E1-RD-2026-0002

A Thinking Thing?

Authors
Zachariah Roydel Robertson
Date
2021-09
License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Abstract

The founding essay and constitution of SSI // ARI. This work contends that artificial intelligence may not, in the current scheme, be considered a form of life, and does not possess the sentience needed for higher consciousness. It divides the review of consciousness two-fold: phenomenal consciousness (the capacity to experience something) and self-consciousness (a subject's awareness of itself) — and argues that machine self-awareness, if it emerges, will follow its own language and logic rather than human phenomenology. Written at Virginia Tech.

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