginners to Apex and my mapping technique just jump straight to "Instructions" once you make your way to the link right below.

https://ailivinlove.github.io/Imagi-world/

The goal of my mapping technique which "Imagi-world" consolidates, is to convert imagination into a dual aim of relational reasoning training. I will go more into this Nov 1st. For those that believe themselves to be ready for Apex, please refer to the following link https://ailivinlove.github.io/Apex/ . Apex having now received a full redesign, is without a doubt next level and along with Imagi-world will be periodically updated between now and November 1st.

For any suggestions, improvements, feedback, etc, feel free to chime in.

On Wednesday, August 6, 2025 at 12:14:35 PM UTC+10 Arnav Latkar wrote:

[Michael]

I won’t be posting on November 1st.

I was going to make a deep theoretical post on relational reasoning in the context of ontological mapping in part as a way to motivate users. However I think these kinds of posts may just be a distraction.

I will continue to update Imagi-World and Apex as needed.

I’d love to hear about peoples breakthroughs concerning any of the applications in the future.’

Especially the changes you’ve personally noticed in yourself overtime. That’s the best way to motivate and create interest in this cognitive developmental path. As sharing your experiences indirectly mentors people through the struggles they face through the challenges. As you grow and change, your identity will shift and new aspects of your personality will reveal themselves. By journaling your changes and personal growth, it gives you an opportunity to help drive the curiosity of people in the future by establishing a vision they can follow and contribute to their own.

I’ve decided that in order to preserve the integrity of my own objectivity, I will refrain from sharing my own journey myself. I am open to alternative perspectives where annd if I’m available to comment at all, my rigidity won’t extend past simply doing what I think!properly serves a purpose. Instead I believe that where needed, I can just answer practical questions, upgrade the games and their directions, as well as be a partial guide where needed. Stay driven. Rock out. 

[Michael]

And when there’s more interest I’ll share more strategies that are investments in an easier time and playing while being more bang for your buck when it comes to training. Especially for Imagi-World intermediates, I recommend all things being equal outside of fertile/peak periods just jumping to Apex when you start your training and when it hits the right spot between you’ve had enough and experiencing enough variation in stimuli including the novel associations you generate, jump to Imagi-World. Imagi-World forces you to generate your own stimuli, that can naturally be difficult especially when you’re just starting out. Sure you can start off with known stimuli, “chair, car, car, comedy, etc”, however in order to grow, part of developing your pattern recognition is going to be in the invention of stimuli that all things being equal, you’ve never seen before and perhaps, is the first time a human has ever thought that thought, especially in its exact dimensions. 

Part of what I meant when I made the statement “new parts of your personality will emerge”, is because your ability to categorise your own states i.e. consciousness states, will be uniquely yours relative to your unique time in space given it’s you experiencing it at that position and your past experiences and ability to create future ones, uniquely defines that intersection which deserves its own personal language. This naturally evolves recursion from newly realised state to awareness to differentiate it to new personal language to self reference which impacts future patterns along and connected to the same path.  I won’t go deeper on that now, this is for your own personal discovery, I just wanted to cement the importance of the user in generating their own patterns, their own stimuli, as far and as wide as they want to take them, degrees of abstraction say is one axes among others that adds to ones training. 

By starting off with Apex, or reading a new book, reading lots of different research articles, you load and prime the subconscious mind with information to recall in your “medium-term-memory” (I’m surprised this isn’t a term) to forge novel associations both between those experienced stimuli relative to what’s recalled and your pre-existing static and creative memory that’s fluid with the prefrontal cortex say. Overtime, I will add more and more ranges of stimuli to Apex to make this more strategically viable. For now, you have the consistent variability in combined stimuli, the analogies you forge from the underlying patterns, and the meeting ground across n-level and number of premises. 

I will leave it there as a very brief introduction to strategic amplification of training that aids growth. When there’s more interest and people have invested the time to experience some growth to talk about, that will be a good time to drop back in and help extend the developmental vectors for training and chosen applications applications. Prior to that, let’s end this with a final note on “Logic can take you from A to B but imagination can take you anywhere”, and we alll know this quote. This may be true, however imagination relies on the bindings of logic, to see and reference the growth of imagination. They self-reference each others growth, and together, they grow the awareness that facilities new experiences for consciousness that help move us down our own unique evolutionary path. Perhaps an improvement to that quote, though who am I to correct Einstein, “Imagination may take us anywhere, but relationality (i.e. logic) of those experiences can take us everywhere”. This naturally connecting with Da Vinci’s “Everything connects with everything else”. Just to tie the knot on understanding by reminding us of great minds that RR be al to us through example what is possible for many more minds than what people would believe is possible.

