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Lilith: Developmental Modular LLMs with Chemical Signaling
Mohid Farooqi, Alejandro Comas-Leon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04575 https://

Lilith: Developmental Modular LLMs with Chemical Signaling
Current paradigms in Artificial Intelligence rely on layers of feedforward networks which model brain activity at the neuronal level. We conjecture that expanding to the level of multiple brain regions with chemical signaling may be a productive step toward understanding the emergence of consciousness. We propose LILITH, a novel architecture that combines developmental training of modular language models with brain-inspired token-based communication protocols, mirroring chemical signaling in th…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02139 has been replaced.
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The Unified Cognitive Consciousness Theory for Language Models: Anchoring Semantics, Thresholds of Activation, and Emergent Reasoning
Few-shot learning in large language models (LLMs) reveals a core paradox: certain tasks generalize from just a few examples, while others demand extensive supervision. To explain this, we introduce the Unified Cognitive Consciousness Theory (UCCT), which reconceptualizes LLMs not as deficient agents, but as unconscious substrates: dense, distributed repositories of linguistic and conceptual patterns that operate without explicit semantics, intention, or goal-directed reasoning. Under this view,…

I'd like to see neuroscientists nudge the brain toward brain states that blend lucid dreaming and visual-to-auditory sensory substitution https://thedebrief.org/largest-brain-study-yet-confirms-lucid-dreaming-as-unique-state-o…

Largest Brain Study Yet Confirms Lucid Dreaming as Unique State of Consciousness
Science, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious.

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxXw0cB2LiiXi9EA0cCgpHyYJVis2gjHIK?si=YG2de1VJnKzpj9u0
Spot the moment “WYSIWYG” entered the social consciousness in 1993. And if you jump to 06:00, you’ll see part of Emma Bunton appearing as an extra for 5 …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Tycho:
🎵 Consciousness Felt
#Tycho
https://tycho.bandcamp.com/track/consciousness-felt
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Qla1sKZ8maEdcaLyh0yQl

Hopeful Marxists: "If the #OneBigBeautifulBill doesn't produce some class consciousness of those getting impoverished, then nothing will!"
<time passes>
Marxists: "Alright, nothing will!"

Consciousness via MIPT?
Alexander Gorsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04875 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.04875

Consciousness via MIPT?
The measurement-induced phase transition (MIPT) is a recently formulated phenomenon in out-of-equilibrium systems. The competition between unitary evolutions and measurement-induced non-unitaries leads to the transition between the entangled and disentangled phases at some critical measurement rate. We conjecture that self-organized MIPT plays a key role in the generative model of cognitive networks and the formation of the state of consciousness in the "newborn-adult" transition. To this aim, …

⏰ Inside a neuroscientist’s quest to cure coma
#brain

Inside a neuroscientist’s quest to cure coma
Thousands of Americans are trapped in disorders of consciousness. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is searching for a way out.

«The singularity is near, not because machine intelligence is suddenly surging, but because we are content to risk extinguishing the spark of human consciousness by exposing ourselves to endless streams of artificially generated bullshit.»
Nice post by @…! I've definitely noticed this when interacting with people who've been too deep into using "AI".
https://ideophone.org/bringing-about-the-singularity-by-giving-up-thinking/

"Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness."
— Albert Hofmann
#LSD #Psychedelics #Psychedelic

tL;dr summary as to why you don't already know #PeterPutnam couldn't possibly be 40s-60s USA, him being gay, parterned lifelong with a black man, or even heaven forbid that his game-theory tinker-toy of consciousness was flawed (although should i learn the #agi fanfois will deploy it, it wouldn't surprise me)
Finding Peter Putnam - Nautilus
https://nautil.us/finding-peter-putnam-1218035/

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Zzi3xKBRpT4
We need more class consciousness!!!

A Dopamine-Serotonin Theory of Consciousness
Diogo Sousa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02614 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.02614

A Dopamine-Serotonin Theory of Consciousness
This work presents a comprehensive theory of consciousness grounded in mathematical formalism and supported by clinical data analysis. The framework developed herein demonstrates that consciousness exists as a continuous, non-monotonic function across a high-dimensional neurochemical space, with dopamine serving as the primary intensity regulator and serotonin (5-HT2A) as the complexity modulator. This work offers mechanistic explanations for the full spectrum of conscious states, from deep sle…

Sensitivity analysis method in the presence of a missing not at random ordinal independent variable
Abdoulaye Dioni, Alexandre Bureau, Lynne Moore, Aida Eslami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24025

Sensitivity analysis method in the presence of a missing not at random ordinal independent variable
Data analysis often encounters missing data, which can result in inaccurate conclusions, especially when it comes to ordinal variables. In trauma data, the Glasgow Coma Scale is useful for assessing the level of consciousness. This score is often missing in patients who are intubated or under sedation upon arrival at the hospital, and those with normal reactivity without head injury, suggesting a Missing Not At Random (MNAR) mechanism. The problem with MNAR is the absence of a definitive analys…

Scientists say your “mind” isn’t confined to your brain, or even your body
http://qz.com/866352/scientists-say-your-mind-isnt-confined-to-your-brain-or-even-your-bod…

Scientists say your “mind” isn’t confined to your brain, or even your body
You might wonder, at some point today, what’s going on in another person’s mind. You may compliment someone’s great mind, or say they are out of their mind. You may even try to expand or free your own mind.

