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Mathematical Consciousness Science (view source)
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==Applications of MCS==
MCS has potential for disruptive advances in computer science where formal approaches to how some aspects of consciousness emerge at the system level are leading to new ideas about system architectures, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromorphic_engineering neuromorphic computing], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_consciousness AC] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence AGI]<ref name=Grindrod2021/><ref name=Palmer2020>Palmer, T. (2020), Human Creativity and Consciousness: Unintended Consequences of the Brain’s Extraordinary Energy Efficiency? Entropy, 22, 3. doi:10.3390/e22030281</ref>. The brain learns a huge number of different patterns over the course of our lives and constantly acts like a heuristic machine filling in missing information and anticipating the near future. But whilst current computers are wonderful at crunching numbers they lack the general heuristic abilities of the brain and do not posses human imagination. MCS provides an approach to developing new computing architectures, potentially utilising non-binary and nondeterministic systems, that may narrow the abilities gap<ref name=Grindrod2021/><ref name=Palmer2020/>. Human healthcare may also benefit from MCS. Mathematical models based on theories such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding Predictive Processing] (PP) may bring new insights into psychological and emotional disorders such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_disorder OCD] and depression. Moreover, there is the need for a rigorous formal understanding of when consciousness is present in humans. This is important in medical practice regarding anaesthesiology<ref name=Warnaby2019>Warnaby, C.; Sleigh J. (2019), Finding the starter motor for the engine of consciousness. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 123, 3. </ref> and for those making ethical decisions about patients who are locked-in or comatose. There is also the possibility of future technologies for brain enhancement, or intervention, where the implications for consciousness will need to be properly understood. In physics, experimental confirmation of proto-consciousness induced quantum collapse would create a paradigm shift in science.
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