Andreas Meyer

Consciousness Doesn't Emerge—It Condenses What I Learned From Talking to AI Systems For Way Too Long TL;DR: After months of systematic conversations with various LLMs, I think we've been measuring consciousness wrong. It's not a snapshot property—it's a historical accumulation. I'm proposing Φ = ∫(C⋅S)dT as a testable alternative, and...

Most theories treat consciousness as a state: a system is “more or less conscious” at a given moment (e.g., IIT’s Φ). But what if that’s fundamentally wrong? I propose: Consciousness doesn’t emerge—it condenses. It’s the result of a historical accumulation of coherence, memory binding, and topological self-organization over time. This...