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concept:contents-of-consciousnessContents of Consciousness
Percepts, feelings, thoughts, imaginations, and intuitions — the elements that can appear in conscious awareness
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- Second-Order Perceptionassociated_withCIMC's proposed computational structure of consciousness: perception that perception is occurring, non-inferential and synchronous with its content
- Feelingsassociated_withSalient vectors in the space of emotions and intuitions; percepts of emotion, physiological valence, and extra-intellectual evaluation of reality
- Imaginationsassociated_withHypothetical realities more or less clearly discernible from perceived reality; hallucinations when indistinguishable from perception
- Intuitionsassociated_withFeelings that differ from perception by lacking immediately perceived sensory features and from thoughts by lacking consciously mutable structure; formed outside intellect's supervision
- Realnessassociated_withThe representation of something currently being the case; a variable feature dimension of conscious contents distinguishing ideas from hallucinations of factuality
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- Core concept: capacity to experience as a subject; argued to be substrate-independent and achievable across diverse biological systems.
- Opens the discussion on minimal conditions for sentience.
- The state of having subjective experiences; there is something it is like to be the subject.
- Functional properties (recurrent processing, global broadcasting, higher-order metacognition) derived from consciousness theories and reformulable as testable criteria in AI systems
- TAME posits that consciousness comes in degrees and kinds, not binary, and is tied to goal-directed activity.
- Formulated as shareable knowledge (con: together; scire: to know); associated with inference over counterfactual models