Hi Linas, Great weblog.
It is now promoted on the "Planetary Observatory of the Noosphere" Best Regards, Victor Vahidi Motti Author | Speaker | Advisor *Thus Spoke Arta: How Our Planet Is Entering a New Era* (2026), *The Loom* (2025), *Playbook of Foresight: Designing Strategic Conversations for Transformation and Resilience (2025), * *Planetary Foresight and Ethics: A Vision for Humanity’s Futures (2025),* *A Transformation Journey to Creative and Alternative Planetary Futures* (2019). On Sun, Sep 13, 2026, 07:32 Linas Vepstas <[email protected]> wrote: > To friends and acquaintances interested in philosophy, AGI, physics, a new > blog post: > > > https://linas.org/blog/2026/09/subjective-being-ness-follows-from-free-will/ > > The subjective experience of being, living, existing, feeling, > experiencing and acting arises precisely because we have free will, because > we have the ability to direct and create a future. I claim more: being > trapped in the here-and-now is a fact of physics; it can be mathematized. I > claim that any agent with executive control over it’s future will also feel > alive and aware and experience the subjective inner life of feelings and > emotions. This includes not just animals, but also plants and even > bacteria. > > The ingress of possible futures from the Platonic realm into physical > reality happens directly in the here-and-now, and the willful selection of > possible futures manifests as conscious awareness of the subjective self. > > This essay is an attempt to put a dent in the "hard problem of > consciousness" by placing a mathematical, physical foundation under it. > > I hope you enjoy it. (p.s. no LLM's or AI's were used to write this; these > are my words. It took several years to put this together.) > > -- Linas Vepstas > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T9e51fc70bbc4e9fc-Ma80cb4731a533016568098e7 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
