Current AI systems are largely organized around prediction-error minimization and reward optimization. While these frameworks have been highly successful, they do not address how AI systems can develop the kind of integrated, self-maintaining world-model widely regarded as central to consciousness. This paper proposes autocatalytic constraint closure as a necessary organizational principle for...
A stream of conscious experience is extremely contextual; it is impacted by sensory stimuli, drives and emotions, and the web of associations that link, directly or indirectly, the subject of experience to other elements of the individual's worldview. The contextuality of one's conscious experience both enhances and constrains the contextuality of one's behavior. Since we cannot know first-hand...