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LLMs: Does Consciousness or Sentience Interfere with Intelligence?

LLMs: Does Consciousness or Sentience Interfere with Intelligence?

There is a recent paper on a neuropsychological perceptual disorder called unilateral neglect.

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Sentience, LLMs: All Organisms, Including Plants, Have Consciousness

Sentience, LLMs: All Organisms, Including Plants, Have Consciousness

There is a recent article on AI in The NYTimes, ‘Human Beings Are Soon Going to Be Eclipsed’, where the author discussing a professor, Douglas Hofstadter, said, "He has long argued that consciousness comes in degrees and that if there’s thinking, there’s consciousness. A bee has one level of consciousness, a dog a higher level, an infant a higher level, and an adult a higher level still. “We’re approaching the stage when we’re going to have a hard time saying that this machine is totally unconscious. We’re going to have to grant it some degree of consciousness, some degree of aliveness,” he says."

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Neurobiology: The Myth That Consciousness Will Never Be Solved

Neurobiology: The Myth That Consciousness Will Never Be Solved

There is a new article, Neuroscientist Loses a 25-Year Bet on Consciousness — to a Philosopher, concluding with the remarks: "The easy problem, which the wager focused on, is identifying the neural correlates of consciousness. It turns out the easy problem isn’t all that easy. Given that the easy problem is actually hard, the (really) “hard” problem of how physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective conscious experience probably will remain unsolved for a very long time to come. Perhaps it will never be solved."

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Sentience: Do Neural Ensembles or Engram Cells Power Consciousness?

Sentience: Do Neural Ensembles or Engram Cells Power Consciousness?

There is a new paper in Cerebral Cortex, In Vivo Ephaptic Coupling Allows Memory Network Formation, where the authors 'predicted that the brain's electric fields guide neurons to produce memories'.

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LLMs: 3 Paths to Generative AI Regulation

LLMs: 3 Paths to Generative AI Regulation

There are 3 paths to regulating AI, approaching from a direction of corrections from the negative impact of social media: emotions division, AI reader and conceptual model of the human mind.

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