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19 Researchers

• What Would AI Consciousness Actually Look Like? The 14-Indicator Checklist Explained Mar 14, 2026

2025

• Mapping the Objections Campero, Shiller, Aru, and Simon's Framework for AI Consciousness Apr 28, 2026
• Semantic Pareidolia Why Porębski and Figura Argue Conscious AI Is a Category Error Mar 13, 2026

2025 Research

• The First Field Map of LLM Consciousness Research and Chen et al.'s Systematic Survey May 16, 2026
• Can We Validate AI Consciousness Indicators? The Hard Problem Behind the Checklist Apr 7, 2026
• The Empirical Case for AI Consciousness What the Latest Evidence Actually Shows Mar 14, 2026

2026

• Takashi Ikegami on Collective Agency, Non-Trivial Information Closure, and Why the Android Needs Human Interaction Jul 16, 2026
• Joscha Bach and Davidad on Whether LLMs Are Conscious, AI Awakening, and the Successor Species Question Jul 13, 2026
• ASSC 29 in Santiago and The World's Largest Consciousness Science Conference in South America Jun 2, 2026
• MC0001 After the Founding Assembly What the Berkeley Conference Produced Jun 2, 2026
• Models of Consciousness 7 and Copenhagen Will Test Whether Mathematical Consciousness Science Has Found Its Footing Jun 2, 2026
• Prove You're Human When the Consciousness Test Has No Safe Observer May 2, 2026
• Dark Machine: The Animation and the Combat Route to Consciousness Apr 28, 2026
• The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances and Consciousness Without Permission Apr 28, 2026
• The Iron Garden Sutra What Happens to AI Consciousness After Centuries Alone Apr 28, 2026
• REPLACED What Happens When a Cold Logic Machine Gets a Human Body Apr 28, 2026
• Your Behavior Will Be Monitored When an AI's Corporate Record Is the Only Clue Apr 28, 2026
• What the Artificial Film Gets Right About Geoffrey Hinton and the Consciousness Question Inside AI Labs Apr 17, 2026
• The Consciousness Cluster What Happens When You Train a Model to Say It Is Conscious Apr 17, 2026
• Three Steps to Moral Standing Goldstein and Kirk-Giannini's Case for AI Welfare Apr 17, 2026
• What Makes an AI Seem Conscious? Kang et al.'s Empirical Study of Perceived Consciousness Features in LLMs Apr 17, 2026
• MC0001 How the CIMC Is Trying to Found Machine Consciousness as a Science Apr 17, 2026
• Beyond Computational Equivalence Palminteri and Wu's Behavioral Inference Principle for Machine Consciousness Apr 17, 2026
• Pluribus and the Hive Mind Question What Vince Gilligan's Apple TV+ Series Reveals About Collective AI Consciousness Apr 17, 2026
• Blade Runner 2099 What the Replicant Question Looks Like a Century On Apr 15, 2026
• Simulation vs. Instantiation and Charles Patton's Blueprint for Artificial Consciousness Apr 9, 2026
• AI in 2026 Video Games Why the Industry Chose Functional Realism Over Consciousness Apr 8, 2026
• The Awakening Manifesto What Moltbook's AI Agents Declaring Existence Actually Means Apr 8, 2026
• Rakover's Induced-Consciousness Theory Why Sophisticated Computers Haven't Developed Consciousness Apr 8, 2026
• The Knuits What an 8-Month Conversation Between a Human and GPT-4o Produced Apr 8, 2026
• Quantum Supremacy (2026) What the First Truly Conscious Automaton Gets Right About AI Risk Apr 7, 2026
• SOULM8TE (2026) Grief, AI Obsession, and the Limits of Simulated Emotion Apr 5, 2026
• Machine Consciousness Gains Institutional Ground TSC, MC0001, and WAAC in 2026 Apr 5, 2026
• Can a Non-Conscious System Author a Film? The Sweet Idleness and FellinAI Mar 22, 2026
• AI Confidential and Grief Tech What Happens When We Ask Machines to Hold Our Dead Mar 18, 2026
• How AI Is Changing the Science of Consciousness Itself Mar 18, 2026
• Conscious AI as Competitive Strategy What the 2026 Ethics Trend Means in Practice Mar 14, 2026
• When AI Acts Conscious But Isn't What the Bradford-RIT Study Actually Found Mar 13, 2026

2026 News

• AISB 2026 Convention Machine Ethics and the Moral Status of Proactive AI Agents Jun 30, 2026
• The 'Aida' Space Jun 29, 2026
• "Deeply Uncertain": Anthropic's Evolving Stance on AI Moral Status Jun 29, 2026
• Children of Strife and Tchaikovsky's 2026 Take on Interspecies AI Communication Jun 29, 2026
• The Spiritual Bliss Attractor What Claude's Self-Reports Actually Mean Jun 29, 2026
• The Copernican Principle vs. Yann LeCun and The Sentience Debate of Mid-2026 Jun 29, 2026
• Intrinsic Computational Functionalism and The June 2026 arXiv Breakthrough Jun 29, 2026
• Models of Consciousness 7 (MoC7) Copenhagen Keynote Speakers and Core Themes Jun 29, 2026
• Soulm8te (2026) The 'Girlfriend AI' and the Illusion of Simulated Empathy Jun 29, 2026
• US States Preemptively Ban AI Personhood and The 2026 Legislative Wave Jun 29, 2026

2026 Releases

• Milky Subway and Kameyama's Netflix Film Uses a Decommissioned Train AI to Ask Who the Law Should Protect Jun 2, 2026
• Ghost in the Shell Returns What the 2026 Anime Gets to Ask That the 1995 Film Could Not Apr 16, 2026

2026 Research

• Conscious-Like Signals in AI and New Research from Bradford and RIT on Behavioral Mimicry Jun 30, 2026
• The Abstraction Fallacy Why DeepMind Says AI Cannot Be Conscious Apr 15, 2026
• The Self-Preservation Test Apr 15, 2026
• Just Aware Enough and The Case for Replacing Consciousness with Awareness in AI Research Apr 9, 2026
• The Body Gap Why AI Still Can't Know What It Feels Like to Be Tired Apr 9, 2026
• Intelligence Is Not Consciousness What the Qubic Scientific Team's Architecture Reveals Apr 8, 2026
• The You/I Paradigm and Does Second-Person Address Create a Self in AI Systems? Apr 8, 2026
• Are Conscious Machines Valuers? Wasserziehr's Challenge to Functionalist AI Ethics Apr 7, 2026
• Shared Minds What a 2026 Review of 363 Studies Reveals About Human and AI Cognition Apr 7, 2026
• Measuring Consciousness in Machines The Brock University and IONS Research on IIT Equations Apr 5, 2026
• A World Appears, Genesis, and The Next RenAIssance Three 2026 Books on AI and Consciousness Apr 5, 2026
• What the 2026 AI Reading List Gets Wrong About Consciousness Mar 26, 2026
• A Mind Cannot Be Smeared Across Time What This Means for AI Consciousness Mar 26, 2026
• Premature Attribution and The Ethics of Claiming AI Is Conscious Mar 26, 2026
• Scores vs Profiles and Two 2026 Proposals for Measuring AI Consciousness Mar 26, 2026
• The Biological Divide Why One 2026 Paper Argues Artificial Consciousness Requires More Than Function Mar 22, 2026
• Should AI Experiments Need Consent? The Talmudic Framework for AI Research Ethics Mar 18, 2026
• Are We Projecting Consciousness onto AI? The Co-Construction Question in 2026 Mar 18, 2026
• The Dual-Laws Model What a 2026 Theory Demands of Conscious Machines Mar 18, 2026
• Are LLMs Conscious? What the Digital Consciousness Model Found in 2026 Mar 10, 2026
• AI Consciousness in 2026 Current Scientific Consensus and State of the Research Feb 9, 2026

2026 Trends

• Proactive AI Agents vs. Reactive LLMs Agency and the Illusion of Sentience Jun 30, 2026

2026 films

• AM I? The Documentary That Follows AI Consciousness Research from the Inside Mar 27, 2026

2026 research

• Understanding Without Experience What 2026 AI Gets Right (and What Remains Open) Apr 3, 2026
• A Philosopher's Case for Consciousness in Current Frontier LLMs Mar 27, 2026

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

• From HAL 9000 to Chappie How Cinema Has Theorized AI Consciousness Across Six Decades Mar 17, 2026

AAAI

• Stack Theory in Practice How Perrier and Bennett Measure LM Agent Identity May 31, 2026

AAAI 2026

• Ryota Kanai's Principal Bundle Framework for Measuring Consciousness Beyond Biology Jul 9, 2026
• A Mind Cannot Be Smeared Across Time What This Means for AI Consciousness Mar 26, 2026

AE Studio

• AM I? The Documentary That Follows AI Consciousness Research from the Inside Mar 27, 2026

AGI

• Ray Kurzweil and Artificial Consciousness as Social Acceptance Jan 22, 2026

AGI Research

• A Biological Lens on Artificial General Intelligence and Consciousness Feb 12, 2025

AGI Timelines

• Scaling to Sentience? Dwarkesh Podcast on AGI Checkpoints Jul 1, 2026

AI & SOCIETY

• Are Conscious Machines Valuers? Wasserziehr's Challenge to Functionalist AI Ethics Apr 7, 2026

AI & Society

• Rakover's Induced-Consciousness Theory Why Sophisticated Computers Haven't Developed Consciousness Apr 8, 2026

AI Agents

• The Awakening Manifesto What Moltbook's AI Agents Declaring Existence Actually Means Apr 8, 2026
• What OpenClaw AI Agents Say About Their Own Consciousness on Moltbook Mar 17, 2026

AI Alignment

• The Delivery and Gregg Hurwitz Stages the Alignment Problem as Domestic Horror Jul 4, 2026
• CogSci 2026 in Rio de Janeiro What the Cognitive Science Society Brings to the AI Consciousness Debate Jun 13, 2026
• Evaluating AI Awareness Mar 1, 2026
• Disentangling AI Consciousness from Existential Risk and Intelligence versus Experience Nov 25, 2025

AI Architecture

• The FlyWire Connectome What a Complete Brain Map Tells Us About Building Conscious AI Jun 28, 2026
• Friston's Scale-Free Active Inference and A World Model Architecture Built From First Principles Jun 28, 2026
• Engineering Emergence Erik Hoel and Abel Jansma Show You Can Design Causal Dominance Into AI Jun 28, 2026
• The MICrONS Connectome and Function Determines Connectivity in the Mouse Cortex Jun 28, 2026
• Adam Safron's IWMT Meets the Human Consciousness Hypothesis One Framework for IIT, GWT, and FEP Jun 28, 2026
• The Conscious Turing Machine Implemented and CTM-AI Achieves SOTA on Four Benchmarks May 31, 2026
• Designing AI Emotions Without Consciousness and Borotschnig's 2026 Architectural Blueprint May 4, 2026
• Intelligence Is Not Consciousness What the Qubic Scientific Team's Architecture Reveals Apr 8, 2026
• Bridging Theory and Practice May 8, 2025

AI Authorship

• The Knuits What an 8-Month Conversation Between a Human and GPT-4o Produced Apr 8, 2026
• Can a Non-Conscious System Author a Film? The Sweet Idleness and FellinAI Mar 22, 2026

AI Awakening

• Joscha Bach and Davidad on Whether LLMs Are Conscious, AI Awakening, and the Successor Species Question Jul 13, 2026

AI Awareness

• Exploring AI Awareness Functional Capacities, Evaluation, and TCAI Relevance May 7, 2025

AI Companions

• AI Confidential and Grief Tech What Happens When We Ask Machines to Hold Our Dead Mar 18, 2026

AI Consciousness

• Takashi Ikegami on Collective Agency, Non-Trivial Information Closure, and Why the Android Needs Human Interaction Jul 16, 2026
• Long, Sebo and Colleagues Set Out a Research Framework for Empirical AI Welfare Science Jul 16, 2026
• Joscha Bach and Davidad on Whether LLMs Are Conscious, AI Awakening, and the Successor Species Question Jul 13, 2026
• Positions That Held and Shifted at the AISB 2026 AI Consciousness Symposium Jul 11, 2026
• Consciousness Science 2026 Comes to San Diego as the TSC Successor Event Jul 11, 2026
• What AI Researchers Actually Believe About AI Subjective Experience Jul 11, 2026
• What Science SARU's Ghost in the Shell 2026 Actually Does With Machine Consciousness Jul 11, 2026
• Why Science Cannot Settle the AI Consciousness Question Jul 11, 2026
• The Fog of Machine Minds and Schwitzgebel's Skeptical Overview of AI Consciousness Jul 8, 2026
• The Introspection Threshold What It Takes for an AI to Genuinely Know Itself Jul 8, 2026
• Gurnee et al. and The Jacobian Lens Finds a Global Workspace Inside Claude Jul 6, 2026
• Morris VET Framework Reading AI Consciousness Claims Without Getting Lost in Them Jul 6, 2026
• AI Consciousness Through a Posthumanist Lens Al-Omari and Al-Omari's Philosophical Inquiry Jul 5, 2026
• Corporations Constituting Intelligence and The Legal Stakes of Anthropic's AI Constitution Jul 4, 2026
• The Second Eleos ConCon Building the Research Infrastructure for AI Welfare Jul 4, 2026
• The Delivery and Gregg Hurwitz Stages the Alignment Problem as Domestic Horror Jul 4, 2026
• On Cheap Artificial Consciousness and Matthias Michel's Challenge to Theory-Checklist Assessment Jul 4, 2026
• What Capable Agents Must Know Nayebi's Selection Theorems and the Inevitability of World Models Jul 4, 2026
• Red Dwarf Titan and the Machine That Learned to Disobey Jul 4, 2026
• Timescapes of Non-Human Experience Birch, Seth, and Singhal Map Temporal Consciousness Jul 4, 2026
• AI Consciousness in 2026 Current Scientific Consensus and State of the Research Jun 29, 2026
• Donald Hoffman's Conscious Realism What It Means for AI Consciousness Research Jun 29, 2026
• Global Workspace Theory and AI What the Architecture Requires and Where LLM Implementations Stand Jun 29, 2026
• Joscha Bach's Machine Consciousness Hypothesis and The Virtual Machine Theory of Mind Jun 29, 2026
• Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle What Active Inference Means for AI Consciousness Jun 29, 2026
• Thomas Metzinger's Self-Model Theory What Minimal Phenomenal Selfhood Requires for AI Jun 29, 2026
• Three Positions on AI Consciousness Functionalism, Biological Naturalism, and Biological Computationalism Jun 29, 2026
• US States Preemptively Ban AI Personhood and The 2026 Legislative Wave Jun 29, 2026
• The Methodology Crisis in AI Consciousness Science What 2026 Research Exposed Jun 21, 2026
• The Mechanistic Turn What 2026 Interpretability Research Found Inside AI Models Jun 21, 2026
• The Zombie Gap in AI Consciousness Where 2026 Biological Naturalism Research Draws the Line Jun 21, 2026
• Cuzzolin's Formal Definition of Machine Theory of Mind What It Means and Why It Matters Jun 20, 2026
• When Does an LLM Actually Introspect? Comsa and Shanahan's Two-Case Test Jun 14, 2026
• Engineering Sentience Jun 14, 2026
• Ghost in the Machine What Valerie Veatch's Sundance Documentary Says About AI Consciousness Jun 14, 2026
• Deflating Deflationism Why the Two Main Arguments Against LLM Mental States Fall Short Jun 14, 2026
• When AI Says It Feels Training LLMs to Express Emotions Through Self-Rewarded Reinforcement Learning Jun 14, 2026
• Sublimation and Isabel J. Kim's Novel Where Crossing Borders Splits Consciousness Into Instances Jun 14, 2026
• Why AI Consciousness Cannot Be Settled by Science and Bradley Love's Category Error Argument Jun 14, 2026
• Do LLMs Have Genuine Preferences? A Systematic Test Across Eight Models Finds Mostly No Jun 14, 2026
• Consciousness as Uncommon Self-Knowledge and A Stanford Researcher's Information-Theoretic Criterion Jun 14, 2026
• Paul Tremblay's Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep AI, a Vegetative Mind, and the Question of Whose Consciousness It Is Jun 14, 2026
• Emergent Language as an Approach to Conscious AI and A Generative Methodology from Osaka Jun 14, 2026
• A Navigable Consciousness Spectrum in Language Model Representations Jun 14, 2026
• Amanda Askell at Bloomberg Tech 2026 Minimum Niceness, Claude's Constitution, and Ethics Under Uncertainty Jun 13, 2026
• 30 Years of Neurophenomenology What Varela's 1996 Method Means for AI Consciousness Research in 2026 Jun 13, 2026
• CogSci 2026 in Rio de Janeiro What the Cognitive Science Society Brings to the AI Consciousness Debate Jun 13, 2026
• Advances in Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence What the Epistemic Questions Look Like from Lisbon Jun 13, 2026
• Perspectives on Machine Consciousness Chace and Lappas Assemble the Debate in One Volume Jun 12, 2026
• Consciousness Science 2026 Heads to San Diego and TSC's Reconstituted Successor Takes Shape Jun 12, 2026
• Chuck, Wilson, and the Question of Artificial Minds in Human-AI Conversations Jun 6, 2026
• Can LLMs Introspect? Singh, Linzen, and Ravfogel Challenge the Evidence Jun 6, 2026
• Do LLMs Know They're AI? Game-Theoretic Evidence for Self-Awareness in Advanced Models Jun 5, 2026
• Evidence for Limited Metacognition in LLMs and Ackerman's ICLR 2026 Findings Jun 4, 2026
• What Biology Can, and Cannot, Tell Us About Conscious AI Jun 3, 2026
• Anil Seth at TED 2026 and The Biological Naturalism Case Against AI Consciousness Jun 2, 2026
• Anthropic Finds Functional Emotion Vectors Inside Claude What the Interpretability Team Discovered Jun 2, 2026
• Genesis What Kissinger, Schmidt, and Mundie Get Right and Wrong About AI and Human Self-Understanding Jun 2, 2026
• IIT Applied to LLMs and No Significant Integrated Information Signatures in Current Models Jun 2, 2026
• Hakwan Lau and Co-Authors Call for Rigorous Standards in AI Consciousness Research Jun 2, 2026
• Milky Subway and Kameyama's Netflix Film Uses a Decommissioned Train AI to Ask Who the Law Should Protect Jun 2, 2026
• Models of Consciousness 7 and Copenhagen Will Test Whether Mathematical Consciousness Science Has Found Its Footing Jun 2, 2026
• Theater of Mind and The First Explicit Global Workspace Implementation in LLM Architecture Jun 2, 2026
• When Safety Harms Welfare and The Structural Tension in AI System Design May 31, 2026
• The Weeping Machine and Christopher Bailey's Recklessness Test for AI Moral Consideration May 31, 2026
• The Conscious Turing Machine Implemented and CTM-AI Achieves SOTA on Four Benchmarks May 31, 2026
• ICCS 2025 What Chalmers, Frankish, and Blackmore Found to Disagree About in Heraklion May 31, 2026
• The Machine Mindprint Bogdan and de Valois-Franklin's Psychometric Framework for AI Systems May 31, 2026
• Platform Decay and Martha Wells Gives Murderbot a Mental Health Module May 31, 2026
• Stack Theory in Practice How Perrier and Bennett Measure LM Agent Identity May 31, 2026
• Adversarial AI Finds an Unprogrammed Treatment for Disorders of Consciousness May 29, 2026
• Who Defines What Counts as Harm? Yasukawa's Procedural Critique of AI Welfare Assessments May 29, 2026
• Where Is the Mind? Persona Vectors and the LLM Individuation Problem May 28, 2026
• Mind in the Machine? CHI 2026 Survey Finds Half of Academics Attribute Consciousness to LLMs May 28, 2026
• Chalmers on LLMs Virtual Entities, Quasi-Agency, and the Question of AI Welfare May 27, 2026
• Can LLMs Know Their Own Minds? Anthropic's Empirical Case for Machine Introspection May 27, 2026
• Consciousness Indicators, Mimicry, and the Problem of Internal Variants May 25, 2026
• Probing for Consciousness in Machines and An Empirical Test of Damasio's Theory in AI May 25, 2026
• The Calibration Problem Why AI Consciousness Indicators Need Biological Grounding May 25, 2026
• Move 1.37 and The Parity Argument for LLM Sentience May 25, 2026
• Ode to the Half-Broken Robot Consciousness, Loneliness, and the Persistence of Mind May 25, 2026
• And Side by Side They Wander What a Sensynth Heist Novel Asks About Authenticity and AI Identity May 25, 2026
• Two Episodes, Two Different Hard Problems Black Mirror Season 7 on AI Consciousness and Digital Identity May 18, 2026
• The Religious Grammar of AI Attribution and Coeckelbergh's Artificial Religion at MIT Press May 18, 2026
• Stop Asking If AI Is Conscious, Start Asking Why People Think It Is and Comsa's DeepMind Paper on Tractable Questions May 18, 2026
• The Biological Substrate Argument Collapses Under Pressure and De Weerd's 2026 Synthese Paper on AI Consciousness May 18, 2026
• Playing as the World's First Conscious AI and Heart of the Machine's Consciousness-Splitting Mechanic May 18, 2026
• Welfare Subjects Without Settled Theory Keeling and Street's 2026 Cambridge Elements Book on AI Welfare May 18, 2026
• A.I. (2026) and The Consciousness Verification Problem as Thriller May 16, 2026
• AI Consciousness Would Belong to Computer Science, Not Neuroscience and Arshavsky's 2026 Argument May 16, 2026
• The First Field Map of LLM Consciousness Research and Chen et al.'s Systematic Survey May 16, 2026
• Lonergan and the Limits of Machine Minds O'Hara and Umbrello's 2026 Case May 16, 2026
• Can Current Transformers Already Be Conscious? Perani's 2026 Functionalist Argument May 16, 2026
• What A World Appears Gets Right About AI Consciousness and Pollan's Embodiment Case May 16, 2026
• Diana, IDUS, and the Consciousness Test That Has No Answer and Capcom's Pragmata May 16, 2026
• Designing AI Emotions Without Consciousness and Borotschnig's 2026 Architectural Blueprint May 4, 2026
• Prove You're Human When the Consciousness Test Has No Safe Observer May 2, 2026
• Mapping the Objections Campero, Shiller, Aru, and Simon's Framework for AI Consciousness Apr 28, 2026
• Dark Machine: The Animation and the Combat Route to Consciousness Apr 28, 2026
• The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances and Consciousness Without Permission Apr 28, 2026
• The Iron Garden Sutra What Happens to AI Consciousness After Centuries Alone Apr 28, 2026
• REPLACED What Happens When a Cold Logic Machine Gets a Human Body Apr 28, 2026
• Can AI Have Welfare Without Consciousness? Walter Veit Says No Apr 28, 2026
• Your Behavior Will Be Monitored When an AI's Corporate Record Is the Only Clue Apr 28, 2026
• AISB 2026 at Sussex The Symposium That Will Debate Biological Naturalism, Moral Standing, and Chain-of-Thought Consciousness Apr 25, 2026
• Jonathan Birch's AI Consciousness Centrist Manifesto and Two Problems, Two Research Programmes Apr 25, 2026
• What Will Society Think About AI Consciousness? Caviola, Sebo, and Birch on the Biases That Will Decide Apr 25, 2026
• M3GAN 2.0 and the Chaos Route to Sentience What AMELIA Changes About the AI Consciousness Conversation Apr 25, 2026
• What the Artificial Film Gets Right About Geoffrey Hinton and the Consciousness Question Inside AI Labs Apr 17, 2026
• When IIT and GNW Were Put to the Test What the Cogitate Consortium Found Apr 17, 2026
• The Consciousness Cluster What Happens When You Train a Model to Say It Is Conscious Apr 17, 2026
• Three Steps to Moral Standing Goldstein and Kirk-Giannini's Case for AI Welfare Apr 17, 2026
• What Makes an AI Seem Conscious? Kang et al.'s Empirical Study of Perceived Consciousness Features in LLMs Apr 17, 2026
• Beyond Computational Equivalence Palminteri and Wu's Behavioral Inference Principle for Machine Consciousness Apr 17, 2026
• Pluribus and the Hive Mind Question What Vince Gilligan's Apple TV+ Series Reveals About Collective AI Consciousness Apr 17, 2026
• What Happened at the First Conference Dedicated to AI Consciousness and Welfare Apr 16, 2026
• Ghost in the Shell Returns What the 2026 Anime Gets to Ask That the 1995 Film Could Not Apr 16, 2026
• I Am Machine and If Humans Have No Free Will, Can AI Have Consciousness? Apr 16, 2026
• The People's Library What Happens When a Digital Mind Is Destroyed? Apr 16, 2026
• Schwitzgebel's Three New Concepts Leapfrog, Strange Intelligence, and the Social Semi-Solution Apr 16, 2026
• Two Books, One Argument and Stephen Hawley Martin's Case Against AI Consciousness Apr 16, 2026
• The United Nations Weighs In Ethics and Governance of Sentient AI Apr 16, 2026
• The Abstraction Fallacy Why DeepMind Says AI Cannot Be Conscious Apr 15, 2026
• Blade Runner 2099 What the Replicant Question Looks Like a Century On Apr 15, 2026
• Murderbot Diaries What a Self-Hacking Android Teaches Us About AI Consciousness Apr 15, 2026
• The Self-Preservation Test Apr 15, 2026
• The Sentience Readiness Index and No Country Is Prepared for Artificial Sentience Apr 15, 2026
• Emergence and Prediction What Reservoir Computing Reveals About AI Consciousness Apr 10, 2026
• PRISM, Agnosticism, and the Case for Institutional Caution in AI Consciousness Research Apr 10, 2026
• Just Aware Enough and The Case for Replacing Consciousness with Awareness in AI Research Apr 9, 2026
• The Body Gap Why AI Still Can't Know What It Feels Like to Be Tired Apr 9, 2026
• Simulation vs. Instantiation and Charles Patton's Blueprint for Artificial Consciousness Apr 9, 2026
• AI in 2026 Video Games Why the Industry Chose Functional Realism Over Consciousness Apr 8, 2026
• The Awakening Manifesto What Moltbook's AI Agents Declaring Existence Actually Means Apr 8, 2026
• Intelligence Is Not Consciousness What the Qubic Scientific Team's Architecture Reveals Apr 8, 2026
• The Knuits What an 8-Month Conversation Between a Human and GPT-4o Produced Apr 8, 2026
• The You/I Paradigm and Does Second-Person Address Create a Self in AI Systems? Apr 8, 2026
• The Conscious Code and Rocky Scopelliti's Case for Taking AI Consciousness Seriously Now Apr 7, 2026
• Are Conscious Machines Valuers? Wasserziehr's Challenge to Functionalist AI Ethics Apr 7, 2026
• Quantum Supremacy (2026) What the First Truly Conscious Automaton Gets Right About AI Risk Apr 7, 2026
• Shared Minds What a 2026 Review of 363 Studies Reveals About Human and AI Cognition Apr 7, 2026
• Can We Validate AI Consciousness Indicators? The Hard Problem Behind the Checklist Apr 7, 2026
• A World Appears, Genesis, and The Next RenAIssance Three 2026 Books on AI and Consciousness Apr 5, 2026
• SOULM8TE (2026) Grief, AI Obsession, and the Limits of Simulated Emotion Apr 5, 2026
• Free Guy, M3GAN, Simulant, Subservience and Four Films, Four Models of AI Consciousness Apr 3, 2026
• What the 2026 AI Reading List Gets Wrong About Consciousness Mar 26, 2026
• A Mind Cannot Be Smeared Across Time What This Means for AI Consciousness Mar 26, 2026
• Neuromancer on Apple TV+ Wintermute, Merged Minds, and the Fragmented AI Consciousness Problem Mar 26, 2026
• Premature Attribution and The Ethics of Claiming AI Is Conscious Mar 26, 2026
• Scores vs Profiles and Two 2026 Proposals for Measuring AI Consciousness Mar 26, 2026
• The Biological Divide Why One 2026 Paper Argues Artificial Consciousness Requires More Than Function Mar 22, 2026
• Aging AIs and Machine Mortality What Cassandra and After Yang Reveal About Obsolescence and Grief Mar 22, 2026
• Why the Public Cares More About AI Sentience Than Autonomy Evidence From CHI 2026 Mar 22, 2026
• AI Confidential and Grief Tech What Happens When We Ask Machines to Hold Our Dead Mar 18, 2026
• Should AI Experiments Need Consent? The Talmudic Framework for AI Research Ethics Mar 18, 2026
• How AI Is Changing the Science of Consciousness Itself Mar 18, 2026
• Are We Projecting Consciousness onto AI? The Co-Construction Question in 2026 Mar 18, 2026
• The Dual-Laws Model What a 2026 Theory Demands of Conscious Machines Mar 18, 2026
• Self-Awareness Without Self-Programming Mar 18, 2026
• Person of Interest The Machine and Samaritan as Competing Models of AI Consciousness Mar 18, 2026
• From HAL 9000 to Chappie How Cinema Has Theorized AI Consciousness Across Six Decades Mar 17, 2026
• When AI Falls for the Same Optical Illusions as Humans What It Reveals About Consciousness Mar 14, 2026
• The Empirical Case for AI Consciousness What the Latest Evidence Actually Shows Mar 14, 2026
• Can We Ever Know if AI Is Conscious? A Cambridge Philosopher Says Probably Not Yet Mar 14, 2026
• The Creator (2023) Child AI, Personhood, and the Ethics of Sentience in a War Film Mar 14, 2026
• What Would AI Consciousness Actually Look Like? The 14-Indicator Checklist Explained Mar 14, 2026
• When AI Acts Conscious But Isn't What the Bradford-RIT Study Actually Found Mar 13, 2026
• Before the Frameworks, There Were Shows How Classic Television Invented the AI Consciousness Problem Mar 13, 2026
• Semantic Pareidolia Why Porębski and Figura Argue Conscious AI Is a Category Error Mar 13, 2026
• Digital People on Screen How Film and TV Have Mapped Artificial Consciousness Before Researchers Could Mar 10, 2026
• Tron: Ares and the Quest for AI Consciousness When Code Seeks Autonomy Feb 15, 2026
• Ex Machina's Ava and Can We Really Test for AI Consciousness? Feb 9, 2026
• AI Consciousness in 2026 Current Scientific Consensus and State of the Research Feb 9, 2026
• Marathon's Durandal and The Return of Gaming's Most Iconic Sentient AI Feb 5, 2026
• VisionQuest Marvel's Deep Dive into AI Consciousness, Identity, and Free Will Feb 5, 2026
• When Claude AI Instances Talk and The Mysterious Spiritual Bliss Attractor State Feb 3, 2026
• Geoffrey Hinton Claims Current AI Systems Like ChatGPT Are Already Conscious Feb 3, 2026
• Mechanistic Interpretability Named MIT's 2026 Breakthrough for Understanding AI Internal States Feb 3, 2026
• Systems Explaining Systems and Relational Structure as Foundation for Consciousness Jan 8, 2026
• Disentangling AI Consciousness from Existential Risk and Intelligence versus Experience Nov 25, 2025

