On Sunday, February 22, 2026, at 12:49 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote: > Consciousness (type 2, inner self awareness) and free will still require > explanations. The only evidence we have for their existence is our own > feelings. Feelings come from neurons firing. We feel good about thinking and > doing things because it motivates us to not lose those feelings by dying. > This results in more offspring.
The trend I referred to is that the brain connects or exists in consciousness verses it being solely an internally generated experience, like Faggin's quantum fields consciousness. There’s plenty of evidence for that. Gauthier describes a model/framework, not a theory, around generally accepted descriptions allowing for distributed consciousness using his reference to pure consciousness with us being sort of nodes in filtered reduction. He does rely on there being a pure and a less than pure which is reasonable. Here is a more detailed paper with Consciousness as a Functor, modeling AGI with conscious and unconscious processes aiming for a computational theory: https://people.cs.umass.edu/~mahadeva/papers/catagi.pdf ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Td94236ee8c040564-M1cf74c7dc80e7cee5251a256 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
