From Architecture to Existence: Temporal Continuity and Material Forgetting as a Path toward Artificial Consciousness
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness August 26, 2026 David Cota
Current AI systems can exhibit impressive performance while remaining existentially discontinuous: in many session-bound deployments, they are instantiated, reset, and redeployed without an individual history that constrains future operation. Under this account, temporal continuity is a constitutive condition for robust consciousness-like individuation in artificial agents and therefore a...