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Schmidhuber is a great thinker in this field. I don't have a source, but I've seen him more briefly summarize this same point as "consciousness is a by-product
by lend000 6y ago
Schmidhuber is a great thinker in this field. I don't have a source, but I've seen him more briefly summarize this same point as "consciousness is a by-product of data compression." Pretty close to the last sentence you quoted.
- odnes 6y agoHe talks about this in his appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast. He's my favourite guest, fascinating guy.