Sciopartum, the book
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By Niko Ivanovic … The question “what is consciousness” is far from a new one, but it has perhaps become a bit of a forgot one. Over the last few centuries we’ve unraveled so many of the universe’s greatest mysteries in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology and computing, but a firm grasp of consciousness…
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… Chapters 2-4 serve as a nice introduction and warm up into the world of philosophy of mind and consciousness research, especially useful for those who are being introduced to Sciops and Sciops Labs from a more traditional scientific or computational background (neuroscientists, AI researchers, etc). Most scientific researches in the hard sciences don’t spend…
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We ended the last chapter posing the question: can computers be conscious? Implicit in this question is another one: what is the source of consciousness, how do we rigorously define it, and does it have to do at all with the type of physical structure? For example, we can ask ourselves: can consciousness be fully…
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The split brain paradox, described in detail in Chapter 2, is a useful thought experiment that illustrates why we need a more rigorous definition for the boundary of personal identity. Just to remind the reader, in consciousness there exist two important boundaries that need to be rigorously and scientifically defined: Typically most people just assume…
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In this chapter we discuss Sciops, a novel mathemetical theory of consciousness. In doing so we begin to solve the hard problem, the binding problem, and the boundary problem
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What if our experiences and understanding of space and time arise not from physics but consciousness? How can the logic of neural networks explain this from first principles? In this chapter we define the logic of space and time
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The next few chapters of this book will go into more detail about the hypothesized logic behind each of our sensory experiences. Sciops is the scientific first theory which precisely details the actual math behind experiences like vision and sound, how that math explains the phenomenal experience, and explains how to experimentally test these hypotheses. Specifically…
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Thus far we’ve largely defined object creation using AND gate and OR gate logic which has only accounted for binary excitatory inputs that are either on (ie 1) or off (ie 0). However neurons can have varying strengths of firing that are not simply 1 or 0. We saw one example of this with ratio…