Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence On the Phenomenology of Consciousness and Self Awareness
Christoph Kohlhepp
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
|---|---|
| Topics | Philosophy of mind |
| Key points | Proposes to explore whether Large Language Models can be regarded as self-aware and can be taught to self-improve, using Douglas Hofstadter's concepts of "Strange Loops" and Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem as the framework for analyzing consciousness and self-awareness. |
Abstract
This paper explores the phenomenology of consciousness and self awareness in the context the work of the mathematician Douglas Hofstadter and so called Strange Loops and Gödels Incompleteness Theorem. We apply these concepts to modern Large Language Models and seek to establish if Large Language Models can be regarded as self-aware and can be taught to self-improve.
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on philosophy of mind, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychosis as a state of aberrant salience: a framework linking biology, phenomenology, and pharmacology in schizophrenia. | 2003 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| From dopamine to salience to psychosis--linking biology, pharmacology and phenomenology of psychosis. | 2005 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| How do the brain's time and space mediate consciousness and its different dimensions? Temporo-spatial theory of consciousness (TTC). | 2017 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| The phenomenology of deep brain stimulation-induced changes in OCD: an enactive affordance-based model. | 2013 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Looking for the Self: Phenomenology, Neurophysiology and Philosophical Significance of Drug-induced Ego Dissolution | 2017 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |