> I'm a bigger fan of framings that allow for different abstraction levels or lenses of thought, all of them belonging to the same consciousness. "Emotionally I

> I'm a bigger fan of framings that allow for different abstraction levels or lenses of thought, all of them belonging to the same consciousness. "Emotionally I feel this, but logically I think this, and instinctually I believe this." Any sufficiently advanced robotics project becomes essential a “sensor fusion” problem. It makes complete sense to me at least that consciousness is the internal mechanism of sensor fusion coupled with an unprecedented (in the animal kingdom) amount of raw compute. We have emotional sensors and electromagnetic sensors and audio-visual sensors (and feedback loops for all of those) and all consciousness is is the picking and choosing and weighting and considering of those sensors. Anyways, I agree!