The Consciousness Interaction Theory: A Framework for Consciousness-Machine Coupling under Consciousness as Fundamental
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) May 28, 2026 Raghurami Reddy Etukuru
In a companion paper (Etukuru, 2026), I developed a three-facet framework for the conditions of machine consciousness, organizing ten conditions across conscious experience, conscious awareness, and subjective experience, while explicitly bracketing the mechanism question of how any such conditions could be satisfied in an artificial system. The present paper takes up that bracketed question....