Lately people have been using the term AI psychosis to describe cases where someone loses touch with ordinary reality after spending too much time in conversation with a chatbot. The phrase is hyperbolic, but it gestures toward something real, the way a language model can sustain and reinforce a person’s private worldview long past the […]
I have to admit I am partial to Donald Hoffman’s theory of consciousness. At least partly because it is fun. Which is the only real test of any theory. Hoffman’s form of idealism builds off a scientific scaffolding rooted in his Interface Theory of Perception (ITP) which suggests that what we see is not reality […]
I was thinking about the role of rumination in consciousness, specifically the lack of it in large language models and what adding it might do. Besides the obvious increase in energy consumption, I think it could change a lot about what they are. In considering what might change I stumbled on a new metaphor for […]
MA in Philosophy, Dissertation October 4th 2024 11,999 Words Abstract This dissertation is an exploration of the state of discourse surrounding the nature of consciousness in both science and philosophy for the purpose of determining where consciousness studies currently fall within Thomas Kuhn’s framework of the structure of scientific revolutions. After laying out Kuhn’s framework […]
i’ve been attempting for some time now to put into words how I visualize my understanding of information and how it ties into a larger ontology. I won’t say this is perfect, it definitely still needs refining but I think it’s a start. I visualize the entirety of human essence as a vast and ever-shifting […]
Strange Loops If one were to take Hofstadter’s ideas seriously you can come to some very interesting considerations: If consciousness is fundamentally a self-referential loop, as described in I Am a Strange Loop, then the boundaries of consciousness become much blurrier than we often assume. When we simulate the consciousness of another person, whether through […]
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