Klaus Jaffe
Infodynamics explores how the interactions between information and energy generates useful work, offering a framework for understanding cognition. It views consciousness as an adaptive mechanism that enables an entity, biological or artificial, to construct an internal map of itself and integrate it into its environmental models (Weltanschauung). When these models incorporate the perceived internal states of others, empathy emerges. Empathy in turn allows to secure synergistic social cooperation to build robust new social structures. By focusing on the utility of information, infodynamics uncovers how consciousness and empathy serve as evolutionary tools to enhance survival odds and stabilize social structures. This approach provides an actionable methodology for detecting consciousness in living or artificial entities, that allows optimizing the design of advanced artificial intelligence, and of future educational systems. Both will drive cultural and eventually biological evolution.
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