AN OPEN INQUIRY / ALEX MARPLES
Exploring
consciousness.
Could conscious experience emerge from the interaction of many internal processes? These are my working ideas about minds, world models and what it might take for a machine to experience anything at all.
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THE HYPOTHESIS · 21 min read
Conscious machines and experience as a physical process
My hypothesis that experience consists in rich, reciprocal physical interaction between different processes, and the unresolved questions about parallelism, feeling and the boundaries of a mind.
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02WORLD MODELS & REFERENCE FRAMES · 4 min read
a thousand world models
How Jeff Hawkins’s Thousand Brains theory might inform machines built from interacting world models.
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The first piece develops my current view of conscious experience. The earlier article explores world models and reference frames through Hawkins’s theory of intelligence; connecting that to consciousness is a further hypothesis.