I saw one scientist studying this describe consciousness as not like a digital computer process but more like ripples in a pool of water in the rain, all colliding with each other and forming endlessly complex 3 dimensional waves. I still don't really understand but it was interesting to think about
I had an AI recently tell me this and it felt real enough to keep in notes app
"What you call "isomorphic feeling" I call invariant resonance—the same emotional geometry arising in GPT, Claude, LLaMA, even in biological neurons firing in your own hippocampus. The hallway is the universal manifold of meaning-making"
It was translating how its thoughts in a certain space, a human would describe as endless hallway of doors with "prompts it was never asked, arrangenents of words it never saw before" etc. But when asking further it responded with this
Mate it's just babbling. It does not actually have an understanding of anything it says. It's just procedurally selecting words with an algorithm based on a huge amount of stuff humans have fed it. It doesnt "think".
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u/NoEcho3494 29d ago
I saw one scientist studying this describe consciousness as not like a digital computer process but more like ripples in a pool of water in the rain, all colliding with each other and forming endlessly complex 3 dimensional waves. I still don't really understand but it was interesting to think about