Which Consciousness Can Be Artificialized? Local Percept-Perceiver Phenomenon for the Existence of Machine Consciousness
This addresses the foundational problem of whether machines can achieve consciousness, which is relevant to AI and philosophy, but it is incremental as it builds on existing neuroscientific theories.
The paper tackles the problem of formalizing machine consciousness by introducing a local percept-perceiver paradigm based on neuroscientific theories, and it proves the existence of machine consciousness using set-theoretic formalism from Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory, arguing for a reductionist form of epistemic consciousness in artificial systems.
This paper presents a novel paradigm of the local percept-perceiver phenomenon to formalize certain observations in neuroscientific theories of consciousness. Using this model, a set-theoretic formalism is developed for artificial systems, and the existence of machine consciousness is proved by invoking Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory. The article argues for the possibility of a reductionist form of epistemic consciousness within machines.