Volume 14 No 4 (2016)
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Algorithmic Self-Instructing Consciousness
Robert Skopec
Abstract
Let we are outgoing from the thesis: if consciousness corresponds to the capacity to integrate information, then
the system should be able to generate consciousness to the extent having a large repertoire of available states
(information). Natural selection is an algorithm for generating adaptation and the question is, whether it may be
utilized for cognition. Natural selection is capable to improve itself as a heuristic search algorithm. In neuronal
information self-transfer is possible formation of a one-to-one topographic map between two neuronal layers,
and reconstruction of the intra-layer topology of the parent in the offspring layer. The problem of neuronal
transfer exists, from anatomical (activity-dependent) mechanisms, to self-instructing (activity-independent)
algorithms. We establish a link between network topology and information integration showing how biologically
inspired auto-adaptation improves the consciousness self-instructing.
Keywords
algorithm, auto-adaptation, self-organization, consciousness, integrated information theory
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