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Yeah see you're going a level deeper than seems appropriate for this piece. For example my overview of LLM intentionally skips the inner working of decoders, etc. So why would I include that level of detail for the brain? The goal of this article was to provide a high level overview of these mechanisms, because a common general understanding is currently lacking from the discourse, across both AI and consciousness. Make sense?

2Ilio
Totally! After checking with my torontonian son, « the most questionable » was poor handling of english language on my part. The intended meaning was more like « the most interesting question is which complexity to hide ». Sorry for that! ☺️ To me the level of description is almost an artistic choice, so please don’t take my opinion for expectations you must have the same taste.

Cool thanks for reading! I'll have to research hemodynamics and possibly update accordingly. Regarding hiding complexities, I'm grossly oversimplifying almost everything in the article in order to get the theory across, so I'm curious what specifically aspects about paradoxical sleep, neuromodulators, and cerebellum you think are important to include? 

9Ilio
In my view they have suggestive interpretations as batchnorm, loss functions and superesolution, respectively. Obviously thalamocortical loops as stacked autoencoders, cortical columns as convolutions, and visual cognition as filmed network.. Less obvious: sensory gating as attention head.

Ok cool, will do. Thanks!

Yes I just put it online yesterday:
https://peterholmes.medium.com/the-conscious-computer-af5037439175

It's on medium but I'd rather move it here if you think it might get more readers. Thanks!

3Rafael Harth
I think it'd make most sense to post it as a link post here.

Hello. I am new. I work in software and have a background in neuroscience. I recently wrote a short paper outlining my theory of consciousness, but am not sure where to put it. Found this place and am intrigued. Figure I'll lurk around a bit and see if anyone has written something similar. Thanks for having me.

Did you publish it? If so, can you link it?

If not, you can just publish it in a post.