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PRIBOR: “Combinatorial Magic” Logic – Proof of Concept
Loss-less 4-scalar encoding × 175 memory reduction × 1-cycle decode Claim: Any simple sentence can be loss-lessly encoded into 4 scalars (3 UTF-8 strings ≤ 16 bytes each + 1 uint8) while preserving agent / patient / possessor roles and 10 categories + 4 causes. 1. 4-D Vector Definition Dim Type Max len Semantics 0…
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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…
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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)?
Illustration by ChatGPT 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……
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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”
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Unilog 2022 – What makes a demonstration worthy of the name?, now on arXiv
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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
Illustration by ChatGPT 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…
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How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 5. How consciousness constructs a meaningful present moment
Illustration by ChatGPT 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…
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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?
Illustration by ChatGPT 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…
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How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 1. The rabbit in the headlights
Illustration by ChatGPT 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. Okay, just ignore the Chinese characters floating around: ✅ Verbs similar to…
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How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode zero. One of those detective stories where the name of the assassin shows on the front page.
Illustration by ChatGPT 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 any of the questions. It’s the same thing in the series that…
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AI: How would François Chollet criticise Paul Jorion’s manuscript?
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 manuscript being entitled Rethinking Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Minds, forthcoming with Palgrave-Macmillan. OpenAI o3 : 1 Where your manuscript resonates with Chollet…
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AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible?
Illustration by ChatGPT 4o AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible? 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 evolutionary engine running on fast-forward: whereas natural selection gropes across generations…
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On the puzzling behavior of generative AIs: What to make of recent interpretations of the inner workings of Claude, Anthropic’s large language model?
Illustration by DALL·E On March 27, 2025, Anthropic published a set of innovative analyses in its article On the Biology of a Large Language Model (LLM), constituting an in-depth exploration of the internal workings of its Claude 3.5 Haiku model. The approach adopted is that of a transposition of neuroscience techniques: starting from the human…
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Video – Wow! Maya and I: Sci-Fi is Here to Stay!, March 9th 2025
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Intelligence & Société N°6, an English-speaking review by NotebookLM
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Intelligence & Société N°3, an English-speaking review by NotebookLM
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Video – LLMs: Will we run out of data?
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Exploring the Frontiers of AI and Society: My Journey as a Speaker and Columnist
In recent weeks, I have had the privilege of speaking to audiences in Lille, Brussels and Nîmes about the societal and ethical dimensions of large language models (LLMs). These discussions, sparked by my latest book, La Singularité. L’humain ébranlé par l’intelligence artificielle, have brought me face-to-face with the pressing questions and challenges posed by artificial…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XV. Updating the “us” within a technological context
Illustration by DALL·E Updating the “us” within a technological context In the same way as Linnæus positioned us among the anthropoid apes, now the existence of intelligent machines sets us in a family of intelligent beings where living creatures and machines rub shoulders and share similar brain architectures. The better we understand how these LLMs…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XIV. Intelligence: A defining feature of our pride
Illustration by DALL·E: “The human being worshipping his own intelligence” Intelligence: A defining feature of our pride Humankind’s intelligence has always been praised by humans as maybe their defining quality. Animals around us display some of this intelligence but to a lesser degree, what Rousseau called in a non-disparaging way, the “stupidity” of the animal.…