Consciousness Science
Scientific, methodological, and philosophical studies of consciousness, subjective experience, and theories of mind.
The Science of Consciousness: What Do We Know About the Mind?
Exploring the philosophical divide between human cognition and artificial intelligence through the lens of Hubert Dreyfus's critique.
The Associative Path: How LLMs Navigate Networks of Meaning Instead of Looking Facts Up
Large Language Models don’t retrieve facts—they navigate associative networks like human memory, using self-attention to generate responses that mirror the associative patterns of language and unconscious thought. This article synthesizes recent research showing how AI’s structure resembles human associative thinking, even though it lacks subjective experience.
Beyond Retrieval: How LLMs Navigate Meaning Through Latent Association
Large Language Models do not simply look up information; they operate by navigating complex, probabilistic networks of meaning, creating a digital reflection of human associative thought.
Beyond Computation: The Methodological Fragility of Modern Consciousness Research
A rigorous methodological critique argues current neuroscientific methods conflate information processing with subjective consciousness, urging adoption of dissociation-based paradigms to separate awareness from computation before ethical policies are enacted.