Love this framing I like it because it makes it clear that the boundaries of those stable structures are what encode the world model that encompasses the futur

Love this framing I like it because it makes it clear that the boundaries of those stable structures are what encode the world model that encompasses the future. Conscious systems just decode the boundaries of these recursive structures. Corollary: LLMs aren't smart, they're just recursive structures (differently recursive than our minds) that can decode the boundary we store in language the recursion of language...? [2][3] --- My semi-related crackpot theory (informed by some pending unpublished research involving Yakir Aharonov and Michael Levin) is that fundamentally, the structures of consciousness are just the result of thermodynamic evolution finding a way to emulate quantum effects at the macro scale: assuming Aharonov's two-state vector formalism[3] holds some truth, the quantum present is formed by a particle arriving from the past and future. Cross your eyes, and consciousness sure looks a lot like time travel, or information arriving from the future. Aka consciousness is just a roundabout way to create an emulation layer for quantum effects. [1]: http://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2024/02/12/fractal.html http://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2024/02/12/fractal.html [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191597 [3]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226852316 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226852316