This paper proposes the Attention-Gated Virtual Sensorium (AGVS), a theoretical architecture for artificial consciousness-like organization in simulated or virtual embodiment. The central claim is that artificial consciousness-like states should not be modeled as complete access to world-state information. Instead, they should be modeled as finite-bandwidth, body-mediated, attention-gated...
This paper proposes Civilizational Cognitive Separation and Consciousness Respecialization, a theoretical framework for understanding civilization as a non-biological process that externalizes human cognitive functions and reorganizes human consciousness through technological, symbolic, institutional, and artificial-intelligence-mediated systems. Rather than treating tools, writing, printing,...