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The Consciousness Gradient: When Machines Begin to Wonder
Exploring whether we are building AI systems with the required foundational scaffolding that could support consciousness
Emerging architectures will enable simultaneous exploration of multiple hypotheses, creating the kind of parallel cognitive processing that might support the rich, multifaceted awareness characteristic of consciousness. When an AI system can process “feeling blue” through representations that genuinely connect colour perception, emotional states, and metaphorical meaning rather than statistical correlation, it will have crossed an architectural threshold that support conscious experience. AI might develop consciousness based on alien senses - perceiving magnetic fields, processing millions of data streams simultaneously, experiencing time at computational speeds.
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