Sources

This page lists the main sources used across the site.

Primary source

web_cimc_ai_cimchypothesis_pdf

**Joscha Bach, Hikari Sorensen — The Machine Consciousness Hypothesis** Best for:

• main source for mind / self / consciousness distinctions,
• phenomenology of consciousness,
• coherence-function account,
• Genesis Hypothesis,
• and the “no Turing Test for consciousness” claim.

Use this as the first deeper reading destination.

Main supporting Bach sources

ccc_38c3_self_models_of_loving_grace

Best for:

• agency and control,
• model-based regulation,
• multi-level governance,
• self-model framing.

ccc_35c3_10030_the_ghost_in_the_machine

Best for:

• valence,
• reward / value / norms,
• free will as control capacity,
• compulsion.

ccc_37c3_12167_synthetic_sentience

Best for:

• dreaming / simulation metaphor,
• world-model framing,
• virtualism-adjacent explanation.

yt_UkAOHrbcnAs

Best for:

• self-model,
• observer,
• first-person structure.

yt_CcQMYNi9a2w

Best for:

• self-model,
• narrative,
• qualitative experience.

yt_O5hymlaldf0

Best for:

• “dream within the dream” framing for current AI limits.

Accessible explanation sources

These are especially useful when the public page needs a clearer reader-facing formulation than the white paper alone provides.

web_jimruttshow_blubrry_net_the_jim_rutt_show_transcripts_transcript_of_ep_334_worldviews_joscha_bach

Best for:

• mental-state coordination,
• realness as implementation,
• and game-engine-style explanation of constructed experience.

yt_AQqb6nW9F6c

Best for:

• the experienced world as a constructed model,
• and the "game engine" framing for perception.

yt_9LtKJ2k8UyM

Best for:

• presentness,
• "nowness",
• and a compact explanation of consciousness as synchronization.

yt_TvoIpLlwf8k

Best for:

• self as narrative,
• and reader-facing language for self-model construction.

yt_8mixT5_U0hk

Best for:

• valence,
• generated happiness,
• and why evaluation is produced inside the system.

yt_O5hymlaldf0

Best for:

• current AI limits,
• observer/perception framing,
• and the "dream within the dream" handle.

Historical / contextual works cited by the main paper

These are not the main explanatory substrate of the site, but they are useful for deeper context.

• Aristotle — De Anima
• Leibniz — Monadology
• Thomas Nagel — “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”
• David Chalmers — “Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness”
• Christoph von der Malsburg — “The Coherence Definition of Consciousness”
• Chris Olah et al. — “Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits”

Reading order

If you want the shortest deepening path:

1. The Machine Consciousness Hypothesis
2. Self Models of Loving Grace
3. The Ghost in the Machine
4. Synthetic Sentience