Publications

I’m actively working to publish papers.

Presentations:

• Lett, M. (2024). The Meta-management Theory of Consciousness. Presented at: The Science of Consciousness Conference (TCS’24), Tucson, Arizona, 2024. [Video Link]

Full online manuscript:

• Consciousness is a Semiotic Meta-management Feedback Loop (Sep 2023)

Unpublished papers:

• Meta-management as a clearer explanation of conscious function (Nov 2023)
• A Characterisation of processing loops in AI and biological systems and its implications for understanding Consciousness (Sep 2021)
• A Characterisation of processing loops in AI and biological systems and its implications for understanding Consciousness - Extended Version (Dec 2021)

Selected publications from my MSc in CompSci:

• 3D Surface Recognition For Robotic Localisation. MSc dissertation (2006). The University of Waikato, New Zealand.

Selected publications from my Honours in CompSci:

• Malcolm Lett, Mengjie Zhang (2004). New Fitness Functions in Genetic Programming for Object Detection. BSc dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand [Full Text]

• Malcolm Lett (2004). Improving Training Performance of Genetic Programming for Object Detection. Poster presented at: Image & Vision Computing NZ conference proceedings (IVCNZ’04), 2004, Akaroa, New Zealand.