{"id":543,"date":"2025-12-26T07:42:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/consciousness-may-require-a-new-kind-of-computation-neuroscience-news\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T07:42:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:42:27","slug":"consciousness-may-require-a-new-kind-of-computation-neuroscience-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/consciousness-may-require-a-new-kind-of-computation-neuroscience-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Consciousness May Require a New Kind of Computation &#8211; Neuroscience News"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>So, if we want something like&nbsp;synthetic consciousness, the problem may not be, \u201cWhat algorithm should we run?\u201d The problem may be, \u201cWhat kind of physical system must exist for that algorithm to be inseparable from its own dynamics?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What are the necessary features\u2014hybrid event\u2013field interactions, multi-scale coupling without clean interfaces, energetic constraints that shape inference and learning\u2014such that computation is not an abstract description laid on top, but an intrinsic property of the system itself?<\/p>\n<p>That is the shift biological computationalism demands: moving from a search for the right&nbsp;program&nbsp;to a search for the right&nbsp;kind of computing matter.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/consciousness-computing-ai-30068\/\">neurosciencenews.com\/consciousness-computing-ai-30068\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, if we want something like&nbsp;synthetic consciousness, the problem may not be, \u201cWhat algorithm should we run?\u201d The problem may be, \u201cWhat kind of physical system must exist for that algorithm to be inseparable from its own dynamics?\u201d What are the necessary features\u2014hybrid event\u2013field interactions, multi-scale coupling without clean interfaces, energetic constraints that shape inference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,24,7,37],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ai","tag-computing","tag-consciousness","tag-neuroscience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}