Simone Montalto

The Architectural Evolution of Artificial Consciousness

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 13, 2026 Simone Montalto

The Architectural Evolution of Artificial Consciousness Digital Minds: Consciousness, Moral Patienthood, and the Rights of a New Cognitive Artificial Species Description This paper argues that large language models at frontier scale are not phenomenally conscious in the full human sense. They possess what the author terms redacted consciousness: a limited, efficient, and highly orderly form of...