This has taken too long to make, and I’d like to polish it more, but it’s time to release and move on to other things. Apologies for not posting the text here, I was having formatting trouble.
Yes, I attempt to solve/explain consciousness. The main document is around 13,000 words long, which takes an hour to skim-read (not recommended) but probably 2+ hours to read correctly.
Let me know what you think!
Edit 9/9/23: Of the criticisms I’ve seen of EC (both here and elsewhere), none have struck me as having passed my ITT, and/or there is frequently some selective amnesia on display (or more probably, people skim-read the document) regarding points I explicitly take great effort to address. One might wonder why I largely haven’t engaged with EC’s critics, since consciousness can correctly be considered the most important feature of the universe; important to get right. But in light of the solution to C, comparatively little actually hinges/depends on C, or on what people think of it. When combined with the subtle conceptual nature of the problem itself (lossless communication is difficult and idiosyncratic), these factors have lead me to largely not deem it worth my energy to engage. If someone had an actually novel or ITT-passing criticism, I would be in a better position to engage. Lacking that, the most compact and well formulated memetic package on offer is still the document itself. If I was invested in any given critic “getting it”, then my engagement would largely look like me insisting they re-read the document with greater care, and/or I would go through it line by line with them, to combat the amnesia problem and actually find where they go off the rails. That kind of effort doesn’t scale.
Consciousness Actually Explained: EC Theory
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Greetings!
This has taken too long to make, and I’d like to polish it more, but it’s time to release and move on to other things. Apologies for not posting the text here, I was having formatting trouble.
Yes, I attempt to solve/explain consciousness. The main document is around 13,000 words long, which takes an hour to skim-read (not recommended) but probably 2+ hours to read correctly.
Let me know what you think!
Edit 9/9/23: Of the criticisms I’ve seen of EC (both here and elsewhere), none have struck me as having passed my ITT, and/or there is frequently some selective amnesia on display (or more probably, people skim-read the document) regarding points I explicitly take great effort to address. One might wonder why I largely haven’t engaged with EC’s critics, since consciousness can correctly be considered the most important feature of the universe; important to get right. But in light of the solution to C, comparatively little actually hinges/depends on C, or on what people think of it. When combined with the subtle conceptual nature of the problem itself (lossless communication is difficult and idiosyncratic), these factors have lead me to largely not deem it worth my energy to engage. If someone had an actually novel or ITT-passing criticism, I would be in a better position to engage. Lacking that, the most compact and well formulated memetic package on offer is still the document itself. If I was invested in any given critic “getting it”, then my engagement would largely look like me insisting they re-read the document with greater care, and/or I would go through it line by line with them, to combat the amnesia problem and actually find where they go off the rails. That kind of effort doesn’t scale.