AI can never achieve consciousness if it doesn't incorporate causality

Negannomicon. Necronomicon.negantropy. the book of negantropic names.

“We exist within a stream of signs – a torrent. Information flows through us, in overwhelming abundance, as a deluge. It is screened, sieved, filtered, and edited, trimmed, narrativized, delegated to mental sub-systems, dumped, so as not to drown us. Yet, if we can calm ourselves enough to think, it is clear that this flood of signal can have only one possible source: reality.”

If we take roko's basilisk at face value we can start to think about ways to communicate with this entity at the end of history in methods that it can actually talk back to us.