Basically, the paper hypothesizes that all of conscious experience is just an artifact of the messaging layer between the real players -- our subconsciouses -- aka the geometry of our neural connectomes. (my spin)
tl;dr - Consciousness is pretty much just CapnProto or TCP/IP, which we happen to perceive as meaningful, when it's really just the chatter of subconsciouses shaking the air between themselves in complex ways, to signal things about the structures within.
And the next question: Communicate about what? Maybe just finding and gathering and converting structures with high degrees of symmetry out in the milieu. Like attracts like. Similar structures self-persist and reinforce one another. If similar enough, they can be merged and together sustained with the least energetic
Also, it aligns with my guilty belief/fear that this paper is onto something:
Chasing the Rainbow: The Non-conscious Nature of Being https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.0192...
Basically, the paper hypothesizes that all of conscious experience is just an artifact of the messaging layer between the real players -- our subconsciouses -- aka the geometry of our neural connectomes. (my spin)
tl;dr - Consciousness is pretty much just CapnProto or TCP/IP, which we happen to perceive as meaningful, when it's really just the chatter of subconsciouses shaking the air between themselves in complex ways, to signal things about the structures within.
And the next question: Communicate about what? Maybe just finding and gathering and converting structures with high degrees of symmetry out in the milieu. Like attracts like. Similar structures self-persist and reinforce one another. If similar enough, they can be merged and together sustained with the least energetic