Mark Linsenmayer
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first heard Jun 2026
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The long distance connectivity these workplace neurons can when they're active for a minimal duration
Make the information available for a variety of processes.
Okay, so here's the minimal duration part is number four.
Then it says, How long must this minimal duration be?
Long enough to make the information available to a variety of processes.
That's all.
One should resist the temptation to imagine some other effect that needs to build up over time because
Here's number five.
We postulate this global availability of information throughout the workspace is
What we subjectively experience as a conscious state that was DNN.
And his comment on that is the proposed consensual thesis is not that this global availability causes some further effect of a different sort altogether, igniting the glow of conscious qualia, gaining entrance to the Cartesian theater or something like that, but that it is all by itself a conscious state.
This is the hardest part of the thesis to understand and embrace.
In fact, some who favor the rest of the consensus balk at this point and want to suppose that global availability must somehow kindle some special effect over and above the merely computational or functional competencies such global availability ensures.
Those who harbor this hunch are surrendering just when victory is at hand, I will argue, for these merely functional competencies are the very competencies that consciousness was supposed to enable.
differently?
Because I
Is there is there a C I E S?
Is that even a word Yeah, that's usually the way it's spelled.
Okay.
I guess you're right, 'cause competence well no, 'cause there's not competency with a Y.
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