By Keith Devlin @[email protected], @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social

In my last three posts, I outlined a mathematical model I thought might prove useful in the study of consciousness. The bulk of the first two videos presented established fairly standard mathematics, most of which has been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. The third was highly speculative, designed to indicate how the model presented and applied in the first two videos might prove useful in studies of consciousness. (I wrote it in a fantastical, fantasy-fiction fashion, to indicate that this was purely an example, to suggest possible ways of using the model.)

During the course of my brief foray into consciousness studies, I found a recent paper that sets out to develop a model of consciousness within established science.…