that's a really beautiful idea that you know if life is a collection of data and in life is a process of compressing that data to act efficiently you in that data you yourself appear very often so it's useful to form compressions of yourself and it's a really beautiful formulation of what consciousness is a necessary side-effect it's actually quite compelling to me you've described our nen's developed LST aims long short-term memory networks the there type of recurrent neural networks they have gotten a lot of success recently so