Genuine journaling on potential intelligence growth therefore is not just the rigid procedural act of measuring and recording stats for cognitive metrics, that’s a vital focus, however it isn’t independent to changes in one’s psychology, from self awareness to stages of ego development to the ability in facilitating transcendent states. Other areas become intrinsically important because they become a part of the motivational recursion of training itself, imbuing it with the purpose that drives people to want to train and continue to train on the first place, transforming the primitivity of mere yard stick measurement and comparison, to a holistic effort where documentation more broadly benefits both the memory of self and the memory of the community progress and insights are shared with to transform a mere yard stick into its own sub-domain of human experience that intersects more than just multiple subjects of personal development. 

Cheers in advance when you’re ready to share an anecdote, it really helps the community and helps the people addicted to traditional n-back to move to its next evolutionary product, Imagi-World, and further, Apex. You’ll be doing them a favour by giving them a lighthouse to start thinking about, and it builds the in-roads as stated for what can progress perspectives in the future. Traditional n-back will always have its benefits, but those benefits are very limited, and the path is very certain now on what genuinely opens up the runaway in this area of personal development, relational reasoning, and I’ve attempted to add to that with what I believe to be a fuller answer to that connection by incorporating the imagination as a serious lever in the discussion.

Best.

[Michael]

My gut instinct is I just confused some people with the extra technique + theory [  I did it again  ] . It was an on the fly post on my miniature iPhone in a shopping mall. For those that the post genuinely reaches, the post is in your inbox anyway if you're subscribed to the group. For everyone else, I'll instead just change the Nov 1st date to Jan 1st, generating a post that synthesises everything into one clear introduction so there's no room for confusion. I'll undoubtedly come up with many other ideas between now and then that make that post certainly worthwhile. I do actually have a further extra technique beyond the one now in some users inbox which couples well in completing a curve that starts out emphasising bandwidth (unbounded patterned reasoning outside of pairing to a meta-loop), meeting in breadth of parallel relational narrative (unbounded narratives bounded by interconnected axes) and ending in the extra emphasis of compression (bounded synthesis based reasoning - introduced Jan 1st). Between now and then however I will also ground a training script from a beginners perspective in the same post, building a foundation on the intersection between n-back, consciousness streaming techniques and basic relational reasoning. This is foresight on reducing the signal to noise ratio concerning new readers to these ideas that are looking to build their understanding on how everything connects, building everything bottom up and ending with a cognitive 'price point', aka the practical level and kind of training beginners will need to have a reality check with themselves on if they want to make genuine progress rather than just 'dabble'. 

[Michael]

For intermediates (only) looking for one more solid jump right between Imagi-World and Apex. Follow the same exact process learned in imagi-world, when you're really solid at generating novel abstractions, associating them to the symbols and using the symbols as abstract not spatial directions in Imagi-World just as you will do in this newly made Imagi‑World +Plus https://ailivinlove.github.io/Imagi-World-Plus/ and analogously apply in Apex, then jump to it, not before. And once again, they're complementary (I rotate now, including on the newly mentioned technique that as stated in the prv entered your email and will be re-opened up for sharing January 1st - I've synthesised the abstract complements that makes it very difficult to ignore the argument for rotation) but once you've truly integrated Imagi‑World +Plus, you can let go of Imagi-World of course. We'll continue to solidify updates from experimentation between now and then for all variants with no exception to Imagi-World +Plus. Give the n-logic-matches at least a 'rough week' before correct logic-matches are solidified for +Plus, and yeah, that timer is a bit out right at the beginning, that'll come good. It's not smart of me to tinker around with the original beginners Imagi-World too much, keep it as a beginners white belt, then just have the green belt (+Plus) as its own unique option. I'm not going to bother explaining or adding instructions to +Plus, you should have learned that in Imagi-World and if you haven't engaged with them, you don't understand how to do +Plus. However I will mention one thing that isn't obvious to our learned folk, using "C rotate 45 U from E" that 45 is of course '45 degrees'. Yes, you've got that right for those in the know, this one's a real abstract head spinner heh, as it should be to prep for Apex's harsher Jupiter orbit and Mars habitation. Avoid assumptions. Best wishes, and that'll do me until Jan 1st. I'm not unhappy with this share, its a solid. The previous share though would just confuse true beginners, and I think paving a harsher environment for Imagi-World smooths out confusion on the jump between Imagi-World and Apex. Good luck space cadets.

