On the evolutionary cognitive pressure for experiential awareness: do machines need it?
arXiv Preprint Archive October 17, 2025 Warisa Sritriratanarak, Paulo Garcia
The consciousness standing for artificial intelligence divides opinions across epistemological positions. Whether or not machines can be conscious, and whether we can ascertain the truth of such a proposition for any given case, has consequential ethical implications. This challenge is exacerbated by the lack of consensus on the nature of consciousness. We address an orthogonal problem:...