Ghost in the Machine: Examining the Philosophical Implications of Recursive Algorithms in Artificial Intelligence Systems
arXiv Preprint Archive June 18, 2025 Llewellin Rg Jegels
This paper investigates whether contemporary AI architectures employing deep recursion, meta-learning, and self-referential mechanisms provide evidence of machine consciousness. Integrating philosophical history, cognitive science, and AI engineering, it situates recursive algorithms within a lineage spanning Cartesian dualism, Husserlian intentionality, Integrated Information Theory, the...