> The one thing about an EM field in particular I have questions about, is why don't our brains turn off under even moderate electrical and magnetic fields. Yeah -- empirically EM theories of phenomenal experience are…
> If an informational concept causes a system to output a stresslike response, or worse trigger a stresslike action in real life then there is no distinction to me. A system is what it does. Hmm. I think that I…
> This doesn't really answer anything to me, only that there is a complex electrical simulation going on in our minds. Try to visualize the structure of the EM field inside a GPU vs. one inside of a human brain. In the…
> Until you have a unit and a method to measure this field, and a way to experiment on it, it is not scientific theory. Field-based theories of phenomenal experience have obvious ways to experiment on them, and are…
Think about RF engineering: the same physical antenna can be used for both TX and RX. We already know that neurons both create EM fields and are influenced by EM fields. The role of EM fields in the brain is pretty well…
> The only way that 'AIs are not conscious' can be true is if we decide, with high confidence, that they are lacking some essential property that is not lacking in ourselves. There is no convincing philosophical…
Perhaps agency is less one single 'meta-skill' than a bunch of domain specific 'micro-skills'. E.g., strategic thinking in a tech company leadership roll is one skill (or set of skills), strategic thinking in the…
> The one thing about an EM field in particular I have questions about, is why don't our brains turn off under even moderate electrical and magnetic fields. Yeah -- empirically EM theories of phenomenal experience are…
> If an informational concept causes a system to output a stresslike response, or worse trigger a stresslike action in real life then there is no distinction to me. A system is what it does. Hmm. I think that I…
> This doesn't really answer anything to me, only that there is a complex electrical simulation going on in our minds. Try to visualize the structure of the EM field inside a GPU vs. one inside of a human brain. In the…
> Until you have a unit and a method to measure this field, and a way to experiment on it, it is not scientific theory. Field-based theories of phenomenal experience have obvious ways to experiment on them, and are…
Think about RF engineering: the same physical antenna can be used for both TX and RX. We already know that neurons both create EM fields and are influenced by EM fields. The role of EM fields in the brain is pretty well…
> The only way that 'AIs are not conscious' can be true is if we decide, with high confidence, that they are lacking some essential property that is not lacking in ourselves. There is no convincing philosophical…
Perhaps agency is less one single 'meta-skill' than a bunch of domain specific 'micro-skills'. E.g., strategic thinking in a tech company leadership roll is one skill (or set of skills), strategic thinking in the…