7 papers
Why the Third Axis Is Freedom
Michael Timothy Bennett
In generative training, a model produces an output and is penalised for its difference from an example. With one output per comparison, a model that produces one common answer can…
Are Flat Minima an Illusion?
Michael Timothy Bennett
Flat minima are an account of why deep networks generalise. However flatness is a matter of form (parameters), while generalisation is of function. The same function can be a resul…
Why Is Anything Conscious?
Michael Timothy Bennett, Sean Welsh, Anna Ciaunica
We tackle the problem of consciousness by taking the naturally selected, embodied organism as our starting point. We provide a formalism describing how biological systems such as h…
A Mind Cannot Be Smeared Across Time
Michael Timothy Bennett
Whether machines can be conscious depends not only on what they compute, but \emph{when} they compute it. Most deployed artificial systems realise their functions via sequential or…
Are Biological Systems More Intelligent Than Artificial Intelligence?
Michael Timothy Bennett
Are biological self-organising systems more ``intelligent'' than artificial intelligence (AI)? If so, why? I address this question using a mathematical framework that defines intel…
Cognition spaces: natural, artificial, and hybrid
Ricard Solé, Luis F Seoane, Jordi Pla-Mauri +3
Cognitive processes are realized across an extraordinary range of natural, artificial, and hybrid systems, yet there is no unified framework for comparing their forms, limits, and…