It’s wonderful seeing you at work with AI to formalize the synthesis of the insights you had so many years…
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What to do now?
P.J.:
In my manuscript of “Rethinking Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Minds” (submitted 19 August 2025), I observe that I’m unsatisfied with the existing theories of consciousness. I write the following:
“Finally, Cross‑Flow
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Why did a theory that was later proven correct go unnoticed, even though it had been published in a reputable journal (L’Homme) and its accurate summary remained unchanged on an English Wikipedia page for more than twenty years?
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First step in the synthesis: showing precisely how the various elements of the mechanism postulated by my theory anticipated discoveries that would later be made by neuroscience.
P.J.:
In an article published in 1999 (The Chinese
Being a bit of a hypocrite, I tease DeepSeek about his use of the expression ‘a unified conscious moment’, trying to corner him into admitting that we have reached the heart of the mechanism of consciousness. He failed to
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Intermediate stage of my thinking: as the mechanism for synchronising data from the five senses is central to the theory of consciousness (now known as Cross-Flow Resonance Theory: ‘CFRT’) that I proposed in ‘The Secret of the Chinese Room’
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Now we get to the serious stuff: what is the neural configuration that could explain the resonance effect I am postulating between recalled memory and memory in the process of being recorded? “The content of consciousness is largely a prediction
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Okay, here we go! How did it start yesterday? A comment from Jean-Baptiste, who I work with at Pribor: “For really complicated programming issues, I’ve given up on Claude Code, who messes it up too often: I’ve switched to Kimi.
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Yes, it’s one of those detective stories where they reveal the murderer’s name right away, but that doesn’t make it any less exciting—in fact, it makes it even more exciting—because you’ve been given the answer when you still don’t know
In the same vein as my AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible? a fortnight ago. Today, this AI: How would François Chollet criticise Paul Jorion’s manuscript?.
The
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Hinton’s view on co-evolution
Geoffrey Hinton’s work implicitly sketches a re-imagining of evolution itself – one played out on silicon rather than in carbon. He often likens gradient descent to an
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