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M. Shanahan

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From cacophony to hierarchy: a principled framework for assessing AI consciousness

September 28, 2026 Shamil Chandaria, Arvo Muñoz Morán, Fernando E. Rosas et al.

The question of AI consciousness is one of the most urgent pre-emptive problems in philosophy and computer science, yet progress is hampered by a cacophony of competing theories that often talk past each other. Separating the hard problem from the mapping problem allows the deepest metaphysical disagreements to be set aside: granting that experience supervenes on a system's organisation, the...