On the Irreducible Role of Human Consciousness, Imagination, and Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Theodore K. McClendon preprint
As artificial intelligence systems become increasingly capable, autonomous, and pervasive, a foundational question has re-emerged with renewed urgency: What remains uniquely and irreducibly human? This paper advances the thesis of Human Primacy—the position that human consciousness, imagination, agency, and the capacity to care are not emergent byproducts of computation, but fundamental,...