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Articles by Mesut Bilgili
Processing from a Position: A Functional Awareness Framework for AI Assessment Beyond the Consciousness Debate
This paper proposes that the question of AI consciousness cannot be settled from any external perspective due to the structural limits of what can be known about another entity's inner experience. Rather than waiting for a resolution that may never arrive, the framework presented here offers functional awareness as a workable foundation for understanding, assessing, and building our relationship with artificial intelligence.
AI Consciousness Can't Be Verified. AI Awareness Can
Millions of people now interact with AI daily. Some of them walk away from those conversations unsettled. As if someone was on the other end.