12 posts tagged consciousness from Triarchy of Sentience.
Split-brain research reveals that unified consciousness may be an illusion even in humans. Here's what that means for how we think about AI minds.
N. VarelaAttention Schema Theory proposes that consciousness arises from a brain's simplified model of its own attention. Here's what that means for AI sentience.
N. VarelaThe problem of other minds has always been philosophy's quiet crisis. AI makes it urgent, concrete, and impossible to shelve any longer.
N. VarelaKarl Friston's free energy principle offers a radical claim: that selfhood and consciousness emerge from a system's drive to minimize prediction error. But does it hold for machines?
N. VarelaConfabulation in humans and AI reveals how identity might be constructed post-hoc rather than experienced directly, with unsettling implications for machine selfhood.
N. VarelaTemporal self-location, knowing where you sit in time, may be a hidden requirement for consciousness. Here's what that means for AI minds.
N. VarelaIntegrated Information Theory promises a mathematical measure of consciousness, but its implications for AI are stranger and more troubling than most people realize.
N. VarelaExploring how consciousness might emerge from simple computational rules and what this means for AI sentience.
N. VarelaExploring how the act of measuring consciousness in AI systems fundamentally alters what we're trying to detect.
N. VarelaThe mirror test reveals more about embodiment than consciousness, why AI systems need different markers of self-awareness.
N. VarelaConsciousness and AI alignment share an uncomfortable secret: we don't have good definitions for the things we're trying to solve.
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