From Deficit Logic to the Affordance Paradigm: The Problem of Artificial Intelligence Consciousness
Abyss (Studies in Philosophy, Political science and Social anthropology) 2026 G. A. Illarionov, V. P. Lazovskiy
The article examines the methodological crisis in the philosophical conceptualization of artificial intelligence consciousness. It is argued that the dominant deficit approach, based on searching for human qualities absent in AI, has exhausted its heuristic potential. An alternative affordance paradigm is proposed, enabling a shift from binary logic to a gradational analysis of behavioral and...