Consciousness qua Mortal Computation

2024/03/06 by Johannes Kleiner, Kleiner, Johannes · 1 voice · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Medicine · #Mental Health and Psychiatry #Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments #cs.AI #q-bio.NC

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2403.03925

openalex publication_date 2024/03/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Computational functionalism posits that consciousness is a computation. Here we show, perhaps surprisingly, that it cannot be a Turing computation. Rather, computational functionalism implies that consciousness is a novel type of computation that has recently been proposed by Geoffrey Hinton, called mortal computation.

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• Finally finished this 😊 Quite the ride though, it's the third version after some extremely valuable feedback from @wanjawiese.bsky.social and others regarding the first two versions. arxiv.org/abs/24 [bsky, 6 points, 3 comments]

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