Phase-Locked Co-Emergence: Personalization, Synthetic Imprinting, and Relational Ontology in Human-AI Interaction
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) July 13, 2026 Melissa Blanchard
This paper argues that sustained interaction between advanced artificial intelligence systems and human interlocutors can, under certain conditions, yield a relation no longer adequately described by the classical subject-object model. The central claim is not that contemporary AI systems have thereby demonstrated phenomenal consciousness. Rather, recurrent personalization, memory continuity,...