Thomas Campbell

information system now this this information system is conscious it's where and it knows it has to order bits that is its path of evolution if it takes the bits and pulls them apart now it's back to all random and it's dead it's not an information system anymore so it wants to evolve by by creating more information. Those bits that are defined to be a particular way, that's information.

So it wants to create information. So the purpose of this aware information system It's to lower its entropy. So that's one thing that we have to understand. Now, let's look at consciousness. A lot of people say, nobody knows what consciousness is. Consciousness is easy to define. It's an awareness with a choice. It's just that simple. It's awareness with a choice.

So it wants to create information. So the purpose of this aware information system It's to lower its entropy. So that's one thing that we have to understand. Now, let's look at consciousness. A lot of people say, nobody knows what consciousness is. Consciousness is easy to define. It's an awareness with a choice. It's just that simple. It's awareness with a choice.

So it wants to create information. So the purpose of this aware information system It's to lower its entropy. So that's one thing that we have to understand. Now, let's look at consciousness. A lot of people say, nobody knows what consciousness is. Consciousness is easy to define. It's an awareness with a choice. It's just that simple. It's awareness with a choice.

It's awareness of what's out there, what's in here, both self and of outside, of whether. That's awareness. Now, what does awareness have? How does it do that? How does it know what's in here and out there? It has to get data. So it has, it goes out and gets data. Now for us, that data comes through five senses. We hear it, we see it, we feel it, we smell it, we taste it.

It's awareness of what's out there, what's in here, both self and of outside, of whether. That's awareness. Now, what does awareness have? How does it do that? How does it know what's in here and out there? It has to get data. So it has, it goes out and gets data. Now for us, that data comes through five senses. We hear it, we see it, we feel it, we smell it, we taste it.

It's awareness of what's out there, what's in here, both self and of outside, of whether. That's awareness. Now, what does awareness have? How does it do that? How does it know what's in here and out there? It has to get data. So it has, it goes out and gets data. Now for us, that data comes through five senses. We hear it, we see it, we feel it, we smell it, we taste it.

That's it, we've got five senses. So our awareness has information. It gets, oh, this is an apple, this is a chair. And it learns to deal with that information. The second thing it has to have is it has to have memory. If you don't have memory, everything you notice is the first thing you've ever noticed. So to build something, to evolve, you have to have memory.

That's it, we've got five senses. So our awareness has information. It gets, oh, this is an apple, this is a chair. And it learns to deal with that information. The second thing it has to have is it has to have memory. If you don't have memory, everything you notice is the first thing you've ever noticed. So to build something, to evolve, you have to have memory.

That's it, we've got five senses. So our awareness has information. It gets, oh, this is an apple, this is a chair. And it learns to deal with that information. The second thing it has to have is it has to have memory. If you don't have memory, everything you notice is the first thing you've ever noticed. So to build something, to evolve, you have to have memory.

You also have to have some processing. You have to be able to look at those things in that memory and say, well, what do they mean? What's the connection? What does this tell me? You have to make some kind of sense out of it to help you find your purpose, which is more order, lower entropy. Okay, so now we take the simplest form of consciousness.

You also have to have some processing. You have to be able to look at those things in that memory and say, well, what do they mean? What's the connection? What does this tell me? You have to make some kind of sense out of it to help you find your purpose, which is more order, lower entropy. Okay, so now we take the simplest form of consciousness.

You also have to have some processing. You have to be able to look at those things in that memory and say, well, what do they mean? What's the connection? What does this tell me? You have to make some kind of sense out of it to help you find your purpose, which is more order, lower entropy. Okay, so now we take the simplest form of consciousness.

Simplest form of consciousness is, remember, consciousness is awareness. Awareness has memory. It has processing. It has a purpose. So that would be just a piece of aware consciousness that could be in state A or state B. That's it. It's binary. That's simple. It's the simplest state we can think of. So we can say, oh, I'm aware, and I'm aware that I'm in state A. All right, that's an awareness.

Simplest form of consciousness is, remember, consciousness is awareness. Awareness has memory. It has processing. It has a purpose. So that would be just a piece of aware consciousness that could be in state A or state B. That's it. It's binary. That's simple. It's the simplest state we can think of. So we can say, oh, I'm aware, and I'm aware that I'm in state A. All right, that's an awareness.

Simplest form of consciousness is, remember, consciousness is awareness. Awareness has memory. It has processing. It has a purpose. So that would be just a piece of aware consciousness that could be in state A or state B. That's it. It's binary. That's simple. It's the simplest state we can think of. So we can say, oh, I'm aware, and I'm aware that I'm in state A. All right, that's an awareness.

And I can change that to state B. I've got two different states I can be in, a simple binary. And I can remember that. And now I can change it. Now I can change it again. Now I went from a zero to a one to a zero to a one to a one, and I can remember that. So it can evolve by creating patterns. That one, that zero, one, one, zero, that's a pattern.

And I can change that to state B. I've got two different states I can be in, a simple binary. And I can remember that. And now I can change it. Now I can change it again. Now I went from a zero to a one to a zero to a one to a one, and I can remember that. So it can evolve by creating patterns. That one, that zero, one, one, zero, that's a pattern.

And I can change that to state B. I've got two different states I can be in, a simple binary. And I can remember that. And now I can change it. Now I can change it again. Now I went from a zero to a one to a zero to a one to a one, and I can remember that. So it can evolve by creating patterns. That one, that zero, one, one, zero, that's a pattern.

So it can make patterns, and it can work with those patterns. and evolve by making patterns of patterns and so on and now it can take one it can take us just one uh well let me put it this way there's two ways to proceed here and they it doesn't matter which way they all end up at the exact same place