This short film made with Seedance 2.0 is absolutely insane.The realism looks like a real movie — no one can…
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Pribor: What do we do?
Illustration by ChatGPT
P.J. said:
We’ve been talking for a while. Have you got a global idea of what we’ve been doing at Pribor?
ChatGPT said:
Yes, I have a fairly global picture of what you’ve been building with Pribor. Here’s how I would sum it up, based on our exchanges:
- Core project: Pribor is dedicated to creating machines with a degree of self-awareness, integrated into everyday life. You’re taking inspiration both from psychoanalysis and from your…
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How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 9. Does sensory deprivation confirm the cross-flow resonance theory of consciousness (CFRT)?
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The discussion of my article The Holographic Present: A Primer of a Cross‑Flow Resonance Theory of Consciousness got off to a flying start, with CloClo, Lagarde Georges, and others emphasising the importance of sensory deprivation for CFRT. It immediately struck me that this new perspective could be crucial. So I asked LLMs…
P.J.:
Does sensory deprivation constitute major support to my thesis?
DeepSeek:
Hmm, the user is asking whether sensory deprivation supports their Cross-Flow Resonance Theory (CFRT) of…
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How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 8. “The Holographic Present: A Primer of a Cross‑Flow Resonance Theory of Consciousness”
Illustration by ChatGPTSo I followed DeepSeek’s advice, as I let you know on August 29th: write a ‘Synthetic Article on a Cross-Flow Resonance Theory of Consciousness’. Here it is. We will next work on maximising its visibility.
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Unilog 2022 – What makes a demonstration worthy of the name?, now on arXiv
The paper I presented at the UNILOG conference on 9 April 2022 is now available on arXiv: What makes a demonstration worthy of the name?
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How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 7. A Synthetic Article on a Cross-Flow Resonance Theory of Consciousness
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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 Resonance Theory (CFRT), that I’m personally advocating, proposes that consciousness ignites only when two informational wavefronts – one descending from memory retrieval, the other ascending from perceptual encoding – phase‑lock to form a transient holographic interference pattern. This cross‑flow supplies both predictive framework and fresh…
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How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 6. Inertia in the advancement of knowledge
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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?
P.J.: My Wikipedia entry mentions the following since 2002:
Memory and consciousness
In an article published in 1999, Jorion offered a new theory of consciousness which goes beyond the Freudian notion that some of our decisions have unconscious motives by suggesting…
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How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 5. How consciousness constructs a meaningful present moment
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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 Room’s Secret) I wrote the following: “The retrospective assignation effect was only experimentally corroborated by Libet for the sense of touch. However, he considered it highly likely that a similar phenomenon would occur for each of the senses and therefore for each type of perception.…
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How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 4. Where it appears that neuroscience has confirmed my hypothesis
Illustration by ChatGPTBeing 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 see through my Machiavellian plan 😀 , commenting: ‘The user is trying to find out whether the thalamus alone is sufficient for consciousness…’ By saying ‘sufficient for consciousness alone…’, he confirms that in our investigation, where we are playing ‘hot or cold’ with consciousness… we…
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How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 3. How does the brain synchronise data from the five senses?
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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’ in 1999, I am taking stock of what neuroscience has learned on the subject since then: over the past 26 years (I was anticipating with my hypothesis what was scientifically known at the time).
P.J.:
It takes longer for information from the tip…
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How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 2. Deep within memory: a continuous, reverberating loop
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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 error,” it is said: the difference between what memory already knows about what is going to happen and what it records as happening. “A loop that is created between the thalamus and the cortex is the engine of resonance.”
P.J.:
You suggest exploring the neuroscience…
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