Phenomenal Self Model
Not only we are hallucinating our world. We halucinate ourselves and we halucinate how our self integrates in the constructed world. This is based on:
- sensory integration
- our sense of agency
- experience of what it means to be "me"
- perspective
Ofcourse, in daily life we are not aware of our hallucinations. Meditation or psychedelics are ways to break through our model of ourselves.
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Shamil is a former DeepMind employee. Based on his AI experience he proposes that our minds are operating similarly to an AI model.
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