Unlocking Your Potential: The Path of L2 Humans

Thinking types

• Visual: weakness is Pattern
• Pattern: weakness is Verbal
• Verbal: weakness is Visual

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Introduction:

• Emphasize that the organization is by and for L2 humans, offering knowledge, support, and a no-nonsense approach to self-development and self-understanding.
• Highlight the goal of creating a community that embraces individuality, explores the potential of L2 humans, and fosters personal growth.

Understanding L2 Humans:

• Explain the concept of L2 humans, their increased node density, and the impact it has on cognitive abilities.
• Discuss the trade-offs associated with L2 biology, such as slower processing speeds and enhanced verbal comprehension.
• Highlight the scientifically supported connection between L2 biology, brain structures, and conditions like autism.

The Curriculum:

• Describe the organization’s curriculum, which takes a practical approach to alchemy and magick, focusing on the application of knowledge without supernatural beliefs.
• Emphasize the relevance of classical literature, including religious texts like the Bible, to provide historical and cultural context and encourage critical thinking.
• Explain the use of mythology as a mnemonic basis for understanding the procession of constellations and celestial bodies.
• Discuss the organization’s exploration of cosmology, from classical beliefs to modern scientific theories, culminating with the search for a grand unified theory.

Meditation and Self-Development:

• Highlight the importance of meditation, specifically dhyana, zazen, and kinhin, in promoting self-awareness, emotional regulation, and overall well-being.
• Emphasize the documented scientific evidence linking meditation to changes in brain structures, including the amygdala, to counteract potential drawbacks associated with L2 biology.
• Discuss how meditation practices can effectively reduce anxiety and enhance focus for individuals with autism or ADHD.

Language and Programming Curriculum:

• Explain the organization’s focus on languages, including classical languages (Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit), as tools for enhancing cognitive abilities and fostering a deeper understanding of cultural heritage.
• Highlight the relevance of programming languages as prerequisites for navigating the modern world and space exploration.
• Emphasize how enhanced language processing abilities among L2 humans make these disciplines particularly suited for their development and growth.

Conclusion:

• Summarize the organization’s mission to empower L2 humans through a scientifically grounded curriculum, meditation practices, and language/programming education. Highlight the community aspect, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment for L2 individuals and those who care about them.
• Encourage readers to explore further and join the organization’s community for continued growth and shared experiences.

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“L2 humans” is a concept taken from fiction.

“Jason Andrews – Son of Jane Sykes Andrews, grandson of Cara Sykes, Jason is a pilot and a bit of an adrenaline junkie. He is also one of the first few humans to exhibit the natural L2 mutation, which means that the axons—neural pathways—in his brain have a significantly higher number of nodes than a normal L0 human. They function as signal boosters, which allow him to process information at lightning speeds, and give him much faster reflexes than unaugmented humans have.

Tobi – One of the uplifted cats bred by Jane Sykes Andrews as companion pets for families living in habitats and on ships. Tobi helped Tobias accompany Jason, carrying his core around in her harness, since AIs cannot embed inside an L2 human.”

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In reality:

• we have slower processing speeds, which correlate with other benefits.
• there are no known studies evaluating the embeddability of Neuralink technology into neurodivergent physiologies
• embeddable General AIs do not yet exist

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Sources

• Possible genetic factor causing increased axon branching co-occuring with normal IQ

  “Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are heritable neurodevelopmental disorders affecting communication and behavior, and can include impaired intellectual ability. ASD is believed to result from altered synapse function and gene regulation. Among high-risk ASD genes, ANK2 is of particular interest since ANK2 mutations with an ASD diagnosis can occur with normal IQ. Here, we report that ASD ANK2 mutation in mice results in increased axon branching and ectopic connectivity associated with penetrant impairment in selected communicative and social behaviors combined with superior executive function. Thus, gain of axon branching is a candidate cellular mechanism to explain aberrant structural connectivity and dominantly inherited behavior that are compatible with normal intelligence and potentially can contribute to ASD and other forms of neurodiversity.” source

• Increased volume, same density of gray matter

  “The team did not find differences in gray-matter density at the whole-brain level or in individual regions. But the autistic participants had greater gray-matter volume overall. This is also the case in regions known to be different in people with autism, such as the superior temporal cortex, which is involved in language processing.” source

