arXiv:2606. 06380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The question of whether artificial systems can be conscious remains open, in part because existing approaches either evaluate systems against theory-derived checklists (discriminative) or engineer consciousness-inspired modules directly (architectural); both leave open whether observed structures are artifacts of human language priors.
arXiv:2607. 15883v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are broadly capable, yet in sustained one-to-one conversation they still read as flat: competent, responsive, and somehow not quite the presence of a mind.
arXiv:2606. 30481v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current large language models are extraordinary statistical engines.
arXiv:2601. 15334v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Whether language models possess sentience has no empirical answer.
arXiv:2608. 13567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The human brain exhibits a striking degree of functional specialization, with distinct networks supporting language, formal reasoning, reasoning about other minds, and reasoning about the physical world.
arXiv:2310. 06555v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Emergent communication enables agents to develop bespoke languages that improve communication efficiency.
arXiv:2608. 16213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intelligence is constituted by \textit{process} (iterative activity through which output emerges), not in the output itself.
arXiv:2608. 01548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language can be viewed as a formalized subset of thought: a consequence-governed symbolic structure projected from wider situated cognition.
arXiv:2606. 15348v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A common objection to artificial or simulated consciousness is that a simulated brain is no more conscious than simulated water is wet.
arXiv:2606. 16496v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large multimodal language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for guiding evolutionary search toward interpretable programmatic policies.
arXiv:2608. 15304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier agentic systems powered by large language models (LLMs) exhibit human-like patterns of cognition.
arXiv:2606. 04025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dominant programming paradigms inherit an execution model optimised for a bygone era of a single human mind instructing a local machine, leaving contemporary systems burdened with historical path dependencies.
arXiv:2606. 23991v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: What is an agent?