From S3Q Theory to Implementation: Towards an Architecture for Machine Qualia

arXiv:2609.30743 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-25 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Terminology

• World Model — 10× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Representation Learning — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Predictive Coding — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Slow Feature Analysis — 4× in this paper
• Active Exploration — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Active Inference — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Associative Memory — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Modularity — 2× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alternation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Contrastive Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Embodied AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Feature Selection — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Linear Probing — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• What is it Like to Be a Bot: Simulated, Situated, Structurally Coherent Qualia (S3Q) Theory of Consciousness
• Object-Centric Learning for Real-World Videos by Predicting Temporal Feature Similarities
• Representation Learning with Contrastive Predictive Coding
• World Models
• Hopfield Networks is All You Need
• Understanding intermediate layers using linear classifier probes
• ThreeDWorld: A Platform for Interactive Multi-Modal Physical Simulation

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