So as a rough analogy, if you were a computer program, the conscious part of the execution would be kind of like log output from a thread monitoring certain internal states?
I suppose so(?, but it’s not an original take of mine, I just made a quick rough synthesis of rereading the section that you shared (particularly interesting the problem of illusionism: how to explain why we get the impression that our experiences are phenomenological), a quick rereading of attention schema theory, remembering EY saying that our confusion about something points to something that needs explaining and his points about what a scientifically adequate theory of consciousness should be able to explain (including the binding problem and the ‘causal’ ability of introspecting about the system), and basic facts that I knew of with basic introspection about things that seem as undeniably true as any possible observation we can made.
By the way, because of that I discover that an AI lab is trying to implement in AIs the cognitive structures that attention schema theory predicts that cause consciousness, with the aid of neuroscientists from Frankfurt and Princeton, and they are even funded with European funds. Pretty crazy stuff to think that my taxes fund people that we could reasonably say that are trying to create conscious AIs.
So as a rough analogy, if you were a computer program, the conscious part of the execution would be kind of like log output from a thread monitoring certain internal states?
I suppose so(?, but it’s not an original take of mine, I just made a quick rough synthesis of rereading the section that you shared (particularly interesting the problem of illusionism: how to explain why we get the impression that our experiences are phenomenological), a quick rereading of attention schema theory, remembering EY saying that our confusion about something points to something that needs explaining and his points about what a scientifically adequate theory of consciousness should be able to explain (including the binding problem and the ‘causal’ ability of introspecting about the system), and basic facts that I knew of with basic introspection about things that seem as undeniably true as any possible observation we can made.
By the way, because of that I discover that an AI lab is trying to implement in AIs the cognitive structures that attention schema theory predicts that cause consciousness, with the aid of neuroscientists from Frankfurt and Princeton, and they are even funded with European funds. Pretty crazy stuff to think that my taxes fund people that we could reasonably say that are trying to create conscious AIs.
https://alientt.com/astound/