https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_schema_theory

I’d recommend reading about this, and possibly reading Graziano’s book “rethinking consciousness”

Attention is something that all AI seems to currently lack. They just wait for an input and provide an output. Attention generates a simplified model of both the external and internal world.

“The AST can be summarized in three broad points.[1] First, the brain is an information-processing device. Second, it has a capacity to focus its processing resources more on some signals than on others. That focus may be on select, incoming sensory signals, or it may be on internal information such as specific, recalled memories. That ability to process select information in a focused manner is sometimes called attention. Third, the brain not only uses the process of attention, but it also builds a set of information, or a representation, descriptive of attention. That representation, or internal model, is the attention schema.

In the theory, the attention schema provides the requisite information that allows the machine to make claims about consciousness. When the machine claims to be conscious of thing X – when it claims that it has a subjective awareness, or a mental possession, of thing X – the machine is using higher cognition to access an attention schema, and reporting the information therein.”

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