S1: A $6 R1 competitor?

If chain of thought acts as a scratch buffer by providing the model more temporary "layers" to process the text, I wonder if making this buffer a separate context with its own separate FNN and attention would make sense; in essence, there's a macroprocess of "reasoning" that takes unbounded time to complete, and then there's a microprocess of describing this incomprehensible stream of embedding vectors in natural language, in a way returning to the encoder/decoder architecture but where both are autoregressive. Maybe this would give us a denser representation of said "thought", not constrained by imitating human text.

I've had an idea since I was a kid which I can share. I was contemplating AI and consciousness generally, probably around the time I read "The Minds I".

I reflected on the pop-psychology idea of consciousness and subconsciousness. I thought of each as an independent stream of tokens, like stream of consciousness poetry. But along the stream there were joining points between these two streams, points where the conscious stream was edited by the subconscious stream. You could think of the subconscious stream as performing CRUD like operations on the conscious stream. The conscious stream would act like a buffer of short-term memory while the subconscious stream would act like a buffer of long-term memory. Like, the subconscious has instructions related to long-term goals and the conscious stream has instructions related to short-term goals.

You can imagine perception as input being fed into the conscious stream and then edited by the subconscious stream before execution.

It seems entirely possible to actually implement this idea in this current day and age. I mean, it was a fever dream as a kid, but now it could be an experiment!

Have you read Jaynes' "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind"?