Continual Learning is Consciousness.

My book A Level of Consciousness, was not about AI, it was about humans, but in several areas went deep into my thoughts on the mysteries of consciousness, with several parallels that translate to the singularity/sentient/not-sentient arguments raging today. I still subscribe to the theory that the brain is just an interrupt driven biological LLM. Think of a new born baby. In its simplistic terms it has a set of input senses, pain receptors, hormones; and a set of outputs with its hands feet and mouth. All these inputs are basically prioritized into a pain/pleasure level. Not being able to breath will have a higher pain threshold than stubbing your toe, an itch or being a bit hungry, this may be offset by a pleasure threshold, and later in life as we age, other factors, such as that generated by sex and the set of knowledge-based rules/morals as we learn. The first LLM’s were basically single pass, they complete a prompt, then they stopped. We then added the loop (the OpenClaw…