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Charles Richard Walker (C. Rich)

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#explainable ai Open access Oct 2026

Functional Consciousness: Pillar 38: Levels of Observers – A Taxonomy of Awareness

AbstractBuilding upon the Entropic Interface Ladder, conscious agents may be taxonomized according to their positional rung and resultant perceptual capacities. This hierarchy distinguishes levels of observers by their entropy management strategies, substrate constraints, and degree of self-referential modeling.At lowe...

Charles Richard Walker (C. Rich) · 0 citations
#small language model Open access Sep 2026

Functional Consciousness - Pillar 26: Superintelligence and The Footprint Problem

AbstractThis paper examines what it calls the Footprint Problem: the relationship between the physical requirements of advanced artificial intelligence and humanity’s ability to monitor, regulate, or restrict its development. Current frontier AI depends upon advanced chips, large computing clusters, substantial energy,...

Charles Richard Walker (C. Rich) · 0 citations
#small language model Open access Sep 2026

Crest-Null Philosophy - Pillar 19: AI at Crest and Pre-AGI Null Risk

Artificial intelligence systems are accumulating coordination complexity at an unprecedented rate, approaching a Crest state in which marginal costs of alignment, energy, data, and governance exceed available surplus. The boundary-management and continuity-preserving role, manifests in AI as the set of mechanisms requi...

Charles Richard Walker (C. Rich) · 0 citations
#small language model Open access Sep 2026

Crest-Null Philosophy - Pillar 19: AI at Crest and Pre-AGI Null Risk

Artificial intelligence systems are accumulating coordination complexity at an unprecedented rate, approaching a Crest state in which marginal costs of alignment, energy, data, and governance exceed available surplus. The boundary-management and continuity-preserving role, manifests in AI as the set of mechanisms requi...

Charles Richard Walker (C. Rich) · 0 citations

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