What Is Consciousness? Some New Perspectives from Our Physics Project
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- Consciousness is not about the general computation that brains—or, for that matter, many other things—can do. It’s about the particular feature of our brains that causes us to have a coherent thread of experience.
- But just as we’ve seen that the notion of intelligence can be generalized to the notion of arbitrary sophisticated computation, so now it seems that the notion of consciousness can be generalized to the notion of forming a coherent thread of representation for computations.
- In a sense the story of science is a story of struggle between computational irreducibility and computational reducibility.