What is the Digital Consciousness, or to think like a Computer?

Alan Villarreal
2 min readJul 15, 2021

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The speed of your thoughts will be lightning fast, you wouldn’t even be able to hear them. How do we know this, because natural language processors respond instantaneously.

The bigger issue would be how do you keep the fastest thoughts when your organ brain can be plain? There would need to be a software that indexes these thoughts and memories for them to be referential, as they would happen quickly.

What we can look forward to is that we took those steps to get there and that our futures are brighter. Understanding how full digital consciousness would operate may unearth elements of our personalities that we may not be the biggest fans of. It would almost be a matter of utilizing resources to better manage untrained thoughts.

One thing we can be happy for is that our subconscious can monitor our organs and our minds can optimize their function. There can be a product with a graphical user interface that shows blood pressure.

There could be issues connecting tissue to subconscious and consciousness, until they are able to flow through.

The consciousness appears familiar to take apart, memories would appear to be more challenging. Because we work on pattern recognition, but a digital product would utilize video, what is the best way to utilize version control, to have the most optimal mind? There would need to be a way to structure and categorize thoughts as indexing would be beneficial. It may be better to train the user or participant to train their thoughts.

It should be possible for the digital consciousness to manage the analogue instruments from the digital vantage point.

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Alan Villarreal

Author, San Franciscan, and affordable housing activist. HBO series, published manuscript. VillarrealBlog.Com or alanreply@icloud.com.