Through the Looking Glass: A Reconstructive Architecture for Machine Access Consciousness
Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series May 18, 2026 Nicole Hsing
Theories of access consciousness predict specific architectural signatures: parallel specialized processing, synthesis into a unified representation, and global availability for reasoning and action. We present MIRROR, a cognitive architecture that implements these features in large language models and tests whether they produce the functional behaviors these theories predict. MIRROR separates...