This raises the question of how much of human “introspection” is actually an accurate representation of what’s happening in the brain. Old experiments like the “precognitive carousel” and other high resolution time experiments strongly suggested that at least a portion of our consciousness experience subtly misrepresented what was actually happening in our brains. To the extent that some of our “introspection” may be similar to LLM hallucinations loosely constrained by available data.
But the last time I looked at these hypotheses was 30 years ago. So take my comments with a grain of salt.
Absolutely! Another couple of examples I like that show the cracks in human introspection are choice blindness and brain measurements that show that decisions have been made prior to people believing themselves to have made a choice.
This raises the question of how much of human “introspection” is actually an accurate representation of what’s happening in the brain. Old experiments like the “precognitive carousel” and other high resolution time experiments strongly suggested that at least a portion of our consciousness experience subtly misrepresented what was actually happening in our brains. To the extent that some of our “introspection” may be similar to LLM hallucinations loosely constrained by available data.
But the last time I looked at these hypotheses was 30 years ago. So take my comments with a grain of salt.
Absolutely! Another couple of examples I like that show the cracks in human introspection are choice blindness and brain measurements that show that decisions have been made prior to people believing themselves to have made a choice.