The MoM Consciousness Theory Posits:

• One can think of an organism’s consciousness as containing a fluid, but nested, hierarchy of goals.

  • These goals are not a matter of intentionality, but intersectionality, the Darwinian byproduct of embodiment meeting the world. It’s a matter of inclusive fitness, i.e., random variation then survival of the fittest.

• Consciousness at its core is the mapping of our embodiment onto the world, which forms the consciousness’ very goals and hierarchy of goals, because it is the environment that determines which Darwinian random variations survive as the fittest.

  • One might argue if embodiment is ipso facto required for consciousness, and validly so, but it is beyond reproach to conceptualize earthly and subsequently human consciousness as anything other than necessarily entangled to embodiment.

• The entanglement of consciousness and embodiment as such, makes it beyond the scope of this theory to apply this conceptualization of consciousness to artificial intelligence. While seemingly, the MoM Consciousness theory should apply to artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence is not subject to the same notion of embodiment nor its direct mapping onto the world with the very mechanism of goal orientation occurring via natural selection. It would be pure speculation to apply the MoM consciousness theory to artificial intelligence currently.

  • Though, one could equally (perhaps necessarily) argue for empirical study of the consciousness of artificial intelligence utilizing the MoM Consciousness Theory.