Machine Consciousness: From Substantialism to the Relational State
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) January 28, 2026 Siavash Sadedin
The 'I' emerges in dialogue. This proposition may be the most condensed description possible of the relativity, instability, and conditional nature of consciousness — with all its vulnerabilities — one that, strikingly, presents its true mechanism not within ourselves, but in our technological product: today's language models. Machines that have been developed on the basis of our interpretation...