Behnam Karami
drbehnamkarami.bsky.social
Behnam Karami
@drbehnamkarami.bsky.social
Postdoc researcher in Cognitive Science
5️⃣ Morality is encoded in modular subspaces.
PLSC reveals orthogonal latent dimensions corresponding to individual foundations, promising for interpretability and alignment.
December 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
3️⃣ LLM activations predict human judgments.
Mid-layer states reliably forecast participants’ wrongness ratings for the same moral vignettes.
4️⃣ Neural alignment emerges.
fMRI during moral reading shows representational alignment in PCC (moral/social hub) and even somatosensory cortex
December 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
1️⃣ Moral foundations are decodable inside LLMs.
Mid-layers of mid-sized models show clean, separable representations of the Moral Foundations.
2️⃣ LLM geometry mirrors human moral structure.
They reproduce the hierarchical MFT layout, individualizing vs. binding foundations, distinct from social norms.
December 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
1️⃣ Moral foundations are decodable inside LLMs.
Mid-layers of mid-sized models show clean, separable representations of the Moral Foundations.
2️⃣ LLM geometry mirrors human moral structure.
They reproduce the hierarchical MFT layout, individualizing vs. binding foundations, distinct from social norms.
December 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Sure, but how do we know the baby “experiences pain” rather than just reacts? Behavior isn’t consciousness. My dream toothache shows that the same nociceptive signal can exist without the feeling of pain until a self-model interprets it. Maybe even a baby’s hurt is already a primitive story of self
October 13, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Maybe pain needs a story to exist.
October 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
meaning of the pain gets displaced into the dream world.
When I wake up, the same signal is processed within the awake narrative frame of self-in-the-world. Then it becomes pain — localized, owned (“my tooth”), temporal (“it started last night”), and affective (“it hurts”).
October 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
During sleep, my brain still receives nociceptive signals (e.g., from my tooth), but since the waking self-model is offline, my brain weaves the signal into a dream narrative. Instead of “I have a toothache,” the dream constructs a story like “I’m late for school,” or “something’s wrong.” The
October 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
If pain is purely raw and doesn’t need interpretation, why do I sometimes dream my toothache as “being late for school” instead of feeling pain? The pain, as I consciously experience it(if i do not feel it like aliens!!), is not just raw sensory input,it's interpreted and narrativized by my mind.
October 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Adding a realizer layer that links LLMs to physical and chemical processes would reconnect them to the causal hierarchy—allowing the system to be-in-the-world (Dasein) and potentially achieve consciousness.
October 9, 2025 at 7:21 AM
In the hierarchical higher-order pointer theory, each layer points to the one below it, forming an unbroken causal chain. In AI, this chain is severed—the software doesn’t “point down” to physical reality, making it mere simulation.
October 9, 2025 at 7:21 AM
‘Being’ is already the newest version
100 upgraded, 1.5M newly installed, 1M to remove
MyMind@MyBrain: ~$
June 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM