This will be a terribly late and very incomplete reply, but regarding your question,
>Is there some mechanism that would allow for evolution to somewhat define the ‘landscape’ of harmonics? Is reframing the harmonics as goals compatible with the model? Something like this seems to be pointed at in the quote >>Panksepp’s seven core drives (play, panic/grief, fear, rage, seeking, lust, care) might be a decent first-pass approximation for the attractors in this system.
A metaphor that I like to use here is that I see any given brain as a terribly complicated lock. Various stimuli can be thought of as keys. The right key will create harmony in the brain’s harmonics. E.g., if you’re hungry, a nice high-calorie food will create a blast of consonance which will ripple through many different brain systems, updating your tacit drive away from food seeking. If you aren’t hungry—it won’t create this blast of consonance. It’s the wrong key to unlock harmony in your brain.
Under this model, the shape of the connectome is the thing that evolution has built to define the landscape of harmonics and drive adaptive behavior. The success condition is harmony. I.e., the lock is very complex, the ‘key’ that fits a given lock can be either simple or complex, and the success condition (harmony in the brain) is relatively simple.
This will be a terribly late and very incomplete reply, but regarding your question,
>Is there some mechanism that would allow for evolution to somewhat define the ‘landscape’ of harmonics? Is reframing the harmonics as goals compatible with the model? Something like this seems to be pointed at in the quote
>>Panksepp’s seven core drives (play, panic/grief, fear, rage, seeking, lust, care) might be a decent first-pass approximation for the attractors in this system.
A metaphor that I like to use here is that I see any given brain as a terribly complicated lock. Various stimuli can be thought of as keys. The right key will create harmony in the brain’s harmonics. E.g., if you’re hungry, a nice high-calorie food will create a blast of consonance which will ripple through many different brain systems, updating your tacit drive away from food seeking. If you aren’t hungry—it won’t create this blast of consonance. It’s the wrong key to unlock harmony in your brain.
Under this model, the shape of the connectome is the thing that evolution has built to define the landscape of harmonics and drive adaptive behavior. The success condition is harmony. I.e., the lock is very complex, the ‘key’ that fits a given lock can be either simple or complex, and the success condition (harmony in the brain) is relatively simple.