Here's my latest Human Meme podcast about the thousand year future of AI and the us of us:
https://humanmeme.com/from-ancient-golems-to-the-synthetic-sacred-how-ai-evolved-from-my…

Self-consciousness and personal identity in quantum panprotopsychism
Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge Pullin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11530 https://

Self-consciousness and personal identity in quantum panprotopsychism
In previous papers, we demonstrated that an ontology of quantum mechanics, described in terms of states and events with internal phenomenal aspects (a form of panprotopsychism), is well suited to explain consciousness. We showed that the combination problems of qualities, structures and subjects in panpsychism and panprotopsychism stem from implicit hypotheses based on classical physics regarding supervenience, which are not applicable at the quantum level. Within this view, consciousness arise…

The Reflexive Integrated Information Unit: A Differentiable Primitive for Artificial Consciousness
Gnankan Landry Regis N'guessan, Issa Karambal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13825

The Reflexive Integrated Information Unit: A Differentiable Primitive for Artificial Consciousness
Research on artificial consciousness lacks the equivalent of the perceptron: a small, trainable module that can be copied, benchmarked, and iteratively improved. We introduce the Reflexive Integrated Information Unit (RIIU), a recurrent cell that augments its hidden state $h$ with two additional vectors: (i) a meta-state $μ$ that records the cell's own causal footprint, and (ii) a broadcast buffer $B$ that exposes that footprint to the rest of the network. A sliding-window covariance and a dif…

Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.NC. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.NC/new
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- Towards a (meta-)mathematical theory of consciousness: universal (mapping) properties of experience
Steven Phillips, Naotsugu Tsuchiya

I read "Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It" by Christof Koch.
Interesting book which spends like 8 or 9 chapters detailing all the experiments which prove beyond much doubt that consciousness, and self awareness, is a thing done by a brain.
It describes how perception is a construction of a description, has a chapter called "computational mind"
And then spends the last two chapters describing why he thinks the mind can't be computed, because drugs have made him think experience is some kind of magic associated with highly interconnected causal structures.
Apparently, he thinks, once things become interconnected enough they become able to cause things independently of the physics running those connections.
Which is crazy, obviously. There's nothing causal in direct connections between neurons that isn't equally causal in modeled connections between virtual neurons.
All his evidence in the book from neural MRI scans to the effects of psychedelic drugs and symptoms of strokes and disease point to the brain simulating a virtual reality which is the basis of perception.
That simulated world in which we live is full of colour and shape and sounds and emotions and millions of mental constructs that are built to be correlated by the senses with the outside world, but are not equal to the world itself. We live in a dream constructed to correlate with reality.
But then instead of taking the next step: That consciousness itself is a property of a simulated being inside that mental model of the universe, a property which the brain simulates and applies to the virtual self that's doing the experiencing inside that model, he jumps towards some magic implying pan-psychism or that sufficiently interconnected networks become causally self-complete for some reason nobody can fathom.
Sure, colour and shape and emotions are all made up by the brain but experience can't be! For some reason.
You see in truth dualism is false, in that there is no spirit realm in which ghosts animate the matter of the body somehow.
Yet also, dualism is true, in that there is a simulated mental reality which we live in, computed by the brain in which all perception and experience are created, which is related-to but separate-from the unfolding complicated dance of energy that is the universe our bodies interact with.
People take some DMT trip, and the model of the universe emulated by their brain collapses and breaks. Their virtual simulated self inside their mind has these experiences of being one with the universe or the experience of feeling dead yet conscious or whatever, and these hippies think that the broken down simulated experience is real and reflects how consciousness is more fundamental than the atoms that make up the neurons in their brain.
Instead of realizing it shows them that their experienced universe is a simulacrum, they think they get a more direct experience of reality somehow. A consciousness more pure than any mere base atom.
"Then I am myself the world" is a great title. Everything you ever experience is created and simulated in your brain like a dream, the whole universe is inside your head. Even the fact of experience itself.
But that isn't the conclusion Koch reaches somehow, he just jumps from describing the evidence that this is so straight into ascribing super-causal magic consciousness to particular arrangements of atoms that integrated information theory suggest have high correlation, and thinks therefore conciousness is itself the entire universe.
Ah well, fun book. I like arguing in my head with authors that are wrong.
#reading #books #consciousness #thenIAmMyselfTheWorld

