Evgenii N. Ivakhnenko

Autopoietic Zombie: A Neural Network as a Communication System without a Subject

Voprosy Filosofii July 10, 2026 Evgenii N. Ivakhnenko, Maxim F. Yanukovich

The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has confronted philosophy with a conceptual question: how should we conceptualize a system that demonstrates striking semantic productivity yet fundamentally lacks human consciousness? The dominant answers in both academic and public discourse oscillate between two extremes: the anthropomorphization of AI or its reduction to a “stochastic...