Qualia-Consciousness | Takato Horii | Osaka University

Estimating Emotion Structure in Humans and Large Language Models

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We compare the high-dimensional emotion structures elicited by video stimuli in humans and in multimodal large language models (LLMs), computationally elucidating their correspondence. By clarifying how the structure of emotion as subjective experience is shared and corresponds across different biological and artificial intelligences, we contribute to a constructive understanding of emotional qualia.

Information-Theoretic Analysis of Shared Representations Between Agents

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We analyze the structure of shared representations that multiple agents acquire through interaction, using information-theoretic approaches including Integrated Information Theory (IIT). We investigate the conditions under which representations shift from being “inside individual heads” to being “shared across multiple heads,” and characterize the resulting information structures through computational models and simulations.

Toward a Constructive Understanding of Emotion Structure and Language Emergence

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We constructively investigate the bidirectional influence between the structure of subjective experience — emotion and qualia — and the emergence of language among populations of agents. Using the framework of symbol-emergence systems, we explore through computational models how internal emotion/qualia structures shape language, and how shared language in turn reshapes individual experiential structures.