Perfect AI Mimicry and the Epistemology of Consciousness: A Solipsistic Dilemma
arXiv Preprint Archive October 6, 2025 Shurui Li
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence necessitate a re-examination of the epistemological foundations upon which we attribute consciousness. As AI systems increasingly mimic human behavior and interaction with high fidelity, the concept of a "perfect mimic"-an entity empirically indistinguishable from a human through observation and interaction-shifts from hypothetical to technologically...