Structural Coherence and State Selection: An Information-Theoretic Continuation of Consciousness-Primary and AI Alignment Research
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) December 20, 2025 Sergejs Kaminovs
Contemporary debates on artificial consciousness (AC) are increasingly constrained by an epistemic impasse: while advanced artificial systems exhibit behavioural and functional markers associated with consciousness in biological organisms, no empirically grounded method exists to determine whether such systems possess subjective experience. Recent philosophical work has therefore argued for...