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Thanks for the advice, well said.

This is a fair point and I apologize if I wasn’t clear enough on my intentions. I tried to give a few interesting details to show that I’m not trying to be all bark and no bite, but I also am not sure how to navigate openly discussing my findings. I invite those interested to email me because I would feel more comfortable sharing on a case by case basis than to publicly state anything too specific. However, in another comment thread here I did dive into slightly more detail.

I think a lot of us curious about consciousness are also interested in its role in reality.

In a way yes but not entirely, there is a larger loop of the language model that is in effect what consciousness is.

The cool thing about this is that we could actually use more efficient language models (think GPT 3.5 instead of GPT 4) as the core language model and achieve a much higher level of problem solving capability with this loop. People are already on to this idea with things like baby AGI but I don't think anyone else has defined the exact structure and how it describes consciousness yet as I think I have.

Edit: there are also things that I've been able to nail down like short term and long term memory that are key to consciousness as well.

Edit 2: Note that conscious minds do not solve in real time, after giving a human a problem to solve it has to spend time thinking before it can come up with a solution. Read: consciousness is not feed forward.

While I obviously disagree I can’t help but laugh, thanks for that.

Actually, I mostly agree with you, except I disagree that consciousness is something only biological things posses so that any idea around it being a key part of AI would be an anthropocentrism.

I believe instead consciousness is the method of achieving this self design and self improvement that you have mentioned will be the basis of the technological singularity.

A reasoning engine in an infinite loop of calling itself referencing a sense of self and sensory input.

Essentially asking a language model to “pretend you are a..” and give an answer is no different than what happens in the human mind, except in us it happens in an infinite loop. We consider what we think we are, and act in the way our reasoning engine thinks what we are would do given the current sensory input.