a very close connection between an entity’s capacity to model its own mental states, and consciousness itself.
The 80k episode with David Chalmers includes some discussion of meta-consciousness and the relationship between awareness and awareness of awareness (of awareness of awareness...). Would recommend to anyone interested in hearing more!
They make the interesting analogy that we might learn more about God by studying how people think about God than by investigating God itself. Similarly we might learn more about consciousness by investigating how people think about it...
Agree, that’s a great pointer! For those interested, here is the paper and here is the podcast episode.
[Edited to add a nit-pick: the term ‘meta-consciousness’ is not used, it’s the ‘meta-problem of consciousness’, which is the problem of explaining why people think and talk the way they do about consciousness]
The 80k episode with David Chalmers includes some discussion of meta-consciousness and the relationship between awareness and awareness of awareness (of awareness of awareness...). Would recommend to anyone interested in hearing more!
They make the interesting analogy that we might learn more about God by studying how people think about God than by investigating God itself. Similarly we might learn more about consciousness by investigating how people think about it...
Agree, that’s a great pointer! For those interested, here is the paper and here is the podcast episode.
[Edited to add a nit-pick: the term ‘meta-consciousness’ is not used, it’s the ‘meta-problem of consciousness’, which is the problem of explaining why people think and talk the way they do about consciousness]