Ask A Genius 556 – The Best Model of Consciousness, in Brief
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2020/06/22
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: The best model of consciousness now, if we simplify that to a definition in one sentence, what is it in plain English?
Rick Rosner: It is high-information flow, sharing information among a bunch of different analytic nodes, and a bunch of different sensory analytic nodes. You get high-density information, detailed information about the world coming in through several senses, merging with analytic information produced by your brain about what is coming in, and the analytic information is associative.
What is in the conscious arena brings up associations from memory, and creates new associations, so, it’s a function of varied, shared information. All about the world under consideration by the thing that is conscious.
In other words, everything is looking at roughly the same stuff, the world that the consciousness is trying to model and analyze. It is not like somebody sitting, like a stock broker sitting at 17 different screens looking at information flows about 17 different things. It is not parallel processing those – no.
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