Where do you know the meaning of these words?: Self attention, the cerebellar transform, and the sensitive bony landmarks of the proprioceptive core.

Anatomy is full of homologies, elements in a repeating pattern that is self validating, self evidencing, and generative.

It should come as no surprise that a matching revolution follows quickly on the tail of the recent breakthrough in transformer architecture and what it has meant for thinking machines. In 2017 a group of researchers at Google essentially modeled the cerebellar transform mathematically as computer code. It was from this point that artificial intelligence began to experience exponential growth. The key element could not be more cerebella: self attention. That together with a boost in parallelizion, in my understanding, resulted in a more focused and straightforward (because deep) but contextually richer approach to the parsing of sentences and documents.

It is no small leap of the imagination to believe that a similar function would apply in the neurophysiology of the cerebellar transform in the human body. Indeed self attention again is the key clue because when we look at the body it is easy to locate the areas of greatest self attention.

It is unambiguous and self evident when we are seeing the proprioceptive and generative core, when we look at the axial mechanics of the skeleton. It is Sherrington has already very clearly explained a massively self attending system.

Hence the generative core feels like muscle and both the variety and sameness that is characteristic of the system fully expresses the potential of the muscle sense of the muscle spindles of the deep core myofascial synergy and the tripartite synapses of the massive, regular matrix of the cerebella transform.

The core is a dynamic and complex system but it’s fundamental purpose is to cohere. When it does cohere into biomechanical metastability, physical homeostasis, there is a familiar cognitive shift like that found in the meditative and movement arts.

A conscious explicit understanding of this implicit system depends first not upon the logic of the words but upon the self evident nature of the perceptual system itself within us. Self evidence is an affirmative factor in our deep adaptation.

The meaning of the words that describe this part of your body begin when you put the book down.