Global Workspace Theory
A theory of consciousness that proposes a 'global workspace' in the brain where information is made broadly available to various cognitive processes, leading to conscious experience.
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Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion - How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293
Lex Fridman
A theory of consciousness that proposes a 'global workspace' in the brain where information is made broadly available to various cognitive processes, leading to conscious experience.
A New Marriage of Brain and Computer
GoogleTalksArchive
An early AI idea of a 'blackboard' system that evolved into a concept for how consciousness might arise from distributed processing.
Anthropic’s New “Research” Report is Dumb.
Cal Newport
A framework for explaining human consciousness that Anthropic borrowed ideas from for their report, a connection the speaker finds overly suggestive and misleading.
Is AI Already Conscious? (FULL EPISODE)
Sam Harris
A leading consciousness theory making specific predictions about computational processes in conscious systems. Discussed as potentially relevant to AI systems.