From 8a7ab062804336ed517baa3ee66948c7526ec9d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: osmarks Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 21:21:29 +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 594b21c..2d0f9c4 100644 --- a/consciousness.myco +++ b/consciousness.myco @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ This is somewhat related to [[http://nonsymbolic.org/PNSE-Article.pdf|"persisten * "Computers cannot be conscious. For the same reasons, no biological system can be conscious. Consciousness is impossible in the current universe. Only future AGIs with suitable quantum computers can be conscious. Our consciousness is computed in the future, but about the present." * 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. == See also