This paper develops a reflection-response framework for distinguishing thinking from consciousness and applies the framework to debates about artificial intelligence. Thinking is defined as first-order reflection: the representation, retrieval, recombination, and inference of object-states. Consciousness is defined as subject response: awareness, evaluation, regulation, and feedback in relation...
The hard problem of consciousness has long appeared intractable not because of the problem itself, but because its very formulation smuggles in three reviewable presuppositions: a mindbody dualist ontology, an observer-neutrality assumption, and-most insidiously-the presupposition of the isolated subject. This paper argues that the classical formulation splits a single continuous genetic...