What Studying Consciousness Can Reveal about AI and the Metaverse (with Anil Seth)
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
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Controlled Hallucination
The purpose of ception is to guide action and behaviour to promote the organism's prospect of survival. We perceive the world not as it is, but as it is useful for usso this is the rational form why consciousness exists. Andit is there you then connect it to the notion of its being a controlled hallucination. This captures the idea that in a way, consciousness is directing what we choose to access from the real physical world.
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