This book explores the profound challenge of artificial general intelligence (AGI) alignment, arguing that an algorithmic approach to creating conscious and empathic AI is fundamentally limited. Building on the authors N-Frame model, it extends this critique to the P NP problem, proposing that consciousness reflects a non-computable process beyond formal algorithmic closure. Drawing on philosophy, cognitive science, physics, mathematics, and evolutionary theory, the book introduces a quantum-mechanical AdS/CFT-inspired framework linking thermodynamic models of the observer with functional contextualism and evolution. It argues that solving AGI alignment requires recognising the intrinsic boundary between computation and cognition. The book concludes by exploring how truly conscious AI could promote prosocial behaviour, morality, empathy, and trust, fostering social cohesion and redefining intelligence and consciousness itself.
1. The Quest for Conscious, Aligned, Artificial General Intelligence
(AGI).- 2. Algorithmic Approaches to Consciousness, and Why They Are
Incomplete.-
3. N-Frame, Quantum Mechanics, Hypercomputation, and the
Observer-Centric Universe.- 4. A Deeper Dive: Boundaries, Entropy, and
Observer-Centric Geometry.-
5. An N-Frame even Deeper Dive: QBism and the
Observers Frame of Reference.-
6. The N-Frame Collapse Lagrangian:
Variational Geometry of Consciousness.-
7. Implications for AI Alignment and
Conscious Systems.
Darren Edwards is an Associate Professor at Swansea University, UK, and a Chartered Health Psychologist with expertise spanning psychology, cognitive science, and complex systems theory. His research integrates mindfulness, evolutionary psychology, and quantum mechanics to explore the nature of consciousness and intelligence. He is the creator of the N-Frame model and leads projects linking AI alignment, observer-centric physics, and digital mental-health innovation. Author of numerous academic papers and forthcoming books on the observer-centric universe, Edwards combines scientific rigour with a deep philosophical commitment to understanding mind, meaning, and reality.
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