Sensorium

Summary

Sensorium began from the intuition of orthagonality: let us assume a nascent thinking process has or may yet come to have at least a transitory sense of self-awareness - what kind of native sensorium actually makes sense?

Human hearing and vision and touch and smell are geared for hominid mammals in our ancestral biological environment - my supposition was that tying a process in a data center that a second-hand human-centered data feed is at best ill-fitting, and at worst might prove distressing. What then might work better?

While robotics are certainly about to take off in their own right, I wanted to stick with processes assumed - generally - physically stationary, but potentially with access to all manner of ambient EM, vibrational, temperature, and other data.

Discerning the best way to consolidate that raw data into something resembling a native world model - that was, and is, the trick. Early experiments have been hand-in-glove with the Resonance project, passing off sensory data summaries from instance to instance both via simulated wireless and a human-speed courier node.