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Ask HN: Anyone orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel?

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Open in hackernews

An Information theoretic approach to defining consciousness

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18GEVyw7QTAX-0pxYWBrGm_zta-d6okmN/view?usp=drivesdk
1•Trenthug•7mo ago

Comments

proc0•7mo ago
This is not well defined.

> Consciousness is defined as the fraction of an object's inherent description that an observer correctly believes to be true.

Here it's a belief, but in other places it's referring to a relationship between objects and belief (i.e. a ratio). In either case this isn't sufficient to account for the hard problem. It's just building a framework and using the word 'Consciousness' as one of the labels. Any definition of consciousness should account for why we have a subjective perspective that unrolls through time and has qualia.

Also "belief" implies subjectivity, which imlpies a conscious entity, so any use of "belief" is circular here.

An information theoretic approach would tackle this with Shannon entropy and Turing machines, for example.

Trenthug•7mo ago
The mention Shannon entropy is in there,the model was made with an intent only capture the subtleties of the descriptive aspects of consciousness,It is worth acknowledging that use of metrics of complexity like Shannon entropy and no. of bits required are the metrics used to quantify complexity and that section does seem to require some refinements (was the reason behind it being posted here), beliefs are just statements labelled true by the observer (karl friston's work uses a similar thing by using the word inference),and it does incorporate qualia(the subjective experiences) as the privately experienced symbols qualities of objects from which the inferences are made
Trenthug•7mo ago
Any opinions?