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framework:higher-order-thought-theoryHigher-order thought theory
Theory of consciousness where metacognitive representations are necessary for conscious experience.
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Thinkers (2)
thinker
- David RosenthalintroducesstudiesPhilosopher; higher-order thought theory of consciousness.
- Hakwan LaustudiesProponent of Perceptual Reality Monitoring theory.
Concepts (2)
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- Self-Referential ProcessingimplementsThe central experimental manipulation: directing a model to attend to its own cognitive activity
- Second-Order PerceptioncontradictsCIMC's proposed computational structure of consciousness: perception that perception is occurring, non-inferential and synchronous with its content
Frameworks (2)
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- Higher-Order Theoryrelated_tosame_asA theory of consciousness on which mental states become conscious by being the objects of higher-order states.
- Higher-Order Theories of Consciousnessrelated_toTheories requiring metacognition or higher-order representations for consciousness; one of the indicator sets in Butlin et al. 2023.
Hypotheses (1)
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- The theoretical hypothesis tested across all four experiments; motivated by convergence of GWT, RPT, HOT, IIT, predictive processing on recurrent/self-referential dynamics
Artifacts (1)
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- Key paper finding structured first-person descriptions in LLMs claiming awareness or subjective experience during self-referential processing.
Conceptual bridges
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Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- A computational HOT where awareness is a higher-order state in a generative model of perceptual contents.
- Desires through which an agent identifies with some first-order desires and repudiates others.
- The paper deliberately stops short of claiming mark-directed behavior constitutes evidence for higher-order self-consciousness
- Core criterion for introspection: model must possess internal metacognitive representation of state prior to verbalization, not merely translate impulse directly into language.
- Tentative conclusion on the autonomy-consciousness link.
- Cognitive capacity attributed to humans and animals; referenced as basis for mentalism intuitions.
- Representations of one's own mental states; associated with consciousness in higher-order theories.
- Foundational framework consisting of systems (wires), processes (boxes), and composition (wirings); basis for quantum and compositional reasoning.