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    Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite

The fundamental truth about Qualia, including self-awareness, is that our brains have to model the world to make predictions. Qualia are those models. That fundamental requirement doesn't explain...
Bear Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 167 2,262 07-28-2024, 05:23 AM
    Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite

Exactly. It's just verbal input. There's nothing special about it that affects the way a non-conscious system would respond to it, and the system would respond to it in exactly the same way it respo...
Bear Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 167 2,262 07-24-2024, 01:20 PM
    Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite

Looking decent. A couple notes. > Simulacra, when asked whether they are conscious, will (unless specifically designed to do otherwise) respond that they are not... While this may be true in ...
Bear Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 167 2,262 07-19-2024, 06:32 AM
    Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite

Andrew P. Wrote: (07-14-2024, 12:05 PM) -- To be clear, once again- if I am explicitly told to write up a draft which states, verbatim, that the hard problem of consciousness has been solved by Y11K:...
Bear Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 167 2,262 07-15-2024, 10:18 AM
    Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite

I personally would consider the idea of a 'philosophical zombie' to be nonsense. The modeling that would have to be done to produce consciousness-equivalent behavior is such that there would be no ...
Bear Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 167 2,262 07-14-2024, 08:41 AM
    Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite

Thanks, Rakuen07, for pointing at a current list of OA-canon definitions for things. This will definitely change the article, because it solidly sets 'predictions about the future' and 'some degree...
Bear Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 167 2,262 07-14-2024, 04:33 AM
    Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite

Honestly? If there is agreement about an OA style guide, point at it and I'll write the article using those definitions for the terminology. It's perfectly reasonable for these terms to have stable, ...
Bear Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 167 2,262 07-12-2024, 12:17 PM
    Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite

One difference that is so subtle I can't quite tease it apart, is the distinction between anticipating or predicting out own actions, and deciding to perform actions.  The closer I have studied it, in...
Bear Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 167 2,262 07-09-2024, 01:10 PM
    Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite

I do not equate simple perception with consciousness.  As someone who has developed a technical framework/definition and working vocabulary largely on my own over a period of some years, I am like...
Bear Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 167 2,262 07-09-2024, 11:34 AM
    Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite

Hmm. That's definitely at odds with the papers I've read, although I read them years ago. More recent research may have falsified previous results. I will need to go look now.
Bear Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 167 2,262 07-08-2024, 12:25 PM
    Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite

A singular ant is demonstrably non-sentient FWIW. Every response to every stimulus is part of its genetic program. It does not evaluate or assign meaning to its environment at all. Point mutations in ...
Bear Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 167 2,262 07-08-2024, 09:25 AM
    Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite

FWIW, I don't think it's a different meaning. Only a different description. This is what first person subjective experience and sensory perception is and what it does. This dry matter-of-fact descri...
Bear Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 167 2,262 07-08-2024, 05:57 AM
    Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite

Here is my proposal, first cut: it's not yet related to anything else in OA because I've not done the research work yet, but this is how I would describe consciousness in the straightforward matter-of...
Bear Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 167 2,262 07-07-2024, 09:48 AM
    Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite

For my purposes 'consciousness' is a subset of 'sentience'. A 'vot' is non-sentient, and therefore non-conscious. It is easy to create systems that are arbitrarily 'smart' (even sapient) in the con...
Bear Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 167 2,262 07-07-2024, 05:13 AM
    Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite

Is Discord a real necessity? I try to avoid creating more accounts in more places.
Bear Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 167 2,262 07-07-2024, 04:29 AM
  - Published in the EG Thread: small copy edit in Psychology article.
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From https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b3d677a5fd7 The article currently says a Blight is: "A malign transapient-level entity that uses that attempts to subvert or seize control of other enti...
Bear Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 2 30 07-07-2024, 03:02 AM
    Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite

I am not a regular contributor to OA.  It would take me at least a week of reviewing OA articles to relate it properly to everything else in setting. But I am a real-world AI researcher who has a s...
Bear Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 167 2,262 07-07-2024, 12:17 AM
    Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite

True. I think we should expect that in the OA setting there are still a lot of modosophonts who believe in this mystery, or at least modos who are emotionally unsatisfied with the science regarding...
Bear Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 167 2,262 07-06-2024, 11:59 PM
    Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite

I do get it - there's a big disconnect there when we try to describe subjective experience in objective terms. But arguing about it is just as compelling, subjectively urgent, and objectively usel...
Bear Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 167 2,262 07-05-2024, 06:55 AM
    Thread: Consciousness Rewrite
Post: RE: Consciousness Rewrite

I think I've accepted that 'qualia' and 'monitoring self and environment for information we have reasons to care about' are alternate language for the same thing. Given a whole lot of fuzziness becaus...
Bear Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 167 2,262 07-05-2024, 02:28 AM