Thursday, January 11, 2024
consciousness is post processing
AI like operations may be the major determinants of actions and decisions, and generally run the human body. Consciousness is likely to be after the actions, as an analysis of these operations. So a form of post processing.
It may seem as if they are syncronous with the actions, but i think this very unlikely. So i have a Machine that does most things in pretty much a deterministic fashion, which is then analysed into a story about what has just happened, and may lead to a feedback loop to alter future routines that generate actions.
It may lead to a funny delay when a piece of information does not pop straight into your mind.
The conscious may be able to feed questions to the main AI engine, and indeed may depend entirely on the AI for memories.
This sort of model could explain why people might think that AI alone is not a real threat, but it also might imply that there is not much to add to make it conscious.
Martin