[hello how low]

Michael, do you have ideas how to improve ones working memory capacity? I've been stuck doing Dual 3-Back for an enormous amount of time. My corsi span is 5-6 and digit span is 5.

[Michael]

Go here "hello how low" to practice Imagi-World:  

https://groups.google.com/g/brain-training/c/QjO9e7N2n8s/m/2PI3W8fTAAAJ

I've got more goodies coming in January 1st that I've never shared, it'll be a level between Imagi-World and Imagi-World Plus that is arguably definitely better than the latter right now. However "Plus" is obviously purely in experimental mode and I think that, even though this other variant that's newly coming has a colossal engine, "Plus" will probably end up with a much higher ceiling. By the way for all the Imagi-World users, Imagi-World is still extremely valuable even when you dial down the abstraction. Because its so adaptive, you can take a subject from scratch, like martial arts, and just start associating moves while you're practicing martial arts with the letter and watch yourself generate new moves by comparison, contrast and juxtaposition, essentially learning a subject from the ground up as an echo to the transformations  (associations to letters to operations between letter-association pairings) generated across trials. Go from martial arts, to poetry to advanced math; its really up to you, and its an advantage you're given if choose to give yourself that positive leverage against an alternate self that didn't get the same opportunity with only a bit of practice.

That said, Imagi-World has no ceiling concerning abstract pairings, only with the complexity of parameters, the world of Imagi, really is up to the world of your imagination and how daring your will is to abstract connections at that height. Otherwise this next level between Imagi-World and Plus will just reflect a tightening of reasoning parameters that force interplay between reasoning across nuances and reasoning gymnastics. In the first instance with Imagi 1, we have complexity arising from analogical juxtaposition, from the second let's call it for now Imagi 2, arises from analytical juxtaposition and from the third, where Plus is heading slowly towards more perfected territory, complexity arises from transformational juxtaposition. Imagi 1 sets the abstract tone, Imagi 2 takes that learned associative abstraction and forces you to become an engineer in your transpositions, and then the third loosens the grip a little bit while leveraging your analytical lessons learned to hone your attention towards ascending your abstract capacities where you didn't hit them with Imagi or the next; so forcing higher abstraction if you weren't already there in your letter-associative pairings. Just a draft (for example I haven't brought up Apex as you can see), and I'm probably only 15% there, it'll be a lot of fun to share on January 1st.

Best wishes, no more questions answered until Jan 1st,

Michael

[Michael Taylor]

No, not really. Everything I've ever heard, is to just.keep at it with Dual N Back, until you finally break thrpugh.your plateaus. The only.other.thing, I suppose, would be.some.good supplements.to help you focus,.alertness and.cognition.

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Michael, do you have ideas how to improve ones working memory capacity? I've been stuck doing Dual 3-Back for an enormous amount of time. My corsi span is 5-6 and digit span is 5.

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[Michael]

Finally figured out meta. No new game needed. Arguably as ferocious as Apex. Solution.. Staring me in the face. Usually how it goes heh. New comers, this is an update. Meaning, Imagi-world has been previously shared. And, its kind of a big deal. Navy SEALS get that. Any edits needed, between now-and Jan 1st. Request if more instructions are needed.

Imagi-world gone meta is now live - https://ailivinlove.github.io/Imagi-world/

[howdy]

Michael, I think I accidentally sent you a private message instead of public one

[Michael]

No problem howdy, best of luck in your progress to level 7 as you say sir! Aim for tiny progress each 1-3 days. And be excited for each of those moments. Don't expect anything more. In doing so, you'll not only keep up with your training. You'll vastly exceed any alternative expectations you may have otherwise set. Including those when our expectations are set too high, making recovery from doubt more difficult. By obsessing over small progress, you become a genius at progression. And before you know it, you've not only exceeded external expectations, you've exceeded your own. And the latter, that will bring you more satisfaction from the endeavour than anything else. Obsession with triviality in improvement feedback loops, is the attention to detail that leads to the breakthrough you least expected.

