Formalizing the observer behind the observer
" I perceive myself perceiving the world " is what most people refer to as consciousness. Philosophers call it " second order perception " . There's something rich about this word. It provides you a pathway to formalize consciousness. But, before that, we can raise various questions: 1) Is consciousness incomputable like what Rojer Penrose suggests? 2) Is consciousness a collective phenomenon like what Michael Levin suggests? 3) Is consciousness a quantum phenomenon similar to what Stuart Hameroff suggests? 4) Is consciousness purely a computable classical phenomenon? 5) Is it something Godly? To be honest, I simply don't know which one of them is true. But, to try to model it, we will need to assume one of them as a postulate. If we start off with no 4 , i.e. classical phenomenon as a postulate, then we could formalize some empirical properties of consciousness and figure out how it could be modeled into machines. Consciousness The first thing we need ...
