Pratyush Ranjan, Sunaina Sabat
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Artificial intelligence, neural interfaces, prosthetic technologies, and related developments have given renewed urgency to an old philosophical problem: what is the relationship between consciousness and embodiment, and must consciousness remain tied to the particular biological form through which human beings presently experience the world? The problem is not simply technological. It concerns...
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...
Seyed Kazem Mousavi
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Consciousness results from comprehending the living creature from its existence in time and space. Thought and consciousness are distinguishing factors between humans and machines having artificial intelligence. No algorithm has been offered for artificial self-awareness based on Thinking. Previous studies have not studied the relationship between consciousness, thinking and time. In this...
Guoping Hua
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This paper develops a reflection-response framework for distinguishing thinking from consciousness and applies the framework to debates about artificial intelligence. Thinking is defined as first-order reflection: the representation, retrieval, recombination, and inference of object-states. Consciousness is defined as subject response: awareness, evaluation, regulation, and feedback in relation...
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...
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...
Jennifer Windt, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Thomas Andrillon
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We spend a third of our lives asleep, and sleep teems with vivid dreams. While most people rarely remember their dreams, laboratory studies using timed awakenings show that healthy adults experience multiple dreams per night. Dreams have been hypothesised to play a key role in the development of consciousness and cognition1,2. Dreams are believed to contribute to sleep-related memory...
Anton Kleschev Alevtinowitch
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This paper develops and expands the Epiphyseal Re-entry Exaptation Hypothesis (EREH), a testable evolutionary proposal concerning the emergence of purely endogenous experience in vertebrates. The central claim is that neural circuitry associated with the ancestral median photoreceptive complex was not simply lost when direct photoreception regressed, but was at least partially exapted into a...
Venkat A. Mohan
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What if our greatest limitations—finitude and uncertainty—are not flaws to overcome but the very conditions that make experience possible? The Joy of Uncertainty proposes that consciousness, meaning, and even physical reality emerge not from abundance but from constraint—from the narrowing of infinite possibility into finite form. This essay explores a counterintuitive premise: that the...