Ghost in the Machine: Examining the Philosophical Implications of Recursive Algorithms in Artificial Intelligence Systems
Llewellin RG Jegels
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01967

Ghost in the Machine: Examining the Philosophical Implications of Recursive Algorithms in Artificial Intelligence Systems
This paper investigates whether contemporary AI architectures employing deep recursion, meta-learning, and self-referential mechanisms provide evidence of machine consciousness. Integrating philosophical history, cognitive science, and AI engineering, it situates recursive algorithms within a lineage spanning Cartesian dualism, Husserlian intentionality, Integrated Information Theory, the Global Workspace model, and enactivist perspectives. The argument proceeds through textual analysis, compar…

Here's my latest Human Meme podcast about the thousand year future of AI and the us of us:
https://humanmeme.com/from-ancient-golems-to-the-synthetic-sacred-how-ai-evolved-from-my…

The assumptions that restrain us from understanding consciousness
Jaan Aru
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21485 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

The assumptions that restrain us from understanding consciousness
The science of consciousness has been successful over the last decades. Yet, it seems that some of the key questions remain unanswered. Perhaps, as a science of consciousness, we cannot move forward using the same theoretical commitments that brought us here. It might be necessary to revise some assumptions we have made along the way. In this piece, I offer no answers, but I will question some of these fundamental assumptions. We will try to take a fresh look at the classical question about the…

Which Consciousness Can Be Artificialized? Local Percept-Perceiver Phenomenon for the Existence of Machine Consciousness
Shri Lal Raghudev Ram Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18935

Which Consciousness Can Be Artificialized? Local Percept-Perceiver Phenomenon for the Existence of Machine Consciousness
This paper presents a novel paradigm of the local percept-perceiver phenomenon to formalize certain observations in neuroscientific theories of consciousness. Using this model, a set-theoretic formalism is developed for artificial systems, and the existence of machine consciousness is proved by invoking Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory. The article argues for the possibility of a reductionist form of epistemic consciousness within machines.

Do psychic cells generate consciousness?
Mototaka Suzuki, Jaan Aru
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20164 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20164

Do psychic cells generate consciousness?
Technological advances in the past decades have begun to enable neuroscientists to address fundamental questions about consciousness in an unprecedented way. Here we review remarkable recent progress in our understanding of cellular-level mechanisms of conscious processing in the brain. Of particular interest are the cortical pyramidal neurons -- or "psychic cells" called by Ramón y Cajal more than 100 years ago -- which have an intriguing cellular mechanism that accounts for selective disrupt…

Resonance Complexity Theory and the Architecture of Consciousness: A Field-Theoretic Model of Resonant Interference and Emergent Awareness
Michael Arnold Bruna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20580

Resonance Complexity Theory and the Architecture of Consciousness: A Field-Theoretic Model of Resonant Interference and Emergent Awareness
This paper introduces Resonance Complexity Theory (RCT), which proposes that consciousness emerges from stable interference patterns of oscillatory neural activity. These patterns, shaped by recursive feedback and constructive interference, must exceed critical thresholds in complexity, coherence, gain, and fractal dimensionality to give rise to conscious experience. The resulting spatiotemporal attractors encode subjective awareness as dynamic resonance structures distributed across the neural…

Wanting to Be Understood Explains the Meta-Problem of Consciousness
Chrisantha Fernando, Dylan Banarse, Simon Osindero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12086 htt…

Wanting to Be Understood Explains the Meta-Problem of Consciousness
Because we are highly motivated to be understood, we created public external representations -- mime, language, art -- to externalise our inner states. We argue that such external representations are a pre-condition for access consciousness, the global availability of information for reasoning. Yet the bandwidth of access consciousness is tiny compared with the richness of `raw experience', so no external representation can reproduce that richness in full. Ordinarily an explanation of experienc…

How brains build higher order representations of uncertainty
Megan A. K. Peters, Hojjat Azimi Asrari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19057 https://

How brains build higher order representations of uncertainty
Higher-order representations (HORs) are neural or computational states that are "about" first-order representations (FORs), encoding information not about the external world per se but about the agent's own representational processes -- such as the reliability, source, or structure of a FOR. These HORs appear critical to metacognition, learning, and even consciousness by some accounts, yet their dimensionality, construction, and neural substrates remain poorly understood. Here, we propose that …

Mapping Neural Theories of Consciousness onto the Common Model of Cognition
Paul S. Rosenbloom, John E. Laird, Christian Lebiere, Andrea Stocco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12224

Mapping Neural Theories of Consciousness onto the Common Model of Cognition
A beginning is made at mapping four neural theories of consciousness onto the Common Model of Cognition. This highlights how the four jointly depend on recurrent local modules plus a cognitive cycle operating on a global working memory with complex states, and reveals how an existing integrative view of consciousness from a neural perspective aligns with the Com-mon Model.