MicroPsi is a cognitive model that represents the author’s attempt to contribute to the discussion of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)... - Joscha Bach

[N]egligence of internal states of the mind makes it difficult to form conclusive theories of cognition, especially with regard to language... and consciousness, so radical behaviorism... lost its foothold. Yet, methodological behaviorism is still prevalent...

[C]ausal models can be weakly deterministic, basically associative models, which tell you if this state [S₁] happens, it is quite probable that this one [S₂] comes afterwards. Or you can get to a strongly determined model... one which tells you, if you are in this state [S₁], and this condition [c₁] is met, you're going to go exactly in this state [S₂]. If this state is not met, or a different condition [c₂] is met, you go into this state [S₃]. And this is what we call an algorithm. Now you're in the domain of computation.

[Y]ou don't know this state in which you don't have a self. You can turn off yourself... You can... meditate yourself [into] a state where you are still conscious, where still things are happening, where you know everything that you knew before, but you're no longer identified with changing anything. ...[T]his means that your self ...dissolves. There is no longer this person... you know that this person construct exists in other states and it runs on this brain... but it's not a real thing. It's a construct. It's an idea... and you can change that idea, and if you let go of this idea... If you don't think you are special, you realize it's just one of many people, and it's not your favorite person even... It's just one of many, and it's the one that you are doomed to control... and that is... informing the actions of this organism as a control model. This is all there is, and you are somehow afraid that this control model gets interrupted, or loses the identity of continuity.