This integrative narrative review synthesizes findings from neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, developmental science, and computational neuroscience to assess whether contemporary large language models (LLMs) meet established neuroscientific and cognitive criteria for consciousness. Specifically, we operationalize eight functional and structural markers:...
Background: Growing public concerns around artificial intelligence alignment, ethics, and the potential consciousness of frontier AI systems necessitate careful, interdisciplinary synthesis of empirical evidence. Objectives: This paper aims to systematically evaluate interdisciplinary evidence to determine whether current LLM architectures meet neuroscientific and cognitive criteria for...