The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has raised a foundational question in contemporary cognitive science: can an artificial information-processing system become genuinely conscious? The Illusion of Conscious AI (ICAI) Framework challenges the inference that increasingly sophisticated information processing, intelligence, language generation, self-modeling, behavioural competence,...
The “Hard Problem of Consciousness” may not be a problem of consciousness at all. This work argues that the famous explanatory gap identified by David Chalmers is better understood as a limitation in the way neuroscience and contemporary consciousness theories attempt to explain first-person phenomenal experience through third-person physical and neural descriptions. The Consciousness Theory of...