but is this also a tool for Consciousness? Isn't Consciousness a big mystery that cannot be conceptualized as such a system? And so when we talk about this question, of course, we have to first agree on what we mean by Consciousness. And indexically, when we pointed it in a

similar way as just pointed at living systems before they knew that we're pointing at cells, um we can point at Consciousness. And what we see is, first of all, this reflexive nature of Consciousness. It's not just that there's a content present, but there is the

perception that you're perceiving that content. It's a second-order perception that is distinctive for Consciousness. I suspect there's a particular reason for this because it's implemented as a self-organizing process. And for this process to regulate itself, to stabilize itself, it needs to observe itself.

observing, right? So it's basically an observer that is self-stabilizing in our own mind. And to ensure that it's an observer, it needs to test for whether it's observing and see this, especially, for instance, when you are exhausted. Imagine you're driving a car, you have

difficulty to focus because you're tired, and you remind yourself that you're observing, you check whether you're still there. And if you don't do this and make other intervals, you space out, fall asleep. It will be not conscious, it will possibly crash your car, right? And uh, so

this, this is an edge condition where your brain is basically resisting being colonized by your Consciousness and being controlled by it, and then you basically have to to reinforce it. The other thing is Consciousness is always happening now. It creates this bubble of

awareness and this in this bubble of awareness you perceive a coherent reality you cannot perceive incoherent things but your bubble of reality might shrink or grow depending on how much you can make coherent in your current working memory context but you can only perceive this

coherent bubble and this seems to be the content of your Consciousness and when you are very calm and when you are conscious of your environment and uh you can drag everything then this bubble increases but it's it's not static it's not a single moment it's something like for me

us is three seconds long this is the moment in time it's dynamic it's stuff moving basically the region in which I can fit a curve to my sensory data make a perceptual interpretation so but functionally I think that Consciousness is an operator

in mental states it's uh the purpose is probably the creation of coherence that's already in some way of hypothesis not just an observation so it could be something like a consensus algorithm if you have ever looked at for instance crypto you know that the blockchain

needs to synchronize over all the instances of the blockchain so there is an algorithm that allows them to reach a state in which no constraints are violated across all the different local representations of the blockchain and maybe we can think of Consciousness as something a consensus algorithm in

working memory where all the features that are being observed are made compatible with all the other features that are being observed and it facilitates a speedy organization in the mind and it acts like the conductor of the mental orchestra and so if you think of your

brain really as instruments where every instrument is a function that models one area of the domains of cognition um then um they are listening to each other to their neighbors and their processing streams and your consciousness might be seen as one of those instruments that doesn't

have super in a sense that is able to hear all the instruments at high resolution at the same time instead it's going to focus on disharmonies in the orchestra and then resolves those disharmonies by focusing on the individual instruments and then finding solutions to remove

them and if you don't have if you're not conscious you can still perform things right you are a sleepwalker you're some number list you can get up at night and you can maybe walk out of your bed and open the fridge and cook dinner then you talk to

a sleepwalker there's nobody home there is no rhyme and reason to what they're doing in that they are just executing routines that they've learned while they are conscious and this is another observation that we are basically not learning but they are not conscious so

introspectively consciousness is a reflex or perception that creates a bubble of now this functionally it's an operator that creates or raises for the conductor of the orchestra and you find this is a convergence of different perspectives so this is very much compatible with ours

Global workspace Theory or Dehaene's theory or Graziano's attention schema or Minsky's perspective on how access works or Josh's idea of a consciousness prior a function that basically parametrizes your modeling in such a way

to that you can achieve a low energy state and track reality, but consciousness is not the same thing as intelligence. Which I think is the ability to make models, or sentience, which I use as a term to describe the ability of a system to model itself in relationship to the

world so it can know what it's doing. Um, agency, which is the ability to control the future, or having a self, it's a first-person model of your own agency, or empathy, the ability to experience the mental states of others. Sometimes these words are used somewhat

interchangeably, but I think it makes sense to keep them apart, and we notice that different cultures use different terminology for physical and psychological reality. I think the big problem is the hard problem in our own culture is that we don't have this distinction clear. Basically, we are in a scientific

tradition, the physically monist, which means we subscribe to physicalism, to this idea that the base reality is a closed mechanical layer, and everything emerges over that layer. So basically, everything in the physical universe is a mechanism, but everything that we look at, interact with

is a mechanism as well. Everything is mechanical in that sense. And the modern version of this mechanism is, is it's some kind of computation that is implemented somehow in physics, that matter, energy, space, time are based on talking about information, how information is moving around between observable locations, right?

Uh, on the other hand, uh, we observe experientially that there is a world that we can touch with stuff in space, which you take to be the physical world, and there's another domain which is thoughts, ideas, emotions, and our own consciousness that is somehow separate.

from this and uh what we in our own culture often fail to acknowledge is that the world that we touch is not the physical world right we don't touch quantum mechanics what we touch is a representation in our own mind it's a game engine representing our own mind

both our consciousness and the stuff in the space world that we touch our representations existing in the mind that is implemented in physics according to our best theories so uh because of this confusion that we have it's difficult to relate this to each other and don't realize that

consciousness is a representation that is virtual that only exists as if in the patterns of activations of the neurons or in the patterns that exist in physics right that leads to computing our measure and so consciousness is virtual it's physical objects cannot be

experienced right in the physical universe you cannot be conscious your neurons are probably not conscious but it would be very useful for these cells in your body to know what it would be like to exist as the person that perceives and cares so they create a simulation

partially a simulation of this that and uh of what it would be like if there was a person that cared and then they use the output of that simulation to drive the behavior of the organism and you happen to be the content of that

simulation so when you perceive reality as something around you you don't have access to physical reality you are in a trance state in which you believe that the stream that your brain is generating about reality is real

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Consciousness is virtual

Consciousness is virtual

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