Conscious phenomenology should only arise in systems whose internal states model both the world and their own internal dynamics as an observer within that world. Neural or artificial systems that lack such recursive architectures should not report or behave as though they experience an “inner glow.”
It’s unclear to me what “inner glow” mean here.
I have the impression that we see LLMs being trained on a lot of text of humans where some of it is humans speaking about being able to report they are conscious even if they don’t really have an recursive structure. It’s possible for an LLM to just repeat what they read and report the same thing that humans do.
Experimental manipulations that increase transparency of underlying mechanisms should not increase but rather degrade phenomenology.
This suggests that as people learn to meditate and get more transparency, on average they should become less convinced of consciousness being primary. While some people feel like the phenomenology gets degreed (and it sounds like you are one of them), I get the impression that there are more reports of people who are long-term meditators who get strengthened by their meditation experience in the belief that consciousness is ontology primitive.
It’s unclear to me what “inner glow” mean here. I have the impression that we see LLMs being trained on a lot of text of humans where some of it is humans speaking about being able to report they are conscious even if they don’t really have an recursive structure. It’s possible for an LLM to just repeat what they read and report the same thing that humans do.
This suggests that as people learn to meditate and get more transparency, on average they should become less convinced of consciousness being primary. While some people feel like the phenomenology gets degreed (and it sounds like you are one of them), I get the impression that there are more reports of people who are long-term meditators who get strengthened by their meditation experience in the belief that consciousness is ontology primitive.