REBUS and the Anarchic Brain

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• Rouleau & Levin's aneurocentric rewriting of consciousness theories will become standard operationalization for designing consciousness-UX in unconventional substrates.prediction0.709
• Beings with brains are, in an important sense, also collective intelligences.claim0.701
  Extends collective intelligence concept to conventional brains.
• All cognitive systems have some degree of consciousness.hypothesis0.693
  Gradualism implies that if brains are conscious, so are other tissues with similar mechanisms.
• Consciousness in AI is best assessed by drawing on neuroscientific theories of consciousness.claim0.688
  Central methodological claim of the paper.
• Each human is a collective intelligence; the parenthetical 'of neurons' can be dropped as a conceptual commitment.claim0.686
• We hypothesize that potential 'consciousness' phenomena are preferentially associated with deeper transformer layers and the 2/3 layer of LLMs.hypothesis0.685
  Derived from observed alignment of promising cases with semantically rich deeper layers and the brain-aligned 2/3 layer.
• The focus on brains as substrate of consciousness is driven by convention rather than by the specific content of existing theories of consciousness.claim0.685
  Central empirical claim: authors surveyed major ToCs and found their operations are not confined to neural substrates.
• Some visual illusions that plague vertebrate nervous systems are recapitulated in collective intelligences such as ants.claim0.685
  Suggests deep commonalities between neural and swarm cognitive processing.