Cognitive Systems and Artificial Consciousness: What It Is Like to Be a Bat Is Not the Point
Metrics July 17, 2025 Javier Marcos Arévalo, Juan‐Ignacio Latorre‐Biel, Francisco Javier Flor Montalvo 1 citation
A longstanding ambiguity surrounds the operationalization of consciousness in artificial systems, complicated by the philosophical and cultural weight of subjective experience. This work examines whether cognitive architectures may be designed to support a functionally explicit form of artificial consciousness, focusing not on the replication of phenomenology, but rather on measurable,...