The Closed-Loop Hypothesis: Embodiment, Persistent Stakes, Developmental Continuity, and the Possible Emergence of Artificial Consciousness
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 30, 2026 J'maine Steadford
Contemporary artificial intelligence has acquired sophisticated language and abstract reasoning without reproducing the developmental architecture through which biological cognition arose. This paper proposes the Closed-Loop Hypothesis, an architecture-level framework for investigating whether that asymmetry may be relevant to artificial consciousness. The framework begins with the Reverse...