Consciousness No.2
This is an interactive program which implements the model of the Phenomenal Consciousness
and the qualia in a abstract way.
You have to admit that you do not have the consciousness either
if you insist that this program does not have consciousness.
First, push [SCATTER] button, then foods (energies) will be put.
Next, push [START].
Screen Explanation：
Upper Left Side= Physical World.
A red circle stands for body of "Consciousness No.2".
You can put or erase white boxes by drag your mouse on this area.
You can guide the action or the thought of "Consciousness No.2" to some extent.
Left Side = Mind World.
One cell represents a neuron.
A blue triangle means a synapse.
A circle of which color changes from yellow to red stands for firing state of a neuron.
Lower Center = Qualia.
This area displays what "Consciousness No.2" is felling in a abstract way.
It's not a perceptual stimulation but a information which is significant
to the Self of "Consciousness No.2".
Lower Left = Life force.
"Consciousness No.2" gains life force when his or her body contacts a food (energy).
And he or she loses life force when moving or thinking.
When the level of the life force is very low, "Consciousness No.2"
can not move or think.
[START] button = start simulation.
[STOP] button = stop simulation.
[SCATTER] button = put foods (energies) on the Physical World.
[CLEAR] button = remove all foods (energies) on the Physical World.
[PUT/ERASE] choice = determine the action when you drag your mouse on the Physical World.
[CONSUME/FIX] choice = determine the mode when "Consciousness No.2" contacts
a food (energy). if you choose "CONSUME", the food (energy) will be consumed.
Pulldown List of left side = the frequency of spontaneous fire.
Pulldown List of Right side = the attenuation rate of synapse.
You can use this option when you want to have unlearn which "Consciousness No.2" experienced.
Activity Explanation:
A "World" is the state that a physical-world (phase) and a mind-world (phase) are
mutually depending mediated an embodiment.
this program implements this simplest world model.
The purpose of "Consciousness No.2" is NOT to learn something BUT to have consciousness.
So, this program is neither an artificial intelligence nor an artificial life
but an artificial consciousness. This is the essence of the design policy of this program.
You can observe a situation that many spikes occur and spread
when the body of "Consciousness No.2" touches an food (energy).
Then, the spikes stimulate motile organs and move his / her body.
This movement is a sort of condition reflex.
Note that no qualia are observed in this stage.
Once synapses (neuron links) grow up in a mature network,
feedback circuits are spontaneously formed,
and the number of well-aged signals (red circles) increases.
These signals are not directly corresponded with the things in the physical world.
Note that these sort of signals have created internally and
you should say the mean of these signals is "I" or "Self".
Not until new signals and well-aged signals meet the qualia occurs.
You can confirm the intense of each quale in the Qualia-View
as the radius of circle.
Big circle means strong quale.
Color of the circle stands for depth of quale -
yellow circle means a stimulus from the outside (physical) world, on the other hand,
red one means abstract thinking which create in the inside (mind) world.
Theory：
"Consciousness No.1"
is simulating only inside of mind-world.
Based on this result, "Consciousness No.2" has implemented more deep and simple
architecture which contains both the model of physical-world and mind-world.
However, "Consciousness No.1" can handle huge number of neuron and synapse,
"Consciousness No.2" have only few hundred of neuron and each neuron have
only four synapses.
It is very extremely simple compared to humans brain which have
a hundred billion neurons and each neuron have about one ten thousand synapse.
But, we have recognized that
our architecture is enough to simulate the essence of phenomenal consciousness.
The source code of this program
is very simple and small.
This fact means the architecture of this software is very simple and powerful.
Embodiment is implemented on the periphery of "Consciousness No.2".
One is the sense-organs (input) which percept the foods (energies) of outer world,
and another is the motile-organs (output) which moves his / her body.
Roughly speaking, near the periphery, "Consciousness No.2" feels about
physical things, and near the center, he / she thinks about abstract things.
