Explorations of the concept of consciousness, self-awareness, and consciousness in brain and machine
Initiated: February 1, 2022 (Last updated: 2023-12-01)
Aims:
(i) Make phenomena, processes and values a conscious experience ("bevisstgjøre prosesser");
(ii) Representation learning, attention, and relationships (in a wide sense). [Inspired by Gallileo's Error, The Conscious Prior, and ... Could Machines Have It?]
See also "Mind Explorer" A copilot for exploring consciousness in animals and machines. Powered by GTP-4 with Browsing, Advanced Data Ananlysis, and DALLE.E built in.
- Public repositories matching this topic... (https://github.com/topics/consciousness)
- Seth, Anil K.; Bayne, Tim. Theories of consciousness. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, May 03 2022. [link] [ [pdf]
Integrated Information Theory (IIT)
- Fallon, Francis. Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosphy (https://iep.utm.edu/int-info)
- Mayner, William GP, ..., Tononi, Giulio. PyPhi: A toolbox for integrated information theory. PLOS Computational Biology, July 26, 2018 [link]. Repositpry: https://github.com/wmayner/pyphi ; see also http://integratedinformationtheory.org/calculate.html and https://github.com/ELIFE-ASU/pyphi-spectrum (a wrapper for PyPhi that can be used to calculate all possible Phi values for a given subsystem)
- Merker, Björn (see also here); Williford, Kenneth and Rudrauf, David. The integrated information theory of consciousness: A case of mistaken identity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2022;45:e41. [link] [with Open Peer Commentaries] including "Consciousness is already solved: The continued debate is not about science" by Michael Graziano (Attention Schema Theory, AST in a neural network agent [link] Q-learning using TF-Agents [code]).
- Gilson, Matthieu; Tagliazucchi, Enzo; Cofré, Rodrigo. Entropy production of Multivariate Ornstein- Uhlenbeck processes correlates with consciousness levels in the human brain. To appear in Physical Review E, 2023 [arXiv]
- Padavic-Callaghan, Karmela. Your brain produces more entropy while you are awake. New Scientist 8 February 2023 [link]. [Comments] by A.L. 2023-02-06.
Attention Schema Theory of Consciousness (AST)
- Graziano, Michael S. A. Understanding consciousness. Brain 2021;144(5):1281-1283 [link]
- Graziano, Michael S. A. A conceptual framework for consciousness. PNAS 2022;119(18):e2116933119 [link]
- Wilterson, Andrew I.; Kemper, Casey M.; Kim, Noah; Webb, Taylor W.; Reblando, Alexandra M. W.; Graziano, Michael S. A. Attention Control and the Attention Schema Theory of Consciousness. Progress in Neurobiology 2020;195:101844 [link]
- Curtis, Benjamin; Savulescu, Julian. Is Google’s LaMDA conscious? A philosopher’s view. The Conversation 2022, June 15 [link]. Se also Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview. (2022, June 11 by Blake Lemoine)
- Dehaene, Stanislas; Lau, Hakwan; Kouider, Sid. What is consciousness, and could machines have it? Science 2017;358(6362):486-492. [link]
- Krauss, Patrick and Maier, Andreas. Will We Ever Have Conscious Machines? Front Comput Neurosci, December 22, 2020 [link]
- Langdon, Angela; Botvinick, Matthew; Nakahara, Hiroyuki et al. Meta-learning, social cognition and consciousness in brains and machines. Neural Networks 2022;145:80-89. [link]
- VanRullen, Rufin and Kanai, Ryota. Deep learning and the Global Workspace Theory. Trends in Neurosciences 2021;44(9):692-704. [link] and at https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10390 [pdf]
- Coma Science Group MRI pipelines: Magnetic Resonance Imagery (MRI) preprocessing and analysis pipelines and tools for the study of disorders of consciousness. (https://github.com/lrq3000/csg_mri_pipelines). See also the GIGA-Consciousness MRI Protocol (https://github.com/lrq3000/mri_protocol)
- Chen, Yali and Zhang, Jun. How Energy Supports Our Brain to Yield Consciousness: Insights From Neuroimaging Based on the Neuroenergetics Hypothesis. Front Syst Neurosci 2021; 06 July [link] [pdf]
- Ito, Taku. Modeling hemodynamic response functions of the BOLD signal using Windkessel-Balloon model (https://github.com/ito-takuya/HemodynamicResponseModeling). Based on Friston, Karl J; Harrison, L; Penny W. Dynamic causal modeling. Neuroimage 2003;19(4):1273-12302 [link] [pdf]
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Money, Nicholas P. Hyphal and mycelial consciousness: the concept of the fungal mind. Fungal Biology 2021;125(4):257-259 [link]
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Jabr, Ferris. The Social Life of Forests: Trees appear to communicate and cooperate through subterranean networks of fungi. What are they sharing with one another? The New York Times Magazine, December 2, 2020 [link]
The quantum mind
- Wigner, Eugene. Remarks on the Mind-Body Question, Symmetries and Reflections. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 1967, pp.171-184 [pdf]. Also in: Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1995:247–260. E. Wigner is famous for his seminal analysis and insight expressed in his 1960 CPA paper "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences"
Orchestrated objective reduction (Orch OR)
- Penrose, Roger. Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness. Oxford University Press, 1994. See [here] and [here]
- Derakhshani, Maaneli; Diósi, Lajos; Laubenstein, Matthias; Piscicchia, Kristian; Curceanu, Catalina. At the crossroad of the search for spontaneous radiation and the Orch OR consciousness theory. Physics of Life Reviews 2022;42:8-14 [link]. See also Collapsing a leading theory for the quantum origin of consciousness.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal
- Luppia AI, Craiga MM, Coppolaa P et al. Preserved fractal character of structural brain networks is associated with covert consciousness after severe brain injury. NeuroImage: Clinical 2021;30:102682 [link] (using box-counting [code for 3D])
- Kanari, Lida; ...; Markram, Henry. Computational synthesis of cortical dendritic morphologies. Cell Reports 2022;39(1):110586 [link]. Code repository for the topological neuron synthesis algorithm [NeuroTS]
- Chalmers, David. Reality+: Virtual worlds and the problems of philosophy. Norton & Comp., 2022. See also http://consc.net/reality
- Ginsburg, Simona and Jablonka, Eva. Picturing the Mind: Consciousness through the Lens of Evolution. MIT Press, 2022. See also [The origin of consciousness]
- Goff, Philip. Gallileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness. Pantheon 2019 [philsophynow "... a defence of panpsychism"] [book homepage]
- Grossberg, Stephen. Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind. Oxford University Press, 2021. [link] Grossberg is developer (togeter with Gail Carpenter) of Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART).
