Consciousness qua Mortal Computation
Neurons and Cognition
2024-03-07 v1 Artificial Intelligence
Abstract
Computational functionalism posits that consciousness is a computation. Here we show, perhaps surprisingly, that it cannot be a Turing computation. Rather, computational functionalism implies that consciousness is a novel type of computation that has recently been proposed by Geoffrey Hinton, called mortal computation.
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@article{arxiv.2403.03925,
title = {Consciousness qua Mortal Computation},
author = {Johannes Kleiner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.03925},
year = {2024}
}