Genesis Hypothesis

The conjecture that consciousness does not result from the organized mind but creates and maintains complex models of reality; forms at the beginning of mental development

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The Machine Consciousness Hypothesis
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Consciousness is not the result of mental architecture and cognitive ability, but its prerequisite — a necessary precondition for complex learning and intelligent behavior.
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Genesis Hypothesis claim that consciousness forms before rather than from cognition

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We hypothesize that consciousness may be at the heart of a universal biological learning algorithm — one that runs on self-organizing groups of communicating cells sharing evolutionary incentives — and that it creates rather than results from organized mental architecture.
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The Genesis Hypothesis as explicit predictive conjecture

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