Constructing Meaning Across Substrates: Human Cognition, Artificial Intelligence, and the Problem of Cross-Substrate Understanding
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 22, 2026 Jace (Jeong Hyeon) Kim preprint
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....