A collection of contributions from kindred spirits, ordered chronologically

1. Pentti O. Haikonen – Consciousness and Robot Sentience
   → “Qualia are self-explanatory information, necessary for grounding the meanings of symbols.” p. 35
   
2. Edervaldo José de Souza Melo – “Simulation, Self, and the Phenomenal Field: An Evolutionary Hypothesis on Consciousness”
   → “Consciousness can be understood as the phenomenological manifestation of an evolutionary simulation system. … Conscious experience emerges from the interaction of three fundamental dimensions: the neural integration of sensory information originating in the external environment; the continuous influence of internal bodily states, including interoceptive and affective signals; the capacity of the nervous system to simulate and anticipate possible scenarios prior to action.” p. 3
   
3. @kevinharrison2074 – YouTube Comment on “Why AI Will Never Be Conscious – Anil Seth” by Alex O’Connor
   → “…a system which forms a temporally extended, self-modelling, world-inhabiting process whose internal organization gives rise to an actual point of view.”