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concept:theory-of-consciousness-toctheory of consciousness (ToC)
A theoretical framework explaining why consciousness is associated with brains.
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- Nicolas RouleaustudiesCo-author; neuroscientist studying embodied and bioengineered tissues to model neural diseases and minimal cognitive systems.
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- Theories requiring metacognition or higher-order representations for consciousness; one of the indicator sets in Butlin et al. 2023.
- The paper's model that conscious directed attention functions as a conductor of the mental orchestra, resolving incoherence between partial models
- Theoretical clarification distinguishing ToM from consciousness to frame the study's approach.
- Core concept: capacity to experience as a subject; argued to be substrate-independent and achievable across diverse biological systems.
- The state of having subjective experiences; there is something it is like to be the subject.
- Component of MCH stating consciousness is a specific dynamic representation in the human mind characterizable by phenomenology and functionality
- Formulated as shareable knowledge (con: together; scire: to know); associated with inference over counterfactual models
- Framework addressing consciousness in language models via semantics, activation thresholds, and emergent reasoning; directly relevant to machine consciousness emergence.