From 5fa8bdbbb5111b90d4f752adbffaa47b3dd05da6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: osmarks Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:54:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Edit=20=E2=80=98consciousness=E2=80=99?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- consciousness.myco | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/consciousness.myco b/consciousness.myco index 5e2b218..3a4aa2f 100644 --- a/consciousness.myco +++ b/consciousness.myco @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ This is somewhat related to [[http://nonsymbolic.org/PNSE-Article.pdf|"persisten * Anything which maintains homeostasis is conscious, including thermostats, PID controllers and various RL systems. * Consciousness exists to provide slow but more sample-efficient/culturally-programmable command sequencing/high-level control for learning. * Consciousness is computable, but due to extreme slowdowns implementing it on general-purpose computers rather than directly using special-purpose physical devices, it takes several moons worth of computer to instantiate it. +* Similarly to the [[wp>One-electron universe]], otherwise-p-zombies are alternately inhabited by the ur-consciousness that experiences their qualia. == See also