• Possible genetic factors causing increased neurons

  “Postmortem examination of ASD brains has revealed global changes including disorganized gray and white matter, increased number of neurons, decreased volume of neuronal soma, and increased neuropil, the last reflecting changes in densities of dendritic spines, cerebral vasculature and glia. Both cortical and non-cortical areas show region-specific abnormalities in neuronal morphology and cytoarchitectural organization, with consistent findings reported from the prefrontal cortex, fusiform gyrus, frontoinsular cortex, cingulate cortex, hippocampus, amygdala, cerebellum and brainstem. The paucity of postmortem human studies linking neuropathology to the underlying etiology has been partly addressed using animal models to explore the impact of genetic and non-genetic factors clinically relevant for the ASD phenotype. Genetically modified models include those based on well-studied monogenic ASD genes (NLGN3, NLGN4, NRXN1, CNTNAP2, SHANK3, MECP2, FMR1, TSC1/2), emerging risk genes (CHD8, SCN2A, SYNGAP1, ARID1B, GRIN2B, DSCAM, TBR1), and copy number variants (15q11-q13 deletion, 15q13.3 microdeletion, 15q11-13 duplication, 16p11.2 deletion and duplication, 22q11.2 deletion)” source

• Slower processing speed coupled with high verbal comprehension

  “Similarly, self, parent, and teacher reports of anxiety increased with FSIQ (all p<0.05) in autistic individuals, in striking opposition to the ameliorating effect of FSIQ seen in non-autistic individuals. We uncovered a pattern of decreased processing speed (PS) coupled with very high verbal comprehension (VC), a PS/VC discrepancy, that was associated with autism, inattention, and internalizing problems. Similar cognitive-behavioral links were also observed in the ABCD study. Finally, we found a significant association between the PS/VC discrepancy and polygenic risk for autism in the ABCD sample (t=2.9, p=0.004).” source

• Amygdala overgrowth

  “The amygdala — a brain structure enlarged in two-year-old children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) — begins its accelerated growth between 6 and 12 months of age, suggests a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The amygdala is involved in processing emotions, such as interpreting facial expressions or feeling afraid when exposed to a threat. The findings indicate that therapies to reduce the symptoms of ASD might have the greatest chance of success if they begin in the first year of life, before the amygdala begins its accelerated growth.” source

• Strong Forms of Intuition in Autism

  “Social-cognitive skills can take different forms, from accurately predicting individuals’ intentions, emotions, and thoughts (person perception or folk psychology) to accurately predicting social phenomena more generally. Past research has linked autism spectrum (AS) traits to person perception deficits in the general population. We tested whether AS traits also predict poor accuracy in terms of predicting generalized social phenomena, assessed via participants’ accuracy at predicting social psychological phenomena (e.g., social loafing, social projection, group think). We found the opposite. In a sample of ∼6,500 participants in 104 countries, AS traits predicted slightly higher social psychological skill. A second study with 400 participants suggested that heightened systemizing underlies this relationship. Our results indicate that AS traits relate positively to a form of social cognitive skill—predicting social psychological phenomena—and highlight the importance of distinguishing between divergent types of social cognition.” source

• Training Intuition

  “As intuitive thinking is fast and deliberative thinking is slow, this research manipulated the time available to complete a series of reasoning questions. These questions have been developed to have intuitive answers (which are incorrect) and deliberative answers (which are correct). For the first time, a fast time manipulation (you must answer quickly) and slow (you must think about your answer before responding) was undertaken with autistic individuals. Autistic participants did produce more deliberative answers than the non-autistic participants. However, both groups produced comparably more intuitive answers and less deliberative answers in the fast condition. This shows that while autistic people tend not to use their intuition, autistic people can be encouraged to use their intuition.” source

• Intuition in Savantism

  “The previously proposed hypothesis on the astrocyte mega-domains of autistic savantism is here further elaborated with regard to the faculty of intuition. Two mechanisms may essentially be responsible for the intuition of autistic savantism. First, the increased number of contacted synapses via the astrocyte processes enables the brain to generate a comprehensive perception of a scene in the environment. Second, to inhibit a further reflection process neuronal synapses responsible for pertinent information must be rejected by retraction of the same astrocyte processes. This second mechanism may exert the disconnections of neuronal systems and is experimentally verified. Therefore, the break-off of further social contacts may also be necessary. The testing of the hypothesis in living brains is difficult but at least partly possible in post-mortem brains.” source

• Pattern Recognition

  “The brain regions in question are called the temporal and occipital areas, and are associated with perception and recognition of patterns.

A new review of multiple studies determined that people with an autism spectrum disorder tend to have more brain activity in these regions, and less brain activity in frontal brain regions associated with planning and decision-making.

The studies provide evidence that people with autism tend to perform strongly on visual tasks , said researcher Laurent Mottron of the Centre for Excellence in Pervasive Development Disorders at the University of Montreal.

The studies show that people with autism “have larger visual activity, something that’s already known at a behavioral level to some extent,” Mottron said during a press conference.

Researchers analyzed 26 brain imaging studies that included 357 people with autism and 370 people without autism. In all imaging studies, regardless of the research design or task presented to the study participants, the temporal and occipital brain regions had increased brain activity compared with non-autistic people, the review said.

“It means that the autistic brain is reorganized, but it’s not reorganized in a disorganized way,” Mottron said. “It’s reorganized in the sense of favoring visual expertise.”” source