Triton 47 › Consciousness & mind › After the PhD
Action of thinking
Index note thinking = energy spent perturbing a loop; same structure ⇒ same feelings
Its great that transformer neural network architecture works, for intelligent tasks when scaled. But, how does human’s pseudorandom structured brain works. Models don’t come as built as in transformer as in brain.
I thought and quickly came across the idea:
thinking is just spending energy (perhaps in a small neural network loop circuit) to make perturbations of connections there is, and due to fundamental association of consciousness thought in matter (which is simply the structure or flow of structure(s)) to thought in meta, which is us in psychic realm, what we feel, and kinda what consciousness is at the core of existence, we choose a particular thought and take action. So thinking is an emergent phenomenon which comes from the forces which manipulate matter in ‘brain’ or mind substrate, and creates complexity. This complexity can be ordered, which is why in evolution it took far too long to come up with ideas of mathematics, and AI, or even normal intelligence. A human being (body+ mind+forces which affect mind) was able to grow a part of it rationally, as well as with other beings (e.g. animals) with thinking structure, such as neural (i.e. brain).
Although its still hard to understand how can such a feeling of pain, pleasure, or any sense of taste, smell, sight, touch, hearing, temperature, weight-force, (and so on) is associated with some molecules or neural stimulations in body. I say it again, is, simply much like gravity associating with mass, the complex feelings associate with different thought structures. This kinda gives a hint that robots (or other materialistic structures) with same thought processing structure in some form, say if connectionwise, that they will experience same feelings, so the robot ultimately becomes human, when it starts experiencing human emotion. What I mean is there is really no difference, except it is what it is. A robot must be made as similar to humans including body -brain structure, for it to feel similar to human. So if we ever culture cells into an organism, it will have same kind of consciousness that normally there is. A baby goat made by a goat is the same kind of conscious being as the goat itself. Same for human. These forms change slowly, although still given a single species, no one is exactly same despite having body structural similarities, and differences, and differences would lead to different experiences and conscious feelings. On some level, we all, all conscious beings experience that common conscious force.
As I have thought before, thinking is merely a change of state reinforced or looped onto itself.
Original: https://triton7777.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/action-of-thinking/