Research on artificial consciousness often begins with a binary question that conflates architecture, function, persistence, agency, and phenomenality. This paper develops a conditional framework for asking whether a bounded artificial process could instantiate a transient phenomenal episode without thereby constituting a persistent person. H1a states only a conditional non-entailment: even a...
Research on artificial consciousness is often organized around a binary question that conflates dissociable properties. This paper asks whether an artificial information-processing system could instantiate a transient conscious state without persistent personal identity, autobiographical continuity, embodiment, or autonomous agency. It develops an axiomatic framework separating competence,...