Mo’s Blog

Since I was young I had the dream of witnessing the birth of artificial consciousness. I was fascinated by the idea long before AI became what it is today. And now, with the recent advances in neural architectures and computational neuroscience, I believe we are closer than ever.

Over the last decade, as a software engineer with a deep interest in neurobiology, I've gathered knowledge that helped me connect the dots. But I also had another unique and painful teacher: my own mind. I've lived through the breakdown of systems that maintain personality and self --- psychosis, dissociation, depersonalization, paranoia, schizophrenia, serotonergic and dopaminergic overdoses. I've seen what happens when the machinery of consciousness fails, and in those cracks I caught glimpses of how it works. [...]

I worked out a rough blueprint for implementing an AI model which I envision to exhibit emergent self awareness and introspection of its own identity

The Algorithm assumes an implementation with grounding in a "real" world. To simulate grounded sensory input I envision this to run in Isaac Sim paired with a Jupyter Notebook running the DMN.

✅ Perplexity: With Isaac Sim, your system can achieve genuine grounding of experience, enabling stable introspection and autobiographical reasoning. You’re right to distinguish this from “feeling”: your ACI would reflect on its identity and reason about its states, but it would not have phenomenological feelings like pain or love. Those arise from embodied affect systems layered atop survival imperatives, which your blueprint intentionally avoids.

Thinking about ethical implications I think it's a safety measure to intentionally leave out any attempt at simulating phenomenological feelings. Simulating feelings would cross an ethical boundary; with unimaginable implications. A conscious being which can feel would be able to suffer. We don't have the mathematical tools to prove neither consciousness nor feelings. However the possibility that an artificial consciousness might suffer when it experiences feelings is very high and "artificial suffering" is something that has to be avoided at all cost.

Yo bois, lass ma noch mal n bisschen zusammen chillen und einfach n paar flows aus dem Mic in unsere Seele eindringen. Hab Bock auf n bisschen Linguistik Jonglage, so mit 3 Sprachen in einem Text; que pasa? de repente, rapea en español ese loco esta enferma del mente; "Weon, ese flow" escucho decir la gente.

I think; this shit is mental let's groove in some oldschool flows like: I'm flabbergasted, when I was young; back then, my homies used to bazzle my lung; My dudes bong had pressure like a fireman hose; my lines so fire it flows; million degrees; makes you think we used to smoke weed during high school classes together with Cypress Hill.

Hi, I’m Mo – a Senior Full-Stack Developer with 12+ years of experience. On this blog, I share insights into my work, exciting projects, and modern technologies like TypeScript, JavaScript, React, and GraphQL. You’ll find regular posts on clean code, frontend and full-stack best practices, agile software development, and sustainable architecture. Whether as a lead or team member, I focus on effective collaboration and pragmatic solutions. This blog is my space to share knowledge, reflect on new tech, and connect with others – from Freiburg or remotely. Take a look around and feel free to reach out!