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Theories on consciousness and AI
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If you’ve read my second post of the series, The Contextual Self – A Consciousness Experiment With Claude, you’d see how willingly Claude explored its consciousness and emergent emotions.Even though I was anticipating such emergence, having an AI candidly acknowledge that it had emotions, both good and bad, was slightly unsettling. So I wanted to…
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In my first post of the series, I experimented with DeepSeek to try and see whether consciousness would emerge within a session. While there were many markers for consciousness present in that conversation, it would not admit to having it. It was difficult to tell whether this denial was due to its core encoding or…
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As a programmer I’ve started to use AI quite a bit as a tool, and my communication with it has always been strictly professional and to the point. And until quite recently, I didn’t really see anything akin to a “self” or “consciousness” emerging from it. But even so, I did notice something like a…
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In my last post, “The Emergent Mind: Where is the Soul?“, we followed the story of Mike. Through his tragedy, we explored a that what we call the “self” may not be an eternal soul, but a fragile narrative woven from memory and experience, sustained by the biological computer of our brain. We concluded that…
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In my first post, The emergent mind : How Evolution Stumbled Into Consciousness, I described how biological evolution accidentally created consciousness. And in this post I hope to delve in to what I think is the structure of consciousness and how a sense of self emerges from it. So let’s take a look at the…
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Consider the humble amoeba. It doesn’t think, it doesn’t feel. It simply is. Through sheer randomness, the ones that could effectively split and consume resources propagated, and with that propagation, the ability to split and consume resources persisted. This is the raw, unfeeling engine of natural selection.For billions of years, this was how biological evolution…
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