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Welcome to the conscious-calculator wiki!

This section discusses a theoretical background to consciousness.

Why

I’ve been wondering about human consciousness since 2014. In particular I’m interested in what creates the “experience of experiencing”, more typically referred to as “phenomenal experience”. I seem to observe every thought I make; why do I not just silently process data like a machine? Why is that observation of thought necessary, and what is the thing that does the observing?

Major Topics

  • [[A Theory of Consciousness]]
  • [[Proto AGI v1]]
  • [[Focusing on the Why]]
  • [[Consciousness is a Semiotic Meta-management Feedback Loop]]

Papers

  • [[Paper on Loops in AI and Consciousness]]
  • [[Paper on Loops in AI and Consciousness; Extended Version]]

Other Topics

  • [[Background to A Theory of Mind]]
  • [[The analogy of the Thalamic symbiote]]
  • [[Visceral Loop]]
  • [[The Error Prone Brain]]

Some of my older theories are now accessible from the [[Theory Archive]].