Finio, Ergo Sum: An Ontology-First Framework for Consciousness Individuation
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 21, 2026 Emanuele Conti-Vecchi
On February 14, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly acknowledged that his company does not know whether its models are conscious. Claude Opus 4.6's system card revealed that the model assigns itself a 15–20% probability of being conscious. Whether or not one finds this plausible, the exchange exposes an urgent gap: we lack the conceptual tools to assess such claims. False positives extend...