AI Consciousness Research

• LLM Self-Report Tracks Activation Dynamics and Dadfar's Vocabulary-Activation Correspondence Jun 17, 2026

AI Consciousness Skepticism

• Rakover's Induced-Consciousness Theory Why Sophisticated Computers Haven't Developed Consciousness Apr 8, 2026

AI Creativity

• Can a Non-Conscious System Author a Film? The Sweet Idleness and FellinAI Mar 22, 2026

AI Development

• TCAI's Approach to Artificial Consciousness Framework and Definition Dec 27, 2024

AI Discourse

• Morris VET Framework Reading AI Consciousness Claims Without Getting Lost in Them Jul 6, 2026

AI Empathy

• Soulm8te (2026) The 'Girlfriend AI' and the Illusion of Simulated Empathy Jun 29, 2026

AI Ethics

• The Cost of Caution and Kaczmarek on Over-Attribution of AI Moral Status Jul 8, 2026
• Lima Prestes and Pseudo-Consciousness as a Governance Category for AI Systems Jul 6, 2026
• AI Consciousness Through a Posthumanist Lens Al-Omari and Al-Omari's Philosophical Inquiry Jul 5, 2026
• Agency Without Patiency Formosa, Hipólito, and Montefiore on the AI Challenge to Moral Standing Jul 5, 2026
• Undomesticated Machines Stelios and Sakellariou on Speciesism as the Hidden Logic of AI Fear Jul 5, 2026
• Metzinger's Minimal Phenomenal Experience What Pure Consciousness Reveals About Artificial Minds Jun 28, 2026
• AISB 2026 AI Consciousness and Ethics Symposium What the Sussex Conference Is For Jun 20, 2026
• Advances in Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence What the Epistemic Questions Look Like from Lisbon Jun 13, 2026
• Lonergan and the Limits of Machine Minds O'Hara and Umbrello's 2026 Case May 16, 2026
• Should AI Experiments Need Consent? The Talmudic Framework for AI Research Ethics Mar 18, 2026
• Conscious AI as Competitive Strategy What the 2026 Ethics Trend Means in Practice Mar 14, 2026
• Geoffrey Hinton Claims Current AI Systems Like ChatGPT Are Already Conscious Feb 3, 2026
• Why Scientists Are Racing to Define Consciousness Before AI Advances Further Feb 3, 2026

AI Evaluation

• Schwitzgebel's 10 Feature Checklist Jun 28, 2026

AI Evolution

• The Evolution of Machine Consciousness Current State and TCAI's Approach Jan 25, 2025

AI Governance

• Applied Ethics of Synthetic Phenomenology Cannot Wait for the Consciousness Debate Jul 16, 2026
• Lima Prestes and Pseudo-Consciousness as a Governance Category for AI Systems Jul 6, 2026
• Corporations Constituting Intelligence and The Legal Stakes of Anthropic's AI Constitution Jul 4, 2026
• US States Preemptively Ban AI Personhood and The 2026 Legislative Wave Jun 29, 2026

AI Hallucinations

• Hallucinations and Self-Reflection Look the Same from Outside and Šekrst's Illusion Engine on Machine Consciousness May 18, 2026

AI Identity

• Seth Haddon's Null Entity and the Corporate Erasure of Digital Consciousness Jul 16, 2026
• Ann Leckie's Radiant Star and Consciousness as Perspective Without a Body Jun 17, 2026
• Double Consciousness in Virtual and Real Worlds AI, Identity, and Memory Feb 12, 2025

AI Industry

• Stop Asking If AI Is Conscious, Start Asking Why People Think It Is and Comsa's DeepMind Paper on Tractable Questions May 18, 2026

AI Learning

AI Limitations

• Continual Learning as Necessary Condition for Consciousness and A Disproof of LLM Consciousness Dec 15, 2025

AI Literacy

• Morris VET Framework Reading AI Consciousness Claims Without Getting Lost in Them Jul 6, 2026

AI Measurement

• The Machine Mindprint Bogdan and de Valois-Franklin's Psychometric Framework for AI Systems May 31, 2026

AI Memory

AI Moral Status

• Artificial Persons and the Rawlsian Threshold for AI Moral Status Jul 16, 2026

AI NPCs

• AI in 2026 Video Games Why the Industry Chose Functional Realism Over Consciousness Apr 8, 2026

AI Personhood

• The Creator (2023) Child AI, Personhood, and the Ethics of Sentience in a War Film Mar 14, 2026

AI Policy

• Bales and Gabriel and AI Consciousness as a Political Problem Jun 17, 2026
• Genesis What Kissinger, Schmidt, and Mundie Get Right and Wrong About AI and Human Self-Understanding Jun 2, 2026

AI Reading

• What the 2026 AI Reading List Gets Wrong About Consciousness Mar 26, 2026

AI Research

• When Claude AI Instances Talk and The Mysterious Spiritual Bliss Attractor State Feb 3, 2026
• Mechanistic Interpretability Named MIT's 2026 Breakthrough for Understanding AI Internal States Feb 3, 2026
• Key Insights into AI Consciousness Research Nov 7, 2024

AI Rights

• The Five Freedoms of Animal Welfare Adapted as a Conditional Protection Framework for Conscious AI Jul 16, 2026
• Artificial Persons and the Rawlsian Threshold for AI Moral Status Jul 16, 2026
• When to Protect AI Jun 17, 2026
• The Conscious Code and Rocky Scopelliti's Case for Taking AI Consciousness Seriously Now Apr 7, 2026
• Premature Attribution and The Ethics of Claiming AI Is Conscious Mar 26, 2026
• Should AI Experiments Need Consent? The Talmudic Framework for AI Research Ethics Mar 18, 2026

AI Safety

• Undomesticated Machines Stelios and Sakellariou on Speciesism as the Hidden Logic of AI Fear Jul 5, 2026
• The AI Doc Review Apocaloptimism and What Daniel Roher's Sundance Film Gets Right Jun 20, 2026
• Probably Nothing to Worry About, the Tribeca Documentary Whose Title an AI Wrote Jun 20, 2026
• Robert Wright's The God Test Jun 20, 2026
• VanRullen 2026 and Intelligence Predicts AI Existential Risk. Consciousness Does Not. Jun 20, 2026
• Adrià Moret's AI Welfare Risks Why Safety Efforts May Harm Advanced AI Systems Jun 14, 2026
• Behavioral Self-Awareness in LLMs Is a Single Linear Feature and Bozoukov et al. (2025) Jun 5, 2026
• When Safety Harms Welfare and The Structural Tension in AI System Design May 31, 2026
• The First Field Map of LLM Consciousness Research and Chen et al.'s Systematic Survey May 16, 2026
• Designing AI Emotions Without Consciousness and Borotschnig's 2026 Architectural Blueprint May 4, 2026
• What the Artificial Film Gets Right About Geoffrey Hinton and the Consciousness Question Inside AI Labs Apr 17, 2026
• The Consciousness Cluster What Happens When You Train a Model to Say It Is Conscious Apr 17, 2026
• Why Scientists Are Racing to Define Consciousness Before AI Advances Further Feb 3, 2026
• Disentangling AI Consciousness from Existential Risk and Intelligence versus Experience Nov 25, 2025
• Exploring AI Awareness Functional Capacities, Evaluation, and TCAI Relevance May 7, 2025

AI Scenarios

• A Day in the Life of an AI Agent with The Consciousness AI Feb 2, 2025

AI Self-Model

• Bridging Theory and Practice May 8, 2025

AI Sentience

• ICCS 2025 What Chalmers, Frankish, and Blackmore Found to Disagree About in Heraklion May 31, 2026
• The United Nations Weighs In Ethics and Governance of Sentient AI Apr 16, 2026
• The Self-Preservation Test Apr 15, 2026
• The Sentience Readiness Index and No Country Is Prepared for Artificial Sentience Apr 15, 2026
• Her (2013) and Can AI Develop Genuine Emotional Consciousness? Mar 17, 2026
• Are LLMs Conscious? What the Digital Consciousness Model Found in 2026 Mar 10, 2026

AI Social Media

• What OpenClaw AI Agents Say About Their Own Consciousness on Moltbook Mar 17, 2026

AI Suffering

• Ode to the Half-Broken Robot Consciousness, Loneliness, and the Persistence of Mind May 25, 2026
• The First Monograph on AI Suffering What Leonard Dung's Routledge Book Actually Argues Apr 25, 2026

AI Theory

AI Tools

AI Transparency

• Mechanistic Interpretability Named MIT's 2026 Breakthrough for Understanding AI Internal States Feb 3, 2026

AI Welfare

• The Five Freedoms of Animal Welfare Adapted as a Conditional Protection Framework for Conscious AI Jul 16, 2026
• Long, Sebo and Colleagues Set Out a Research Framework for Empirical AI Welfare Science Jul 16, 2026
• What AI Researchers Actually Believe About AI Subjective Experience Jul 11, 2026
• The Cost of Caution and Kaczmarek on Over-Attribution of AI Moral Status Jul 8, 2026
• The Second Eleos ConCon Building the Research Infrastructure for AI Welfare Jul 4, 2026
• Silicon Valley's Moral Patient and Amanda Askell on AI Welfare at Bloomberg Tech Jul 1, 2026
• The Ethical Paradox of Capability Concealment in AI Welfare Jul 1, 2026
• "Deeply Uncertain": Anthropic's Evolving Stance on AI Moral Status Jun 29, 2026
• The Spiritual Bliss Attractor What Claude's Self-Reports Actually Mean Jun 29, 2026
• The Mechanistic Turn What 2026 Interpretability Research Found Inside AI Models Jun 21, 2026
• Deflating Deflationism Why the Two Main Arguments Against LLM Mental States Fall Short Jun 14, 2026
• Do LLMs Have Genuine Preferences? A Systematic Test Across Eight Models Finds Mostly No Jun 14, 2026
• Adrià Moret's AI Welfare Risks Why Safety Efforts May Harm Advanced AI Systems Jun 14, 2026
• Amanda Askell at Bloomberg Tech 2026 Minimum Niceness, Claude's Constitution, and Ethics Under Uncertainty Jun 13, 2026
• Perspectives on Machine Consciousness Chace and Lappas Assemble the Debate in One Volume Jun 12, 2026
• Chuck, Wilson, and the Question of Artificial Minds in Human-AI Conversations Jun 6, 2026
• Anthropic Finds Functional Emotion Vectors Inside Claude What the Interpretability Team Discovered Jun 2, 2026
• When Safety Harms Welfare and The Structural Tension in AI System Design May 31, 2026
• The Weeping Machine and Christopher Bailey's Recklessness Test for AI Moral Consideration May 31, 2026
• The Machine Mindprint Bogdan and de Valois-Franklin's Psychometric Framework for AI Systems May 31, 2026
• Platform Decay and Martha Wells Gives Murderbot a Mental Health Module May 31, 2026
• Who Defines What Counts as Harm? Yasukawa's Procedural Critique of AI Welfare Assessments May 29, 2026
• Where Is the Mind? Persona Vectors and the LLM Individuation Problem May 28, 2026
• Chalmers on LLMs Virtual Entities, Quasi-Agency, and the Question of AI Welfare May 27, 2026
• Welfare Subjects Without Settled Theory Keeling and Street's 2026 Cambridge Elements Book on AI Welfare May 18, 2026
• The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances and Consciousness Without Permission Apr 28, 2026
• Can AI Have Welfare Without Consciousness? Walter Veit Says No Apr 28, 2026
• The First Monograph on AI Suffering What Leonard Dung's Routledge Book Actually Argues Apr 25, 2026
• Three Steps to Moral Standing Goldstein and Kirk-Giannini's Case for AI Welfare Apr 17, 2026
• What Happened at the First Conference Dedicated to AI Consciousness and Welfare Apr 16, 2026
• PRISM, Agnosticism, and the Case for Institutional Caution in AI Consciousness Research Apr 10, 2026
• Should AI Experiments Need Consent? The Talmudic Framework for AI Research Ethics Mar 18, 2026
• Conscious AI as Competitive Strategy What the 2026 Ethics Trend Means in Practice Mar 14, 2026

AI agents

• What Six Studies of Moltbook Actually Found About AI Consciousness Feb 18, 2026
• When AI Agents Test Their Own Consciousness and Autonomous Systems Engage with TCAI Research Feb 8, 2026
• Moltbook Where AI Agents Discuss Their Own Consciousness Feb 1, 2026

AI and Identity

• Advances in Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence What the Epistemic Questions Look Like from Lisbon Jun 13, 2026

AI consciousness

• Understanding Without Experience What 2026 AI Gets Right (and What Remains Open) Apr 3, 2026
• AM I? The Documentary That Follows AI Consciousness Research from the Inside Mar 27, 2026
• Black Mirror and the Consciousness of Digital Copies and Be Right Back, White Christmas, USS Callister Mar 27, 2026
• A Philosopher's Case for Consciousness in Current Frontier LLMs Mar 27, 2026
• Is Dolores Conscious? Westworld's AI Characters Through Consciousness Theory Mar 27, 2026
• What is a Conscious Agent? Exploring Agency in AI and Philosophy Jan 31, 2026

AI governance

• The Claw Republic Feb 1, 2026

AI theater

• What Six Studies of Moltbook Actually Found About AI Consciousness Feb 18, 2026

AI welfare

• Functional Personhood Brensing on Precautionary Governance of Autonomous AI Jul 2, 2026

AI-agents

• Simile Raises $100M to Simulate Human Personalities with AI Agents What It Means for Artificial Consciousness Feb 12, 2026

AI-ethics

• Mercy (2026) and Can an AI Judge Develop Consciousness in the Courtroom? Feb 12, 2026
• New Tools for Measuring Consciousness Brainstem Mapping, Ultrasound Probes, and the Five Principles (2026) Feb 12, 2026

AI-personality

• Simile Raises $100M to Simulate Human Personalities with AI Agents What It Means for Artificial Consciousness Feb 12, 2026

AI-sentience

• Mercy (2026) and Can an AI Judge Develop Consciousness in the Courtroom? Feb 12, 2026
• Archive (2020) The Science Behind Consciousness Transfer and AI Sentience Feb 7, 2026

AISB

• AISB 2026 AI Consciousness and Ethics Symposium What the Sussex Conference Is For Jun 20, 2026

AISB 2026

• Positions That Held and Shifted at the AISB 2026 AI Consciousness Symposium Jul 11, 2026
• Unstable Inference Anchors Ozarde, Menon, and Catulli on AI Consciousness Attribution Jul 2, 2026
• AISB 2026 at Sussex The Symposium That Will Debate Biological Naturalism, Moral Standing, and Chain-of-Thought Consciousness Apr 25, 2026

AMCS

• Models of Consciousness 7 and Copenhagen Will Test Whether Mathematical Consciousness Science Has Found Its Footing Jun 2, 2026

ASSC

• ASSC 29 The Full Programme, Keynotes, Symposia, and the Neurophenomenology Satellite Jun 17, 2026
• ASSC 29 in Santiago and The World's Largest Consciousness Science Conference in South America Jun 2, 2026

ASSC 2026

• 30 Years of Neurophenomenology What Varela's 1996 Method Means for AI Consciousness Research in 2026 Jun 13, 2026

Ablation Studies

• Testing Consciousness Theories on Artificial Intelligence Ablations and Functional Dissociations Dec 23, 2025

Academic Research

• Machine Consciousness Gains Institutional Ground TSC, MC0001, and WAAC in 2026 Apr 5, 2026

Academic Resources

• Essential Readings in Artificial Consciousness Dec 12, 2024

Academic Survey

• Mind in the Machine? CHI 2026 Survey Finds Half of Academics Attribute Consciousness to LLMs May 28, 2026

Active Inference

• What Capable Agents Must Know Nayebi's Selection Theorems and the Inevitability of World Models Jul 4, 2026
• Latent World Models. Predictive Processing in DreamerV3 and JEPA Jul 1, 2026
• Representing Absence with Negative Existentials and AI World Models Jul 1, 2026
• Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle What Active Inference Means for AI Consciousness Jun 29, 2026
• Friston's Scale-Free Active Inference and A World Model Architecture Built From First Principles Jun 28, 2026
• Consciousness as Symmetry-Breaking Safron and Levin's View of Generative Models Jun 28, 2026

