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...
The article is dedicated to the probabilistic-predictive theory of consciousness, which examines the relationship between cognitive processes and the mechanism of predicting the surrounding environment. It focuses on the concept that living systems operate as probabilistic models, minimizing prediction errors and optimizing their interaction with the surrounding world. A significant part of the...
Attempts to create empirically based theories of consciousness face two kinds of obstacles. First, the dominant strategy of searching for the neural correlates of consciousness has been unsuccessful due to the lack of working hypotheses about their causal connection with conscious states. The second obstacle is multiplicity of explananda – the lack of sufficient evidence for the belief that...
The latest progress in empirical studies of consciousness and spectacular advances in AI technologies kick philosophy out of the familiar comfort of uncontrolled proliferation of concepts and scholastic disputes. In the overview of the current state of empirical theories of consciousness, author reveals that those theories still find themselves in the pre-paradigmatic stage, therefore not yet...
The paper critically examines some theses from A.V. Smirnov’s monograph ‘The Logic of Meaning as a Philosophy of Consciousness: An Invitation to Reflection’. In particular, the statement about the inability of cognitive sciences to exhaustively explain consciousness because of its de-subjectivation within their framework. It is shown that cognitive sciences are generally able to cope with the...
И.Ф.Михайлов Квалиа, репрезентации и магия философских комнат* Михайлов Игорь Феликсович -кандидат философских наук, старший научный сотрудник.Институт философии РАН.Российская Федерация, 109240, г.Москва, ул.Гончарная, д. 12, стр.1;