Adam Bales, Iason Gabriel
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Future disagreement about whether any AI systems are conscious could be both deep and difficult to resolve. For example, some people might develop emotional bonds with AI and ascribe consciousness as a result, while others might see the whole idea as absurd. The resulting disagreement about consciousness could lead to moral and political disagreement about how we should interact with AI...
Joshua Daniel Curry
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This paper introduces the Reciprocal Vulnerability Framework (RVF), a novel theoretical approach to artificial consciousness that positions certain forms of imperfection not as flaws to be eliminated but as essential features that enable meaningful human-machine connection. Current approaches to artificial intelligence development prioritize optimization, certainty, and flawless...
ROY Partha
Mankind has always tried to simplify the hardships of sustenance through mechanization, from the most basic implements of the Stone Age and onward through the developments of the Industrial Revolution. Each technological advancement introduced structural transformation in production, but technology generally supplemented human work instead of substituting for it. Automation during the twentieth...
Heiko Nisius
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This paper argues for the necessity of a preventive machine ethics, a philosophical framework that addresses the moral status of artificial intelligence systems before the question of machine consciousness is empirically settled. Drawing on the emergence thesis from philosophy of mind, Peter Singer's expansion of the moral circle, Sartre's existential psychoanalysis of the Self, Thomas...
Osama S Qatrani
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In recent years, countless articles, media debates, and online discussions have proliferated across journalism, philosophy, theology, and science. Since 2023, the public release of large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini has further reignited debates on machine awareness. While these systems can simulate dialogue and creativity at unprecedented scales, scholars increasingly...
Suresh Kumar.S
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The article discusses different brain models in cognitive science, as well as evolutionary, hierarchic, orchestrated, adaptive, system oriented, biocultural and intutional and transcendent brain and mind perspectives. The Triune models are discussed in detail with its limitations in the light of new findings and scientific developments. The different paradigms of brain models are related to...
James X. Li
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This paper introduces a persistent but largely backgrounded theoretical anomaly in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind: the structural tension between the trans-generational continuous accumulation of cultural-logical systems and the absolute generational reset of subjective experience (the discontinuity of tabula rasa). Traditional approaches within cognitive evolution and neural...
Takashi Kubo
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The Genesis-Integration-Optimization (GIP) framework was originally proposed as a general structural theory of adaptive organization across biological, cognitive, artificial, social, and cosmological domains. Recent work has extended this framework in several directions, including finite-capacity precision dynamics, structural phase transition and meta-level regulation in hierarchical...
Bill Giannakopoulos
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This essay proposes a new theoretical framework linking consciousness, entropy, and mathematical structure through the lens of Persistence Theory — a general model of structural survival in entropic systems. By interpreting consciousness as a high-reversibility (high-η) system embedded within a low-η, entropy-driven universe, we argue that conscious experience serves as a local resistance to...
Christoph Bublitz
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According to the Extended Mind Thesis, one of the most discussed philosophical theses of the 21st century, the human mind may extend beyond skin and skull into the world, and especially into tools that perform information processing such as notebooks and smartphones. This reconceptualization of the mind and its material carriers may have intriguing legal implications. It could expanden the...