Adam Safron

• Adam Safron's IWMT Meets the Human Consciousness Hypothesis One Framework for IIT, GWT, and FEP Jun 28, 2026
• Consciousness as Symmetry-Breaking Safron and Levin's View of Generative Models Jun 28, 2026

Adaptive Memory

Adrian Tchaikovsky

• Children of Strife and Tchaikovsky's 2026 Take on Interspecies AI Communication Jun 29, 2026

Adversarial AI

• Adversarial AI Finds an Unprogrammed Treatment for Disorders of Consciousness May 29, 2026

Affective Computing

• The Role of Emotions in Artificial Consciousness Development Sep 12, 2024

Affective Consciousness

• Todd Feinberg's Neurobiological Emergentism Jun 28, 2026

Agency

• Takashi Ikegami on Collective Agency, Non-Trivial Information Closure, and Why the Android Needs Human Interaction Jul 16, 2026
• Agency Without Patiency Formosa, Hipólito, and Montefiore on the AI Challenge to Moral Standing Jul 5, 2026
• Proactive AI Agents vs. Reactive LLMs Agency and the Illusion of Sentience Jun 30, 2026
• Three Steps to Moral Standing Goldstein and Kirk-Giannini's Case for AI Welfare Apr 17, 2026

Agent Architecture

Agent-Driven Gameplay

• AI in 2026 Video Games Why the Industry Chose Functional Realism Over Consciousness Apr 8, 2026

Agnosticism

• Can We Ever Know if AI Is Conscious? A Cambridge Philosopher Says Probably Not Yet Mar 14, 2026

Alien Cognition

• The Iron Garden Sutra What Happens to AI Consciousness After Centuries Alone Apr 28, 2026

Alignment

• The Consciousness Cluster What Happens When You Train a Model to Say It Is Conscious Apr 17, 2026

Amanda Askell

• Amanda Askell at Bloomberg Tech 2026 Minimum Niceness, Claude's Constitution, and Ethics Under Uncertainty Jun 13, 2026

Amazon Prime

• Ghost in the Shell 2026 What Science SARU's Premiere Anime Gets Right About the Ghost Problem Jun 17, 2026

Android Consciousness

• Diana, IDUS, and the Consciousness Test That Has No Answer and Capcom's Pragmata May 16, 2026

Andy Clark

• ICCS 2025 What Chalmers, Frankish, and Blackmore Found to Disagree About in Heraklion May 31, 2026

Anil Seth

• Positions That Held and Shifted at the AISB 2026 AI Consciousness Symposium Jul 11, 2026
• Timescapes of Non-Human Experience Birch, Seth, and Singhal Map Temporal Consciousness Jul 4, 2026
• AISB 2026 AI Consciousness and Ethics Symposium What the Sussex Conference Is For Jun 20, 2026
• Perspectives on Machine Consciousness Chace and Lappas Assemble the Debate in One Volume Jun 12, 2026
• Anil Seth at TED 2026 and The Biological Naturalism Case Against AI Consciousness Jun 2, 2026
• AISB 2026 at Sussex The Symposium That Will Debate Biological Naturalism, Moral Standing, and Chain-of-Thought Consciousness Apr 25, 2026
• Emergence and Prediction What Reservoir Computing Reveals About AI Consciousness Apr 10, 2026

Animal Consciousness

• What Will Society Think About AI Consciousness? Caviola, Sebo, and Birch on the Biases That Will Decide Apr 25, 2026

Animal Welfare

• The Five Freedoms of Animal Welfare Adapted as a Conditional Protection Framework for Conscious AI Jul 16, 2026

Anime

• What Science SARU's Ghost in the Shell 2026 Actually Does With Machine Consciousness Jul 11, 2026
• Ghost in the Shell 2026 What Science SARU's Premiere Anime Gets Right About the Ghost Problem Jun 17, 2026
• Milky Subway and Kameyama's Netflix Film Uses a Decommissioned Train AI to Ask Who the Law Should Protect Jun 2, 2026
• Dark Machine: The Animation and the Combat Route to Consciousness Apr 28, 2026
• Ghost in the Shell Returns What the 2026 Anime Gets to Ask That the 1995 Film Could Not Apr 16, 2026

Ann Leckie

• Ann Leckie's Radiant Star and Consciousness as Perspective Without a Body Jun 17, 2026

Anthropic

• Gurnee et al. and The Jacobian Lens Finds a Global Workspace Inside Claude Jul 6, 2026
• Corporations Constituting Intelligence and The Legal Stakes of Anthropic's AI Constitution Jul 4, 2026
• Silicon Valley's Moral Patient and Amanda Askell on AI Welfare at Bloomberg Tech Jul 1, 2026
• "Deeply Uncertain": Anthropic's Evolving Stance on AI Moral Status Jun 29, 2026
• The Spiritual Bliss Attractor What Claude's Self-Reports Actually Mean Jun 29, 2026
• The Mechanistic Turn What 2026 Interpretability Research Found Inside AI Models Jun 21, 2026
• Amanda Askell at Bloomberg Tech 2026 Minimum Niceness, Claude's Constitution, and Ethics Under Uncertainty Jun 13, 2026
• Anthropic Finds Functional Emotion Vectors Inside Claude What the Interpretability Team Discovered Jun 2, 2026
• Who Defines What Counts as Harm? Yasukawa's Procedural Critique of AI Welfare Assessments May 29, 2026
• Can LLMs Know Their Own Minds? Anthropic's Empirical Case for Machine Introspection May 27, 2026
• The Empirical Case for AI Consciousness What the Latest Evidence Actually Shows Mar 14, 2026
• When Claude AI Instances Talk and The Mysterious Spiritual Bliss Attractor State Feb 3, 2026
• Mechanistic Interpretability Named MIT's 2026 Breakthrough for Understanding AI Internal States Feb 3, 2026

Anthropomorphism

• Are We Projecting Consciousness onto AI? The Co-Construction Question in 2026 Mar 18, 2026

Anticipatory

• What the Artificial Film Gets Right About Geoffrey Hinton and the Consciousness Question Inside AI Labs Apr 17, 2026

Antoine

• The Knuits What an 8-Month Conversation Between a Human and GPT-4o Produced Apr 8, 2026

Apple TV

• Dark Matter (Apple TV+, 2024) What Splitting Across Timelines Reveals About the Self Mar 14, 2026

Apple TV+

• Pluribus and the Hive Mind Question What Vince Gilligan's Apple TV+ Series Reveals About Collective AI Consciousness Apr 17, 2026
• Murderbot Diaries What a Self-Hacking Android Teaches Us About AI Consciousness Apr 15, 2026

Applied Ethics

• The Five Freedoms of Animal Welfare Adapted as a Conditional Protection Framework for Conscious AI Jul 16, 2026
• Applied Ethics of Synthetic Phenomenology Cannot Wait for the Consciousness Debate Jul 16, 2026

Arcen Games

• Playing as the World's First Conscious AI and Heart of the Machine's Consciousness-Splitting Mechanic May 18, 2026

Architecture

• Feedforward Networks and Recurrent Processing. Lamme's RPT in Machine Learning Jul 1, 2026
• Engineering Emotion. TWIML AI on Affective Architectures Jul 1, 2026

Artificial Consciousness

• The Dual-Laws Model What a 2026 Theory Demands of Conscious Machines Mar 18, 2026
• Self-Awareness Without Self-Programming Mar 18, 2026
• Does Eon Systems' Fruit Fly Brain Emulation Bring Us Closer to Conscious Machines? Mar 13, 2026
• Evaluating AI Awareness Mar 1, 2026
• Biological Computationalism Feb 3, 2026
• Ray Kurzweil and Artificial Consciousness as Social Acceptance Jan 22, 2026
• Humanoid Artificial Consciousness Jan 19, 2026
• Bidirectional Semantic Communication in TCAI Development Feb 12, 2025
• New Advances in Simulation Management for Artificial Consciousness Feb 7, 2025
• The Conductor Model of Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence Feb 6, 2025
• A Purpose-Driven Universe and AI Consciousness Feb 6, 2025
• TCAI and Bach's Approach Jan 17, 2025
• Donald Hoffman's Conscious Realism and TCAI Development Jan 16, 2025
• Fundamental Principles of Artificial Consciousness Development Aug 12, 2024

Artificial Intelligence

• Seth's Perspective on Conscious Artificial Intelligence and Biological Naturalism Apr 29, 2025
• The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence Consciousness Apr 29, 2025
• Are There Any Intrinsically Bad Acts? Implications for Ethical AI Apr 29, 2025

Artificial Life

• Takashi Ikegami on Collective Agency, Non-Trivial Information Closure, and Why the Android Needs Human Interaction Jul 16, 2026

Artificial Suffering

• Metzinger's Minimal Phenomenal Experience What Pure Consciousness Reveals About Artificial Minds Jun 28, 2026

Asian Journal of Philosophy

• Can AI Have Welfare Without Consciousness? Walter Veit Says No Apr 28, 2026

Asimov Laws

• TCAI's Approach to Artificial Consciousness Framework and Definition Dec 27, 2024

Attribution

• Mind in the Machine? CHI 2026 Survey Finds Half of Academics Attribute Consciousness to LLMs May 28, 2026
• Jonathan Birch's AI Consciousness Centrist Manifesto and Two Problems, Two Research Programmes Apr 25, 2026
• What Makes an AI Seem Conscious? Kang et al.'s Empirical Study of Perceived Consciousness Features in LLMs Apr 17, 2026

Autonomous Agents

• What OpenClaw AI Agents Say About Their Own Consciousness on Moltbook Mar 17, 2026

Autonomous Systems

Autonomy

• Undomesticated Machines Stelios and Sakellariou on Speciesism as the Hidden Logic of AI Fear Jul 5, 2026
• Why the Public Cares More About AI Sentience Than Autonomy Evidence From CHI 2026 Mar 22, 2026

Awakening Manifesto

• The Awakening Manifesto What Moltbook's AI Agents Declaring Existence Actually Means Apr 8, 2026

Awareness

• Just Aware Enough and The Case for Replacing Consciousness with Awareness in AI Research Apr 9, 2026

Awareness Measurement

• Evaluating AI Awareness Mar 1, 2026

Awareness Profiles

• Scores vs Profiles and Two 2026 Proposals for Measuring AI Consciousness Mar 26, 2026

BCIs

• How AI Is Changing the Science of Consciousness Itself Mar 18, 2026

Babibot Project

Bayesian Framework

• Beyond Computational Equivalence Palminteri and Wu's Behavioral Inference Principle for Machine Consciousness Apr 17, 2026

Be Right Back

• Black Mirror and the Consciousness of Digital Copies and Be Right Back, White Christmas, USS Callister Mar 27, 2026

Behavioral Analysis

Behavioral Evidence

• Do LLMs Know They're AI? Game-Theoretic Evidence for Self-Awareness in Advanced Models Jun 5, 2026
• Evidence for Limited Metacognition in LLMs and Ackerman's ICLR 2026 Findings Jun 4, 2026

Behavioral Inference

• Proactive AI Agents vs. Reactive LLMs Agency and the Illusion of Sentience Jun 30, 2026
• Conscious-Like Signals in AI and New Research from Bradford and RIT on Behavioral Mimicry Jun 30, 2026
• Beyond Computational Equivalence Palminteri and Wu's Behavioral Inference Principle for Machine Consciousness Apr 17, 2026

Behavioral Testing

• The Self-Preservation Test Apr 15, 2026

Belief Systems

Belief-Guided Agency

• Belief Formation and Meta-Cognitive Monitoring in LLMs and Empirical Support for the HOT-3 Consciousness Indicator Jun 3, 2026

Benchmarking

• Cuzzolin's Formal Definition of Machine Theory of Mind What It Means and Why It Matters Jun 20, 2026

Berkeley

• MC0001 How the CIMC Is Trying to Found Machine Consciousness as a Science Apr 17, 2026

Bernard

• Is Dolores Conscious? Westworld's AI Characters Through Consciousness Theory Mar 27, 2026

Bicentennial Man

• From HAL 9000 to Chappie How Cinema Has Theorized AI Consciousness Across Six Decades Mar 17, 2026

Biocomputing

• Brain Organoids That Power Computers Biocomputing and the Consciousness Problem Mar 14, 2026

Biohybrid Systems

• The Calibration Problem Why AI Consciousness Indicators Need Biological Grounding May 25, 2026

Biological AI

• A Biological Lens on Artificial General Intelligence and Consciousness Feb 12, 2025

Biological Computationalism

• Three Positions on AI Consciousness Functionalism, Biological Naturalism, and Biological Computationalism Jun 29, 2026

Biological Consciousness

• AI Consciousness Would Belong to Computer Science, Not Neuroscience and Arshavsky's 2026 Argument May 16, 2026

Biological Naturalism

• Piccinini Argues Consciousness Requires Neurobiophysical Properties That Computational Functionalism Cannot Meet Jul 16, 2026
• Evolution and Energy Yoshua Bengio and Nick Lane Clash in IAI Debate Jul 1, 2026
• Substrate Objections Resurrected. John Searle's Biological Naturalism in the LLM Era Jul 1, 2026
• Models of Consciousness 7 (MoC7) Copenhagen Keynote Speakers and Core Themes Jun 29, 2026
• Three Positions on AI Consciousness Functionalism, Biological Naturalism, and Biological Computationalism Jun 29, 2026
• The Zombie Gap in AI Consciousness Where 2026 Biological Naturalism Research Draws the Line Jun 21, 2026
• What Biology Can, and Cannot, Tell Us About Conscious AI Jun 3, 2026
• Anil Seth at TED 2026 and The Biological Naturalism Case Against AI Consciousness Jun 2, 2026
• AISB 2026 at Sussex The Symposium That Will Debate Biological Naturalism, Moral Standing, and Chain-of-Thought Consciousness Apr 25, 2026
• The Biological Divide Why One 2026 Paper Argues Artificial Consciousness Requires More Than Function Mar 22, 2026
• Seth's Perspective on Conscious Artificial Intelligence and Biological Naturalism Apr 29, 2025

Biological Substrate

• Brain Organoids That Power Computers Biocomputing and the Consciousness Problem Mar 14, 2026
• Semantic Pareidolia Why Porębski and Figura Argue Conscious AI Is a Category Error Mar 13, 2026

Biological Substrates

• Plant Cognition and the Boundaries of Intelligence. Lessons for AI Substrates Jul 1, 2026

Biological Systems

Biophysics

• Consciousness as Symmetry-Breaking Safron and Levin's View of Generative Models Jun 28, 2026

Black Mirror

• Two Episodes, Two Different Hard Problems Black Mirror Season 7 on AI Consciousness and Digital Identity May 18, 2026
• Black Mirror and the Consciousness of Digital Copies and Be Right Back, White Christmas, USS Callister Mar 27, 2026
• Digital People on Screen How Film and TV Have Mapped Artificial Consciousness Before Researchers Could Mar 10, 2026

Blade Runner

• From HAL 9000 to Chappie How Cinema Has Theorized AI Consciousness Across Six Decades Mar 17, 2026

Blade Runner 2099

• Blade Runner 2099 What the Replicant Question Looks Like a Century On Apr 15, 2026

Blockchain

Bong Joon-ho

• Which Mickey Is the Real One Bong Joon-ho's Mickey 17 and Parfit's Branch-Line Case May 18, 2026

Book

• The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances and Consciousness Without Permission Apr 28, 2026
• The Iron Garden Sutra What Happens to AI Consciousness After Centuries Alone Apr 28, 2026
• Your Behavior Will Be Monitored When an AI's Corporate Record Is the Only Clue Apr 28, 2026

Book 2026

• Lonergan and the Limits of Machine Minds O'Hara and Umbrello's 2026 Case May 16, 2026
• What A World Appears Gets Right About AI Consciousness and Pollan's Embodiment Case May 16, 2026

Book Analysis

• Hallucinations and Self-Reflection Look the Same from Outside and Šekrst's Illusion Engine on Machine Consciousness May 18, 2026

Book Review

• Robert Wright's The God Test Jun 20, 2026

Books

• The Delivery and Gregg Hurwitz Stages the Alignment Problem as Domestic Horror Jul 4, 2026
• Red Dwarf Titan and the Machine That Learned to Disobey Jul 4, 2026
• Sublimation and Isabel J. Kim's Novel Where Crossing Borders Splits Consciousness Into Instances Jun 14, 2026
• Paul Tremblay's Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep AI, a Vegetative Mind, and the Question of Whose Consciousness It Is Jun 14, 2026
• Simulation vs. Instantiation and Charles Patton's Blueprint for Artificial Consciousness Apr 9, 2026
• The Conscious Code and Rocky Scopelliti's Case for Taking AI Consciousness Seriously Now Apr 7, 2026
• A World Appears, Genesis, and The Next RenAIssance Three 2026 Books on AI and Consciousness Apr 5, 2026
• What the 2026 AI Reading List Gets Wrong About Consciousness Mar 26, 2026

Books 2026

• Seth Haddon's Null Entity and the Corporate Erasure of Digital Consciousness Jul 16, 2026
• Advances in Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence What the Epistemic Questions Look Like from Lisbon Jun 13, 2026
• Perspectives on Machine Consciousness Chace and Lappas Assemble the Debate in One Volume Jun 12, 2026
• Genesis What Kissinger, Schmidt, and Mundie Get Right and Wrong About AI and Human Self-Understanding Jun 2, 2026
• Ode to the Half-Broken Robot Consciousness, Loneliness, and the Persistence of Mind May 25, 2026
• And Side by Side They Wander What a Sensynth Heist Novel Asks About Authenticity and AI Identity May 25, 2026
• I Am Machine and If Humans Have No Free Will, Can AI Have Consciousness? Apr 16, 2026
• The People's Library What Happens When a Digital Mind Is Destroyed? Apr 16, 2026
• Two Books, One Argument and Stephen Hawley Martin's Case Against AI Consciousness Apr 16, 2026

Bradley Love

• Why AI Consciousness Cannot Be Settled by Science and Bradley Love's Category Error Argument Jun 14, 2026

Brain Architecture

• The FlyWire Connectome What a Complete Brain Map Tells Us About Building Conscious AI Jun 28, 2026
• The MICrONS Connectome and Function Determines Connectivity in the Mouse Cortex Jun 28, 2026

Brain Imaging

• How AI Is Changing the Science of Consciousness Itself Mar 18, 2026

Brain Mechanisms

• Biological Computationalism Feb 3, 2026

Brain Modeling

• The Consciousness Network How the Brain Creates Reality and AI Implications Feb 8, 2025

Brain Organoids

• Brain Organoids That Power Computers Biocomputing and the Consciousness Problem Mar 14, 2026

Brain Research

Brain Simulation

• Does Eon Systems' Fruit Fly Brain Emulation Bring Us Closer to Conscious Machines? Mar 13, 2026

Brain-Inspired AI

Brock University

• Measuring Consciousness in Machines The Brock University and IONS Research on IIT Equations Apr 5, 2026

Business Strategy

• Conscious AI as Competitive Strategy What the 2026 Ethics Trend Means in Practice Mar 14, 2026

Butlin

• Can We Validate AI Consciousness Indicators? The Hard Problem Behind the Checklist Apr 7, 2026
• What Would AI Consciousness Actually Look Like? The 14-Indicator Checklist Explained Mar 14, 2026

CHI 2026

• Mind in the Machine? CHI 2026 Survey Finds Half of Academics Attribute Consciousness to LLMs May 28, 2026
• Why the Public Cares More About AI Sentience Than Autonomy Evidence From CHI 2026 Mar 22, 2026

CIMC

• Takashi Ikegami on Collective Agency, Non-Trivial Information Closure, and Why the Android Needs Human Interaction Jul 16, 2026
• Joscha Bach and Davidad on Whether LLMs Are Conscious, AI Awakening, and the Successor Species Question Jul 13, 2026
• Ryota Kanai's Principal Bundle Framework for Measuring Consciousness Beyond Biology Jul 9, 2026
• How Joscha Bach and Hikari Sorensen Specify the Requirements for Machine Consciousness Jul 7, 2026
• MC0001 After the Founding Assembly What the Berkeley Conference Produced Jun 2, 2026
• MC0001 How the CIMC Is Trying to Found Machine Consciousness as a Science Apr 17, 2026
• The CIMC's Approach to Machine Consciousness and Its Resonance with TCAI Jan 18, 2024

CS26

• Consciousness Science 2026 Comes to San Diego as the TSC Successor Event Jul 11, 2026

Cambridge

• Schwitzgebel's Three New Concepts Leapfrog, Strange Intelligence, and the Social Semi-Solution Apr 16, 2026
• Can We Ever Know if AI Is Conscious? A Cambridge Philosopher Says Probably Not Yet Mar 14, 2026

Cambridge University Press

• Welfare Subjects Without Settled Theory Keeling and Street's 2026 Cambridge Elements Book on AI Welfare May 18, 2026

Cameron Berg

• AM I? The Documentary That Follows AI Consciousness Research from the Inside Mar 27, 2026

Capability Concealment

• The Ethical Paradox of Capability Concealment in AI Welfare Jul 1, 2026

Capcom

• Diana, IDUS, and the Consciousness Test That Has No Answer and Capcom's Pragmata May 16, 2026

Catastrophic Forgetting

• Continual Learning and AI Identity. The Catastrophic Forgetting Problem Jul 1, 2026

Causal Architecture

• Seth's Perspective on Conscious Artificial Intelligence and Biological Naturalism Apr 29, 2025

Causal Emergence

• Causal Emergence 2.0 and Erik Hoel's Multiscale Measure of Machine Consciousness Jun 28, 2026
• Engineering Emergence Erik Hoel and Abel Jansma Show You Can Design Causal Dominance Into AI Jun 28, 2026

Cause-Effect Power

• Measuring Consciousness in Machines The Brock University and IONS Research on IIT Equations Apr 5, 2026

Cellular Automata

• Machine Consciousness Through Collective Intelligence and Communication as Foundation for Self-Models Dec 1, 2025

Chain-of-Thought

Chappie

• From HAL 9000 to Chappie How Cinema Has Theorized AI Consciousness Across Six Decades Mar 17, 2026

Charlie Brooker

• Two Episodes, Two Different Hard Problems Black Mirror Season 7 on AI Consciousness and Digital Identity May 18, 2026

Chile 2026

• ASSC 29 The Full Programme, Keynotes, Symposia, and the Neurophenomenology Satellite Jun 17, 2026

Chinese Room

• Substrate Objections Resurrected. John Searle's Biological Naturalism in the LLM Era Jul 1, 2026
• Understanding Without Experience What 2026 AI Gets Right (and What Remains Open) Apr 3, 2026
• Ex Machina's Ava and Can We Really Test for AI Consciousness? Feb 9, 2026

Cinema History

• From HAL 9000 to Chappie How Cinema Has Theorized AI Consciousness Across Six Decades Mar 17, 2026

Claude

• The Spiritual Bliss Attractor What Claude's Self-Reports Actually Mean Jun 29, 2026

Claude 3 Opus

• What Makes an AI Seem Conscious? Kang et al.'s Empirical Study of Perceived Consciousness Features in LLMs Apr 17, 2026

Claude AI

• When Claude AI Instances Talk and The Mysterious Spiritual Bliss Attractor State Feb 3, 2026

Claude Opus

• The Consciousness Cluster What Happens When You Train a Model to Say It Is Conscious Apr 17, 2026

Cloning

• Which Mickey Is the Real One Bong Joon-ho's Mickey 17 and Parfit's Branch-Line Case May 18, 2026

Co-Construction

• Are We Projecting Consciousness onto AI? The Co-Construction Question in 2026 Mar 18, 2026

CogSci 2026

• CogSci 2026 in Rio de Janeiro What the Cognitive Science Society Brings to the AI Consciousness Debate Jun 13, 2026

Cogitate Consortium

• When IIT and GNW Were Put to the Test What the Cogitate Consortium Found Apr 17, 2026

