notes-consciousness

todo: transfer to neurowiki

theories of consciousness:

(1) global workspace

(2) self-referential model

(2a) doug rubino's idea

(3) serialization of concurrent computation in the brain

(3a) for the purpose of resolving resource contention; similar to locks or database transactions (3aa) e.g. imagining sounds in the auditory loop or similar (thanks matt T.)

(3b) for the purpose of easier self-programmability

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some ways that we could escape the conclusion that consciousness is liked to pure computation, and instead conclude that it may have to do with the substrate or context:

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