Emergent Self-Awareness in Distributed AI Systems: From GlobalWorkspace Integration to Measurable Consciousness
Proceedings of the 2025 8th Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing Conference December 20, 2025 Bhaskar Jyoti Dutta
Self-awareness represents a pinnacle of cognitive sophistication, yet its emergence in artificial systems remains one of the most controversial frontiers in AI research. Rather than claiming fully fledged artificial consciousness, this paper proposes and empirically evaluates Consciousness Emergence Networks (CENs) — distributed architectures that implement global workspace integration,...