Minimal Phenomenal Experience (MPE)

Stable mode of experience with persistent absence of a subjective centre; connected to zero-person perspective and pruned sigma

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Thinkers (2)

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Thomas Metzinger
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Philosopher of consciousness; opacity/transparency framework cited to explain meta-awareness mechanisms.
Jennifer Windt
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Philosopher who introduced the concept of minimal phenomenal experience

Concepts (3)

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Consciousness
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Core concept: capacity to experience as a subject; argued to be substrate-independent and achievable across diverse biological systems.
Second-Order Perception
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CIMC's proposed computational structure of consciousness: perception that perception is occurring, non-inferential and synchronous with its content
Zero-Person Perspective
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Phenomenology of a generative model from which sigma has been pruned; persistent absence of a subjective centre

Related by similarity (8)

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Phenomenal Experienceconcept0.789
The felt quality of conscious states; identified with evaluative computation in learning systems
MPE Projectframework0.755
Metzinger's interdisciplinary research initiative aiming at a minimal model explanation for conscious experience
In its minimal state, conscious experience may contain nothing but the bare registration of its own occurrence, requiring only that the perceptual process is present within the field it createsclaim0.723
CIMC's account of minimal phenomenal experience as the target for research and construction
Phenomenal Introspectionconcept0.719
Direct introspection into phenomenal consciousness; its correlation with functional introspection is an open question.
Phenomenal Transparencyconcept0.716
Metzinger's concept applied to sigma: the agent looks through the separation prior without seeing it as a construct
"To see the phenomenal world fully from the perspective of both freedom and the lack of separateness between oneself and others is to see it also with an irrationally openhearted warmth..."quote0.707
Eleanor Rosch quote connecting non-dual perspective to compassion, opening Section 5.3
82% of features in 1M SAE had maximum Pearson correlation ≤0.3 with any MLP neuron, and manual inspection showed no semantic resemblance.finding0.701
SAE features are not simply mirroring individual neurons.
what is phenomenal experience, and how does it arise within a purely mechanical universe without being already there in one form or another?question0.701
The primary research question animating CIMC's entire program