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Arthur Stewart preprint
Six prominent theories of consciousness (HOT, GWT, IIT, RPT, PP, AST) disagree about the mechanism that produces consciousness. They agree on what they import to operate as theories of consciousness at all. The paper reads the six theories in three registers. The explicit register reports what each theory publicly claims. The deployed register reports what each has to put to work for the claims...
Consciousness is usually perceived as a state of being aware of one’s environment as well as self. Despite its omnipresence in our life, understanding this concept is challenging. This has given rise to several theories attempting to explain the nature of consciousness, as well as hard and soft problems of consciousness. In fact, the boundaries of consciousness defined by these theories are a...
Georgios Fradelos preprint
This paper advances a single central claim: within the present framework, a necessary architectural condition for consciousness is that an organism be able to reduce a high-dimensional field of sensory or informational complexity, decide that this reduction is good enough, assign the result to an internal object, accept that object as linked to the ontological object in the world, and compare...
Edwin Creely preprint
The arrival of generative artificial intelligence systems capable of fluent language, plausible images, and seemingly thoughtful responses has reignited a question in urgent terms: can a machine be conscious? This integrative review brings together philosophical argument, empirical evidence from psychology and neuroscience, and contemplative perspectives drawn from Buddhist thought to examine...
Frederick Roth preprint
This paper reports a unified computational framework grounded in neural manifold geometry, fuzzy attractor dynamics, cross-manifold interference matching, and value-weighted attention allocation (VIRT) that spans perception, concept formation, planning, information fusion, and attention allocation. The framework was developed to address practical problems in speech understanding, concept...
Gabriel Axel Montes, Ben Goertzel
The accelerating pace of development in artificial intelligence invokes fundamental questions regarding what constitutes a mind. Considering that AI has sprung from the cognitive enterprise of humanity and that there is the likely prospect of constructing some form of 'global brain', examining such questions may help to refine the conversation around AI and understand what might constitute a...
Michel Nguyen
The simulation hypothesis says that our world might be a computer-generated environment populated by simulated minds. Since Bostrom's [2003] "simulation argument," it has attracted attention in philosophy of mind and, increasingly, in the mind sciences. The simulation hypothesis says that our world might be a computer-generated environment populated by simulated minds, raising questions about...
Rolando Calero, Gerardo Herrera preprint
This article explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and consciousness through an integrated scientific and philosophical perspective. Advances in large language models (LLMs) and multimodal generative architectures, such as GPT-4, have intensified debates on whether artificial systems can transcend behavioral mimicry to approximate conscious awareness. Centered on the concept of...
Jack Charles preprint
This paper attempts to provide a starting point for future investigations into the study of artificial consciousness by proposing a thought experiment that aims to elucidate and provide a potential ‘test’ for the phenomenon known as consciousness, in an artificial system. It suggests a method by which to determine the presence of a conscious experience within an artificial agent, in a manner...
In this chapter, we present the problem of dream reports in philosophy and empirical research, examine how the variability of methods and measures influences research results, and suggest that research on the phenomenological features of dreaming could benefit from insights from first-person methods in consciousness research. We consider two interview-based methods developed for acquiring...