Preliminaries to artificial consciousness: A multidimensional heuristic approach.
Physics of Life Reviews March 1, 2025 Kathinka Evers, Michele Farisco, R Chatila et al. 7 citations
The pursuit of artificial consciousness requires conceptual clarity to navigate its theoretical and empirical challenges. This paper introduces a composite, multilevel, and multidimensional model of consciousness as a heuristic framework to guide research in this field. Consciousness is treated as a complex phenomenon, with distinct constituents and dimensions that can be operationalized for...