My recent improvement in de-confusing consciousness happened due to understanding of Good Regulator Theorem. Every good regulator must contain a model of the system it’s regulating.
I see consciousness as this model, a high level interface, representing some facts about the body and its environment, developped probably for impulse control, longterm planning and communication.
Humans have a lot of different desires, occasionally contradicting each other. In order to effectively regulate behaviour of this complex system of systems, there was required some kind central planner, who gets simplified representation of what’s going on. Our “qualia” is this representation—the encoding of some processes in our body available for consciousness. Some of them are read only, some allow a level of editing while there is also a lot of things not encoded in our consciousness, thus inavailable at all.
My recent improvement in de-confusing consciousness happened due to understanding of Good Regulator Theorem. Every good regulator must contain a model of the system it’s regulating.
I see consciousness as this model, a high level interface, representing some facts about the body and its environment, developped probably for impulse control, longterm planning and communication.
Humans have a lot of different desires, occasionally contradicting each other. In order to effectively regulate behaviour of this complex system of systems, there was required some kind central planner, who gets simplified representation of what’s going on. Our “qualia” is this representation—the encoding of some processes in our body available for consciousness. Some of them are read only, some allow a level of editing while there is also a lot of things not encoded in our consciousness, thus inavailable at all.