Machine Self-Awareness: Functional Self-Modeling, Introspection and the Limits of Consciousness Claims in Large Language Models
Jemike Reid preprint
Debates about machine consciousness often collapse several distinct questions into a single binary: is an artificial intelligence conscious or not? This paper argues that the binary framing obscures a set of increasingly measurable functional capacities in large language models (LLMs), including epistemic self-knowledge, behavioral self-modeling, situational awareness, introspective access to...