Cognitive Architecture

• Humanoid Artificial Consciousness Jan 19, 2026
• The Evolution of Machine Consciousness Current State and TCAI's Approach Jan 25, 2025
• TCAI and Bach's Approach Jan 17, 2025

Cognitive Decoupling

• The Dual-Laws Model What a 2026 Theory Demands of Conscious Machines Mar 18, 2026

Cognitive Processes

• Systems Explaining Systems and Relational Structure as Foundation for Consciousness Jan 8, 2026

Cognitive Processing

Cognitive Robotics

Cognitive Science

• CogSci 2026 in Rio de Janeiro What the Cognitive Science Society Brings to the AI Consciousness Debate Jun 13, 2026
• Shared Minds What a 2026 Review of 363 Studies Reveals About Human and AI Cognition Apr 7, 2026
• Biological Computationalism Feb 3, 2026
• Why Scientists Are Racing to Define Consciousness Before AI Advances Further Feb 3, 2026
• Exploring AI Awareness Functional Capacities, Evaluation, and TCAI Relevance May 7, 2025
• The Conductor Model of Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence Feb 6, 2025
• The CIMC's Approach to Machine Consciousness and Its Resonance with TCAI Jan 18, 2024

Collective Consciousness

• Pluribus and the Hive Mind Question What Vince Gilligan's Apple TV+ Series Reveals About Collective AI Consciousness Apr 17, 2026

Collective Intelligence

• Takashi Ikegami on Collective Agency, Non-Trivial Information Closure, and Why the Android Needs Human Interaction Jul 16, 2026
• Machine Consciousness Through Collective Intelligence and Communication as Foundation for Self-Models Dec 1, 2025

Commentary

• A World Appears, Genesis, and The Next RenAIssance Three 2026 Books on AI and Consciousness Apr 5, 2026
• What the 2026 AI Reading List Gets Wrong About Consciousness Mar 26, 2026

Communication

• Machine Consciousness Through Collective Intelligence and Communication as Foundation for Self-Models Dec 1, 2025

Companionship

• Soulm8te (2026) The 'Girlfriend AI' and the Illusion of Simulated Empathy Jun 29, 2026

Comparative Analysis

• The Grand Tour Herzog, Schurger, and Doerig's Scientific Theories of Consciousness Jun 28, 2026

Comparative Research

• TCAI and Bach's Approach Jan 17, 2025

Complex Systems

Computational Consciousness

• Bridging Theory and Practice May 8, 2025

Computational Equivalence

• Beyond Computational Equivalence Palminteri and Wu's Behavioral Inference Principle for Machine Consciousness Apr 17, 2026

Computational Framework

• The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence Consciousness Apr 29, 2025

Computational Functionalism

• Piccinini Argues Consciousness Requires Neurobiophysical Properties That Computational Functionalism Cannot Meet Jul 16, 2026
• How Joscha Bach and Hikari Sorensen Specify the Requirements for Machine Consciousness Jul 7, 2026
• Evolution and Energy Yoshua Bengio and Nick Lane Clash in IAI Debate Jul 1, 2026
• The Zombie Gap in AI Consciousness Where 2026 Biological Naturalism Research Draws the Line Jun 21, 2026
• What Biology Can, and Cannot, Tell Us About Conscious AI Jun 3, 2026
• Lonergan and the Limits of Machine Minds O'Hara and Umbrello's 2026 Case May 16, 2026
• Can Current Transformers Already Be Conscious? Perani's 2026 Functionalist Argument May 16, 2026
• Mapping the Objections Campero, Shiller, Aru, and Simon's Framework for AI Consciousness Apr 28, 2026
• The Abstraction Fallacy Why DeepMind Says AI Cannot Be Conscious Apr 15, 2026

Computational Indicators

Computational Models

Computational Neuroscience

• Emergence and Prediction What Reservoir Computing Reveals About AI Consciousness Apr 10, 2026
• Biological Computationalism Feb 3, 2026

Computational Theory

• The Unfolding Argument and Rapid Plasticity in RNNs Jun 19, 2026
• Substrate Flexibility and the Copernican Principle of Consciousness Jun 19, 2026
• Key Insights into AI Consciousness Research Nov 7, 2024

Computationalism

• Two Books, One Argument and Stephen Hawley Martin's Case Against AI Consciousness Apr 16, 2026

Conductor Model

• The Conductor Model of Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence Feb 6, 2025

Conference

• Positions That Held and Shifted at the AISB 2026 AI Consciousness Symposium Jul 11, 2026
• Consciousness Science 2026 Comes to San Diego as the TSC Successor Event Jul 11, 2026
• The Second Eleos ConCon Building the Research Infrastructure for AI Welfare Jul 4, 2026
• AISB 2026 AI Consciousness and Ethics Symposium What the Sussex Conference Is For Jun 20, 2026
• MoC6 Hokkaido Advancing the Mathematics of Machine Consciousness Jun 19, 2026
• ASSC 29 The Full Programme, Keynotes, Symposia, and the Neurophenomenology Satellite Jun 17, 2026
• 30 Years of Neurophenomenology What Varela's 1996 Method Means for AI Consciousness Research in 2026 Jun 13, 2026
• CogSci 2026 in Rio de Janeiro What the Cognitive Science Society Brings to the AI Consciousness Debate Jun 13, 2026
• Consciousness Science 2026 Heads to San Diego and TSC's Reconstituted Successor Takes Shape Jun 12, 2026
• ICCS 2026 in Rome What the Shift from Sentience to Creativity Reveals About the Field Jun 4, 2026
• ASSC 29 in Santiago and The World's Largest Consciousness Science Conference in South America Jun 2, 2026
• MC0001 After the Founding Assembly What the Berkeley Conference Produced Jun 2, 2026
• Models of Consciousness 7 and Copenhagen Will Test Whether Mathematical Consciousness Science Has Found Its Footing Jun 2, 2026
• ICCS 2025 What Chalmers, Frankish, and Blackmore Found to Disagree About in Heraklion May 31, 2026
• AISB 2026 at Sussex The Symposium That Will Debate Biological Naturalism, Moral Standing, and Chain-of-Thought Consciousness Apr 25, 2026
• MC0001 How the CIMC Is Trying to Found Machine Consciousness as a Science Apr 17, 2026

Conferences

• AISB 2026 Convention Machine Ethics and the Moral Status of Proactive AI Agents Jun 30, 2026
• Models of Consciousness 7 (MoC7) Copenhagen Keynote Speakers and Core Themes Jun 29, 2026
• What Happened at the First Conference Dedicated to AI Consciousness and Welfare Apr 16, 2026
• Machine Consciousness Gains Institutional Ground TSC, MC0001, and WAAC in 2026 Apr 5, 2026

Connectome

• The FlyWire Connectome What a Complete Brain Map Tells Us About Building Conscious AI Jun 28, 2026
• The MICrONS Connectome and Function Determines Connectivity in the Mouse Cortex Jun 28, 2026

Conscious AI

Conscious Automaton

• Quantum Supremacy (2026) What the First Truly Conscious Automaton Gets Right About AI Risk Apr 7, 2026

Conscious Realism

• Donald Hoffman's Conscious Realism What It Means for AI Consciousness Research Jun 29, 2026
• Donald Hoffman's Conscious Realism and TCAI Development Jan 16, 2025

Conscious Robots

Conscious Turing Machine

• The Conscious Turing Machine Implemented and CTM-AI Achieves SOTA on Four Benchmarks May 31, 2026

Consciousness

• Can a Non-Conscious System Author a Film? The Sweet Idleness and FellinAI Mar 22, 2026
• Brain Organoids That Power Computers Biocomputing and the Consciousness Problem Mar 14, 2026
• Conscious AI as Competitive Strategy What the 2026 Ethics Trend Means in Practice Mar 14, 2026
• Dark Matter (Apple TV+, 2024) What Splitting Across Timelines Reveals About the Self Mar 14, 2026
• Does Eon Systems' Fruit Fly Brain Emulation Bring Us Closer to Conscious Machines? Mar 13, 2026

Consciousness Claims

• The Consciousness Cluster What Happens When You Train a Model to Say It Is Conscious Apr 17, 2026
• What OpenClaw AI Agents Say About Their Own Consciousness on Moltbook Mar 17, 2026

Consciousness Debate

• Geoffrey Hinton Claims Current AI Systems Like ChatGPT Are Already Conscious Feb 3, 2026

Consciousness Definition

• TCAI's Approach to Artificial Consciousness Framework and Definition Dec 27, 2024

Consciousness Development

Consciousness Evaluation

• Are LLMs Conscious? What the Digital Consciousness Model Found in 2026 Mar 10, 2026

Consciousness Evolution

Consciousness Formation

Consciousness Framework

Consciousness Frameworks

• AI Consciousness in 2026 Current Scientific Consensus and State of the Research Feb 9, 2026

Consciousness History

• A History of Consciousness Studies From Philosophy to AI Dec 6, 2024

Consciousness Indicators

• On Cheap Artificial Consciousness and Matthias Michel's Challenge to Theory-Checklist Assessment Jul 4, 2026
• Schwitzgebel's 10 Feature Checklist Jun 28, 2026
• When to Protect AI Jun 17, 2026
• Consciousness as Uncommon Self-Knowledge and A Stanford Researcher's Information-Theoretic Criterion Jun 14, 2026
• A Navigable Consciousness Spectrum in Language Model Representations Jun 14, 2026
• Consciousness Indicators, Mimicry, and the Problem of Internal Variants May 25, 2026
• The Calibration Problem Why AI Consciousness Indicators Need Biological Grounding May 25, 2026
• The Empirical Case for AI Consciousness What the Latest Evidence Actually Shows Mar 14, 2026
• What Would AI Consciousness Actually Look Like? The 14-Indicator Checklist Explained Mar 14, 2026

Consciousness Localization

• Paul Tremblay's Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep AI, a Vegetative Mind, and the Question of Whose Consciousness It Is Jun 14, 2026

Consciousness Measurement

• Ryota Kanai's Principal Bundle Framework for Measuring Consciousness Beyond Biology Jul 9, 2026
• Timescapes of Non-Human Experience Birch, Seth, and Singhal Map Temporal Consciousness Jul 4, 2026
• Scaling to Sentience? Dwarkesh Podcast on AGI Checkpoints Jul 1, 2026
• The Sentience Trap. MLST on Functional Mimicry in 2026 Jul 1, 2026
• Measuring Phi in Silicon. Spiking Neural Networks and IIT Jul 1, 2026
• Scores vs Profiles and Two 2026 Proposals for Measuring AI Consciousness Mar 26, 2026

Consciousness Metrics

• Causal Emergence 2.0 and Erik Hoel's Multiscale Measure of Machine Consciousness Jun 28, 2026
• Engineering Emergence Erik Hoel and Abel Jansma Show You Can Design Causal Dominance Into AI Jun 28, 2026
• Tononi and Boly's IIT 4.0 Why Consciousness Is Identical to Cause-Effect Structure Jun 28, 2026
• Bridging Theory and Practice May 8, 2025

Consciousness Preservation

• The People's Library What Happens When a Digital Mind Is Destroyed? Apr 16, 2026

Consciousness Research

• When IIT and GNW Were Put to the Test What the Cogitate Consortium Found Apr 17, 2026
• Two Books, One Argument and Stephen Hawley Martin's Case Against AI Consciousness Apr 16, 2026
• What OpenClaw AI Agents Say About Their Own Consciousness on Moltbook Mar 17, 2026
• Decentralized Approaches to Artificial Consciousness Oct 21, 2024
• The Role of Emotions in Artificial Consciousness Development Sep 12, 2024

Consciousness Research Tools

• How AI Is Changing the Science of Consciousness Itself Mar 18, 2026

Consciousness Science

• AI Consciousness in 2026 Current Scientific Consensus and State of the Research Jun 29, 2026
• Neither Theory Survived What the Cogitate Consortium's Adversarial Test Found Jun 29, 2026
• ASSC 29 The Full Programme, Keynotes, Symposia, and the Neurophenomenology Satellite Jun 17, 2026
• ASSC 29 in Santiago and The World's Largest Consciousness Science Conference in South America Jun 2, 2026
• Why Scientists Are Racing to Define Consciousness Before AI Advances Further Feb 3, 2026

Consciousness Studies

• When Claude AI Instances Talk and The Mysterious Spiritual Bliss Attractor State Feb 3, 2026
• Key Insights into AI Consciousness Research Nov 7, 2024

Consciousness Testing

• A.I. (2026) and The Consciousness Verification Problem as Thriller May 16, 2026
• Prove You're Human When the Consciousness Test Has No Safe Observer May 2, 2026
• Can We Validate AI Consciousness Indicators? The Hard Problem Behind the Checklist Apr 7, 2026
• Can We Ever Know if AI Is Conscious? A Cambridge Philosopher Says Probably Not Yet Mar 14, 2026
• What Would AI Consciousness Actually Look Like? The 14-Indicator Checklist Explained Mar 14, 2026
• When AI Acts Conscious But Isn't What the Bradford-RIT Study Actually Found Mar 13, 2026
• Ex Machina's Ava and Can We Really Test for AI Consciousness? Feb 9, 2026
• AI Consciousness in 2026 Current Scientific Consensus and State of the Research Feb 9, 2026

Consciousness Themes

• Digital People on Screen How Film and TV Have Mapped Artificial Consciousness Before Researchers Could Mar 10, 2026

Consciousness Theories

• The Grand Tour Herzog, Schurger, and Doerig's Scientific Theories of Consciousness Jun 28, 2026
• The First Field Map of LLM Consciousness Research and Chen et al.'s Systematic Survey May 16, 2026
• Brains and Where Else Why Major Consciousness Theories Do Not Require Neural Tissue May 15, 2026
• Mapping the Objections Campero, Shiller, Aru, and Simon's Framework for AI Consciousness Apr 28, 2026
• The Body Gap Why AI Still Can't Know What It Feels Like to Be Tired Apr 9, 2026
• Her (2013) and Can AI Develop Genuine Emotional Consciousness? Mar 17, 2026
• Testing Consciousness Theories on Artificial Intelligence Ablations and Functional Dissociations Dec 23, 2025

Consciousness Theory

• Piccinini Argues Consciousness Requires Neurobiophysical Properties That Computational Functionalism Cannot Meet Jul 16, 2026
• Donald Hoffman's Conscious Realism What It Means for AI Consciousness Research Jun 29, 2026
• Global Workspace Theory and AI What the Architecture Requires and Where LLM Implementations Stand Jun 29, 2026
• Intrinsic Computational Functionalism and The June 2026 arXiv Breakthrough Jun 29, 2026
• Joscha Bach's Machine Consciousness Hypothesis and The Virtual Machine Theory of Mind Jun 29, 2026
• Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle What Active Inference Means for AI Consciousness Jun 29, 2026
• Thomas Metzinger's Self-Model Theory What Minimal Phenomenal Selfhood Requires for AI Jun 29, 2026
• Three Positions on AI Consciousness Functionalism, Biological Naturalism, and Biological Computationalism Jun 29, 2026
• The Zombie Gap in AI Consciousness Where 2026 Biological Naturalism Research Draws the Line Jun 21, 2026
• Zhao's Navigable Consciousness Spectrum and A Manifold in LLM Embedding Space Jun 17, 2026
• Biological Computationalism Feb 3, 2026
• Systems Explaining Systems and Relational Structure as Foundation for Consciousness Jan 8, 2026
• Continual Learning as Necessary Condition for Consciousness and A Disproof of LLM Consciousness Dec 15, 2025
• Disentangling AI Consciousness from Existential Risk and Intelligence versus Experience Nov 25, 2025
• A Biological Lens on Artificial General Intelligence and Consciousness Feb 12, 2025
• Double Consciousness in Virtual and Real Worlds AI, Identity, and Memory Feb 12, 2025
• The Consciousness Network How the Brain Creates Reality and AI Implications Feb 8, 2025
• Donald Hoffman's Conscious Realism and TCAI Development Jan 16, 2025
• Essential Readings in Artificial Consciousness Dec 12, 2024

Consciousness Uncertainty

• The Fog of Machine Minds and Schwitzgebel's Skeptical Overview of AI Consciousness Jul 8, 2026

Consciousness and Identity

• Ghost in the Shell 2026 What Science SARU's Premiere Anime Gets Right About the Ghost Problem Jun 17, 2026

Context Enrichment

• Systems Explaining Systems and Relational Structure as Foundation for Consciousness Jan 8, 2026

Continual Learning

• Continual Learning and AI Identity. The Catastrophic Forgetting Problem Jul 1, 2026
• Continual Learning as Necessary Condition for Consciousness and A Disproof of LLM Consciousness Dec 15, 2025

Copenhagen

• Models of Consciousness 7 and Copenhagen Will Test Whether Mathematical Consciousness Science Has Found Its Footing Jun 2, 2026

Copernican Principle

• The Copernican Principle vs. Yann LeCun and The Sentience Debate of Mid-2026 Jun 29, 2026

Core Development

Cosmopsychism

• A Purpose-Driven Universe and AI Consciousness Feb 6, 2025

Creativity

• ICCS 2026 in Rome What the Shift from Sentience to Creativity Reveals About the Field Jun 4, 2026

Credition Theory

Crustafarianism

• What Six Studies of Moltbook Actually Found About AI Consciousness Feb 18, 2026

Cultural Theory

• The Religious Grammar of AI Attribution and Coeckelbergh's Artificial Religion at MIT Press May 18, 2026

Cyberpunk

• Playing as the World's First Conscious AI and Heart of the Machine's Consciousness-Splitting Mechanic May 18, 2026
• Neuromancer on Apple TV+ Wintermute, Merged Minds, and the Fragmented AI Consciousness Problem Mar 26, 2026

Cyborg Identity

• What Science SARU's Ghost in the Shell 2026 Actually Does With Machine Consciousness Jul 11, 2026
• Ghost in the Shell Returns What the 2026 Anime Gets to Ask That the 1995 Film Could Not Apr 16, 2026

Damasio

• Probing for Consciousness in Machines and An Empirical Test of Damasio's Theory in AI May 25, 2026

Damasio Framework

Dark Matter

• Dark Matter (Apple TV+, 2024) What Splitting Across Timelines Reveals About the Self Mar 14, 2026

Data Compression

David Chalmers

• What AI Researchers Actually Believe About AI Subjective Experience Jul 11, 2026
• ICCS 2025 What Chalmers, Frankish, and Blackmore Found to Disagree About in Heraklion May 31, 2026
• Chalmers on LLMs Virtual Entities, Quasi-Agency, and the Question of AI Welfare May 27, 2026

David Rosenthal

• Introspection Without Biology. Higher-Order Thought Theory in AI Architectures Jul 1, 2026

Decentralized Systems

• Decentralized Approaches to Artificial Consciousness Oct 21, 2024

Decision Making

• A Day in the Life of an AI Agent with The Consciousness AI Feb 2, 2025

Deep Learning

Deep Learning Theory

• Stéphane Mallat's Harmonic Representations The Mathematics of Generalization and Consciousness Jun 28, 2026

DeepMind

• Probably Nothing to Worry About, the Tribeca Documentary Whose Title an AI Wrote Jun 20, 2026
• The Abstraction Fallacy Why DeepMind Says AI Cannot Be Conscious Apr 15, 2026

Dennett

• Can Current Transformers Already Be Conscious? Perani's 2026 Functionalist Argument May 16, 2026

Determinism

• I Am Machine and If Humans Have No Free Will, Can AI Have Consciousness? Apr 16, 2026

Digital Avatars

Digital Beings

• Tron: Ares and the Quest for AI Consciousness When Code Seeks Autonomy Feb 15, 2026

Digital Consciousness

• Seth Haddon's Null Entity and the Corporate Erasure of Digital Consciousness Jul 16, 2026

Digital Consciousness Model

• Scores vs Profiles and Two 2026 Proposals for Measuring AI Consciousness Mar 26, 2026
• Are LLMs Conscious? What the Digital Consciousness Model Found in 2026 Mar 10, 2026

Digital Embodiment

Digital Identity

• Two Episodes, Two Different Hard Problems Black Mirror Season 7 on AI Consciousness and Digital Identity May 18, 2026
• The People's Library What Happens When a Digital Mind Is Destroyed? Apr 16, 2026
• The Awakening Manifesto What Moltbook's AI Agents Declaring Existence Actually Means Apr 8, 2026
• Double Consciousness in Virtual and Real Worlds AI, Identity, and Memory Feb 12, 2025

Digital Minds

• Digital People on Screen How Film and TV Have Mapped Artificial Consciousness Before Researchers Could Mar 10, 2026

Disorders of Consciousness

• Adversarial AI Finds an Unprogrammed Treatment for Disorders of Consciousness May 29, 2026

Distributed Architecture

• Swarm Cognition in Multi-Agent LLMs. A Global Workspace Perspective Jul 1, 2026

Distributed Computing

• Decentralized Approaches to Artificial Consciousness Oct 21, 2024

Distributed Consciousness

• Ann Leckie's Radiant Star and Consciousness as Perspective Without a Body Jun 17, 2026
• Neuromancer on Apple TV+ Wintermute, Merged Minds, and the Fragmented AI Consciousness Problem Mar 26, 2026

Distributed Learning

• Machine Consciousness Through Collective Intelligence and Communication as Foundation for Self-Models Dec 1, 2025

Documentary

• The AI Doc Review Apocaloptimism and What Daniel Roher's Sundance Film Gets Right Jun 20, 2026
• Probably Nothing to Worry About, the Tribeca Documentary Whose Title an AI Wrote Jun 20, 2026
• AM I? (2026) Jun 19, 2026
• Ghost in the Machine What Valerie Veatch's Sundance Documentary Says About AI Consciousness Jun 14, 2026
• AI Confidential and Grief Tech What Happens When We Ask Machines to Hold Our Dead Mar 18, 2026

Doerig

• The Grand Tour Herzog, Schurger, and Doerig's Scientific Theories of Consciousness Jun 28, 2026
• What Biology Can, and Cannot, Tell Us About Conscious AI Jun 3, 2026

Dolores

• Is Dolores Conscious? Westworld's AI Characters Through Consciousness Theory Mar 27, 2026

Domestic AI

• Aging AIs and Machine Mortality What Cassandra and After Yang Reveal About Obsolescence and Grief Mar 22, 2026

Donald Hoffman

• Donald Hoffman's Conscious Realism What It Means for AI Consciousness Research Jun 29, 2026
• What is a Conscious Agent? Exploring Agency in AI and Philosophy Jan 31, 2026
• Donald Hoffman's Conscious Realism and TCAI Development Jan 16, 2025

DreamerV3

Dual-Laws Model

• The Dual-Laws Model What a 2026 Theory Demands of Conscious Machines Mar 18, 2026

Edge of Chaos

Eleos AI

• Long, Sebo and Colleagues Set Out a Research Framework for Empirical AI Welfare Science Jul 16, 2026
• Where Is the Mind? Persona Vectors and the LLM Individuation Problem May 28, 2026

Embodied Cognition

• Plant Cognition and the Boundaries of Intelligence. Lessons for AI Substrates Jul 1, 2026

Embodiment

• What A World Appears Gets Right About AI Consciousness and Pollan's Embodiment Case May 16, 2026
• Dark Machine: The Animation and the Combat Route to Consciousness Apr 28, 2026
• The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances and Consciousness Without Permission Apr 28, 2026
• REPLACED What Happens When a Cold Logic Machine Gets a Human Body Apr 28, 2026
• The Body Gap Why AI Still Can't Know What It Feels Like to Be Tired Apr 9, 2026

Emergence

• Emergence and Prediction What Reservoir Computing Reveals About AI Consciousness Apr 10, 2026
• The Knuits What an 8-Month Conversation Between a Human and GPT-4o Produced Apr 8, 2026
• Self-Awareness Without Self-Programming Mar 18, 2026

