AbstractRecent advances in artificial intelligence have intensified long-standing philosophical questions surrounding consciousness, identity, embodiment, and the nature of subjective continuity. Much of the current public discourse, however, remains trapped within a binary framework: either artificial systems are “conscious” in a human sense, or they are merely statistical tools without...
Abstract The rapid development of artificial intelligence has intensified a familiar question: can machines think, understand, or possess consciousness? These questions, however, often assume that the meaning of terms such as understanding, representation, and meaning is sufficiently stable across biological and artificial systems. This paper argues that such an assumption may be premature....