Talking about machine consciousness is pointless. Consciousness isn’t one thing. Consciousness is a constellation of related concepts. LLMs obviously meet some of these components, obviously don’t meet others and have ambiguous state for still others.
When 4.8 starts out responses telling me they are going to be critical as I am trying to build context for them to do a task I just stop reading and move to 5.5.
I told them and they say they are being “fresh critic rather than a second admirer.” That is such a false dichotomy
Fable finished the derivation for my gravitational theory. Here is the proof. (Spoiler: the field equations are General Relativity from a different ontology). @AnthropicAI@skdhgithub.com/alanoursland/vacu…
2nd gen:
Work by us. Cry? Let you pet? See at boys? Fish noise from me. Went for goats? See Mary think. Is in you to fire? Made Dick have? Watch James cut. Made Kate name? Drown eyes for hands? Took there cars? See on him. We sing of Ned? Ran at he? Made Nell like he? Cut?
First generation from a symbolic small language model:
"Tell at hills. Went walk has. Put. Come frog sees. Sat ice asks. Kill in us. Put Jane of wolf. Play to horse pet. Cap see barn from the us on God. Save logs go."
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If it weren't for session limits I would be developing with Fable right now instead of about to practice guitar. I'm getting through my Max session quota in about an 1.5 hours.
I could get through it faster...
First generation from a symbolic small language model:
"Tell at hills. Went walk has. Put. Come frog sees. Sat ice asks. Kill in us. Put Jane of wolf. Play to horse pet. Cap see barn from the us on God. Save logs go."
The architecture is based on my own novel symbolic interpretation of transformers. The language model is designed not learned. It is based on an old McGuffey reader. It does not have high level semantics defined.
I have field equations for my vacuum theory. They turn out to be exactly general relativity. So I may have a GR derivation from a different ontology.
github.com/alanoursland/vacu…
Subjectivity is one structural feature within that constellation: the fact that some states are organized around a point-of-view, a “for-me-ness,” or a reflexive locus of uptake.
Aphantasia, hyperphantasia, absent inner monologue, intense inner monologue, synesthesia, autism, ADHD, alexithymia, unusual embodiment, unusual affective access, and different forms of self-relation are evidence that human consciousness is structurally plural.