Is the Problem of Artificial Consciousness a Scientific Problem?

Can AI ever be conscious? The question stems from a misconception

Is the Mind-Body Problem Algorithmically Solvable?

Towards a unified theory of subjective consciousness and the natural universe

This review examines a unified naturalism or theories of everything that include both the natural universe and subjective consciousness, by applying two critical filters to theories of existence, including those surveyed in Robert Lawrence Kuhn’s (2024) “Landscape of Consciousness”, hereinafter referred to as LoC: (1)...

Functionalist theories of consciousness: unfolding, substitution and the indeterminacy of function by the physics of the brain.

We consider two recent arguments concerning the question of empirical falsifiability of consciousness theories: the Unfolding Argument (UA) against causal structure theories and the Substitution Argument (SA) according to which if prediction of experience and inference from behaviour are independent, any non-behavioura...

To be or not to be? A question of mortality

Abstract It is a pleasure to comment upon, which covers everything that could – and should – be said about the matter. It left me wondering whether artificial consciousness is an oxymoron. I take this opportunity to unpack the thermodynamic issues that attend mortal computation and their implications for conscious arte...

The theory of D. I. Dubrovsky and the hard problem of consciousness

This article offers a critical analysis of D. I. Dubrovsky’s informational theory of conscious ness, which claims to solve the hard problem. At the center of the theory is the idea that consciousness is a special kind of information, instantiated in the brain but subjectively perceived “in pure form”, without reference...