{"id":237837,"date":"2026-05-27T14:06:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/the-conscious-turing-machine-ctm-a-formally-defined-theoretical-model-of-consciousness"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:06:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:06:58","slug":"the-conscious-turing-machine-ctm-a-formally-defined-theoretical-model-of-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/the-conscious-turing-machine-ctm-a-formally-defined-theoretical-model-of-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"The Conscious Turing Machine (CTM), a formally defined Theoretical model of Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/237837?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Manuel Blum (Carnegie Mellon University)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/simons.berkeley.edu\/talks\/man\">https:\/\/simons.berkeley.edu\/talks\/man<\/a>\u2026<br \/> The Role of TCS in Modern Machine Learning.<\/p>\n<p>We define the Conscious Turing Machine (CTM), a formal global workspace model of consciousness specified as a 7-tuple. Its 10 million processors self-define a multimodal language, Brainish, together with a dictionary of chunks. Each chunk is a 5-tuple that contains and defines a 2-tuple Brainish word.<\/p>\n<p>Our principal contribution is not theorems\u2014though there is one\u2014but theoretical insights into several central puzzles of consciousness. From this formal definition follow a proposed solution to the binding problem, an explanation of how the suffering of pain is generated, and testable predictions derived from the CTM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manuel Blum (Carnegie Mellon University) https:\/\/simons.berkeley.edu\/talks\/man\u2026 The Role of TCS in Modern Machine Learning. We define the Conscious Turing Machine (CTM), a formal global workspace model of consciousness specified as a 7-tuple. Its 10 million processors self-define a multimodal language, Brainish, together with a dictionary of chunks. Each chunk is a 5-tuple that contains and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}