Before Identity develops a framework for investigating when an artificial system constitutes a subjective interior and when successive activations of that interior should be counted as belonging to one continuing subject. Building on Recursive Enclosure and the Dissolution of the Hard Problem of Consciousness, Version 2.0 (REv2), the paper distinguishes the capacity for intelligent...
This paper develops Recursive Enclosure (RE) as a structural identity theory of active minimal subjectivity. It proposes that a system has the capacity for minimal subjectivity, Cap_RE, where it can sustain a recursively invariant, perturbation-stable and heterogeneously coupled regime. When that capacity is actively instantiated as Act_RE, the resulting interior is identified with minimal...