my general take is that the thing worth labeling “consciousness” is closed-loop feedback systems
Have you written more about this anywhere? As written, this seems way too broad (depending on what you mean by this, I suspect I can concoct some automated thermostat+environment system which satisfies the definition but would strike people as a ridiculous example of consciousness).
Yes-ish, but it’s all kind of old and I don’t like how much metaphysics I mixed into those posts. So you can read them, but you need to read them in the sense of me working out ideas more than me getting all the details right (though I endorse the key idea about what I believe is the thing worth calling “consciousness”).
Have you written more about this anywhere? As written, this seems way too broad (depending on what you mean by this, I suspect I can concoct some automated thermostat+environment system which satisfies the definition but would strike people as a ridiculous example of consciousness).
Yes-ish, but it’s all kind of old and I don’t like how much metaphysics I mixed into those posts. So you can read them, but you need to read them in the sense of me working out ideas more than me getting all the details right (though I endorse the key idea about what I believe is the thing worth calling “consciousness”).
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ERp5ERYAaXFz4c8uF/ai-alignment-and-phenomenal-consciousness
and
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/M7Z5sm6KoukNpF3SD/form-and-feedback-in-phenomenology