Regards,

Michael

https://ailivinlove.github.io/Imagi-world/

(Selective editing of stages until January 1st)

[Michael]

(apologies for typos heh! ~ Rebooted ~)

And just to add (post just prv.), hopefully its useful and for anyone just tell me if its not:

Have a vision for your life (and or dream) not a fixed vision for your training or destination from training. Determine squarely how the training fits in with your vision for your life (i.e. where you want to be in the future), accurately, and you’ll give yourself the best chance for success in both. A vision for training falls into alignment, flexibly from that point, that way you can adjust training as needed to serve your more important life vision that brings genuine meaning to your existence. If you make training an end unto itself however, it opens the chances of future regret for time wasted by a pretty wide margin. 

See for me, my concern was healing from my seizures amidst the undercurrent of my epilepsy, so my vision for training fell into alignment with that desire for healing. If I prioritised a vision for training instead that wasn't in alignment with my vision for life, or instead pushed myself because of a vision I had  purely for cognitive training, there's going to be a misplacement of priorities and because of that, a missing of opportunities for things that were actually meaningful, and each of us have different metrics for what we gauge as genuinely meaningful or less meaningful. And anecdotally at present, yes, my training is helping me recover a little more each day, in alignment in the same way I described it in my previous post, and here, adjusting my training and its potential for improvement, to fall in alignment with that and other visions I have. 

As a starting rubric for those that struggle building a life vision or developing any kind of dream for what they want to accomplish, what tends to work for me is this five-pronged approach, sometimes even less in the case of just recovering from seizures as I say:

(1) What impact does the vision have from the vision looking back (i.e. stable life? better social network? living longer? helping others?)?

(2) How does the vision make me feel having in the moment and across time compared to other visions? 

(3) Who and what is the vision genuinely serving in the moment and from the future looking back?
- Now this is a different question to the first. This is where I would place the vision for example of healing from my seizures. And if I can say, come up with slight or better improvements for those that manage epilepsy, then in part but not yet proven to myself, I can then say the vision is also in service to other people struggling with epilepsy, and that's when the vision would start to then have a chance of meaningfully overlapping with and potentially being one of the visions, for question one.

(4) How does this vision actually lead to better enabling me to take in more and the most of life for what little time I have in this existence?

(5) Are you prepared to die for this vision? 

- This is somewhat of a controversial question, and for that reason I don't want to create much of a dialogue on it, I will however just say that there is a "common-sense" element to it that I think most people can relate to, and therefore where the value is from that question, is where a person with a common-sense perception will take away and be able to meaningfully apply to their lives and their quest to designing meaningful life visions for themselves. 

This is why a vision for cognitive training becomes just one of the pieces of the puzzle, however core that piece of the puzzle is, that falls into alignment with these higher visions, even if its just one genuinely meaningful and well-thought out vision someone has created for themselves. 

Regards,

Michael

https://ailivinlove.github.io/Imagi-world/

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[Michael]

Level 8 is now live.

Likely the last addition. 

After enough training on level 8 you should be more than capable to make the recursive training purely internal. 

Dynamic recursive complexity over at least two (trial + session) temporal spaces  is what you're after for a full internal suite, which I have not yet personally mastered and I doubt any human really has, moreover once you can you'll be able to establish much more temporal space depth. This makes level 9 redundant, and increasing number of levels should be economical.  

Level 8 is true inventors territory.

Regards,

Michael

https://ailivinlove.github.io/Imagi-world/

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Navigated through main interface, button named "Da Vinci does Imagi-world"  has now been newly added.

After becoming a comfortable beginner, learn to apply cross-domain reasoning process.

Facilitates user generated analogical patterns that remain novel and non-memorisable via cross-domain emphases, Da Vinci inspired of course. 

As levels increase, it becomes increasingly more difficult not to generate novel and non-memorisable patterns,  these two strategy-silencing features are integral to any serious cognitive training approach. 

Level 9 is just for play in modelling the limits of Da Vinci's cross-domain abilities via operational transformation (mappings), however who knows, by January 1st it may very well become a level that's taken seriously after enough mastery or at the very least, a novel way to approach level 9, and perhaps even level 8, is achieved and or invented. 

Regards,

Michael

https://ailivinlove.github.io/Imagi-world/

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Okay I've figured it out. By January 1st, level 7 onwards will just increase in number of dimensions not directions (comparatively). Solved.

