Here are some examples of consciousness as world-movie -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kbNv3vBvcI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiLvLsBjFwc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qPC4Ty0tlY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwkm-IcBMy0
There are obvious limitations of this model - the pov camera only covers the
outer world, not the inner world of the body (although music can to some
extent evoke emotions); it isn't as mobile as a human's/animal's eyes; it
doesn't have the balancing mechanisms of the human/animal mind that we do -
as the kid's movie illustrates. ( Stan Franklin found the idea that these
balancing mechanisms (I've forgotten the proper term) may have been the
origin of consciousness, interesting ). And the movie is flat-screen,
whereas our real life movie is solid and distributed all over the scene that
we see.
But this kind of model of consciousness is actually the best available. If
people use variations of this model then they won't completely talk past
each other - as happens all the time at the moment, with the best
philosophers in the world. And you have a model that is based in reality and
can steadily be improved.
It's also ironic that here are AGI-ers talking about consciousness,
completely divorced from the massive world of computer simulations and
games, which are to a considerable extent exploring consciousness as
world-movie in a practical way.
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