> I have that thought quite often, both for cells and for aggregate things like countries or religions. You both might find this interesting :) Information Cl

> I have that thought quite often, both for cells and for aggregate things like countries or religions. You both might find this interesting :) Information Closure Theory of Consciousness (2020) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342956066_Information_Closure_Theory_of_Consciousness https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342956066_Informati... > However, only information processed at specific scales of coarse-graining appears to be available for conscious awareness. We do not have direct experience of information available at the scale of individual neurons, which is noisy and highly stochastic. Neither do we have experience of more macro-scale interactions, such as interpersonal communications. Neurophysiological evidence suggests that conscious experiences co-vary with information encoded in coarse-grained neural states such as the firing pattern of a population of neurons. In this article, we introduce a new informational theory of consciousness: Information Closure Theory of Consciousness (ICT) Still watching the seminars, but this is the clearest text summary I've found online so far: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/dco3t1/comment/f2hw67o/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/dco3t1/com...