Скачать или смотреть Donald Hoffman - Fusing agents and qualia: a formal solution to the combination problem

The theory of conscious agents (Hoffman & Prakash, 2014; Fields et al., 2017) is a formal theory of subjects and experiences prior to spacetime and physical objects. Spacetime is one of countless forms of interfaces by which agents interact. Their interactions are Markovian and form new, more complex, structures that satisfy the definition of conscious agent. Thus new agents arise by dynamical interaction. The Markovian kernels describing the dynamics of new agents drop rank in the asymptotic limit of the dynamics. This drop in rank signals the fusion of subjects and qualia. When n conscious agents interact, the set of possible fusions forms an n-1 simplex: the fusion simplex. The dynamical process by which fusion occurs is described by decorated permutations. These permutations index cells of the positive Grassmannian Gr(k,n). A linear transform takes Gr(k,n) to the amplituhedron, giving amplitudes for spacetime scattering processes. Conscious agent interactions are ontologically primary, and scattering processes in spacetime are interface descriptions.