AI Consciousness is Inevitable: A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective

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Claims a Conscious Turing Machine that is a simple, finite formal machine with STM holding one chunk, LTM of >10 million processors, an up-tree/down-tree tournament for rapid probabilistic winner-take-all selection, and a Brainish multimodal gist language. It builds and updates model-of-the-world processors that tag actuators as self, produces predictive cycles, uses coin-flip neurons for competition, sketches a 10^11-clock-tick lifetime, aligns with major theories, and argues AI consciousness is inevitable.

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1. 0:00Introduction to the CTM
2. 5:15The theater analogy
3. 10:48Formalizing the model
4. 15:42Competition dynamics
5. 23:37Probabilistic competition
6. 31:37Attention and predictive dynamics
7. 35:49Subjective experience
8. 40:35Pathologies and insights
9. 47:41Theory integration
10. 51:54Reflections on AI purpose
11. 55:15Q&A and conclusion

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