MetricsJuly 15, 2026Richard J. DiRocco, Sonia F. Pearson, Edgar E. Coons
We present a unifying thesis which posits that the biological resolution of uncertainty is a fundamental adaptation to entropy’s negative impact on the highly ordered molecular structures required to maintain the living state. These molecular biological adaptations are highly conserved and play a critical role in the survival of the earliest multicellular organisms and the vertebrates...
MetricsJuly 17, 2025Javier Marcos Arévalo, Juan‐Ignacio Latorre‐Biel, Francisco Javier Flor Montalvo1 citation
A longstanding ambiguity surrounds the operationalization of consciousness in artificial systems, complicated by the philosophical and cultural weight of subjective experience. This work examines whether cognitive architectures may be designed to support a functionally explicit form of artificial consciousness, focusing not on the replication of phenomenology, but rather on measurable,...