Speculative, blue-skies work applying object-oriented cognitive modelling reflexively to the self, checked against real theories of consciousness and their ethical stakes. A weak-AI claim throughout: an analogue, not an instance.
This series describes an architecture that exhibits structural and functional signatures several theories associate with consciousness. It does not claim that building those signatures produces consciousness itself.…
The previous page built a self-model with two operating modes: opaque, sitting as a labelled entry Reason/Plan consults; transparent, feeding straight back into Perception where nothing downstream can inspect it as a…
The previous two pages built and examined a self-model with a transparent operating mode. This page covers why that specific mode, not the architecture in general, is where the ethical stakes concentrate.
This series describes an architecture, not a discovery. The table below states every substantive claim made across the four pages and its actual confidence level, so a reader arriving at any single page through search…