Gary Bridgeman

The Structural Conditions of Subjecthood - A structural approach to minimal consciousness and subjecthood

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 5, 2026 Gary Bridgeman preprint

Debates about consciousness, artificial intelligence, animal minds, and moral status often conflate distinct questions that require different standards of explanation and assessment. This article distinguishes four such questions: subjectivity, moral patiency, personhood, and autonomous will. It argues that current work has made progress on two tasks—functional and phenomenological...