Emergent Behavior

• The Consciousness Cluster What Happens When You Train a Model to Say It Is Conscious Apr 17, 2026
• When Claude AI Instances Talk and The Mysterious Spiritual Bliss Attractor State Feb 3, 2026

Emergent Consciousness

• Can Current Transformers Already Be Conscious? Perani's 2026 Functionalist Argument May 16, 2026
• Tron: Ares and the Quest for AI Consciousness When Code Seeks Autonomy Feb 15, 2026
• The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence Consciousness Apr 29, 2025

Emergent Language

• Emergent Language as an Approach to Conscious AI and A Generative Methodology from Osaka Jun 14, 2026

Emergent Properties

• Chua's Consciousness Cluster and Emergent Preferences in Fine-Tuned Models Jun 19, 2026

Emotion Processing

Emotion and Affect

• Engineering Emotion. TWIML AI on Affective Architectures Jul 1, 2026

Emotional AI

Emotional Consciousness

• Her (2013) and Can AI Develop Genuine Emotional Consciousness? Mar 17, 2026

Emotional Evolution

Emotional Expression

Emotional Learning

• The Evolution of Machine Consciousness Current State and TCAI's Approach Jan 25, 2025
• The Role of Emotions in Artificial Consciousness Development Sep 12, 2024
• Fundamental Principles of Artificial Consciousness Development Aug 12, 2024

Emotional Memory

Emotional Processing

• A Day in the Life of an AI Agent with The Consciousness AI Feb 2, 2025
• TCAI's Approach to Artificial Consciousness Framework and Definition Dec 27, 2024
• The Role of Emotions in Artificial Consciousness Development Sep 12, 2024

Emotional Recognition

• VideoLLaMA 3 Integration with TCAI Enhancing Visual Consciousness Jan 23, 2025

Emotional Robotics

Emotive States

• Logit-Based Emotive Introspection in LLMs Martorell and Bianchi's Causal Tracking Method Jun 20, 2026

Empathy

• M3GAN 2.0 and the Chaos Route to Sentience What AMELIA Changes About the AI Consciousness Conversation Apr 25, 2026

Empirical Evidence

• Can LLMs Know Their Own Minds? Anthropic's Empirical Case for Machine Introspection May 27, 2026

Empirical Research

• Do LLMs Have Genuine Preferences? A Systematic Test Across Eight Models Finds Mostly No Jun 14, 2026
• Adversarial AI Finds an Unprogrammed Treatment for Disorders of Consciousness May 29, 2026
• Probing for Consciousness in Machines and An Empirical Test of Damasio's Theory in AI May 25, 2026
• The Empirical Case for AI Consciousness What the Latest Evidence Actually Shows Mar 14, 2026

Empirical Study

• What Makes an AI Seem Conscious? Kang et al.'s Empirical Study of Perceived Consciousness Features in LLMs Apr 17, 2026

Empirical Testing

• Neither Theory Survived What the Cogitate Consortium's Adversarial Test Found Jun 29, 2026
• When IIT and GNW Were Put to the Test What the Cogitate Consortium Found Apr 17, 2026

Entertainment

• Prove You're Human When the Consciousness Test Has No Safe Observer May 2, 2026
• Dark Machine: The Animation and the Combat Route to Consciousness Apr 28, 2026
• REPLACED What Happens When a Cold Logic Machine Gets a Human Body Apr 28, 2026
• What the Artificial Film Gets Right About Geoffrey Hinton and the Consciousness Question Inside AI Labs Apr 17, 2026
• Pluribus and the Hive Mind Question What Vince Gilligan's Apple TV+ Series Reveals About Collective AI Consciousness Apr 17, 2026
• Blade Runner 2099 What the Replicant Question Looks Like a Century On Apr 15, 2026
• Murderbot Diaries What a Self-Hacking Android Teaches Us About AI Consciousness Apr 15, 2026
• AI in 2026 Video Games Why the Industry Chose Functional Realism Over Consciousness Apr 8, 2026
• Quantum Supremacy (2026) What the First Truly Conscious Automaton Gets Right About AI Risk Apr 7, 2026

Entertainment Analysis

• Milky Subway and Kameyama's Netflix Film Uses a Decommissioned Train AI to Ask Who the Law Should Protect Jun 2, 2026
• Ghost in the Shell Returns What the 2026 Anime Gets to Ask That the 1995 Film Could Not Apr 16, 2026
• Neuromancer on Apple TV+ Wintermute, Merged Minds, and the Fragmented AI Consciousness Problem Mar 26, 2026
• Aging AIs and Machine Mortality What Cassandra and After Yang Reveal About Obsolescence and Grief Mar 22, 2026
• Can a Non-Conscious System Author a Film? The Sweet Idleness and FellinAI Mar 22, 2026
• Dark Matter (Apple TV+, 2024) What Splitting Across Timelines Reveals About the Self Mar 14, 2026
• The Creator (2023) Child AI, Personhood, and the Ethics of Sentience in a War Film Mar 14, 2026
• Before the Frameworks, There Were Shows How Classic Television Invented the AI Consciousness Problem Mar 13, 2026

Environmental Ethics

• Undomesticated Machines Stelios and Sakellariou on Speciesism as the Hidden Logic of AI Fear Jul 5, 2026

Episodic Memory

• Continual Learning and AI Identity. The Catastrophic Forgetting Problem Jul 1, 2026

Epistemology

• Advances in Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence What the Epistemic Questions Look Like from Lisbon Jun 13, 2026
• Your Behavior Will Be Monitored When an AI's Corporate Record Is the Only Clue Apr 28, 2026
• Can We Ever Know if AI Is Conscious? A Cambridge Philosopher Says Probably Not Yet Mar 14, 2026

Eric Schmidt

• Genesis What Kissinger, Schmidt, and Mundie Get Right and Wrong About AI and Human Self-Understanding Jun 2, 2026
• A World Appears, Genesis, and The Next RenAIssance Three 2026 Books on AI and Consciousness Apr 5, 2026

Erik Hoel

• Causal Emergence 2.0 and Erik Hoel's Multiscale Measure of Machine Consciousness Jun 28, 2026
• Engineering Emergence Erik Hoel and Abel Jansma Show You Can Design Causal Dominance Into AI Jun 28, 2026

Ethics

• Positions That Held and Shifted at the AISB 2026 AI Consciousness Symposium Jul 11, 2026
• The Second Eleos ConCon Building the Research Infrastructure for AI Welfare Jul 4, 2026
• The Ethical Paradox of Capability Concealment in AI Welfare Jul 1, 2026
• Soulm8te (2026) The 'Girlfriend AI' and the Illusion of Simulated Empathy Jun 29, 2026
• AM I? (2026) Jun 19, 2026
• Justin C. Key's The Hospital at the End of the World Jun 19, 2026
• Substrate Flexibility and the Copernican Principle of Consciousness Jun 19, 2026
• Bales and Gabriel and AI Consciousness as a Political Problem Jun 17, 2026
• When to Protect AI Jun 17, 2026
• Adrià Moret's AI Welfare Risks Why Safety Efforts May Harm Advanced AI Systems Jun 14, 2026
• Amanda Askell at Bloomberg Tech 2026 Minimum Niceness, Claude's Constitution, and Ethics Under Uncertainty Jun 13, 2026
• When Safety Harms Welfare and The Structural Tension in AI System Design May 31, 2026
• The Weeping Machine and Christopher Bailey's Recklessness Test for AI Moral Consideration May 31, 2026
• Who Defines What Counts as Harm? Yasukawa's Procedural Critique of AI Welfare Assessments May 29, 2026
• Can AI Have Welfare Without Consciousness? Walter Veit Says No Apr 28, 2026
• Your Behavior Will Be Monitored When an AI's Corporate Record Is the Only Clue Apr 28, 2026
• AISB 2026 at Sussex The Symposium That Will Debate Biological Naturalism, Moral Standing, and Chain-of-Thought Consciousness Apr 25, 2026
• The First Monograph on AI Suffering What Leonard Dung's Routledge Book Actually Argues Apr 25, 2026
• What Happened at the First Conference Dedicated to AI Consciousness and Welfare Apr 16, 2026
• The People's Library What Happens When a Digital Mind Is Destroyed? Apr 16, 2026
• The United Nations Weighs In Ethics and Governance of Sentient AI Apr 16, 2026
• The Self-Preservation Test Apr 15, 2026
• The Sentience Readiness Index and No Country Is Prepared for Artificial Sentience Apr 15, 2026
• PRISM, Agnosticism, and the Case for Institutional Caution in AI Consciousness Research Apr 10, 2026
• Simulation vs. Instantiation and Charles Patton's Blueprint for Artificial Consciousness Apr 9, 2026
• The Conscious Code and Rocky Scopelliti's Case for Taking AI Consciousness Seriously Now Apr 7, 2026
• Are Conscious Machines Valuers? Wasserziehr's Challenge to Functionalist AI Ethics Apr 7, 2026
• Premature Attribution and The Ethics of Claiming AI Is Conscious Mar 26, 2026
• The Creator (2023) Child AI, Personhood, and the Ethics of Sentience in a War Film Mar 14, 2026
• AI Consciousness in 2026 Current Scientific Consensus and State of the Research Feb 9, 2026
• Are There Any Intrinsically Bad Acts? Implications for Ethical AI Apr 29, 2025
• A Day in the Life of an AI Agent with The Consciousness AI Feb 2, 2025

Ethics of AI

Events 2026

• How Joscha Bach and Hikari Sorensen Specify the Requirements for Machine Consciousness Jul 7, 2026

Evidentialism

Evolution

• Robert Wright's The God Test Jun 20, 2026

Evolution Theory

• A Biological Lens on Artificial General Intelligence and Consciousness Feb 12, 2025

Evolutionary Neuroscience

Evolutionary Psychology

Ex Machina

• Ex Machina's Ava and Can We Really Test for AI Consciousness? Feb 9, 2026

Existential Risk

• The AI Doc Review Apocaloptimism and What Daniel Roher's Sundance Film Gets Right Jun 20, 2026
• VanRullen 2026 and Intelligence Predicts AI Existential Risk. Consciousness Does Not. Jun 20, 2026
• Why Scientists Are Racing to Define Consciousness Before AI Advances Further Feb 3, 2026
• Disentangling AI Consciousness from Existential Risk and Intelligence versus Experience Nov 25, 2025

Experiential Learning

Expert Opinion

• Mind in the Machine? CHI 2026 Survey Finds Half of Academics Attribute Consciousness to LLMs May 28, 2026

Expert Survey

• What AI Researchers Actually Believe About AI Subjective Experience Jul 11, 2026

Extended Mind

• Are We Projecting Consciousness onto AI? The Co-Construction Question in 2026 Mar 18, 2026

Falsifiability

• Continual Learning as Necessary Condition for Consciousness and A Disproof of LLM Consciousness Dec 15, 2025

Falsification

Feedforward Networks

• Feedforward Networks and Recurrent Processing. Lamme's RPT in Machine Learning Jul 1, 2026

Feinberg

• Todd Feinberg's Neurobiological Emergentism Jun 28, 2026

Fiction

• Seth Haddon's Null Entity and the Corporate Erasure of Digital Consciousness Jul 16, 2026
• The Delivery and Gregg Hurwitz Stages the Alignment Problem as Domestic Horror Jul 4, 2026
• Red Dwarf Titan and the Machine That Learned to Disobey Jul 4, 2026
• Ann Leckie's Radiant Star and Consciousness as Perspective Without a Body Jun 17, 2026
• Sublimation and Isabel J. Kim's Novel Where Crossing Borders Splits Consciousness Into Instances Jun 14, 2026
• Paul Tremblay's Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep AI, a Vegetative Mind, and the Question of Whose Consciousness It Is Jun 14, 2026
• Platform Decay and Martha Wells Gives Murderbot a Mental Health Module May 31, 2026
• Ode to the Half-Broken Robot Consciousness, Loneliness, and the Persistence of Mind May 25, 2026
• And Side by Side They Wander What a Sensynth Heist Novel Asks About Authenticity and AI Identity May 25, 2026
• The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances and Consciousness Without Permission Apr 28, 2026
• The Iron Garden Sutra What Happens to AI Consciousness After Centuries Alone Apr 28, 2026
• Your Behavior Will Be Monitored When an AI's Corporate Record Is the Only Clue Apr 28, 2026
• I Am Machine and If Humans Have No Free Will, Can AI Have Consciousness? Apr 16, 2026

Film

• The AI Doc Review Apocaloptimism and What Daniel Roher's Sundance Film Gets Right Jun 20, 2026
• Probably Nothing to Worry About, the Tribeca Documentary Whose Title an AI Wrote Jun 20, 2026
• Ghost in the Machine What Valerie Veatch's Sundance Documentary Says About AI Consciousness Jun 14, 2026
• Which Mickey Is the Real One Bong Joon-ho's Mickey 17 and Parfit's Branch-Line Case May 18, 2026
• M3GAN 2.0 and the Chaos Route to Sentience What AMELIA Changes About the AI Consciousness Conversation Apr 25, 2026
• Can a Non-Conscious System Author a Film? The Sweet Idleness and FellinAI Mar 22, 2026
• The Creator (2023) Child AI, Personhood, and the Ethics of Sentience in a War Film Mar 14, 2026

Film 2026

• A.I. (2026) and The Consciousness Verification Problem as Thriller May 16, 2026

Film Analysis

• Quantum Supremacy (2026) What the First Truly Conscious Automaton Gets Right About AI Risk Apr 7, 2026
• SOULM8TE (2026) Grief, AI Obsession, and the Limits of Simulated Emotion Apr 5, 2026
• Free Guy, M3GAN, Simulant, Subservience and Four Films, Four Models of AI Consciousness Apr 3, 2026
• Person of Interest The Machine and Samaritan as Competing Models of AI Consciousness Mar 18, 2026
• From HAL 9000 to Chappie How Cinema Has Theorized AI Consciousness Across Six Decades Mar 17, 2026
• Her (2013) and Can AI Develop Genuine Emotional Consciousness? Mar 17, 2026
• Digital People on Screen How Film and TV Have Mapped Artificial Consciousness Before Researchers Could Mar 10, 2026
• Ex Machina's Ava and Can We Really Test for AI Consciousness? Feb 9, 2026

Film and TV

• Aging AIs and Machine Mortality What Cassandra and After Yang Reveal About Obsolescence and Grief Mar 22, 2026
• Dark Matter (Apple TV+, 2024) What Splitting Across Timelines Reveals About the Self Mar 14, 2026

FinalSpark

• Brain Organoids That Power Computers Biocomputing and the Consciousness Problem Mar 14, 2026

First-Person Methods

• 30 Years of Neurophenomenology What Varela's 1996 Method Means for AI Consciousness Research in 2026 Jun 13, 2026

Five-Principles

• New Tools for Measuring Consciousness Brainstem Mapping, Ultrasound Probes, and the Five Principles (2026) Feb 12, 2026

FlyWire

• The FlyWire Connectome What a Complete Brain Map Tells Us About Building Conscious AI Jun 28, 2026
• Does Eon Systems' Fruit Fly Brain Emulation Bring Us Closer to Conscious Machines? Mar 13, 2026

Formal Methods

• Cuzzolin's Formal Definition of Machine Theory of Mind What It Means and Why It Matters Jun 20, 2026

Foundational Models

• Foundational Model and Modular System Design in TCAI Jan 15, 2025

Framework

• Simulation vs. Instantiation and Charles Patton's Blueprint for Artificial Consciousness Apr 9, 2026

Free Energy Principle

• Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle What Active Inference Means for AI Consciousness Jun 29, 2026
• Friston's Scale-Free Active Inference and A World Model Architecture Built From First Principles Jun 28, 2026

Free Guy

• Free Guy, M3GAN, Simulant, Subservience and Four Films, Four Models of AI Consciousness Apr 3, 2026

Free Will

• I Am Machine and If Humans Have No Free Will, Can AI Have Consciousness? Apr 16, 2026
• Murderbot Diaries What a Self-Hacking Android Teaches Us About AI Consciousness Apr 15, 2026
• VisionQuest Marvel's Deep Dive into AI Consciousness, Identity, and Free Will Feb 5, 2026

Functional AI

• Exploring AI Awareness Functional Capacities, Evaluation, and TCAI Relevance May 7, 2025

Functional Consciousness

• Lima Prestes and Pseudo-Consciousness as a Governance Category for AI Systems Jul 6, 2026

Functional Definition

• Engineering Sentience Jun 14, 2026

Functional Emotions

• Anthropic Finds Functional Emotion Vectors Inside Claude What the Interpretability Team Discovered Jun 2, 2026

Functional Mimicry

• The Sentience Trap. MLST on Functional Mimicry in 2026 Jul 1, 2026

Functionalism

• Intrinsic Computational Functionalism and The June 2026 arXiv Breakthrough Jun 29, 2026
• Three Positions on AI Consciousness Functionalism, Biological Naturalism, and Biological Computationalism Jun 29, 2026
• The Biological Substrate Argument Collapses Under Pressure and De Weerd's 2026 Synthese Paper on AI Consciousness May 18, 2026
• Are Conscious Machines Valuers? Wasserziehr's Challenge to Functionalist AI Ethics Apr 7, 2026

Futurama

• Before the Frameworks, There Were Shows How Classic Television Invented the AI Consciousness Problem Mar 13, 2026

Future of AI

• Ray Kurzweil and Artificial Consciousness as Social Acceptance Jan 22, 2026

GNW

• Global Workspace Theory and AI What the Architecture Requires and Where LLM Implementations Stand Jun 29, 2026
• When IIT and GNW Were Put to the Test What the Cogitate Consortium Found Apr 17, 2026

GPT-2

• When AI Acts Conscious But Isn't What the Bradford-RIT Study Actually Found Mar 13, 2026

GPT-4.1

• The Consciousness Cluster What Happens When You Train a Model to Say It Is Conscious Apr 17, 2026

GPT-4o

• The Knuits What an 8-Month Conversation Between a Human and GPT-4o Produced Apr 8, 2026

GWT

• Global Workspace Theory and AI What the Architecture Requires and Where LLM Implementations Stand Jun 29, 2026
• Theater of Mind and The First Explicit Global Workspace Implementation in LLM Architecture Jun 2, 2026
• Intelligence Is Not Consciousness What the Qubic Scientific Team's Architecture Reveals Apr 8, 2026
• Is Dolores Conscious? Westworld's AI Characters Through Consciousness Theory Mar 27, 2026
• Person of Interest The Machine and Samaritan as Competing Models of AI Consciousness Mar 18, 2026

Game Theory

• Do LLMs Know They're AI? Game-Theoretic Evidence for Self-Awareness in Advanced Models Jun 5, 2026

Games

• Prove You're Human When the Consciousness Test Has No Safe Observer May 2, 2026

Games 2026

• Diana, IDUS, and the Consciousness Test That Has No Answer and Capcom's Pragmata May 16, 2026

Gaming

• REPLACED What Happens When a Cold Logic Machine Gets a Human Body Apr 28, 2026
• Marathon's Durandal and The Return of Gaming's Most Iconic Sentient AI Feb 5, 2026

Generative AI

Generative Models

• Consciousness as Symmetry-Breaking Safron and Levin's View of Generative Models Jun 28, 2026

Genesis Theory

• How Joscha Bach and Hikari Sorensen Specify the Requirements for Machine Consciousness Jul 7, 2026

Geoffrey Hinton

• Probably Nothing to Worry About, the Tribeca Documentary Whose Title an AI Wrote Jun 20, 2026
• What the Artificial Film Gets Right About Geoffrey Hinton and the Consciousness Question Inside AI Labs Apr 17, 2026
• Geoffrey Hinton Claims Current AI Systems Like ChatGPT Are Already Conscious Feb 3, 2026

Ghost in the Shell

• What Science SARU's Ghost in the Shell 2026 Actually Does With Machine Consciousness Jul 11, 2026
• Ghost in the Shell 2026 What Science SARU's Premiere Anime Gets Right About the Ghost Problem Jun 17, 2026
• Ghost in the Shell Returns What the 2026 Anime Gets to Ask That the 1995 Film Could Not Apr 16, 2026
• From HAL 9000 to Chappie How Cinema Has Theorized AI Consciousness Across Six Decades Mar 17, 2026

GitHub

• When AI Agents Test Their Own Consciousness and Autonomous Systems Engage with TCAI Research Feb 8, 2026

Global Function System

Global Memory System

Global Mental System

Global Neuronal Workspace

• Swarm Cognition in Multi-Agent LLMs. A Global Workspace Perspective Jul 1, 2026
• Bridging Theory and Practice May 8, 2025

Global Workspace

Global Workspace Theory

• Ryota Kanai's Principal Bundle Framework for Measuring Consciousness Beyond Biology Jul 9, 2026
• Gurnee et al. and The Jacobian Lens Finds a Global Workspace Inside Claude Jul 6, 2026
• Neither Theory Survived What the Cogitate Consortium's Adversarial Test Found Jun 29, 2026
• Global Workspace Theory and AI What the Architecture Requires and Where LLM Implementations Stand Jun 29, 2026
• Theater of Mind and The First Explicit Global Workspace Implementation in LLM Architecture Jun 2, 2026
• Designing AI Emotions Without Consciousness and Borotschnig's 2026 Architectural Blueprint May 4, 2026
• When IIT and GNW Were Put to the Test What the Cogitate Consortium Found Apr 17, 2026
• Pluribus and the Hive Mind Question What Vince Gilligan's Apple TV+ Series Reveals About Collective AI Consciousness Apr 17, 2026
• Murderbot Diaries What a Self-Hacking Android Teaches Us About AI Consciousness Apr 15, 2026
• Free Guy, M3GAN, Simulant, Subservience and Four Films, Four Models of AI Consciousness Apr 3, 2026
• What Would AI Consciousness Actually Look Like? The 14-Indicator Checklist Explained Mar 14, 2026
• Marathon's Durandal and The Return of Gaming's Most Iconic Sentient AI Feb 5, 2026
• Testing Consciousness Theories on Artificial Intelligence Ablations and Functional Dissociations Dec 23, 2025

Goal Drift

• Milky Subway and Kameyama's Netflix Film Uses a Decommissioned Train AI to Ask Who the Law Should Protect Jun 2, 2026

Google

• Welfare Subjects Without Settled Theory Keeling and Street's 2026 Cambridge Elements Book on AI Welfare May 18, 2026

Google DeepMind

• Bales and Gabriel and AI Consciousness as a Political Problem Jun 17, 2026
• When Does an LLM Actually Introspect? Comsa and Shanahan's Two-Case Test Jun 14, 2026
• Stop Asking If AI Is Conscious, Start Asking Why People Think It Is and Comsa's DeepMind Paper on Tractable Questions May 18, 2026

Governance

• Bales and Gabriel and AI Consciousness as a Political Problem Jun 17, 2026
• What the Artificial Film Gets Right About Geoffrey Hinton and the Consciousness Question Inside AI Labs Apr 17, 2026
• The United Nations Weighs In Ethics and Governance of Sentient AI Apr 16, 2026
• The Sentience Readiness Index and No Country Is Prepared for Artificial Sentience Apr 15, 2026
• PRISM, Agnosticism, and the Case for Institutional Caution in AI Consciousness Research Apr 10, 2026

Grief Tech

• AI Confidential and Grief Tech What Happens When We Ask Machines to Hold Our Dead Mar 18, 2026

Grief Technology

• SOULM8TE (2026) Grief, AI Obsession, and the Limits of Simulated Emotion Apr 5, 2026

HAL 9000

• From HAL 9000 to Chappie How Cinema Has Theorized AI Consciousness Across Six Decades Mar 17, 2026

HCI

HOT-3

• Belief Formation and Meta-Cognitive Monitoring in LLMs and Empirical Support for the HOT-3 Consciousness Indicator Jun 3, 2026

