Intelligence without Experience: Autopoietic Agency and the Organizational Conditions of Consciousness
Derecom September 5, 2026 Flavio Aliberti
Recent advances in artificial intelligence have reignited the debate over whether artificial systems may eventually develop consciousness. This paper challenges the assumption that intelligence, agency, and consciousness constitute successive stages along a single developmental continuum, arguing instead that they are conceptually distinct phenomena. Drawing on Maturana and Varela’s concept of...