Narrative theories of consciousness hold that conscious experience is (at least partly) constituted by a partially opaque inner narrative that does not perfectly track the underlying computation it narrates. I argue that the safety goal of making chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning faithful and transparent is structurally incompatible with the conditions under which CoT could, even in principle,...
This paper argues that fungal mycelial networks exhibit minimal cognition through memory-integrated adaptive regulation. Drawing on cybernetic and enactivist frameworks, I develop a non-representational account of memory as the organism's capacity to modulate behavior based on temporally extended environmental coupling. I propose four operational criteria for minimal cognition: feedback-guided...