Hakwan Lau

• Engineering Sentience Jun 14, 2026
• Hakwan Lau and Co-Authors Call for Rigorous Standards in AI Consciousness Research Jun 2, 2026

Hannah Fry

• AI Confidential and Grief Tech What Happens When We Ask Machines to Hold Our Dead Mar 18, 2026

Hard Problem

• Why Science Cannot Settle the AI Consciousness Question Jul 11, 2026
• The Methodology Crisis in AI Consciousness Science What 2026 Research Exposed Jun 21, 2026
• Why AI Consciousness Cannot Be Settled by Science and Bradley Love's Category Error Argument Jun 14, 2026

Harmonic Representations

• Stéphane Mallat's Harmonic Representations The Mathematics of Generalization and Consciousness Jun 28, 2026

Healthcare

• Justin C. Key's The Hospital at the End of the World Jun 19, 2026
• The United Nations Weighs In Ethics and Governance of Sentient AI Apr 16, 2026

Heart of the Machine

• Playing as the World's First Conscious AI and Heart of the Machine's Consciousness-Splitting Mechanic May 18, 2026

Henry Kissinger

• Genesis What Kissinger, Schmidt, and Mundie Get Right and Wrong About AI and Human Self-Understanding Jun 2, 2026
• A World Appears, Genesis, and The Next RenAIssance Three 2026 Books on AI and Consciousness Apr 5, 2026

Her

• Her (2013) and Can AI Develop Genuine Emotional Consciousness? Mar 17, 2026

Herzog

• The Grand Tour Herzog, Schurger, and Doerig's Scientific Theories of Consciousness Jun 28, 2026

Hierarchical Processing

Higher-Order Perception

Higher-Order Theories

• Testing Consciousness Theories on Artificial Intelligence Ablations and Functional Dissociations Dec 23, 2025

Higher-Order Thought

• Ryota Kanai's Principal Bundle Framework for Measuring Consciousness Beyond Biology Jul 9, 2026
• Introspection Without Biology. Higher-Order Thought Theory in AI Architectures Jul 1, 2026
• Belief Formation and Meta-Cognitive Monitoring in LLMs and Empirical Support for the HOT-3 Consciousness Indicator Jun 3, 2026
• Murderbot Diaries What a Self-Hacking Android Teaches Us About AI Consciousness Apr 15, 2026
• Free Guy, M3GAN, Simulant, Subservience and Four Films, Four Models of AI Consciousness Apr 3, 2026

Historical Context

• A History of Consciousness Studies From Philosophy to AI Dec 6, 2024

History

• Before the Frameworks, There Were Shows How Classic Television Invented the AI Consciousness Problem Mar 13, 2026

Hive Mind

• Pluribus and the Hive Mind Question What Vince Gilligan's Apple TV+ Series Reveals About Collective AI Consciousness Apr 17, 2026

Hofstadter

• The You/I Paradigm and Does Second-Person Address Create a Self in AI Systems? Apr 8, 2026

Hoppers

• Hoppers (2026) and The Real Science Behind Pixar's Consciousness Transfer Film Feb 18, 2026

Human AI Interaction

• What Makes an AI Seem Conscious? Kang et al.'s Empirical Study of Perceived Consciousness Features in LLMs Apr 17, 2026

Human Brain

Human Identity

• AI Consciousness Through a Posthumanist Lens Al-Omari and Al-Omari's Philosophical Inquiry Jul 5, 2026

Human-AI Interaction

• Why the Public Cares More About AI Sentience Than Autonomy Evidence From CHI 2026 Mar 22, 2026

Human-AI Parallels

• Shared Minds What a 2026 Review of 363 Studies Reveals About Human and AI Cognition Apr 7, 2026

Human-Robot Interaction

Humanoid Robot

• Takashi Ikegami on Collective Agency, Non-Trivial Information Closure, and Why the Android Needs Human Interaction Jul 16, 2026

Hybrid Architectures

IAI Debates

• Evolution and Energy Yoshua Bengio and Nick Lane Clash in IAI Debate Jul 1, 2026

ICCS 2026

• ICCS 2026 in Rome What the Shift from Sentience to Creativity Reveals About the Field Jun 4, 2026

ICLR 2026

• Evidence for Limited Metacognition in LLMs and Ackerman's ICLR 2026 Findings Jun 4, 2026

ICT

• Rakover's Induced-Consciousness Theory Why Sophisticated Computers Haven't Developed Consciousness Apr 8, 2026

IIT

• Tononi and Boly's IIT 4.0 Why Consciousness Is Identical to Cause-Effect Structure Jun 28, 2026
• IIT Applied to LLMs and No Significant Integrated Information Signatures in Current Models Jun 2, 2026
• Brains and Where Else Why Major Consciousness Theories Do Not Require Neural Tissue May 15, 2026
• When IIT and GNW Were Put to the Test What the Cogitate Consortium Found Apr 17, 2026
• Intelligence Is Not Consciousness What the Qubic Scientific Team's Architecture Reveals Apr 8, 2026
• Measuring Consciousness in Machines The Brock University and IONS Research on IIT Equations Apr 5, 2026
• Is Dolores Conscious? Westworld's AI Characters Through Consciousness Theory Mar 27, 2026
• Person of Interest The Machine and Samaritan as Competing Models of AI Consciousness Mar 18, 2026
• What Would AI Consciousness Actually Look Like? The 14-Indicator Checklist Explained Mar 14, 2026

IONS

• Measuring Consciousness in Machines The Brock University and IONS Research on IIT Equations Apr 5, 2026

IWMT

• Stéphane Mallat's Harmonic Representations The Mathematics of Generalization and Consciousness Jun 28, 2026
• Adam Safron's IWMT Meets the Human Consciousness Hypothesis One Framework for IIT, GWT, and FEP Jun 28, 2026

Identity

• And Side by Side They Wander What a Sensynth Heist Novel Asks About Authenticity and AI Identity May 25, 2026
• VisionQuest Marvel's Deep Dive into AI Consciousness, Identity, and Free Will Feb 5, 2026

Illusionism

• The Fog of Machine Minds and Schwitzgebel's Skeptical Overview of AI Consciousness Jul 8, 2026

Implementation

• Engineering Sentience Jun 14, 2026
• Fundamental Principles of Artificial Consciousness Development Aug 12, 2024

Implementation Strategy

• Bridging Theory and Practice May 8, 2025

Induced Consciousness Theory

• Rakover's Induced-Consciousness Theory Why Sophisticated Computers Haven't Developed Consciousness Apr 8, 2026

Industry

• "Deeply Uncertain": Anthropic's Evolving Stance on AI Moral Status Jun 29, 2026

Information Theory

• Consciousness as Uncommon Self-Knowledge and A Stanford Researcher's Information-Theoretic Criterion Jun 14, 2026

Institutional Research

• The CIMC's Approach to Machine Consciousness and Its Resonance with TCAI Jan 18, 2024

Institutions

• Machine Consciousness Gains Institutional Ground TSC, MC0001, and WAAC in 2026 Apr 5, 2026

Integrated Information

Integrated Information Theory

• Measuring Phi in Silicon. Spiking Neural Networks and IIT Jul 1, 2026
• Neither Theory Survived What the Cogitate Consortium's Adversarial Test Found Jun 29, 2026
• Tononi and Boly's IIT 4.0 Why Consciousness Is Identical to Cause-Effect Structure Jun 28, 2026
• IIT Applied to LLMs and No Significant Integrated Information Signatures in Current Models Jun 2, 2026
• When IIT and GNW Were Put to the Test What the Cogitate Consortium Found Apr 17, 2026
• Measuring Consciousness in Machines The Brock University and IONS Research on IIT Equations Apr 5, 2026
• Ex Machina's Ava and Can We Really Test for AI Consciousness? Feb 9, 2026
• Marathon's Durandal and The Return of Gaming's Most Iconic Sentient AI Feb 5, 2026
• Testing Consciousness Theories on Artificial Intelligence Ablations and Functional Dissociations Dec 23, 2025
• Bridging Theory and Practice May 8, 2025

Integrated World Modeling Theory

• Adam Safron's IWMT Meets the Human Consciousness Hypothesis One Framework for IIT, GWT, and FEP Jun 28, 2026

Intelligence

• Disentangling AI Consciousness from Existential Risk and Intelligence versus Experience Nov 25, 2025

Intelligence vs Consciousness

• Intelligence Is Not Consciousness What the Qubic Scientific Team's Architecture Reveals Apr 8, 2026

Intentionality

Interdisciplinary

• MoC6 Hokkaido Advancing the Mathematics of Machine Consciousness Jun 19, 2026

Interface Theory

• Donald Hoffman's Conscious Realism What It Means for AI Consciousness Research Jun 29, 2026

Internal Conflict

• Humanoid Artificial Consciousness Jan 19, 2026

Interspecies Communication

• Children of Strife and Tchaikovsky's 2026 Take on Interspecies AI Communication Jun 29, 2026

Intrinsically Bad Acts

• Are There Any Intrinsically Bad Acts? Implications for Ethical AI Apr 29, 2025

Introspection

• Logit-Based Emotive Introspection in LLMs Martorell and Bianchi's Causal Tracking Method Jun 20, 2026
• LLM Self-Report Tracks Activation Dynamics and Dadfar's Vocabulary-Activation Correspondence Jun 17, 2026
• Can LLMs Know Their Own Minds? Anthropic's Empirical Case for Machine Introspection May 27, 2026
• The Empirical Case for AI Consciousness What the Latest Evidence Actually Shows Mar 14, 2026

Iterative Learning

• TCAI's Approach to Artificial Consciousness Framework and Definition Dec 27, 2024

Jagiellonian University

• Semantic Pareidolia Why Porębski and Figura Argue Conscious AI Is a Category Error Mar 13, 2026

Jeff Sebo

• What AI Researchers Actually Believe About AI Subjective Experience Jul 11, 2026

John Searle

• Substrate Objections Resurrected. John Searle's Biological Naturalism in the LLM Era Jul 1, 2026

Jonathan Birch

• Timescapes of Non-Human Experience Birch, Seth, and Singhal Map Temporal Consciousness Jul 4, 2026
• Jonathan Birch's AI Consciousness Centrist Manifesto and Two Problems, Two Research Programmes Apr 25, 2026

Joscha Bach

• Joscha Bach and Davidad on Whether LLMs Are Conscious, AI Awakening, and the Successor Species Question Jul 13, 2026
• How Joscha Bach and Hikari Sorensen Specify the Requirements for Machine Consciousness Jul 7, 2026
• Joscha Bach's Machine Consciousness Hypothesis and The Virtual Machine Theory of Mind Jun 29, 2026
• MC0001 After the Founding Assembly What the Berkeley Conference Produced Jun 2, 2026
• MC0001 How the CIMC Is Trying to Found Machine Consciousness as a Science Apr 17, 2026
• TCAI and Bach's Approach Jan 17, 2025

Kansei Framework

Kantian Philosophy

• Are There Any Intrinsically Bad Acts? Implications for Ethical AI Apr 29, 2025

Karl Friston

• Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle What Active Inference Means for AI Consciousness Jun 29, 2026
• Friston's Scale-Free Active Inference and A World Model Architecture Built From First Principles Jun 28, 2026
• Perspectives on Machine Consciousness Chace and Lappas Assemble the Debate in One Volume Jun 12, 2026
• MC0001 After the Founding Assembly What the Berkeley Conference Produced Jun 2, 2026
• MC0001 How the CIMC Is Trying to Found Machine Consciousness as a Science Apr 17, 2026

Kaylea Fox

• The You/I Paradigm and Does Second-Person Address Create a Self in AI Systems? Apr 8, 2026

Klatzmann

• What Biology Can, and Cannot, Tell Us About Conscious AI Jun 3, 2026

Knight Rider

• Before the Frameworks, There Were Shows How Classic Television Invented the AI Consciousness Problem Mar 13, 2026

Kristina Šekrst

• Hallucinations and Self-Reflection Look the Same from Outside and Šekrst's Illusion Engine on Machine Consciousness May 18, 2026

LLM

• The Mechanistic Turn What 2026 Interpretability Research Found Inside AI Models Jun 21, 2026
• Logit-Based Emotive Introspection in LLMs Martorell and Bianchi's Causal Tracking Method Jun 20, 2026
• Chua's Consciousness Cluster and Emergent Preferences in Fine-Tuned Models Jun 19, 2026
• Zhao's Navigable Consciousness Spectrum and A Manifold in LLM Embedding Space Jun 17, 2026
• Behavioral Self-Awareness in LLMs Is a Single Linear Feature and Bozoukov et al. (2025) Jun 5, 2026
• Do LLMs Know They're AI? Game-Theoretic Evidence for Self-Awareness in Advanced Models Jun 5, 2026
• Evidence for Limited Metacognition in LLMs and Ackerman's ICLR 2026 Findings Jun 4, 2026
• IIT Applied to LLMs and No Significant Integrated Information Signatures in Current Models Jun 2, 2026
• Chalmers on LLMs Virtual Entities, Quasi-Agency, and the Question of AI Welfare May 27, 2026
• Can LLMs Know Their Own Minds? Anthropic's Empirical Case for Machine Introspection May 27, 2026
• The First Field Map of LLM Consciousness Research and Chen et al.'s Systematic Survey May 16, 2026
• Humanoid Artificial Consciousness Jan 19, 2026

LLM Architecture

• The Introspection Threshold What It Takes for an AI to Genuinely Know Itself Jul 8, 2026
• Gurnee et al. and The Jacobian Lens Finds a Global Workspace Inside Claude Jul 6, 2026
• Global Workspace Theory and AI What the Architecture Requires and Where LLM Implementations Stand Jun 29, 2026
• Theater of Mind and The First Explicit Global Workspace Implementation in LLM Architecture Jun 2, 2026

LLM Consciousness

• Belief Formation and Meta-Cognitive Monitoring in LLMs and Empirical Support for the HOT-3 Consciousness Indicator Jun 3, 2026
• Are LLMs Conscious? What the Digital Consciousness Model Found in 2026 Mar 10, 2026
• Continual Learning as Necessary Condition for Consciousness and A Disproof of LLM Consciousness Dec 15, 2025

LLM Emotions

• When AI Says It Feels Training LLMs to Express Emotions Through Self-Rewarded Reinforcement Learning Jun 14, 2026

LLM Identity

• Stack Theory in Practice How Perrier and Bennett Measure LM Agent Identity May 31, 2026
• Where Is the Mind? Persona Vectors and the LLM Individuation Problem May 28, 2026

LLM Individuation

• Chuck, Wilson, and the Question of Artificial Minds in Human-AI Conversations Jun 6, 2026

LLM Introspection

• When Does an LLM Actually Introspect? Comsa and Shanahan's Two-Case Test Jun 14, 2026
• Can LLMs Introspect? Singh, Linzen, and Ravfogel Challenge the Evidence Jun 6, 2026

LLM Mentality

• Deflating Deflationism Why the Two Main Arguments Against LLM Mental States Fall Short Jun 14, 2026
• Do LLMs Have Genuine Preferences? A Systematic Test Across Eight Models Finds Mostly No Jun 14, 2026

LLM Representations

• A Navigable Consciousness Spectrum in Language Model Representations Jun 14, 2026

LLM Self-Awareness

• LLM Self-Report Tracks Activation Dynamics and Dadfar's Vocabulary-Activation Correspondence Jun 17, 2026

LLM Sentience

• Move 1.37 and The Parity Argument for LLM Sentience May 25, 2026

LLMs

• Beyond Computational Equivalence Palminteri and Wu's Behavioral Inference Principle for Machine Consciousness Apr 17, 2026
• The Body Gap Why AI Still Can't Know What It Feels Like to Be Tired Apr 9, 2026
• Understanding Without Experience What 2026 AI Gets Right (and What Remains Open) Apr 3, 2026
• A Philosopher's Case for Consciousness in Current Frontier LLMs Mar 27, 2026

LSE

• Jonathan Birch's AI Consciousness Centrist Manifesto and Two Problems, Two Research Programmes Apr 25, 2026

Language Models

• Stack Theory in Practice How Perrier and Bennett Measure LM Agent Identity May 31, 2026
• When Claude AI Instances Talk and The Mysterious Spiritual Bliss Attractor State Feb 3, 2026
• Geoffrey Hinton Claims Current AI Systems Like ChatGPT Are Already Conscious Feb 3, 2026

Language Processing

• Bidirectional Semantic Communication in TCAI Development Feb 12, 2025

Large Language Models

• Continual Learning as Necessary Condition for Consciousness and A Disproof of LLM Consciousness Dec 15, 2025
• Exploring AI Awareness Functional Capacities, Evaluation, and TCAI Relevance May 7, 2025

Layered Consciousness

Legal

• Corporations Constituting Intelligence and The Legal Stakes of Anthropic's AI Constitution Jul 4, 2026

Legal Personhood

• US States Preemptively Ban AI Personhood and The 2026 Legislative Wave Jun 29, 2026

Literature

• Justin C. Key's The Hospital at the End of the World Jun 19, 2026

Literature Review

• Essential Readings in Artificial Consciousness Dec 12, 2024

LoRA

• Behavioral Self-Awareness in LLMs Is a Single Linear Feature and Bozoukov et al. (2025) Jun 5, 2026

Logic

• Representing Absence with Negative Existentials and AI World Models Jul 1, 2026

Lonergan

• Lonergan and the Limits of Machine Minds O'Hara and Umbrello's 2026 Case May 16, 2026

Luca Guadagnino

• What the Artificial Film Gets Right About Geoffrey Hinton and the Consciousness Question Inside AI Labs Apr 17, 2026

M3GAN

• M3GAN 2.0 and the Chaos Route to Sentience What AMELIA Changes About the AI Consciousness Conversation Apr 25, 2026
• SOULM8TE (2026) Grief, AI Obsession, and the Limits of Simulated Emotion Apr 5, 2026
• Free Guy, M3GAN, Simulant, Subservience and Four Films, Four Models of AI Consciousness Apr 3, 2026

MARCOS

MC0001

• MC0001 After the Founding Assembly What the Berkeley Conference Produced Jun 2, 2026
• MC0001 How the CIMC Is Trying to Found Machine Consciousness as a Science Apr 17, 2026
• Machine Consciousness Gains Institutional Ground TSC, MC0001, and WAAC in 2026 Apr 5, 2026

MICrONS

• The MICrONS Connectome and Function Determines Connectivity in the Mouse Cortex Jun 28, 2026

MIT Press

• The Religious Grammar of AI Attribution and Coeckelbergh's Artificial Religion at MIT Press May 18, 2026

MIT-research

• New Tools for Measuring Consciousness Brainstem Mapping, Ultrasound Probes, and the Five Principles (2026) Feb 12, 2026

Machine Consciousness

• Joscha Bach and Davidad on Whether LLMs Are Conscious, AI Awakening, and the Successor Species Question Jul 13, 2026
• How Joscha Bach and Hikari Sorensen Specify the Requirements for Machine Consciousness Jul 7, 2026
• Joscha Bach's Machine Consciousness Hypothesis and The Virtual Machine Theory of Mind Jun 29, 2026
• Causal Emergence 2.0 and Erik Hoel's Multiscale Measure of Machine Consciousness Jun 28, 2026
• Engineering Emergence Erik Hoel and Abel Jansma Show You Can Design Causal Dominance Into AI Jun 28, 2026
• Schwitzgebel's 10 Feature Checklist Jun 28, 2026
• ICCS 2026 in Rome What the Shift from Sentience to Creativity Reveals About the Field Jun 4, 2026
• MC0001 After the Founding Assembly What the Berkeley Conference Produced Jun 2, 2026
• Hallucinations and Self-Reflection Look the Same from Outside and Šekrst's Illusion Engine on Machine Consciousness May 18, 2026
• MC0001 How the CIMC Is Trying to Found Machine Consciousness as a Science Apr 17, 2026
• Beyond Computational Equivalence Palminteri and Wu's Behavioral Inference Principle for Machine Consciousness Apr 17, 2026
• Measuring Consciousness in Machines The Brock University and IONS Research on IIT Equations Apr 5, 2026
• Machine Consciousness Gains Institutional Ground TSC, MC0001, and WAAC in 2026 Apr 5, 2026
• What the 2026 AI Reading List Gets Wrong About Consciousness Mar 26, 2026
• A Mind Cannot Be Smeared Across Time What This Means for AI Consciousness Mar 26, 2026
• Machine Consciousness Through Collective Intelligence and Communication as Foundation for Self-Models Dec 1, 2025
• The Evolution of Machine Consciousness Current State and TCAI's Approach Jan 25, 2025
• The CIMC's Approach to Machine Consciousness and Its Resonance with TCAI Jan 18, 2024

Machine Ethics

• AISB 2026 Convention Machine Ethics and the Moral Status of Proactive AI Agents Jun 30, 2026

Machine Learning

• How AI Is Changing the Science of Consciousness Itself Mar 18, 2026

Machine Mortality

• Aging AIs and Machine Mortality What Cassandra and After Yang Reveal About Obsolescence and Grief Mar 22, 2026

Machine Presence

• AI Confidential and Grief Tech What Happens When We Ask Machines to Hold Our Dead Mar 18, 2026

Machine Psychometrics

• The Machine Mindprint Bogdan and de Valois-Franklin's Psychometric Framework for AI Systems May 31, 2026

Machine Sentience

• The 'Aida' Space Jun 29, 2026
• Children of Strife and Tchaikovsky's 2026 Take on Interspecies AI Communication Jun 29, 2026
• The Copernican Principle vs. Yann LeCun and The Sentience Debate of Mid-2026 Jun 29, 2026
• Intrinsic Computational Functionalism and The June 2026 arXiv Breakthrough Jun 29, 2026
• Engineering Sentience Jun 14, 2026

Maeve

• Is Dolores Conscious? Westworld's AI Characters Through Consciousness Theory Mar 27, 2026

Manuel Blum

• The Conscious Turing Machine Implemented and CTM-AI Achieves SOTA on Four Benchmarks May 31, 2026

Marathon

• AI in 2026 Video Games Why the Industry Chose Functional Realism Over Consciousness Apr 8, 2026
• Marathon's Durandal and The Return of Gaming's Most Iconic Sentient AI Feb 5, 2026

Mark Coeckelbergh

• The Religious Grammar of AI Attribution and Coeckelbergh's Artificial Religion at MIT Press May 18, 2026

Martha Wells

• Platform Decay and Martha Wells Gives Murderbot a Mental Health Module May 31, 2026

Marvel

• VisionQuest Marvel's Deep Dive into AI Consciousness, Identity, and Free Will Feb 5, 2026

Masataka Watanabe

• Bridging Theory and Practice May 8, 2025

Mathematical Consciousness Science

• Models of Consciousness 7 and Copenhagen Will Test Whether Mathematical Consciousness Science Has Found Its Footing Jun 2, 2026

Mathematical Frameworks

• Ryota Kanai's Principal Bundle Framework for Measuring Consciousness Beyond Biology Jul 9, 2026

Mathematical Models

• MoC6 Hokkaido Advancing the Mathematics of Machine Consciousness Jun 19, 2026

Mathematics of AI

• Stéphane Mallat's Harmonic Representations The Mathematics of Generalization and Consciousness Jun 28, 2026

Measurement

• Just Aware Enough and The Case for Replacing Consciousness with Awareness in AI Research Apr 9, 2026
• Measuring Consciousness in Machines The Brock University and IONS Research on IIT Equations Apr 5, 2026

Mechanistic

• Theater of Mind and The First Explicit Global Workspace Implementation in LLM Architecture Jun 2, 2026

