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Temporally they are not unified, but spatially they are. I am referring to the relational representation space, or the "embedding" space. We know that from neur

Temporally they are not unified, but spatially they are. I am referring to the relational representation space, or the "embedding" space. We know that from neural nets, they use high dimensional vectors for language, vision and other modalities. This representation space is where we go from raw inputs to semantics. The cool thing about this semantic space is that it emerges in unsupervised manner, and makes learning concepts so much easier, is as easy as identifying a point or sub-volume and assigning a label. It can relate any idea to any other idea. Being created from an agent's past experiences, it is first person and captures all the qualitative nuances of qualia. I think this representation space is what we refer to when we say consciousness is unified.

theptip 2y ago
> I think this representation space is what we refer to when we say consciousness is unified. I don’t think this is what OP meant, and this is not what Buddhists are talking about RE: unified vs discrete conscious experience. It really is about temporality as I originally noted. As in, are the actual qualia that you experience somehow a single continuous thing, even though they cross multiple sense modalities, and may interleave with complex/compount thoughts? Or are they a sequence of atoms arising that are not a single thing? I do think embedding spaces are a great concept, but I don’t think they bear on qualia very much.