In other words I think it's completely possible to experience a single frame of consciousness alone from any other. Like if in the infinite multitude of possibilities somehow all the atoms in a rock a line in such a way that The Rock experiences one blip of consciousness. Or maybe I'm just romantic
I like your example that they become an instance. For the sake of argument say you have Holy Grail AGI™ and you copy it and starting from State t where T is the exact moment you copy it, two instances now exist.
I think they are both "them" but the state change through time as a chaotic process and so since they are now separated they will eventually begin to drift?
This is based totally on nothing but "dude trust me I made it up"
I figure what we're doing in these threads is kind of what sci-fi authors who were way smarter than myself have done for decades: Muse about a topic, put down some ideas maybe some new vocabulary Etc. Then when new technology comes out those of us who are well read can look back and say "A ha! That clever bastard knew it all along!"
One odd feature of all work in neuroscience is the unwarranted assumption that the brain has a timebase in the same way that a digital computer has an oscillator clock. That is obviously not true. The hundreds/thosands of brain subsystems have to learn and make their own quirky/noisy timebases and they have to mesh functionally to each other snd to world time via adaptive well-timed behavior. Arguable job number one if consciousness is creating an internal representation of nowness. Even trickier than managing distributed computing across a continent of infrastructure and latencies.
Arguing in your favor, rhythms may be important in getting closer to an adaptive coordination of activation and inhibition. Retinal waves during development are thought to contribute (controversially) to retinotopic maps. The big question again is How does the CNS-body achieve adaptive temporal integration and functional harmony? No one knows.
We've had at least three posts this week on "AGI" or "self-aware" AI. The only thing that changed in the last year is that our spell checkers have gotten a lot better and everyone seems to think that means we've taken a huge step toward actual AI, we haven't. I was as excited as the next guy but it turns out after a lot of testing and learning our newest "AI" is no closer in consciousness as our last go. Its weird and sad to see so many people thinking a spell checker is going to come alive.
My interest was in using this in a similar Vein on how someone might use Dwarf Fortress or rimworld to simulate social interactions. But in this case it would be a single entity.
I would be lying if I said I didn't think that llms are touching some sort of intelligence. And that self-reflective loops might be some sort of piece in the puzzle.
Ultimately I think any like groundbreaking emergent stuff coming out of these is going to be biased by our own language in it if there was kind of any magic emergence to be had. Making it impossible to actually test whether it's the real thing or not.
This was probably just a long winded way to say I'm a weird and sad person
My hypothesis is that either Consciousness is a series of frames or we can emulate Consciousness as a series of frames and that you can run this type of recursive self iteration input to an llm with a buffer. The reason for the buffer is that the context window is limited so you would drop out earlier stuff and hope that all the important things would be kept in the subsequent frames.
A further experiment was going to add a set of tags that represented <input> and <vision> where input was the user input interpolated through a python template and vision was an image that was described by text and fed into it. So that the llm at each frame would have some kind of input.
I lost a little bit of interest in this but this has maybe resparked it a little bit?