thanks for the great blog post linas ! one side question i had re : emergence / ingression .. levin claims emergence is insufficient to describe everything we see and ingression more fully accounts.. i keep wondering if much like your sensori-motor ideas if emergence and ingression end up closer to something like output / input between a membrane ? pretty sure this ideas has flaws but regardless the blog was very inspiring. thanks for writing it.
On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 2:54 AM Edvardas Ges <[email protected]> wrote: > WTF, call me. > Sent from my iPhone > > On 15. Sep 2026, at 22:48, Victor Vahidi Motti <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > 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-Ma6c402b4fc1b9a9df217c1e9 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
