consciousness

The challenge posed by phenomenologists remains. The brain and nervous system are perceived, dissected, and experimented on by and through the minds of scientists: the brain is inside a mind and consciousness . Not vice versa.

Connectionism, a form of computing on which GPTs and LLMs are based, offers an alternative to classic cognitivist science, which views the mind as similar to a digital computer processing a symbolic language. Brains do not seem to operate according to rules, have no processing unit, and information does not reside in files or addresses. Connectioni... See more

Claude Shannon’s groundbreaking theory of information , which lies at the foundation of telecommunications and computer science, defined a unit of information as a “bit” representing a choice between 2 equally likely alternatives. Information content is measured by the amount of entropy or uncertainty in a message: the more uncertainty, the more in... See more

The hard problem is to explain how matter can give rise to subjective experience. How does a physical system like the brain generate consciousness? How can the taste of vanilla be distinguished from the smell of lavender through patterns of neural activity? How does the brain, a physical object, create non-physical essences, such as values, purpose... See more