Background. This article addresses the methodological foundations for diagnosing consciousness in artificial systems against the background of rapidly advancing large language models (LLMs) and multimodal agentic architectures. Objective. We develop a functionalist hypothesis concerning the evolutionary function of consciousness as a mechanism of counterfactual modelling implemented via...
Background. Near-death experience is an altered state of consciousness at the time when the person is on the threshold of death. Near-death experience has a specific structure which includes such elements as extra corporal experience, moving in a dark tunnel, seeing bright light, meetings with the deceased persons, panoramic life review and many others. The condition is quite common nowadays...