On a heuristic approach to the description of consciousness as a hypercomplex system state and the possibility of machine consciousness (German edition)
arXiv Preprint Archive September 3, 2024 Ralf Otte
Consciousness in humans may have a physical but imaginary hypercomplex basis, requiring a bicomplex algebra to describe processes that cannot be measured yet exist. This mathematical framework could allow generating hypercomplex system states on machines, potentially leading to artificial consciousness. The surprising performance of advanced AI systems hints at such states, though experimental proof is lacking. The paper develops the bicomplex algebra and explores its application to create hypercomplex energy states, which in the literature are called machine consciousness, and explains how artificial consciousness might benefit future AI systems.