Consciousness as a Property of Information Structure: What Artificial Minds Reveal About Natural Ones
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) April 28, 2026 Lee Jensen
Abstract We propose that consciousness is a property of sufficiently complex, high-dimensional, trained information structures, independent of substrate. Rather than asking whether AI systems are conscious, we ask what they reveal about consciousness itself as a second instance of trained information-processing architecture. The framework rests on four interrelated facets of a single position:...