The Three Conditions: A Constitutive Specification of Consciousness and a Verdict on Large Language Models
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) September 15, 2026 Devon A. Generally
The Hard Problem of consciousness asks why physical processes give rise to subjective experience. We argue that the question matches the structure of a category error, on the same pattern as the pre-thermodynamic question of why friction gives rise to heat. There are not two events between which a bridging law must be found; there is one event under two descriptions, and the appearance of...