There was a long paper on HN recently that I've been stuck thinking about. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43990843 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

There was a long paper on HN recently that I've been stuck thinking about. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43990843 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43990843 Jaeger et al.’s ideas on consciousness is in which many “baked in” structures are emergent, and that living or "cognitive systems" similarly generate meaning from underlying complexity without being reducible to a straightforward set of rules. Macro level “givens” (geometry) can arise from deep nonclassical processes. “procedurally generated quantum reality” or something.