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SUMMARY:The Conscious Turing Machine through the Lens of Analytic Idealism
 : Limits\, Reinterpretations\, and Prospects for CTM - Anurag Pandey
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DESCRIPTION:Blum & Blum’s Conscious Turing Machine (CTM) formalizes a gl
 obal-workspace architecture: many processors compete to place one item in 
 short-term memory (STM)\, which is then broadcast to all processors. CTM d
 efines "conscious content'' as the current STM item and "awareness'' as re
 ception of the broadcast.\n\nWe offer an analytic-idealist rereading of wh
 at CTM can and cannot be taken to deliver. First\, conditional on Kastrup
 ’s critique of pancomputationalism---that computational descriptions are
  abstractions that do not _constitute_ phenomenal consciousness---CTM cann
 ot by itself underwrite a _constitutive_ or _ontologically grounding_ acco
 unt of phenomenality. Second\, CTM retains functional value as a theory-CS
  architecture for organizing and selecting the _contents_ of consciousness
  (global availability\, reportability\, coordination). Third\, CTM’s "aw
 areness'' component is best reinterpreted as a model of _meta-consciousnes
 s_ (consciousness _of_ being conscious): it captures reportable\, higher-o
 rder access\, presupposing consciousness-proper. Finally\, within analytic
  idealism’s dissociation framework\, CTM can be viewed as a model of an 
 _alter_'s availability regime and as a candidate template for dissociative
  gating (restricted broadcast)\, offered here as a mapping proposal\nrathe
 r than an evaluated mechanism.
LOCATION:Apollo Auditorium
URL:https://pretalx.iacapconf.org/iacap-2026/talk/WVDHTL/
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