On Saturday, November 15, 2025, at 7:39 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote: > Here are my 3 definitions of consciousness: > 1. The mental state of awareness, able to form memories that depend on input > (to distinguish from remembering dreams). > 2. The difference between a human and a philosophical zombie. > 3. The property of deserving to be protected from suffering.
I posit that conscious compressors can compress better than less conscious compressors. Proving that and the particular circumstances is possible I believe. IOW consciousness can be used to enhance compression in at least some circumstances, in various ways. For example in some classes of multiagent systems compressors. Not sure about a lossless text compressor but when you think about it the original text may be coming from conscious human agents. But the text compressor might be large depending on the conscious integration. Speculation though... could be all bunk. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T7ff992c51cca9e36-M9cc6b7190b8de2490f6c1f3a Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