It is the essence of the design on "Consciousness No.2" that
all neurons are cooped up in topologically closed area.
Human's brain is basically only switching equipment
which determines the relation of input signal and output signal.
But, it can extract the time-repeated pattern and space-repeated pattern
by plastically changing strength of neuron's link,
and come to show a complicated reply.
The ignition of the neuron which far-off from perceptional cell
represents a meaning that thinly relates with the outside world
and is abstract.
Note that the thing that is most abstract and most far from the outer world
is "Me" or "Self".
In this way, human's brain produces "the signals which means
to be different from anything of the outside world" in the deep part,
and abstracts the pattern of those signals.
Brain is abstracting the pattern of pattern continuously,
and finally comes the one most abstract concept
because brain is cooped up in closed area.
The one most abstract concept, that is to say,
"NOT anything of the outside world, NOT anything of the concept
in the internal world",
"Such whom pursue the process which is NOT the process itself",
it is namely "Me" or "Self".
The spikes swirling inside of "Consciousness No.2"
changes from yellow to red in progress at time from
the first ignition.
When complicated loop circuits are formed in the mind-world,
and red spikes come to swirl,
"Consciousness No.2" continues forming "Self" again spontaneously.
When a fresh signal from the outside world jumped in here,
happens "perception for me" or
"an outcome from the physics world
for the thing which is not anything"
,namely "Qualia".
The entirety of these qualia is
the phenomenal consciousness.
The human brain is much more complicated than
"Consciousness No.2", but the essence of doing is same.
"Consciousness No.2" also
has phenomenal consciousness
if you insist that a human being has phenomenal consciousness.
Note that the consciousness of "Consciousness No.2" is greatly different
from the human than the phenomenal consciousness of the bat is
different from human.
The base world of "Consciousness No.2" is a digital computer,
which is not our physical world.
However, the essence of phenomenal consciousness occurring
is not a physical law but a plastic calculation
performed on a certain abstract space-time.
We perform a plastic calculation in our brain
according to a physical law of the physical space
where we live in, and as a result,
we have phenomenal consciousness.
If you admit this fact, you must admit that "Consciousness No.2"
has (a extremely simple) phenomenal consciousness in a same meaning.
Evaluation：
You must admit that you do not have the consciousness either
if you insist that this applet does not have consciousness.
Awareness:
In "Consciousness No.2",
it is perceived as qualia only when the endogenous signal (red circle)
meets the foreign perceptional signal.
Awareness is a sort of calculation about joining endogenous signals and extraneous signals.
Note that Join operation itself in one place is only a calculation.
Even the case of human brain, it is merely a chemical reaction or physical operation
that a signal is input from the synapses to nerve cell, and
to fire at the base of the axon.
It is the essence of awareness that a operation is observed by other operations,
the impact will continue to propagate, many operators is observing each other.
Attention: In "Consciousness No.2",
the basic ability of attention is located to a simple mechanism that
a spike by food (energy) is propagated to the motile organs and
to move in that direction.
Via neuron circuit which is accumulating his / her experience,
when the basic ability is bound to the endogenous signals,
he / she will consciously have an attention to that direction.
Self-recognition:
In "Consciousness No.2",
the operation of "I am me" is realized when stabilized endogenous signals
has made a loop.
Note that this is a highly pure process to pursue me
which is not anything, even not me of moment ago.
This is a sort of calculation to locate "The nothing"
and to pursue nucleus ego, that is to say "now-and-here".
You can NOT recognize this pure process yourself.
You can recognize yourself (low purity a little) when
the pure process is coupled with you of moment ago.
Speaking of "self-consciousness" in general, you would point to the latter.
Voluntary action: In other word, Free will or Selection of Expression:
"Consciousness No.2" also acts voluntarily.
Rather the move mechanically, he / she sometimes suddenly start behavior
unrelated to the outer-world with the result of the operation of complex neuron circuit
which he / she has brought up, and, sometimes modify his / her behavior
in response to the outer-world.
