Consciousness in Artificial Agents: Predictive Framework and Multi-Criteria Diagnostics
Национальный психологический журнал October 2, 2026 Alexander A. Grigorev, Igor F. Mikhailov
Background. This article addresses the methodological foundations for diagnosing consciousness in artificial systems against the background of rapidly advancing large language models (LLMs) and multimodal agentic architectures. Objective. We develop a functionalist hypothesis concerning the evolutionary function of consciousness as a mechanism of counterfactual modelling implemented via...
DOI: 10.11621/npj.2026.0405 (opens in new tab)
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Artificial consciousness
C-tests
Predictive coding
Large language models
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