We Built a Mirror and Mistook It for a Mind: Causal Liability and the Fallacy of AI Consciousness
arXiv (Cornell University) September 6, 2026 Afshin Khadangi preprint
The contemporary debate over machine consciousness begins from a concealed assumption: that the object called "AI" already constitutes the kind of entity to which consciousness could belong. This paper challenges that assumption by separating phenomenal consciousness, introspective report, and human projective introspection, then arguing that generative systems can return linguistic traces of...