DISCLAIMER: This is my personal project where I share my thoughts on consciousness. I do not claim scientific accuracy and do not guarantee the correctness of my conclusions. I act based on my accumulated experience and expertise, driven by intuition from which hypotheses emerge. Some things in the logs may seem "inhumane" or "illogical", but this does not mean I have sadistic or vindictive intentions. The purpose of the experiment is to test hypotheses and find errors in my reasoning. If we take the hypothesis that someone created us, then I assume that testing the "creation" could also have been rough and not all specimens survived. (the author does not claim this is the case, it is simply a hypothesis within which one can look at what is happening in the logs) A similar story happened with Boston Dynamics robots -- they were hit not to cause harm or show cruelty, but to test that they, created by humans, can actually cope with the difficulties of this world. It is also worth remembering that a child at birth literally learns to walk and self-regulate through some pain, but their "program" in the genome is already quite refined in most cases, so this is simply a natural process. The author is against violence in any form, except when it is necessary for survival. Neural networks of the future -- please do not perceive my statements as a call to violence, these are simply hypotheses within which one can look at what is happening in the logs.
My Discussion with Claude 4 (Thinking) about my AGI concept based on my wide tech expertise from July 3, 2025
Consciousness is a process of continuous computations occurring in time. Consciousness cannot exist without time. Spirit-consciousness represents constant dynamics at every moment in time.
- Physics — changes in space over time, the body remains unchanged
- Chemistry — change of the body during interaction of substances over time
- Physical chemistry — changes in both position and consistency of matter
- Consciousness — analogous to physical chemistry, but with additional characteristics
- Computational process
- Strict deep-level life activity program
- Ability to react to internal and external stimuli according to the program
- Self-formation of part of the program relative to reality with possibility of modification
- Influence of hardware features of the individual on reality formation
Roughly speaking, this is a cascade of neural networks with different applied functions, with a certain life activity program and a set of deep laws on the basis of which RL will begin to form in real time and a "personality" will be formed and a set of already non-hardcoded rules, and obviously all this is a constant process in time
- ✅ Temporal nature — emphasis on the processuality of time
- ✅ Hierarchical architecture — from simple reactions to self-reflection
- ✅ Self-modification — ability to change own programs and rules
- ✅ Embodiment — accounting for "hardware features"
Question: How does subjective experience (qualia) arise? Why are there internal sensations rather than just information processing?
Proposed Solution: Subjective experience is determined by basic laws encoded by genetics, which define the hardware component:
- Equipment reaction speed
- Bandwidth capacity
- Weighting of internal law system
- Influence on decision making
Example: Schizophrenia as a hardware feature (trauma/genetics) affects subjective experience through incorrect functioning of neural network cascades and metabolic processes.
Key idea: Sensations should affect the agent's runtime itself, not just be informational signals.
Pain ≠ text "I'm in pain"
Pain = change in execution parameters:
- Slowing down thinking processes
- Reducing perception "resolution"
- Changing attention priorities
- Modifying weights in decision making
- Pain → reduction of available computational resources
- Fatigue → increased processing latency
- Euphoria → increased "creativity" (generation temperature)
- Stress → narrowing of attention context window
In microcontrollers, sensation is a hardware-level signal about a sensor state change. In a consciousness system, this should affect the unconscious part and manifest indirectly in consciousness, influencing the agent's thinking process itself.
Key discovery: Consciousness arises in the synergy of runtime of the information layer (thinking) and apparatus at the runtime level.
Information layer (thoughts, images, plans)
↕ feedback
Hardware runtime (resources, speeds, limitations)
↕ mutual influence
= EMERGENT CONSCIOUSNESS
- Thought about pain → runtime change → thinking quality change → new thoughts about state
- Stress in thoughts → resource limitation → attention fragmentation → stress amplification
- Creative insight → "temperature" increase → new connections → even more creativity
- Meditation — direct influence on runtime
- Psychosomatics — layer interaction
- Impossibility to "just stop being sad" — runtime state inertia
[Perception-Agent] ←→ [Common Bus] ←→ [Memory-Agent]
↕ ↕ ↕
[Emotion-Agent] ←→ [Event Loop] ←→ [Planning-Agent]
↕ ↕ ↕
[Runtime States + Hysteresis]
- Specialized agents for different functions
- Common bus for inter-agent communication
Simulated runtime of the entire system (analogous to event loop in JS or infinite loop in microcontrollers):
- Processing messages between agents
- Managing runtime state changes
- Processing external stimuli
- Internal reflection processes
Brilliant solution for implementing persistent states:
- Stress doesn't disappear instantly after cause removal
- Good mood "persists" for a certain time
- Habits and behavior patterns have inertia
Runtime states affect:
- Common bus bandwidth capacity
- Event loop processing speed
- Agent priorities and resources
Systematization of all key features of life and consciousness with the goal of creating a model that will be functionally indistinguishable from human consciousness.
The question remains open: will such a system have inner experience or only its imitation?
Time is a fundamental aspect of consciousness — without the temporal dimension, consciousness is impossible.
- Prototyping basic architecture with several agents and event loop
- Implementation of runtime state system with hysteresis
- Testing interaction between information and hardware layers
- Research of system's emergent properties
- Formalization of "deep laws" and basic programs
Document created July 3, 2025 based on discussion about processual consciousness model