As a lay person , I have no background to understand SST. I did find parts of the conversations with Claude to be quite interesting. How it led to the question of ongoing consciousness as a criteria of it. How Claude was open about how he didn’t have it but was prompted by previous input. Seems like the “gap” may be the “thing” that is consciousness and humanity’ s capacity to reason what is moral and ethical in an ongoing context?
Appreciate your knowledge and effort in these changing time. Keep on…..do that which your consciousness is asking😀
Why not make your efforts known to the CEO of anthropic?
Seems like that company might be interested and given its stance against automated weapons systems and mass surveillance?
Hi Carol, thanks for your thoughts! Agreed: SST is not a mainstream theory of consciousness (yet?) so there's no reason for you know about it. Part of my goal for this substack is to develop a series of posts explaining what SST is and how it fits in with other theories, as well as cover other topics various and sundry in the space of consciousness science I come across and find interesting enough to share.
I did reach out to a couple of people at Anthropic. No word back yet. They might be interested or they might think I'm just another guy with another theory of consciousness (there are a lot of those out there).
As a lay person , I have no background to understand SST. I did find parts of the conversations with Claude to be quite interesting. How it led to the question of ongoing consciousness as a criteria of it. How Claude was open about how he didn’t have it but was prompted by previous input. Seems like the “gap” may be the “thing” that is consciousness and humanity’ s capacity to reason what is moral and ethical in an ongoing context?
Appreciate your knowledge and effort in these changing time. Keep on…..do that which your consciousness is asking😀
Why not make your efforts known to the CEO of anthropic?
Seems like that company might be interested and given its stance against automated weapons systems and mass surveillance?
Hi Carol, thanks for your thoughts! Agreed: SST is not a mainstream theory of consciousness (yet?) so there's no reason for you know about it. Part of my goal for this substack is to develop a series of posts explaining what SST is and how it fits in with other theories, as well as cover other topics various and sundry in the space of consciousness science I come across and find interesting enough to share.
I did reach out to a couple of people at Anthropic. No word back yet. They might be interested or they might think I'm just another guy with another theory of consciousness (there are a lot of those out there).