Consciousness

Exploring the deepest mystery of existence: the nature of awareness itself, and how artificial intelligence illuminates ancient questions about consciousness.

The Hard Problem Revisited
2024-01-22
Philosophy of Mind15 min read

What AI teaches us about the mystery of subjective experience and the explanatory gap between neural activity and conscious awareness.

As large language models exhibit increasingly sophisticated behaviors, we're forced to confront fundamental questions about the nature of consciousness itself...
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Emergence in Neural Networks
2024-01-18
Computational Consciousness12 min read

Exploring how complex behaviors and apparent understanding emerge from simple computational processes in artificial neural networks.

At what point does a collection of weighted connections become something more? The phenomenon of emergence in AI systems mirrors the mystery of consciousness in biological brains...
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Non-Dual Awareness and Machine Learning
2024-01-15
Non-Dual Philosophy18 min read

How the non-dual understanding of consciousness as fundamental reality relates to artificial intelligence and machine learning systems.

If consciousness is the ground of being rather than an emergent property, what does this mean for our understanding of artificial intelligence?
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The Observer Effect in AI
2024-01-10
Quantum Consciousness10 min read

Examining how the act of observation and measurement affects both quantum systems and artificial intelligence training processes.

Just as quantum mechanics reveals the fundamental role of observation in physical reality, AI training reveals the deep interconnection between observer and observed...
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