On 12/6/2017 1:46 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
I suspect that this is perhaps why Brent want to refer to the environment for relating consciousness to the machine, and in Artificial Intelligence, some people defend the idea that (mundane) consciousness occur only when the environment contradicts a little bit the quasi automatic persistent inference we do all the time.
That's Jeff Hawkins model of consciousness: one becomes conscious of something when all lower, more specialized levels of the brain have found it not to match their predictions.
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