algarwegian.bsky.social
Family first, understanding reality at its most fundamental second. Also sports and good food.
In my day job I study the structure of brains in beings, and the structure of beings with brains.
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I'm probably mistaken, but this sounds dualist. As though my mind/experience/being is somehow separate from what you observe as my substrate. I don't think there is any need for a mechanism that ties one realm to the other. the substrate just is what my experience looks like from the third person.
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Thanks for sharing.
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I particularly like that "the conventioal levels of significance" the p value was "flirting with" was 0.1 ðŸ«
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Interesting. My history knowledge is extremely limited, but I'd be surprised if what we're seeing now is not going to be seen as a standard example of it repeating itself.
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Ouff. That's dark... Can only hope these kinds of predictions are off for some unclear reason. I'm not convinced though. Fingers crossed, I guess.
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Matching measures the degree to which the environment triggers rich & varied experiences in the substrate. Matching should be high in a system that has adapted to that environment (if it can support consciousness to begin with).
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Curious as to what you think. If I repeated the experiment on 100 people. Everyone did the tasks well while aroused during the continuous infusion. How many recall the awakenings if I ask "can you remember anything from the experiment?" after emergence?
#consci #neuroskyence #ansky
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Also, I agree that "less" is probably better than "none."
And as an aside, I appreciate the "for z" part, as it seems to require a subject of some kind for whom the representation matters.
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Thanks, that's a nice one!
Although it runs into some problems with relying kn slippery terms: information (For whom? Just quantity or meaning required? Etc) and computation (by some defs. everything can be cast as a computation). But for a napkin sized def, it's a good one.
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Does anyone want to venture an attempt at defining "representation"? What are the criteria that must be satisfied for A to represent B?
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I was questioning everything!until I remembered that 2 is a prime 😅
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This is amazing/horrible. Thanks!
Am I interpreting the rules correctly if I assume the subsequent cells before and after a diagonal step count as "adjacent"? And, the first cell (where the rat is placed), I assume, is actually "on the path"?
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What kinds of things have minds is a different question, and one's answer will depend on their (explicit or implicit) theoretical leanings.
Anyways, in my view, if it is the case that it feels like something to by some system, it has a mind. Perhaps not an "interesting" one, but a mind nonetheless
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Any process where the input, output, or intermediate steps (preferably all) is mental/phenomenal/in the mind.
Physical processes that emulate the (presumed neural) mechanisms underlying our cognition, do not necessarily underlie anythimg cognitive—unless there's a subject there experiencing it.
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In the paper:
– We develop a measure of the extent to which external stimuli trigger conscious percepts. This is important for IIT, because IIT accounts for phenomenal consciousness as determined by the intrinsic cause-effect powers of the substrate …
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For us, making sure to change activity/scenery whenever (preferably just before) our daughter got sleepy was helpful. It was tiring, but in the end the transition didn't take thaaaat long. Good luck!
PS avoid being in cars for more than 5 mins!! 😅
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@turntwine.bsky.social sounds like things you've been bugging me about for some time 😊
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#consci
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Dissociating Artificial Intelligence from Artificial Consciousness arxiv.org/abs/2412.04571
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Why does time feel the way it does? Towards a principled account of temporal experience arxiv.org/abs/2412.13198, from @renzocom.bsky.social & @matteograsso.bsky.social
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The million dollar question: did you *see* readable text, was the text actually blurry but you *believed* there was text, or are these alternatives really the same (not just operationally indistinguishable)?
Or perhaps it's not a million dollar question at all 😅
Happy new year, anyways!