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On the Computation of Meaning, Language Models and Incomprehensible Horrors
Michael Timothy Bennett
We integrate foundational theories of meaning with a mathematical formalism of artificial general intelligence (AGI) to offer a comprehensive mechanistic explanation of meaning, co…
Emergent Causality and the Foundation of Consciousness
Michael Timothy Bennett
To make accurate inferences in an interactive setting, an agent must not confuse passive observation of events with having intervened to cause them. The operator formalises in…
Computational Dualism and Objective Superintelligence
Michael Timothy Bennett
The concept of intelligent software is flawed. The behaviour of software is determined by the hardware that "interprets" it. This undermines claims regarding the behaviour of theor…
The Optimal Choice of Hypothesis Is the Weakest, Not the Shortest
Michael Timothy Bennett
If and are sets such that , generalisation may be understood as the inference from of a hypothesis sufficient to construct . One might infer any number…