AI researcher argues consciousness-relevant complexity is far below total system complexity
VictorLevoso · x · 2026-10-06
In an ongoing debate on consciousness and computational complexity, Victor Levoso pushes back on arguments comparing brain complexity to atomic-scale computations. He notes that if every atom in a GPU were a gear it would be earth-sized, but argues the relevant complexity is many orders of magnitude smaller — he guesses around 10^16 — and that frontier LLMs with trillions of params aren't warehouse-sized on that analogy, so unused complexity can't be required for consciousness.
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