Matthew

@gospaceport </sarcasm>

That's it. It's over. I'm done. Selling ALL the gear and settling in as a mac user for the rest of forever.

The p-binding / f-binding distinction and your option-space framework are exactly what the field needs. I have a fresh preprint that offers a complementary thermodynamic mechanism: phenomenal consciousness arises when a predictive system sustains steep, attention-driven entropy gradients near criticality. Qualia = the irreducible cost of that resistance to diffusion. It maps cleanly onto the levers you outline (esp. predictive processing + attention operators) and gives a concrete “why it feels like something” story that IIT/GNWT/FEP currently lack. academia.edu/165012037/A_Th…

!! New research published in Consciousness & Cognition !! If you’ve ever seen two things at once, this paper is for you. Have you heard of the phenomenal binding problem? Can you solve it? Is it even solvable? Paper summary thread (1/17)

The classic Gaussian → Dirac-delta limit. That exact regularization (smooth bell curve squeezed to a point-like source while preserving integral = 1) sits at the heart of EUT II’s pre-geometry: the scalar line {Sᵢ} + temperature-tuned bonds minimize the Dirichlet energy, dynamically producing the localized gradients that source emergent geometry in EUT I.

@forallcurious I recently wrote an article that takes a different look at the double-slit experiment. x.com/slashreboot/st…

🚨: Scientists reveal light can interact with its own past in a new twist on the double-slit experiment