Consciousness, normativity, and intrinsicmeaning in large language models
Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce July 23, 2026 Roman Krzanowski
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs), together with renewed speculation about artificial consciousness, have intensified debates concerning meaning and semantic intentionality in artificial systems. This paper advances a restricted and conditional thesis: even if LLMs were to possess some form of consciousness, this would not suffice to establish intrinsic semantic intentionality. To...