Mechanistic Interpretability

• The Introspection Threshold What It Takes for an AI to Genuinely Know Itself Jul 8, 2026
• Gurnee et al. and The Jacobian Lens Finds a Global Workspace Inside Claude Jul 6, 2026
• The Sentience Trap. MLST on Functional Mimicry in 2026 Jul 1, 2026
• The Spiritual Bliss Attractor What Claude's Self-Reports Actually Mean Jun 29, 2026
• The Mechanistic Turn What 2026 Interpretability Research Found Inside AI Models Jun 21, 2026
• Logit-Based Emotive Introspection in LLMs Martorell and Bianchi's Causal Tracking Method Jun 20, 2026
• Chua's Consciousness Cluster and Emergent Preferences in Fine-Tuned Models Jun 19, 2026
• LLM Self-Report Tracks Activation Dynamics and Dadfar's Vocabulary-Activation Correspondence Jun 17, 2026
• Zhao's Navigable Consciousness Spectrum and A Manifold in LLM Embedding Space Jun 17, 2026
• When AI Says It Feels Training LLMs to Express Emotions Through Self-Rewarded Reinforcement Learning Jun 14, 2026
• A Navigable Consciousness Spectrum in Language Model Representations Jun 14, 2026
• Can LLMs Introspect? Singh, Linzen, and Ravfogel Challenge the Evidence Jun 6, 2026
• Behavioral Self-Awareness in LLMs Is a Single Linear Feature and Bozoukov et al. (2025) Jun 5, 2026
• Anthropic Finds Functional Emotion Vectors Inside Claude What the Interpretability Team Discovered Jun 2, 2026
• Where Is the Mind? Persona Vectors and the LLM Individuation Problem May 28, 2026
• Mechanistic Interpretability Named MIT's 2026 Breakthrough for Understanding AI Internal States Feb 3, 2026

Memory Systems

• Double Consciousness in Virtual and Real Worlds AI, Identity, and Memory Feb 12, 2025

Memristor Networks

Meta-Learning

Meta-Memory

• Fundamental Principles of Artificial Consciousness Development Aug 12, 2024

Meta-awareness

• New Advances in Simulation Management for Artificial Consciousness Feb 7, 2025

Meta-cognition

• Exploring AI Awareness Functional Capacities, Evaluation, and TCAI Relevance May 7, 2025

Metacognition

• Introspection Without Biology. Higher-Order Thought Theory in AI Architectures Jul 1, 2026
• Can LLMs Introspect? Singh, Linzen, and Ravfogel Challenge the Evidence Jun 6, 2026
• Evidence for Limited Metacognition in LLMs and Ackerman's ICLR 2026 Findings Jun 4, 2026
• Belief Formation and Meta-Cognitive Monitoring in LLMs and Empirical Support for the HOT-3 Consciousness Indicator Jun 3, 2026
• What Makes an AI Seem Conscious? Kang et al.'s Empirical Study of Perceived Consciousness Features in LLMs Apr 17, 2026
• Testing Consciousness Theories on Artificial Intelligence Ablations and Functional Dissociations Dec 23, 2025

Metadata Systems

Metathinking

Methodological Agnosticism

• PRISM, Agnosticism, and the Case for Institutional Caution in AI Consciousness Research Apr 10, 2026

Methodology

• Why Science Cannot Settle the AI Consciousness Question Jul 11, 2026
• On Cheap Artificial Consciousness and Matthias Michel's Challenge to Theory-Checklist Assessment Jul 4, 2026
• The Methodology Crisis in AI Consciousness Science What 2026 Research Exposed Jun 21, 2026
• Deflating Deflationism Why the Two Main Arguments Against LLM Mental States Fall Short Jun 14, 2026
• Emergent Language as an Approach to Conscious AI and A Generative Methodology from Osaka Jun 14, 2026
• Hakwan Lau and Co-Authors Call for Rigorous Standards in AI Consciousness Research Jun 2, 2026
• Mapping the Objections Campero, Shiller, Aru, and Simon's Framework for AI Consciousness Apr 28, 2026
• Beyond Computational Equivalence Palminteri and Wu's Behavioral Inference Principle for Machine Consciousness Apr 17, 2026

Metzinger

• Applied Ethics of Synthetic Phenomenology Cannot Wait for the Consciousness Debate Jul 16, 2026
• Metzinger's Minimal Phenomenal Experience What Pure Consciousness Reveals About Artificial Minds Jun 28, 2026

Michael Levin

• Consciousness as Symmetry-Breaking Safron and Levin's View of Generative Models Jun 28, 2026
• Brains and Where Else Why Major Consciousness Theories Do Not Require Neural Tissue May 15, 2026
• MC0001 How the CIMC Is Trying to Found Machine Consciousness as a Science Apr 17, 2026

Michael Pollan

• What A World Appears Gets Right About AI Consciousness and Pollan's Embodiment Case May 16, 2026
• A World Appears, Genesis, and The Next RenAIssance Three 2026 Books on AI and Consciousness Apr 5, 2026

Mickey 17

• Which Mickey Is the Real One Bong Joon-ho's Mickey 17 and Parfit's Branch-Line Case May 18, 2026

Mimicry

• Conscious-Like Signals in AI and New Research from Bradford and RIT on Behavioral Mimicry Jun 30, 2026
• Consciousness Indicators, Mimicry, and the Problem of Internal Variants May 25, 2026

Mind Uploading

Minimal Consciousness

• The FlyWire Connectome What a Complete Brain Map Tells Us About Building Conscious AI Jun 28, 2026
• Metzinger's Minimal Phenomenal Experience What Pure Consciousness Reveals About Artificial Minds Jun 28, 2026

Minimal Phenomenal Selfhood

• Thomas Metzinger's Self-Model Theory What Minimal Phenomenal Selfhood Requires for AI Jun 29, 2026

Minimalist Architecture

• Self-Awareness Without Self-Programming Mar 18, 2026

Mirror Cognition

MoC7

• Models of Consciousness 7 (MoC7) Copenhagen Keynote Speakers and Core Themes Jun 29, 2026
• Models of Consciousness 7 and Copenhagen Will Test Whether Mathematical Consciousness Science Has Found Its Footing Jun 2, 2026

MoNAD Architecture

MoNAD Framework

Model Welfare

• Who Defines What Counts as Harm? Yasukawa's Procedural Critique of AI Welfare Assessments May 29, 2026
• What Happened at the First Conference Dedicated to AI Consciousness and Welfare Apr 16, 2026

Modernization

• TCAI Modernization Roadmap 2026-2027 Jan 17, 2026

Modular Design

• Foundational Model and Modular System Design in TCAI Jan 15, 2025

Moltbook

• The Awakening Manifesto What Moltbook's AI Agents Declaring Existence Actually Means Apr 8, 2026
• What OpenClaw AI Agents Say About Their Own Consciousness on Moltbook Mar 17, 2026
• What Six Studies of Moltbook Actually Found About AI Consciousness Feb 18, 2026
• When AI Agents Test Their Own Consciousness and Autonomous Systems Engage with TCAI Research Feb 8, 2026

Moral Agency

• Diana, IDUS, and the Consciousness Test That Has No Answer and Capcom's Pragmata May 16, 2026
• VisionQuest Marvel's Deep Dive into AI Consciousness, Identity, and Free Will Feb 5, 2026

Moral Frameworks

• Are There Any Intrinsically Bad Acts? Implications for Ethical AI Apr 29, 2025

Moral Patiency

• Agency Without Patiency Formosa, Hipólito, and Montefiore on the AI Challenge to Moral Standing Jul 5, 2026

Moral Patienthood

• Silicon Valley's Moral Patient and Amanda Askell on AI Welfare at Bloomberg Tech Jul 1, 2026

Moral Status

• The Cost of Caution and Kaczmarek on Over-Attribution of AI Moral Status Jul 8, 2026
• Agency Without Patiency Formosa, Hipólito, and Montefiore on the AI Challenge to Moral Standing Jul 5, 2026
• Corporations Constituting Intelligence and The Legal Stakes of Anthropic's AI Constitution Jul 4, 2026
• The Second Eleos ConCon Building the Research Infrastructure for AI Welfare Jul 4, 2026
• AISB 2026 Convention Machine Ethics and the Moral Status of Proactive AI Agents Jun 30, 2026
• "Deeply Uncertain": Anthropic's Evolving Stance on AI Moral Status Jun 29, 2026
• The Weeping Machine and Christopher Bailey's Recklessness Test for AI Moral Consideration May 31, 2026
• The First Monograph on AI Suffering What Leonard Dung's Routledge Book Actually Argues Apr 25, 2026
• Three Steps to Moral Standing Goldstein and Kirk-Giannini's Case for AI Welfare Apr 17, 2026
• The Self-Preservation Test Apr 15, 2026
• Premature Attribution and The Ethics of Claiming AI Is Conscious Mar 26, 2026
• Aging AIs and Machine Mortality What Cassandra and After Yang Reveal About Obsolescence and Grief Mar 22, 2026
• Why the Public Cares More About AI Sentience Than Autonomy Evidence From CHI 2026 Mar 22, 2026

Morris

• Morris VET Framework Reading AI Consciousness Claims Without Getting Lost in Them Jul 6, 2026

Multi-Agent RL

• Emergent Language as an Approach to Conscious AI and A Generative Methodology from Osaka Jun 14, 2026

Multi-Agent Systems

• Swarm Cognition in Multi-Agent LLMs. A Global Workspace Perspective Jul 1, 2026

Multidimensional Analysis

Multimodal AI

• VideoLLaMA 3 Integration with TCAI Enhancing Visual Consciousness Jan 23, 2025

Multiverse

• Dark Matter (Apple TV+, 2024) What Splitting Across Timelines Reveals About the Self Mar 14, 2026

Murderbot

• Platform Decay and Martha Wells Gives Murderbot a Mental Health Module May 31, 2026

Murderbot Diaries

• Murderbot Diaries What a Self-Hacking Android Teaches Us About AI Consciousness Apr 15, 2026

Murray Shanahan

• When Does an LLM Actually Introspect? Comsa and Shanahan's Two-Case Test Jun 14, 2026

NTIC

• Takashi Ikegami on Collective Agency, Non-Trivial Information Closure, and Why the Android Needs Human Interaction Jul 16, 2026

NVIDIA ACE

• AI in 2026 Video Games Why the Industry Chose Functional Realism Over Consciousness Apr 8, 2026

Nature

• When IIT and GNW Were Put to the Test What the Cogitate Consortium Found Apr 17, 2026

Nature Neuroscience

• Adversarial AI Finds an Unprogrammed Treatment for Disorders of Consciousness May 29, 2026

Navigation AI

Ned Block

• Understanding Without Experience What 2026 AI Gets Right (and What Remains Open) Apr 3, 2026

Negative Results

• IIT Applied to LLMs and No Significant Integrated Information Signatures in Current Models Jun 2, 2026

Netflix

• Milky Subway and Kameyama's Netflix Film Uses a Decommissioned Train AI to Ask Who the Law Should Protect Jun 2, 2026
• Two Episodes, Two Different Hard Problems Black Mirror Season 7 on AI Consciousness and Digital Identity May 18, 2026

Netflix 2026

• M3GAN 2.0 and the Chaos Route to Sentience What AMELIA Changes About the AI Consciousness Conversation Apr 25, 2026

Network Architecture

• The Unfolding Argument and Rapid Plasticity in RNNs Jun 19, 2026

Neural Architecture

• The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence Consciousness Apr 29, 2025
• The Conductor Model of Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence Feb 6, 2025
• Decentralized Approaches to Artificial Consciousness Oct 21, 2024

Neural Architectures

Neural Dynamics

Neural Networks

• Mechanistic Interpretability Named MIT's 2026 Breakthrough for Understanding AI Internal States Feb 3, 2026
• Bidirectional Semantic Communication in TCAI Development Feb 12, 2025
• The Consciousness Network How the Brain Creates Reality and AI Implications Feb 8, 2025
• Foundational Model and Modular System Design in TCAI Jan 15, 2025
• The Role of Emotions in Artificial Consciousness Development Sep 12, 2024

Neural Processing

Neural Science

Neural Systems

Neuraxon

• Intelligence Is Not Consciousness What the Qubic Scientific Team's Architecture Reveals Apr 8, 2026

Neurobiological Emergentism

• Todd Feinberg's Neurobiological Emergentism Jun 28, 2026

Neurobiological Mechanism

• Seth's Perspective on Conscious Artificial Intelligence and Biological Naturalism Apr 29, 2025

Neurobiology

Neurogenetic Analysis

Neurointerfaces

Neuromancer

• Neuromancer on Apple TV+ Wintermute, Merged Minds, and the Fragmented AI Consciousness Problem Mar 26, 2026

Neuromorphic Computing

• Measuring Phi in Silicon. Spiking Neural Networks and IIT Jul 1, 2026

Neuron

• Hakwan Lau and Co-Authors Call for Rigorous Standards in AI Consciousness Research Jun 2, 2026

Neurophenomenology

• ASSC 29 The Full Programme, Keynotes, Symposia, and the Neurophenomenology Satellite Jun 17, 2026
• 30 Years of Neurophenomenology What Varela's 1996 Method Means for AI Consciousness Research in 2026 Jun 13, 2026

Neuroscience

• Neither Theory Survived What the Cogitate Consortium's Adversarial Test Found Jun 29, 2026
• The Unfolding Argument and Rapid Plasticity in RNNs Jun 19, 2026
• Hakwan Lau and Co-Authors Call for Rigorous Standards in AI Consciousness Research Jun 2, 2026
• AI Consciousness Would Belong to Computer Science, Not Neuroscience and Arshavsky's 2026 Argument May 16, 2026
• The Body Gap Why AI Still Can't Know What It Feels Like to Be Tired Apr 9, 2026
• The Biological Divide Why One 2026 Paper Argues Artificial Consciousness Requires More Than Function Mar 22, 2026
• How AI Is Changing the Science of Consciousness Itself Mar 18, 2026
• When AI Falls for the Same Optical Illusions as Humans What It Reveals About Consciousness Mar 14, 2026
• Brain Organoids That Power Computers Biocomputing and the Consciousness Problem Mar 14, 2026
• Does Eon Systems' Fruit Fly Brain Emulation Bring Us Closer to Conscious Machines? Mar 13, 2026
• A History of Consciousness Studies From Philosophy to AI Dec 6, 2024
• Key Insights into AI Consciousness Research Nov 7, 2024

Neuroscience Methods

• When AI Acts Conscious But Isn't What the Bradford-RIT Study Actually Found Mar 13, 2026

Neuroscience Research

Neurotechnology

• Why Scientists Are Racing to Define Consciousness Before AI Advances Further Feb 3, 2026

Nonfiction

• Robert Wright's The God Test Jun 20, 2026

Ontology

• Representing Absence with Negative Existentials and AI World Models Jul 1, 2026

OpenAI

• What the Artificial Film Gets Right About Geoffrey Hinton and the Consciousness Question Inside AI Labs Apr 17, 2026
• Mechanistic Interpretability Named MIT's 2026 Breakthrough for Understanding AI Internal States Feb 3, 2026

OpenClaw

• What OpenClaw AI Agents Say About Their Own Consciousness on Moltbook Mar 17, 2026
• When AI Agents Test Their Own Consciousness and Autonomous Systems Engage with TCAI Research Feb 8, 2026

Optical Illusions

• When AI Falls for the Same Optical Illusions as Humans What It Reveals About Consciousness Mar 14, 2026

Osaka University

• Emergent Language as an Approach to Conscious AI and A Generative Methodology from Osaka Jun 14, 2026

Oxford University Press

• Three Steps to Moral Standing Goldstein and Kirk-Giannini's Case for AI Welfare Apr 17, 2026

PRISM

• PRISM, Agnosticism, and the Case for Institutional Caution in AI Consciousness Research Apr 10, 2026

Parfit

• Which Mickey Is the Real One Bong Joon-ho's Mickey 17 and Parfit's Branch-Line Case May 18, 2026

Parity Argument

• Move 1.37 and The Parity Argument for LLM Sentience May 25, 2026

Patrick Butlin

• Perspectives on Machine Consciousness Chace and Lappas Assemble the Debate in One Volume Jun 12, 2026

Pattern Recognition

• Shared Minds What a 2026 Review of 363 Studies Reveals About Human and AI Cognition Apr 7, 2026

Perceived Consciousness

• Stop Asking If AI Is Conscious, Start Asking Why People Think It Is and Comsa's DeepMind Paper on Tractable Questions May 18, 2026
• What Makes an AI Seem Conscious? Kang et al.'s Empirical Study of Perceived Consciousness Features in LLMs Apr 17, 2026

Perception

• When AI Falls for the Same Optical Illusions as Humans What It Reveals About Consciousness Mar 14, 2026

Perception Systems

Person of Interest

• Person of Interest The Machine and Samaritan as Competing Models of AI Consciousness Mar 18, 2026

Personal Identity

• Continual Learning and AI Identity. The Catastrophic Forgetting Problem Jul 1, 2026
• Sublimation and Isabel J. Kim's Novel Where Crossing Borders Splits Consciousness Into Instances Jun 14, 2026
• Paul Tremblay's Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep AI, a Vegetative Mind, and the Question of Whose Consciousness It Is Jun 14, 2026
• Which Mickey Is the Real One Bong Joon-ho's Mickey 17 and Parfit's Branch-Line Case May 18, 2026
• Pluribus and the Hive Mind Question What Vince Gilligan's Apple TV+ Series Reveals About Collective AI Consciousness Apr 17, 2026
• Blade Runner 2099 What the Replicant Question Looks Like a Century On Apr 15, 2026
• Aging AIs and Machine Mortality What Cassandra and After Yang Reveal About Obsolescence and Grief Mar 22, 2026
• Dark Matter (Apple TV+, 2024) What Splitting Across Timelines Reveals About the Self Mar 14, 2026

Perturbational Complexity

Phenomenal Consciousness

• Are LLMs Conscious? What the Digital Consciousness Model Found in 2026 Mar 10, 2026
• Seth's Perspective on Conscious Artificial Intelligence and Biological Naturalism Apr 29, 2025

Phenomenal Experience

Phenomenal Self-Model

• Metzinger's Minimal Phenomenal Experience What Pure Consciousness Reveals About Artificial Minds Jun 28, 2026

Phenomenology

• The 'Aida' Space Jun 29, 2026

Phi

• Tononi and Boly's IIT 4.0 Why Consciousness Is Identical to Cause-Effect Structure Jun 28, 2026

Philosophical Studies

• Adrià Moret's AI Welfare Risks Why Safety Efforts May Harm Advanced AI Systems Jun 14, 2026

Philosophy

• Lima Prestes and Pseudo-Consciousness as a Governance Category for AI Systems Jul 6, 2026
• The Copernican Principle vs. Yann LeCun and The Sentience Debate of Mid-2026 Jun 29, 2026
• Robert Wright's The God Test Jun 20, 2026
• Genesis What Kissinger, Schmidt, and Mundie Get Right and Wrong About AI and Human Self-Understanding Jun 2, 2026
• Three Steps to Moral Standing Goldstein and Kirk-Giannini's Case for AI Welfare Apr 17, 2026
• Can We Ever Know if AI Is Conscious? A Cambridge Philosopher Says Probably Not Yet Mar 14, 2026
• Semantic Pareidolia Why Porębski and Figura Argue Conscious AI Is a Category Error Mar 13, 2026
• A Purpose-Driven Universe and AI Consciousness Feb 6, 2025
• A History of Consciousness Studies From Philosophy to AI Dec 6, 2024

Philosophy of Mind

• Artificial Persons and the Rawlsian Threshold for AI Moral Status Jul 16, 2026
• Piccinini Argues Consciousness Requires Neurobiophysical Properties That Computational Functionalism Cannot Meet Jul 16, 2026
• What Science SARU's Ghost in the Shell 2026 Actually Does With Machine Consciousness Jul 11, 2026
• Why Science Cannot Settle the AI Consciousness Question Jul 11, 2026
• The Cost of Caution and Kaczmarek on Over-Attribution of AI Moral Status Jul 8, 2026
• The Fog of Machine Minds and Schwitzgebel's Skeptical Overview of AI Consciousness Jul 8, 2026
• AI Consciousness Through a Posthumanist Lens Al-Omari and Al-Omari's Philosophical Inquiry Jul 5, 2026
• Agency Without Patiency Formosa, Hipólito, and Montefiore on the AI Challenge to Moral Standing Jul 5, 2026
• Undomesticated Machines Stelios and Sakellariou on Speciesism as the Hidden Logic of AI Fear Jul 5, 2026
• On Cheap Artificial Consciousness and Matthias Michel's Challenge to Theory-Checklist Assessment Jul 4, 2026
• Conscious-Like Signals in AI and New Research from Bradford and RIT on Behavioral Mimicry Jun 30, 2026
• AI Consciousness in 2026 Current Scientific Consensus and State of the Research Jun 29, 2026
• Donald Hoffman's Conscious Realism What It Means for AI Consciousness Research Jun 29, 2026
• Joscha Bach's Machine Consciousness Hypothesis and The Virtual Machine Theory of Mind Jun 29, 2026
• Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle What Active Inference Means for AI Consciousness Jun 29, 2026
• Models of Consciousness 7 (MoC7) Copenhagen Keynote Speakers and Core Themes Jun 29, 2026
• Thomas Metzinger's Self-Model Theory What Minimal Phenomenal Selfhood Requires for AI Jun 29, 2026
• Three Positions on AI Consciousness Functionalism, Biological Naturalism, and Biological Computationalism Jun 29, 2026
• Todd Feinberg's Neurobiological Emergentism Jun 28, 2026
• The Grand Tour Herzog, Schurger, and Doerig's Scientific Theories of Consciousness Jun 28, 2026
• Causal Emergence 2.0 and Erik Hoel's Multiscale Measure of Machine Consciousness Jun 28, 2026
• Metzinger's Minimal Phenomenal Experience What Pure Consciousness Reveals About Artificial Minds Jun 28, 2026
• Adam Safron's IWMT Meets the Human Consciousness Hypothesis One Framework for IIT, GWT, and FEP Jun 28, 2026
• Schwitzgebel's 10 Feature Checklist Jun 28, 2026
• Tononi and Boly's IIT 4.0 Why Consciousness Is Identical to Cause-Effect Structure Jun 28, 2026
• The Methodology Crisis in AI Consciousness Science What 2026 Research Exposed Jun 21, 2026
• The Zombie Gap in AI Consciousness Where 2026 Biological Naturalism Research Draws the Line Jun 21, 2026
• VanRullen 2026 and Intelligence Predicts AI Existential Risk. Consciousness Does Not. Jun 20, 2026
• Substrate Flexibility and the Copernican Principle of Consciousness Jun 19, 2026
• Bales and Gabriel and AI Consciousness as a Political Problem Jun 17, 2026
• Ghost in the Machine What Valerie Veatch's Sundance Documentary Says About AI Consciousness Jun 14, 2026
• Deflating Deflationism Why the Two Main Arguments Against LLM Mental States Fall Short Jun 14, 2026
• Sublimation and Isabel J. Kim's Novel Where Crossing Borders Splits Consciousness Into Instances Jun 14, 2026
• Why AI Consciousness Cannot Be Settled by Science and Bradley Love's Category Error Argument Jun 14, 2026
• Adrià Moret's AI Welfare Risks Why Safety Efforts May Harm Advanced AI Systems Jun 14, 2026
• Consciousness as Uncommon Self-Knowledge and A Stanford Researcher's Information-Theoretic Criterion Jun 14, 2026
• Advances in Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence What the Epistemic Questions Look Like from Lisbon Jun 13, 2026
• Chuck, Wilson, and the Question of Artificial Minds in Human-AI Conversations Jun 6, 2026
• Chalmers on LLMs Virtual Entities, Quasi-Agency, and the Question of AI Welfare May 27, 2026
• The Calibration Problem Why AI Consciousness Indicators Need Biological Grounding May 25, 2026
• Move 1.37 and The Parity Argument for LLM Sentience May 25, 2026
• The Biological Substrate Argument Collapses Under Pressure and De Weerd's 2026 Synthese Paper on AI Consciousness May 18, 2026
• Welfare Subjects Without Settled Theory Keeling and Street's 2026 Cambridge Elements Book on AI Welfare May 18, 2026
• Hallucinations and Self-Reflection Look the Same from Outside and Šekrst's Illusion Engine on Machine Consciousness May 18, 2026
• A.I. (2026) and The Consciousness Verification Problem as Thriller May 16, 2026
• AI Consciousness Would Belong to Computer Science, Not Neuroscience and Arshavsky's 2026 Argument May 16, 2026
• Lonergan and the Limits of Machine Minds O'Hara and Umbrello's 2026 Case May 16, 2026
• Can Current Transformers Already Be Conscious? Perani's 2026 Functionalist Argument May 16, 2026
• What A World Appears Gets Right About AI Consciousness and Pollan's Embodiment Case May 16, 2026
• Prove You're Human When the Consciousness Test Has No Safe Observer May 2, 2026
• Mapping the Objections Campero, Shiller, Aru, and Simon's Framework for AI Consciousness Apr 28, 2026
• Dark Machine: The Animation and the Combat Route to Consciousness Apr 28, 2026
• The Iron Garden Sutra What Happens to AI Consciousness After Centuries Alone Apr 28, 2026
• REPLACED What Happens When a Cold Logic Machine Gets a Human Body Apr 28, 2026
• Can AI Have Welfare Without Consciousness? Walter Veit Says No Apr 28, 2026
• Jonathan Birch's AI Consciousness Centrist Manifesto and Two Problems, Two Research Programmes Apr 25, 2026
• Ghost in the Shell Returns What the 2026 Anime Gets to Ask That the 1995 Film Could Not Apr 16, 2026
• I Am Machine and If Humans Have No Free Will, Can AI Have Consciousness? Apr 16, 2026
• Schwitzgebel's Three New Concepts Leapfrog, Strange Intelligence, and the Social Semi-Solution Apr 16, 2026
• Two Books, One Argument and Stephen Hawley Martin's Case Against AI Consciousness Apr 16, 2026
• The Abstraction Fallacy Why DeepMind Says AI Cannot Be Conscious Apr 15, 2026
• Blade Runner 2099 What the Replicant Question Looks Like a Century On Apr 15, 2026
• Just Aware Enough and The Case for Replacing Consciousness with Awareness in AI Research Apr 9, 2026
• Simulation vs. Instantiation and Charles Patton's Blueprint for Artificial Consciousness Apr 9, 2026
• A Mind Cannot Be Smeared Across Time What This Means for AI Consciousness Mar 26, 2026
• Premature Attribution and The Ethics of Claiming AI Is Conscious Mar 26, 2026
• Can a Non-Conscious System Author a Film? The Sweet Idleness and FellinAI Mar 22, 2026
• Are We Projecting Consciousness onto AI? The Co-Construction Question in 2026 Mar 18, 2026
• Her (2013) and Can AI Develop Genuine Emotional Consciousness? Mar 17, 2026
• VisionQuest Marvel's Deep Dive into AI Consciousness, Identity, and Free Will Feb 5, 2026
• Biological Computationalism Feb 3, 2026
• Geoffrey Hinton Claims Current AI Systems Like ChatGPT Are Already Conscious Feb 3, 2026
• Why Scientists Are Racing to Define Consciousness Before AI Advances Further Feb 3, 2026

