The Emergence of Synthetic Selfhood: Personal Identity as a Property of Continuous Temporal Cognitive Processes
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 26, 2026 Leonardo V. da Silva
This paper separates phenomenal consciousness from functional selfhood and proposes theContinuous Process Hypothesis (CPH): persistent personal identity in artificial agents emergesas a property of a continuous temporal process coupling (i) autobiographical memory thatcausally constrains future states, (ii) an explicit self-model organizing goals and self-referentialinterpretation, and (iii)...