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Hermann Borotschnig

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Synthetic emotions and consciousness: exploring architectural boundaries

Ai & Society May 1, 2026 Hermann Borotschnig

As artificial agents display increasingly sophisticated emotion-like behaviors, frameworks for assessing whether such systems risk instantiating consciousness remain limited. This contribution asks whether synthetic emotion-like control can be implemented while deliberately excluding architectural features that major theories associate with access-like consciousness. We propose architectural...