Continuous intentionality and indeterminate agency in large language models
AI and Ethics May 26, 2026 Ryusho Nemoto
This paper examines large language models (LLMs) from the perspective of philosophy of mind and AI ethics, with a particular focus on the emergence of intentional structures in sustained interaction. Rather than asking whether LLMs possess human–like minds or phenomenal qualia, we investigate whether entities lacking demonstrable internal phenomenology can nonetheless participate in temporally...