• theneverfox@pawb.social
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    3 days ago

    Consciousness is the AI assistant in meat mecha suit.

    It seems like we make decisions, but we don’t. Think of a decision you’ve made - you think over it, you sleep on it, you imagine outcomes and might decide intellectually - but you don’t lock it in. That just happens - sometimes it even flips at the last second, and you don’t know why you did it - for better or worse

    Our brain does a lot of preprocessing - vision, hearing, balance, walking, language…

    Our conscious minds preprocess time. It turns our senses and our experiences into stories, abstract predictions, laterally pattern matching, and ultimately - analysis and recommendations