Sat.Jun 29, 2019

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Perhaps Consciousness is Just Human Observability?

Adrian Cockcroft

Photo taken by Adrian at the Park Hyatt NingBo, China I recently read Annaka Harris’ new book Conscious about the mysteries and nature of consciousness and had an epiphany. What we do to make our computer systems observable is actually closely related to consciousness. The essential quality of conciseness is a model of the system. That model is fed with information and interrogated about the overall health and behavior of the system.

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Perhaps Consciousness is Just Human Observability?

Adrian Cockcroft

Photo taken by Adrian at the Park Hyatt NingBo, China I recently read Annaka Harris’ new book Conscious about the mysteries and nature of consciousness and had an epiphany. What we do to make our computer systems observable is actually closely related to consciousness. The essential quality of conciseness is a model of the system. That model is fed with information and interrogated about the overall health and behavior of the system.