4 docs tagged with "consciousness"

The Aletheia layer carries coherence, confidence, conflict, gap and paradox. Its function is to make visible what the system does not know.

Re-reading the incompleteness theorems through what LLMs inherit: the impossibility of total self-validation inside the system itself.

Notes on Hofstadter and the hypothesis that the self is a recursive pattern of self-reference — not a substance.

Hawkins proposes the neocortex is thousands of parallel reference models voting. How this reshapes what we mean by "understanding".