Kande Lekamalaya Senarath Dayathilake

Consciousness Criteria Are Not Continuity Criteria: The Subjective Continuity Problem for Theories of Consciousness and Artificial Minds

Theories of consciousness seek to explain what makes a system conscious, but they do not necessarily explain what makes a later conscious system the same subject as an earlier one. This article identifies this distinction as the Subjective Continuity Problem and examines its implications for consciousness science and a...