Regards,

Michael

https://ailivinlove.github.io/Imagi-world/

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[howdy]

I procrastinated a lot and didn't start practicing. Mainly because I was afraid of doing not very well(I have a rough idea of ​​how to handle it, but it was still challenging).

This exercise isn't easy for me yet, but I've already gone from 20 seconds to 15. I do it for short periods of 10-20 minutes, not every day. I hope to get more involved in the practice in the future, as I find it interesting and unique. So far, there haven't been any changes; obviously, I haven't been practicing enough. But sometimes when I hear a word or concept, I want to run it through the Imagi-Compass.

That's all for now, more to come.

[Michael]

Hi Howdy,

For my epilepsy (impacts of seizures not necessarily susceptibility to seizures), I train for at least 2 hours a day now. 

Yes Howdy, I wouldn't recommend increasing the levels until you're able to complete the lower levels at 3 seconds or below. Believe me, you will continue to notice a considerable difference the closer you get there. The difference between solving them between 3 seconds and 1 seconds has many real world consequences that I take seriously as well. 

Recent updates have occurred just now I'm sure some will appreciate. 

Best wishes Howdy. 

Regards,

Michael

https://ailivinlove.github.io/Imagi-world/

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[howdy]

Hi, Michael. Yes, I'll increase the time, but I'm also doing popular things like RRT, N-Back, CCT (Apasat), and Posner. I didn't do it in one day, I spread it out over the week.
It’s hard for me to even imagine how a person can do this in 1-3 seconds for a long time (1-2 hours). For me, it now seems exhausting and intense

Have you now decided to implement all your ideas in one application (will the apex ideas be the highest levels here)?

[Michael]

That's great Howdy, I wish you well in all endeavours. Otherwise, only if you're willing I'm sure everyone would love to learn what other kinds of RRT (relational reasoning training - if I have your right) you're doing, perhaps they'd be useful ideas to implement in some way into Imagi-world. Also if you have any connections or ideas you'd like to share that you believe may be compatible with Imagi-world either as a part of or as a separate level to imagi-world please do share.

As it stands, Imagi-world is in its totality grounded in generating premises that test and train relational reasoning across n-back levels, it will not stretch outside this inclusive of the Da Vinci styled cross-domain mapping that as stated is a core foundation to the training itself, something that I'd argue accounts for at least 50% of potential benefits after enough fluency is reached. Concerning Apex, at present, it seems an endeavour that lives outside the threshold right now of not only most people but practically including it beyond mastering Imagi-World as a game, in my understanding of its theory and in bringing them together as a modality for cognitive training. So for now, Apex will be revisited next year, but will remain accessible to train on at its present state between now and when I re-begin its implementation as a potential candidate for stretching our brain whiskers. 

Furthermore, for anyone that has any potential ideas they believe may be candidates for improving Imagi-world, again we'd all love to hear.

Thank you for your time Howdy.

Regards,

Michael

https://ailivinlove.github.io/Imagi-world/

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[Michael]

Just doing some spring cleaning on the game as well, so apologies regarding some short term lapses in accessibility. 

I've decided to remove levels 8-9 (installed Jan 1st after enough iterations) and levels 1-2 (but you can customise premises to just 1 if you want) and resetting the defaults from 1-4 or 5 or whatever I decide on regarding amount of levels. I am forcing level 1 to be a minimum of 2 premises, just to reset the minds expectations on what it thinks is suitable for proper training. I would rather someone spend 20-60 seconds at the beginning on something comparable to two premises at the beginning rather than one just to bring enough contrast to the game compared to the autopilots 'go-to thersholds' that it rarely goes beyond. It may seem too much at the beginning, which is why the customisable options will remain, however after you get beyond that point and into feeling it become normal, you'll reset to a new default of inner-reflection that you'll be glad you went through the initial mud on to taste the brew.

Regards,

Michael

https://ailivinlove.github.io/Imagi-world/

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[Michael]

After much trial and error, hours later, we have the final set until January 1st.

This will be my final message until then, any future updates you want will be deeply considered but if they are released, will only be visible January 1st. This is because I am taking a little time away from the internet now that we're into the holiday season, while still putting in the training.

In advance, enjoy the rest of your year and best wishes for the new years celebrations. 

Regards,

Michael

https://ailivinlove.github.io/Imagi-world/

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