The Future of AI Research: With Guests Joelle Pineau and Yann LeCun
Boz To The Future
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Consciousness as Single-Threaded Control System
Consciousness could be an illusion created by an executive system in the mind that controls and focuses on specific tasks. This system has a model of the mind and operates like a single engine that needs a supervisory system to manage and understand its capabilities. The background system is multi-threaded, allowing for subconscious tasks to be completed simultaneously, while the foreground system is single-threaded, enabling focus on one deliberate task at a time. System one functions subconsciously for multiple tasks, while system two requires deliberate planning and can focus on one task due to having a single hardware system.
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