On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 4:17 PM John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 3:50 PM Terren Suydam <terren.suy...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> * > in my view, consciousness entails a continuous flow of experience.* >> > > If I could instantly stop all physical processes that are going on inside > your head for one year and then start them up again, to an outside > objective observer you would appear to lose consciousness for one year, but > to you your consciousness would still feel continuous but the outside world > would appear to have discontinuously jumped to something new. > I meant continuous in terms of the flow of state from one moment to the next. What you're describing *is* continuous because it's not the passage of time that needs to be continuous, but the state of information in the model as the physical processes evolve. And my understanding is that in an LLM, each new query starts from the same state... it does not evolve in time. Terren > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > 2b0 > > > > >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0B5ce20hEsOv_GLcmJP5kkOpqMggwUFTcBQfGL_59y0g%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0B5ce20hEsOv_GLcmJP5kkOpqMggwUFTcBQfGL_59y0g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAMy3ZA86qv5H8QEKcEWCjPteD6B89PAZ6GbEcUy7km4Q9yibPQ%40mail.gmail.com.