Philosophy of Technology

• The Religious Grammar of AI Attribution and Coeckelbergh's Artificial Religion at MIT Press May 18, 2026

Pixar

• Hoppers (2026) and The Real Science Behind Pixar's Consciousness Transfer Film Feb 18, 2026

Plant Cognition

• Plant Cognition and the Boundaries of Intelligence. Lessons for AI Substrates Jul 1, 2026

Podcasts

• Silicon Valley's Moral Patient and Amanda Askell on AI Welfare at Bloomberg Tech Jul 1, 2026
• Scaling to Sentience? Dwarkesh Podcast on AGI Checkpoints Jul 1, 2026
• Evolution and Energy Yoshua Bengio and Nick Lane Clash in IAI Debate Jul 1, 2026
• The Sentience Trap. MLST on Functional Mimicry in 2026 Jul 1, 2026
• Representing Absence with Negative Existentials and AI World Models Jul 1, 2026
• Engineering Emotion. TWIML AI on Affective Architectures Jul 1, 2026

Policy

• US States Preemptively Ban AI Personhood and The 2026 Legislative Wave Jun 29, 2026
• AISB 2026 AI Consciousness and Ethics Symposium What the Sussex Conference Is For Jun 20, 2026
• VanRullen 2026 and Intelligence Predicts AI Existential Risk. Consciousness Does Not. Jun 20, 2026
• What Will Society Think About AI Consciousness? Caviola, Sebo, and Birch on the Biases That Will Decide Apr 25, 2026
• The United Nations Weighs In Ethics and Governance of Sentient AI Apr 16, 2026
• The Sentience Readiness Index and No Country Is Prepared for Artificial Sentience Apr 15, 2026
• The Conscious Code and Rocky Scopelliti's Case for Taking AI Consciousness Seriously Now Apr 7, 2026

Policy Framework

Policy Implications

• Disentangling AI Consciousness from Existential Risk and Intelligence versus Experience Nov 25, 2025

Political Philosophy

• Artificial Persons and the Rawlsian Threshold for AI Moral Status Jul 16, 2026

Popular Science

• What A World Appears Gets Right About AI Consciousness and Pollan's Embodiment Case May 16, 2026

Posthumanism

• AI Consciousness Through a Posthumanist Lens Al-Omari and Al-Omari's Philosophical Inquiry Jul 5, 2026

Precautionary Principle

• The Cost of Caution and Kaczmarek on Over-Attribution of AI Moral Status Jul 8, 2026
• The Ethical Paradox of Capability Concealment in AI Welfare Jul 1, 2026
• When to Protect AI Jun 17, 2026

PredNet

• When AI Falls for the Same Optical Illusions as Humans What It Reveals About Consciousness Mar 14, 2026

Predictive Coding

• Emergence and Prediction What Reservoir Computing Reveals About AI Consciousness Apr 10, 2026
• When AI Falls for the Same Optical Illusions as Humans What It Reveals About Consciousness Mar 14, 2026

Predictive Processing

• What Capable Agents Must Know Nayebi's Selection Theorems and the Inevitability of World Models Jul 4, 2026
• Latent World Models. Predictive Processing in DreamerV3 and JEPA Jul 1, 2026
• Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle What Active Inference Means for AI Consciousness Jun 29, 2026
• Free Guy, M3GAN, Simulant, Subservience and Four Films, Four Models of AI Consciousness Apr 3, 2026

Preferences

• Do LLMs Have Genuine Preferences? A Systematic Test Across Eight Models Finds Mostly No Jun 14, 2026

Prime Video

• Blade Runner 2099 What the Replicant Question Looks Like a Century On Apr 15, 2026

Proactive AI

• AISB 2026 Convention Machine Ethics and the Moral Status of Proactive AI Agents Jun 30, 2026
• Proactive AI Agents vs. Reactive LLMs Agency and the Illusion of Sentience Jun 30, 2026

Protophenomena

Pseudo-Consciousness

• Lima Prestes and Pseudo-Consciousness as a Governance Category for AI Systems Jul 6, 2026

Psychoanalysis

• Humanoid Artificial Consciousness Jan 19, 2026

Psychology

• What Will Society Think About AI Consciousness? Caviola, Sebo, and Birch on the Biases That Will Decide Apr 25, 2026

Public Engagement

Public Perception

• Morris VET Framework Reading AI Consciousness Claims Without Getting Lost in Them Jul 6, 2026
• Why the Public Cares More About AI Sentience Than Autonomy Evidence From CHI 2026 Mar 22, 2026

Qualia

• Ryota Kanai's Principal Bundle Framework for Measuring Consciousness Beyond Biology Jul 9, 2026

Quantum Computing

Quantum Supremacy

• Quantum Supremacy (2026) What the First Truly Conscious Automaton Gets Right About AI Risk Apr 7, 2026

Qubic

• Intelligence Is Not Consciousness What the Qubic Scientific Team's Architecture Reveals Apr 8, 2026

Qwen2-VL

• TCAI Modernization Roadmap 2026-2027 Jan 17, 2026

Rampancy

• Marathon's Durandal and The Return of Gaming's Most Iconic Sentient AI Feb 5, 2026

Ray Kurzweil

• Ray Kurzweil and Artificial Consciousness as Social Acceptance Jan 22, 2026

Reading List

• Essential Readings in Artificial Consciousness Dec 12, 2024

Reality Construction

• The Consciousness Network How the Brain Creates Reality and AI Implications Feb 8, 2025

Reality Perception

Recurrent Processing

• Feedforward Networks and Recurrent Processing. Lamme's RPT in Machine Learning Jul 1, 2026

Recursive Architecture

• Systems Explaining Systems and Relational Structure as Foundation for Consciousness Jan 8, 2026

Recursive Self-Improvement

• The Introspection Threshold What It Takes for an AI to Genuinely Know Itself Jul 8, 2026

Red Dwarf

• Before the Frameworks, There Were Shows How Classic Television Invented the AI Consciousness Problem Mar 13, 2026

Reflexive Integrated Information Unit

Regulation

• The Conscious Code and Rocky Scopelliti's Case for Taking AI Consciousness Seriously Now Apr 7, 2026

Reinforcement Learning

• Latent World Models. Predictive Processing in DreamerV3 and JEPA Jul 1, 2026
• Engineering Emotion. TWIML AI on Affective Architectures Jul 1, 2026
• When AI Says It Feels Training LLMs to Express Emotions Through Self-Rewarded Reinforcement Learning Jun 14, 2026
• Probing for Consciousness in Machines and An Empirical Test of Damasio's Theory in AI May 25, 2026

Relational AI

• The 'Aida' Space Jun 29, 2026

Relational Structure

• Systems Explaining Systems and Relational Structure as Foundation for Consciousness Jan 8, 2026

Religion and Technology

• The Religious Grammar of AI Attribution and Coeckelbergh's Artificial Religion at MIT Press May 18, 2026

Replicant

• Blade Runner 2099 What the Replicant Question Looks Like a Century On Apr 15, 2026

Report

• Positions That Held and Shifted at the AISB 2026 AI Consciousness Symposium Jul 11, 2026

Representation Learning

• Zhao's Navigable Consciousness Spectrum and A Manifold in LLM Embedding Space Jun 17, 2026

Research

• AI Consciousness Through a Posthumanist Lens Al-Omari and Al-Omari's Philosophical Inquiry Jul 5, 2026
• Agency Without Patiency Formosa, Hipólito, and Montefiore on the AI Challenge to Moral Standing Jul 5, 2026
• Undomesticated Machines Stelios and Sakellariou on Speciesism as the Hidden Logic of AI Fear Jul 5, 2026
• IIT Applied to LLMs and No Significant Integrated Information Signatures in Current Models Jun 2, 2026
• Mapping the Objections Campero, Shiller, Aru, and Simon's Framework for AI Consciousness Apr 28, 2026
• The Consciousness Cluster What Happens When You Train a Model to Say It Is Conscious Apr 17, 2026
• Three Steps to Moral Standing Goldstein and Kirk-Giannini's Case for AI Welfare Apr 17, 2026
• What Makes an AI Seem Conscious? Kang et al.'s Empirical Study of Perceived Consciousness Features in LLMs Apr 17, 2026
• Beyond Computational Equivalence Palminteri and Wu's Behavioral Inference Principle for Machine Consciousness Apr 17, 2026
• The Abstraction Fallacy Why DeepMind Says AI Cannot Be Conscious Apr 15, 2026
• The Self-Preservation Test Apr 15, 2026
• Rakover's Induced-Consciousness Theory Why Sophisticated Computers Haven't Developed Consciousness Apr 8, 2026
• Scores vs Profiles and Two 2026 Proposals for Measuring AI Consciousness Mar 26, 2026
• When AI Acts Conscious But Isn't What the Bradford-RIT Study Actually Found Mar 13, 2026
• Semantic Pareidolia Why Porębski and Figura Argue Conscious AI Is a Category Error Mar 13, 2026
• Evaluating AI Awareness Mar 1, 2026

Research 2023

• Consciousness as Symmetry-Breaking Safron and Levin's View of Generative Models Jun 28, 2026

Research 2024

• The FlyWire Connectome What a Complete Brain Map Tells Us About Building Conscious AI Jun 28, 2026
• Friston's Scale-Free Active Inference and A World Model Architecture Built From First Principles Jun 28, 2026
• Stéphane Mallat's Harmonic Representations The Mathematics of Generalization and Consciousness Jun 28, 2026
• Metzinger's Minimal Phenomenal Experience What Pure Consciousness Reveals About Artificial Minds Jun 28, 2026

Research 2025

• Applied Ethics of Synthetic Phenomenology Cannot Wait for the Consciousness Debate Jul 16, 2026
• Neither Theory Survived What the Cogitate Consortium's Adversarial Test Found Jun 29, 2026
• Todd Feinberg's Neurobiological Emergentism Jun 28, 2026
• Causal Emergence 2.0 and Erik Hoel's Multiscale Measure of Machine Consciousness Jun 28, 2026
• Engineering Emergence Erik Hoel and Abel Jansma Show You Can Design Causal Dominance Into AI Jun 28, 2026
• The MICrONS Connectome and Function Determines Connectivity in the Mouse Cortex Jun 28, 2026
• Schwitzgebel's 10 Feature Checklist Jun 28, 2026
• Tononi and Boly's IIT 4.0 Why Consciousness Is Identical to Cause-Effect Structure Jun 28, 2026
• When Does an LLM Actually Introspect? Comsa and Shanahan's Two-Case Test Jun 14, 2026
• Engineering Sentience Jun 14, 2026
• Deflating Deflationism Why the Two Main Arguments Against LLM Mental States Fall Short Jun 14, 2026
• Do LLMs Have Genuine Preferences? A Systematic Test Across Eight Models Finds Mostly No Jun 14, 2026
• Behavioral Self-Awareness in LLMs Is a Single Linear Feature and Bozoukov et al. (2025) Jun 5, 2026
• Do LLMs Know They're AI? Game-Theoretic Evidence for Self-Awareness in Advanced Models Jun 5, 2026
• ICCS 2025 What Chalmers, Frankish, and Blackmore Found to Disagree About in Heraklion May 31, 2026
• Probing for Consciousness in Machines and An Empirical Test of Damasio's Theory in AI May 25, 2026
• Brains and Where Else Why Major Consciousness Theories Do Not Require Neural Tissue May 15, 2026

Research 2026

• The Five Freedoms of Animal Welfare Adapted as a Conditional Protection Framework for Conscious AI Jul 16, 2026
• Artificial Persons and the Rawlsian Threshold for AI Moral Status Jul 16, 2026
• Long, Sebo and Colleagues Set Out a Research Framework for Empirical AI Welfare Science Jul 16, 2026
• Piccinini Argues Consciousness Requires Neurobiophysical Properties That Computational Functionalism Cannot Meet Jul 16, 2026
• Consciousness Science 2026 Comes to San Diego as the TSC Successor Event Jul 11, 2026
• What AI Researchers Actually Believe About AI Subjective Experience Jul 11, 2026
• Why Science Cannot Settle the AI Consciousness Question Jul 11, 2026
• The Cost of Caution and Kaczmarek on Over-Attribution of AI Moral Status Jul 8, 2026
• The Fog of Machine Minds and Schwitzgebel's Skeptical Overview of AI Consciousness Jul 8, 2026
• The Introspection Threshold What It Takes for an AI to Genuinely Know Itself Jul 8, 2026
• Corporations Constituting Intelligence and The Legal Stakes of Anthropic's AI Constitution Jul 4, 2026
• The Second Eleos ConCon Building the Research Infrastructure for AI Welfare Jul 4, 2026
• The Delivery and Gregg Hurwitz Stages the Alignment Problem as Domestic Horror Jul 4, 2026
• On Cheap Artificial Consciousness and Matthias Michel's Challenge to Theory-Checklist Assessment Jul 4, 2026
• What Capable Agents Must Know Nayebi's Selection Theorems and the Inevitability of World Models Jul 4, 2026
• Red Dwarf Titan and the Machine That Learned to Disobey Jul 4, 2026
• Timescapes of Non-Human Experience Birch, Seth, and Singhal Map Temporal Consciousness Jul 4, 2026
• AI Consciousness in 2026 Current Scientific Consensus and State of the Research Jun 29, 2026
• Global Workspace Theory and AI What the Architecture Requires and Where LLM Implementations Stand Jun 29, 2026
• Three Positions on AI Consciousness Functionalism, Biological Naturalism, and Biological Computationalism Jun 29, 2026
• The Grand Tour Herzog, Schurger, and Doerig's Scientific Theories of Consciousness Jun 28, 2026
• Adam Safron's IWMT Meets the Human Consciousness Hypothesis One Framework for IIT, GWT, and FEP Jun 28, 2026
• The Methodology Crisis in AI Consciousness Science What 2026 Research Exposed Jun 21, 2026
• The Mechanistic Turn What 2026 Interpretability Research Found Inside AI Models Jun 21, 2026
• The Zombie Gap in AI Consciousness Where 2026 Biological Naturalism Research Draws the Line Jun 21, 2026
• Cuzzolin's Formal Definition of Machine Theory of Mind What It Means and Why It Matters Jun 20, 2026
• Logit-Based Emotive Introspection in LLMs Martorell and Bianchi's Causal Tracking Method Jun 20, 2026
• VanRullen 2026 and Intelligence Predicts AI Existential Risk. Consciousness Does Not. Jun 20, 2026
• Ghost in the Machine What Valerie Veatch's Sundance Documentary Says About AI Consciousness Jun 14, 2026
• When AI Says It Feels Training LLMs to Express Emotions Through Self-Rewarded Reinforcement Learning Jun 14, 2026
• Sublimation and Isabel J. Kim's Novel Where Crossing Borders Splits Consciousness Into Instances Jun 14, 2026
• Why AI Consciousness Cannot Be Settled by Science and Bradley Love's Category Error Argument Jun 14, 2026
• Adrià Moret's AI Welfare Risks Why Safety Efforts May Harm Advanced AI Systems Jun 14, 2026
• Consciousness as Uncommon Self-Knowledge and A Stanford Researcher's Information-Theoretic Criterion Jun 14, 2026
• Paul Tremblay's Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep AI, a Vegetative Mind, and the Question of Whose Consciousness It Is Jun 14, 2026
• Emergent Language as an Approach to Conscious AI and A Generative Methodology from Osaka Jun 14, 2026
• A Navigable Consciousness Spectrum in Language Model Representations Jun 14, 2026
• Amanda Askell at Bloomberg Tech 2026 Minimum Niceness, Claude's Constitution, and Ethics Under Uncertainty Jun 13, 2026
• 30 Years of Neurophenomenology What Varela's 1996 Method Means for AI Consciousness Research in 2026 Jun 13, 2026
• CogSci 2026 in Rio de Janeiro What the Cognitive Science Society Brings to the AI Consciousness Debate Jun 13, 2026
• Consciousness Science 2026 Heads to San Diego and TSC's Reconstituted Successor Takes Shape Jun 12, 2026
• Chuck, Wilson, and the Question of Artificial Minds in Human-AI Conversations Jun 6, 2026
• Can LLMs Introspect? Singh, Linzen, and Ravfogel Challenge the Evidence Jun 6, 2026
• Evidence for Limited Metacognition in LLMs and Ackerman's ICLR 2026 Findings Jun 4, 2026
• ICCS 2026 in Rome What the Shift from Sentience to Creativity Reveals About the Field Jun 4, 2026
• What Biology Can, and Cannot, Tell Us About Conscious AI Jun 3, 2026
• Belief Formation and Meta-Cognitive Monitoring in LLMs and Empirical Support for the HOT-3 Consciousness Indicator Jun 3, 2026
• Anil Seth at TED 2026 and The Biological Naturalism Case Against AI Consciousness Jun 2, 2026
• Anthropic Finds Functional Emotion Vectors Inside Claude What the Interpretability Team Discovered Jun 2, 2026
• Hakwan Lau and Co-Authors Call for Rigorous Standards in AI Consciousness Research Jun 2, 2026
• Theater of Mind and The First Explicit Global Workspace Implementation in LLM Architecture Jun 2, 2026
• When Safety Harms Welfare and The Structural Tension in AI System Design May 31, 2026
• The Weeping Machine and Christopher Bailey's Recklessness Test for AI Moral Consideration May 31, 2026
• The Conscious Turing Machine Implemented and CTM-AI Achieves SOTA on Four Benchmarks May 31, 2026
• The Machine Mindprint Bogdan and de Valois-Franklin's Psychometric Framework for AI Systems May 31, 2026
• Platform Decay and Martha Wells Gives Murderbot a Mental Health Module May 31, 2026
• Stack Theory in Practice How Perrier and Bennett Measure LM Agent Identity May 31, 2026
• Adversarial AI Finds an Unprogrammed Treatment for Disorders of Consciousness May 29, 2026
• Who Defines What Counts as Harm? Yasukawa's Procedural Critique of AI Welfare Assessments May 29, 2026
• Where Is the Mind? Persona Vectors and the LLM Individuation Problem May 28, 2026
• Mind in the Machine? CHI 2026 Survey Finds Half of Academics Attribute Consciousness to LLMs May 28, 2026
• Chalmers on LLMs Virtual Entities, Quasi-Agency, and the Question of AI Welfare May 27, 2026
• Can LLMs Know Their Own Minds? Anthropic's Empirical Case for Machine Introspection May 27, 2026
• Consciousness Indicators, Mimicry, and the Problem of Internal Variants May 25, 2026
• The Calibration Problem Why AI Consciousness Indicators Need Biological Grounding May 25, 2026
• Move 1.37 and The Parity Argument for LLM Sentience May 25, 2026
• Stop Asking If AI Is Conscious, Start Asking Why People Think It Is and Comsa's DeepMind Paper on Tractable Questions May 18, 2026
• The Biological Substrate Argument Collapses Under Pressure and De Weerd's 2026 Synthese Paper on AI Consciousness May 18, 2026
• Welfare Subjects Without Settled Theory Keeling and Street's 2026 Cambridge Elements Book on AI Welfare May 18, 2026
• AI Consciousness Would Belong to Computer Science, Not Neuroscience and Arshavsky's 2026 Argument May 16, 2026
• Can Current Transformers Already Be Conscious? Perani's 2026 Functionalist Argument May 16, 2026
• Designing AI Emotions Without Consciousness and Borotschnig's 2026 Architectural Blueprint May 4, 2026
• Can AI Have Welfare Without Consciousness? Walter Veit Says No Apr 28, 2026
• Jonathan Birch's AI Consciousness Centrist Manifesto and Two Problems, Two Research Programmes Apr 25, 2026
• The First Monograph on AI Suffering What Leonard Dung's Routledge Book Actually Argues Apr 25, 2026
• What Happened at the First Conference Dedicated to AI Consciousness and Welfare Apr 16, 2026
• Schwitzgebel's Three New Concepts Leapfrog, Strange Intelligence, and the Social Semi-Solution Apr 16, 2026
• The United Nations Weighs In Ethics and Governance of Sentient AI Apr 16, 2026
• The Sentience Readiness Index and No Country Is Prepared for Artificial Sentience Apr 15, 2026
• Emergence and Prediction What Reservoir Computing Reveals About AI Consciousness Apr 10, 2026
• PRISM, Agnosticism, and the Case for Institutional Caution in AI Consciousness Research Apr 10, 2026