- Hawkins, Jeff. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence. Basic Books, 2021. See also GatesNotes and Numenta
- Russell, Bertrand. The Analysis of Mind. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1921 (The Project Gutenberg EBook; audiobook).
- Schrödinger, Erwin. Mind and Matter. Tarner Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1958. [CUP link]
- Seth, Anil. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness. Faber, 2021. See also Azeem Azhar' Exponential View Podcast "What Studying Consciousness Can Reveal about AI and the Metaverse" (with Anil Seth) [here]
- Bengio, Yoshua. "From Deep Learning to Consciousness", Jan 6, 2020; NeurIPS 2019 Robin.ly Interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lat0jSpNQoM)
- Chalmers, David. "The Hard Problem of Consciousness", Jan 29, 2020; Lex Fridman Podcast #69 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW59lMvxmY4)
- Chalmers, David. "The Meaning of Life in the Metaverse", Mar 23, 2022; Azeem Azhar's Exponetial View Podcast (https://hbr.org/podcast/2022/03/the-meaning-of-life-in-the-metaverse-with-david-chalmers)
- Ginsburg, Simona. "Animal consciousness: a philosophical and evolutionary approach"; Human Brains: Conversations #6, humanbrains.fondazioneprada.org Mar 16, 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqMHUT5v_HU)
- Graziano, Michael; Cohen, Jonathan; Lal, Vasudev; Bach, Joscha (panelists). "Vectors of Cognitive AI: Attention"; Jan 24, 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IncnIIpeKVM) See also [here] and "Attention is all you need".
- Jablonka, Eva. "Learning and the origins of consciousness"; Human Brains: Conversations #6, humanbrains.fondazioneprada.org Mar 16, 202 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGeASWjdqjw)
- Penrose, Roger & Hameroff, Stuart. "Consciousness and the Physics of the Brain", The Qualcomm Institute, La Jolla, CA, Jan 10, 2020 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGbgDf4HCHU)
- Seth, Anil. "Consciousness: Neuroscience, Perception and Hallucination", Dec 17, 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCyapf0E5ns)
- Seth, Anil. "What Studying Consciousness Can Reveal about AI and the Metaverse", Jan 26, 2022; Azeem Azhar's Exponetial View Podcast (https://hbr.org/podcast/2022/01/what-studying-consciousness-can-reveal-about-ai-and-the-metaverse-with-anil-seth)
- Goff, Philip & Frankish, Keith: "Mind Chat" (https://www.youtube.com/c/MindChat). See also [here].
- HBF Brain and Consciousness (HBF is University of Bergen's research interest group on brain and consciousness) - https://padlet.com/magdadumitru/427b4m9by7e00tpl
- The Science of Consciousness (TSC) Conferences (since 1994) - https://consciousness.arizona.edu/science-consciousness-conferences-1994
- Ito, Takuya; Yang, Guangyu R; Laurent, Patryk; Schultz, Douglas H; Cole, Michael W. Constructing neural network models from brain data reveals representational transformations linked to adaptive behavior. Nature Communications 2022;13:673 [link] [code] [data in BIDS]
- Lundervold, Arne [pic]. Electroencephalographic changes in a case of acute cerebral anoxia unconscious for about three years. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1954;6(2):311-315. [link] [first page]
- Lundervold, Arvid. On consciousness, resting state fMRI, and neurodynamics. Nonlinear Biomedical Physics 2010;4(S9) [link]
- Lundervold, Alexander S and Lundervold, Arvid. An overview of deep learning in medical imaging focusing on MRI. Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik 2019;29(2):102-127. [link] See also https://www.dgmp.de/de-DE/307/autorenpreis-der-zmp
- Papenfuss, Mary. Google Engineer On Leave After He Claims AI Program [LaMDA] Has Gone Sentient. HuffPost Jun 12, 2022. [link]
- Torgerson, Carinna et al. The DTI connectivity of the human claustrum. Human Brain Mapping 2015;36(3):827-838 [link] ... These results illustrate that the claustrum is ideally located within the human central nervous system (CNS) connectome to serve as the putative “gate keeper” of neural information for consciousness awareness. See also [here] for a historical background and additional information about the claustrum.
(and source of origin)
- Hemodynamic Response Modeling [link]. Wu et al. rsHRF toolbox. Neuroimage 2021 [paper]
- PyPhi (library for computing integrated information (𝚽), and the associated quantities and objects) exploration [link]
- NeuroTS (Computational generation of artificial neuronal trees based on the topology of reconstructed cells and their statistical properties) [link]
- Animal Decision Making and The AHA model at the Theoretical Ecology Group, University of Bergen. Code on Gitub: [HEDTOOLS] and [AHA-R1]. ...The targets of the models are usually animal behaviour and ecology but can also be animal wellbeing and animal welfare in aquaculture. In the future maybe evolution of consciousness and human cultures.