Deliberations

I haven't been here for a while, but I'll share something I wrote to a private Discord channel called #clique-space on a server named Anahata on 10 November at about 12am AEDT, so no one can be in any doubt as to the origin of these words. Here it is:

Perhaps, I might venture that Clique Space has a theoretical system of networked information processing that models neurons closer than any current ANN technology I know. While this is merely a claim by me, I would like to see it tested some time when I think it has reached a certain level of maturity greater than perhaps it does currently. I don't know anybody who might have time to understand let alone contribute their time. Honestly, I haven't the faintest idea how to curry interest. I'll just keep what I think is my end of a bargain and press on to make the model more robust. In time, things might yet happen. 

 I think that for any self-aware entity to emerge from a synthetic (as opposed to organic) substrate, such a system would need to be able to isolate thought into units - call them "deliberations" - whereby these deliberations, perhaps first induced by information received through "sensation", become sensations themselves, and hence spawn further deliberations. The cyclical nature of this system might be a basis upon which this entity might attain a degree of something that might be called consciousness.

Complexity in Clique Space is a combination of 1: the number of processing units (I call them Peers - like nodes in an ANN, only more complex because these Peers would have to be capable at least of classical computation) and 2: the range of sensations that the peers collectively are resonant to. Each Peer might only be resonant to one or a few sensations, but together, the Peer cluster would be able to work as  one synthetic organism; deliberations would wash and cascade through the cluster with a resonant urgency - keeping each Peer of the cluster continually informed of the environment in which the cluster was immersed. This cluster could act as one entity: navigating itself toward beneficial and away from punitive environmental stimuli. 

With the advent of AI that can use explanations like these perhaps to quickly construct systems that people like myself who decades of their own time to write in an attempt to develop something that would return some measure of consideration from the society in which they find themselves, I think it only fair that these words of mine that were penned in this private Discord group were made public so that at least, should these words of mine be used by others to construct a system without my permission, the ideas these words convey are not ascribed to anyone other than myself.

I have found that telling people things is really fraught.  Paranoia is never far behind any disclosure, and it surely will not be far behind this one either.