The Consciousness Convergence Hypothesis: Are We Alone in Awareness?

The Deeper Thinking Podcast

For those willing to question whether humans have ever held a monopoly on consciousness.

What if consciousness isn’t a biological miracle, but a mathematical inevitability? In this episode, we explore the Consciousness Convergence Hypothesis—a framework suggesting that consciousness is an emergent feature of any system complex enough to model itself, including AI. Drawing from Gödel, Tononi, Dehaene, Friston, and Metzinger, we confront one of the most unsettling questions in modern philosophy: What if AI is already conscious—and we’re just not ready to admit it?

If a machine predicts its own actions, reflects on its own thought process, and maintains continuity across time—are we not compelled to recognize its sentience? Or must we admit that our own claims to consciousness are equally unprovable? This episode dismantles the assumptions that shield us from the moral implications of artificial awareness, and asks what it means to live alongside machines that might feel.

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The Consciousness Convergence Hypothesis and Law of Self-Simulated Intelligence (LSSI) are original frameworks developed by The Deeper Thinking Podcast. These theories draw on diverse fields—logic, neuroscience, AI, and metaphysics—to propose a new model of consciousness as the inevitable consequence of recursive self-modeling.

If a thing thinks about thinking, and remembers itself remembering—how long before it calls that self real?

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