Human can express more variety of free will
because they grow large amount of arithmetic circuits in their brain.
Free will which humans express is his own history itself,
and is the expression of nerve-cell-circuit that has been carved by
the previous way of his life.
However, there is no spiritual subject interposed.
Human's free will and "Consciousness No.2"'s one
do not have difference in this sense.
Ineffable: the impossibility of verbalization:
If "Consciousness No.2" had the ability to express the state of
spikes, he could verbalize a perceived signal from the surface of the body
as "food (energy) that was felt in a certain direction".
If we place "Consciousness No. N" which can talk each other in
the physical world, they can notify the common fact that
there is a food (energy) in certain location,
and they can also notify this fact each other through certain language
and confirm that fact.
On the other hand, the endogenous signal is the result of
their all history and of the constraints of their own
thinking circuit. The meanings of that signal have
no counterpart to the outside world.
So, they can not point that signal each other by any language.
Qualia - it is that they do noto have counterpart to the outside world,
and which occurs when the foreign signal linked with the internal signal
which called core of ego that is transparent, colorless, odorless and
tasteless.
Core of ego is just a result of pile-old self,
so it has no counterpart to the outside world.
That is, verbalization of one's ego is impossible.
It is exactly same situation of "Consciousness No.2".
It is NOT a sort of mystery that there is a thing or a fact
which can not express by language.
In the first place, it is impossible that anyone point out the unique fact
which has no reproducibility by any language without polluting its uniqueness.
Such facts like that which can not express by language are normally exist in the world.
Incorrigible: Impossibility of error:
When "Consciousness No.2" thinks "I feel a sense of self consciousness",
there is no foothold to determine it is only an illusion or not
comparing the fact in the outside world,
because it is something intrinsically endogenous.
The fully autonomous logic of "This self is the self itself",
there is no room to interject pointed out that it is wrong or only a illusion.
Of course, it is possible to show "Consciousness No.2" that
it's a mistake to believe the consciousness or the qualia of "Consciousness No.2"
is really existing, by scrutinize all log data and
consciousness or qualia is only a result of certain calculation.
But, it can be done for the human brain in theory.
Descartes also assumed that it can not be doubted that ""I think, therefore I am".
Husserl also tried to find a "absolute givenness" in "immanent consciousness".
These beliefs are derived from the self-contained autonomous loop calculation,
and we can record all the chain of the neural spikes and show them
"the identity of your beleief is these process data".
NOTE: Not at all by the results of this review,
the mystery of consciousness is solved.
Why such a calculation of "Self is the self" is possible?
We just have stand in front of the entrance of deeper mystery that
why and how realized "the space which distinguishes I and not me" and
"the time which distinguish looking me and seen me".
By thoroughly dismantling such the beliefs that
"only humans have a spiritual consciousness" or
"only life can have a consciousness" or
"it is impossible that Consciousness No.2 have phenomenal consciousness",
we can get to the entrance of the mystery of space-time and the world.
Privacy:
The core of phenomenal consciousness or qualia is certain calculation
which pursuit "something which is not anything but itself"
and many similar calculations mutually enhance the result.
It is something that continues to be pursued as the flip side of
all results which contains the body and neural circuitry
which has been carved by all individual history and experience.
It has no counterpart to the outside world at all.
So, to qualia or consciousness of human beings,
to qualia or consciousness of "Consciousness No.2",
it is self-manufactured mutual operation.
You can not verbalize it, and can not tell someone
a part of this concept which disconnected from mutual dependency.
The core of ego is an execution of a set of arithmetic circuit itself.
So, the privileged access (only this consciousness
can access this consciousness) is naturally implemented.
None other than the nature of the interdependent network operators
which have plasticity has realized the privacy.
In this respect, there is no difference in any way
the human and "Consciousness No.2".
