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> A baby is not an ANN. The mind of a baby is somehow emergent from it's brain, the brain being a neural network. Conscious. I used to believe that consciousn

> A baby is not an ANN. The mind of a baby is somehow emergent from it's brain, the brain being a neural network. Conscious. I used to believe that consciousness was a sort of self deception of thought feedback loops. Then i realized that it was self destructive to think like that. In a sense i still sort of think it is the most rational answer. But i refuse to believe it. The brain seams better suited to believing it is conscious. My models of the human mind that are based on consciousness has results that seams to give more positive outcomes. And they have higher explanatory value. Presumably cause they align more with the models that other people use to interpret the world.

s-shellfish 8y ago
Yes, I think minds work better when they can be self oriented. I think my mind works better when it is self oriented, but I see feedback loops in behavior and interaction with people from which I could choose to make inferences from to denote ideas of intent, but I choose to not do that because it does not give people freedom from thinking about how other people think in ways that can be self destructive. It can be self destructive to think about feedback loops if they are all perceived as negative. Alignment of models. Ebbs and flows. I think it's important to see positives.