Axiomatizing consciousness, with applications

01/23/2022

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by   Henk Barendregt, et al.

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Consciousness will be introduced axiomatically, inspired by Buddhist insight meditation and psychology, logic in computer science, and cognitive neuroscience, as consisting of a stream of configurations that is compound, discrete, and (non-deterministically) computable. Within this context the notions of self, concentration, mindfulness, and various forms of suffering can be defined. As an application of this set up, it will be shown how a combined development of concentration and mindfulness can attenuate and eventually eradicate some of the forms of suffering.